Pride Slays Advice
...Stem the tide your pride rides
To a puerile pinnacle
In a vain belief it makes sensational strides
When like a locust your spiracle
Exhales carbon dioxide
To catalyze photosynthesis for red ro...
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Categories:
spiracle, poems,
Form: Free verse
A Spiracle Leap
...A SPIRACLE LEAP
The spiral staircase made her high heels sing.
Round and round, Suzette tapped a snazzy dance.
Her smile sparkling, ears dangling with butterfly wings.
Curves on fir...
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Categories:
spiracle, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Dandelion and My Wife Strike Again
...I pondered the dandelion and its dazzling deed.
Some folks think this fluffy flower is a worthless weed.
But deep down inside its transparent fluff,
a thousand tassels hide in a sphere of spirac...
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Categories:
spiracle, nature
Form: Couplet
I Do
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The maiden's spinneret
rapidly
cocooned i
leaving the spiracle
for the words
I do...
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Categories:
spiracle, love,
Form: Free verse
Siamese Twin Butterflies ~or~ Siamese Butterfly Twins
...Oh spiracle sight-
will you drop me and break me
lest I ingest of an oxygen taste?
Everything now is indulged ultraviolet
Compounding eyes, allegorical face
Liquid from apples returned to the gr...
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Categories:
spiracle, life, nature, me,
Form: Free verse