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Squids Poems - Poems about Squids

Premium MemberRams' Horns and Squids

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   Rams have two horns 
     on top of their head

   the better to butt you
     and leave you for dead

   which is why you should never
     cross a ram ever

   unless you’re a giant s...
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Categories: squids, adventure, anger, animal, pain,
Form: Couplet

If I Had Whale Lungs

...I would take in liters of air of 
confidence and honesty,
after that, I would dive 
in the deepest parts of the 
political ocean
to hunt politically apathetic, callous
dishonest squids...
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Categories: squids, corruption, political,
Form: Free verse



Pisces

...Breath-taking fish follow our footprints
into the booming sea.
A multicolored native child lives there
it walks upon the pushed-up swell,
bell-diving while standing
on the deep dark waves.

Yo...
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Categories: squids, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMother's Cradle

...In the Med aboard the Byrd,
Captain spoke and gave the word.

Rough course ahead, but still on track.
If not on duty, then hit your rack.

For Rob and I, we had to know.
So, topside bound to s...
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Categories: squids, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Breakfast For Squids

...Oooooooh bagels and bread by golly
Rumors and ramekins, fools folly
This attitude aggregious 
But a knick knack fecicious
Hold a tick, did you say napkins? 
Not for glass jars and captains
A tw...
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Categories: squids, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme



Factual

...This morning is dangerously close to truth.
The sunlight is in bold print,
the figurative blocked out in black and white.

The under-brain
(that sleepy chameleon with diamond eyes),
blinks at a...
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Categories: squids, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Shadows and Squids

...Who found me in the shadows where I was hiding in dark seas?

cowardly of hiding in the depths that are thought to be courage was my  disease ,

My intention was to hide with the shadows spewing ...
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Categories: squids, analogy, beauty, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberClown Fish Take the Beach

...It was a battle like no other.
We lost my daddy and my brother.
My relatives continued to screech.
The day those aggressive clown fish took the beach.

The battle was savage, the rewards given t...
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Categories: squids, fish,
Form: Rhyme

Learnt Love Through Netflix

...Where Lucy was right
and Gods we spite
when squids were game
and happinesswassquashed
The gem a bit is queen
of strangness never caught
if i have died
you weren't in my thoughts
see i broke a...
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Categories: squids, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Ocean

...The ocean is a place
Fill with mysteries and unknowns
You wonder how deep is the ocean
And how many layers are connected
From my understanding the lost 
World of the Atlantis is sitting at
The ...
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Categories: squids, sea, water,
Form: Free verse

Eternal Spring Training For Chace Numata

...I’m not sure
I have the strength anymore
To be discovered

Stepping into the cold black lake of February
Clopping to work in frozen slop
Snow snarling at my ankles

Car coughing
Windshield g...
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Categories: squids, baseball, blessing, encouraging, eulogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn Aquarium Seas

...aquarium seas
tuna whales sharks dolphins squids
ride wave vehicles...
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Categories: squids, fish, sea, water,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberRead the Book

...The dramatic screenplay off the grid
               with twists and turns, bent and half-quid.
                       Time rides loopty-loops, rebids,
                                   yanking bu...
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Categories: squids, books, writing,
Form: Nonet

Premium MemberOctopuses From Outer Space

...Octopuses From Outer Space

I'm glad I'm not some 'octoplie'
I'd not serve friends in Shephard's Pie
What slimy mollusk could invent
Or needs eight arms: A hollow tent
(More land than sea) who ...
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Categories: squids, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme

Braggart Batons and Sombre Sorties

...In my mind somber sorties unfold
When morbid movements scar a hundredfold.
Normalcy dead, transparency scared
Empathy bearded, intransigence endeared. 

In my mind sordid scenes grow cold
When ...
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Categories: squids, poems,
Form: Free verse

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