Stilt Poems

Premium MemberLooking to the Harvest

...A lunar luster spills a silvershine
cascade of nebulating moonshine lilt
onto a night-time field, drawing a quilt
of pale radiance over the still vine. 

A myriad of glowing serpentine
twines s...
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Categories: stilt, care, death, environment, garden,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Campo Alegre

...Campo Alegre re-printed

Under the houses on stilt
That has no sewers
And built for whores
To service sailors in Curacao
A barren island
In the Caribbean Sea
Pigs live under houses
Grew big ...
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Categories: stilt, allusion, angst, animal, art,
Form: ABC


Lost Myristica swamps

..."What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror refection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi
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Categories: stilt, nature,
Form: Jueju

1960

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Johnny Cash gives it away for free,
John K says he would like to be Prez.
Richard Nixon will run against him,
so the republican party says.

Lamar Cox gets 44th KO,
‘The Stilt’ scores 58 in o...
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Categories: stilt, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFloral Stilt Walkers

...We have floral stilt walkers in this circus you know
I had no idea, but sat down to enjoy the keen show
I had never been to the UK so this was a treat
The floral stilt walkers are tidy and incredi...
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Categories: stilt, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme


Campo Alegre Reprint

...Campo Alegre re-printed

Under the houses on stilt
That has no sewers
And built for whores
To service sailors in Curacao
A dry barren island
In the Caribbean Sea
Pigs live under the houses
G...
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Categories: stilt, anger, betrayal, gender, prejudice,
Form: Imagism

Sunburst Fury

...As the morning light peers in your window
As parallel twines of ray pierce your creamy soft yum
Abandoned and pure she reveals her flawless nature
She turns and turns more as if to settle some sco...
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Categories: stilt, paradise, purple, sensual, sun,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSun-Soaked Sunflowers

...sun-soaked sunflowers flourish, fresh-faced and freckled
with seeds. On stilt-stems, their flourishing legs, and on
tippy-toes, like toddlers, do reach for the stove-hot sun.
Cherubs with innocent...
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Categories: stilt, flower,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberDaylilies

...I ambled along near fencerow newly built
Running my fingers through the tall daylilies,
Each trumpeting bloom at the top of a lanky stilt
Bringing back memories of mountain hillbillies...
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Categories: stilt, flower, summer,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberState Fair

...Summer sky sparkles under huge bursts of light
Spiraling rockets and rainbows of color delight
Kiddie rides and merry-go-rounds spinning around
While roller coasters lift one high off ...
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Categories: stilt, celebration, cheer up, childhood,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberFacts Facts Facts

...Hamilton's face is on the ten dollar bill
Vice President Burr killed him in a duel
What if they solved things like that today
The office would always be up for renewal

Over 5 billion crayons ar...
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Categories: stilt, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCaradog's Fight

...Faithful companion, Caradog, without necessity 
Habitat fed his needs, our bond rapidly developed 
Fierce competent hunter amazingly adopted me
Heritage unable to continue, thylacine near relic 
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Categories: stilt, animal, appreciation, bereavement, best
Form: Rhyme

Crippled Rain

...She wills it but fears of wanting what she already has
Her beauty is below her, among her. and over her head

Not one but two, nor four but five
Seven more times we get up to save their lives

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Categories: stilt, art,
Form: Ballade

Rumple My Stilt Skin

...when younger 
i knew none 
of this that
you call
napping

so so awake
all this time
my beard
has been
growing

but now
it's a bit
passed
two in
the

afternoon 
and after
i finally...
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Categories: stilt, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Culm To Bare

...That sex was fine or so I thought
The mask removed to plair my prott
When all along I thought was hot
was all I'd fared to bring her sot

As all I was was fair to her
and held a hone up for dar...
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Categories: stilt, analogy,
Form: Quatrain

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