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Spiny Poems - Poems about Spiny

The Lone Cowboy and the Cactus Land
...He rides beneath a sky of burning light, A shadow stretching wide across the plain. His boots are weathered, his hands are stiff with dust, Yet in his eyes, the calm of open land. The cactus stan......

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Categories: spiny, creation, encouraging, life, strength,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Memento On The Moon
... A tsunami of black ash blankets half a world Trash toadstool hoodoos, wastelandic pillage and pollutant mucus ravishes lava villages Draining is the amalgam mass at the end of the spectrum......

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Categories: spiny, art, moon,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Blue Cheese and Old Pickles
... I fought the good fight, yet still I lost and you stood in brackish silence with bitter reward in briny eyes proffering spiny frowns shoulders crumbled with aging ache and brow dimpled with so......

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Categories: spiny, angst, betrayal, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member TWO FROZEN REFLECTIONS
... I Remaining Steadfast Warm In the Struggle’s Snow Storm Looking out up above the ......

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Categories: spiny, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member December, daughter of winter, descends with a silence that invades my soul
...December, daughter of winter, descends with a silence that invades my soul, Hatred crept slowly and surely into the marrow of my bones, poisoning them, My breaths release blue beads of carbon dioxi......

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Categories: spiny, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Another Damned Moon Poem
...i am double rainbows. i am the streaks of silver in the old man's hair, i am spiny and bug-eyed. i am the rainbow around the moon on misty nights. i am cactus eyes with a center of molten gold......

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Categories: spiny, beautiful, desire, hurt, i
Form: Free verse
Thresholds
...One last Carolina Wren jabs and hops inside a shrinking ring of pale sunlight. At the white door of a cold season the wind dresses a scarecrow with the spiny feathers of the already dead. ......

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Categories: spiny, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member where are you going
...Spiny horned lizard Arizona sand digger Flat body blunt snout Where are you going With slithery ugliness Wait up old friend......

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Categories: spiny, animal,
Form: Free verse
Plant
...Plant Every Easter a plant with big spiny leaves and spikes of purplish flowers grows out of my back, making it abundantly hard for me to sit up against my pillows. ......

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Categories: spiny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Splendor Rising
... A thornbush, crowned by a rose A spiny cactus, become ‘Queen of the Night’ ... Atop fraught frames, shines glorious splendor Heaven's treasures ~ man ought not surrender ......

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Categories: spiny, beauty, flower, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Anesthetization Of Pickles
...It smells like pickles green in Autumn Aromas arise like Frankenstein in formaldehyde Tubular, somewhat spiny, objects plump Ready to be plucked at midnight Be not pickled in perpetuity Be not......

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Categories: spiny, appreciation, birth, desire, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holly Tree And The Robin - Anacreontic couplets
... Oh, holly tree, friend to me, with scarlet berries to see that delight my eyes to feast ......

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Categories: spiny, nature, winter,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Slimy Or Spiny
...Two little kittens and a very big dog Gazed at the creature that was sitting on a log It looked a little slimy and it really wasn’t spiny So, you can’t mistake a bullfrog for a hedgehog… No, you......

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Categories: spiny, cat, dog, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
O Hedgehog!
...Hedgehog, O hedgehog dear spiny, meek and mousy poppet. In England where the tickly grass grows greener we galumph in our rubber boots up to your little Hobbit nests beneath the thorny bushes......

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Categories: spiny, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Twelve Days of Christmas, Hawaiian Style
..."Just live a little, Hawaiian style!" Quote by Hawaiian Style Band. On the first day of Christmas, my tutu gave to me, -- (and...) a-*Ne-ne-Goose-un-der-a-gua-va-tree. (guava fruits are t......

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Categories: spiny, animal, bird, care, environment,
Form: Lyric

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