The Beauty is a Desert
...the desert is mystically alluring at sunset, looking docile and safe
few sights are as gorgeous as her evening skies of oranges and pinks
those who know, do not venture out after dark
for the dese...
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Categories:
tarantulas, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Gateless Gate
...Right out of the gate
the world grows eyes on the inside of time.
A banana tree as tall as an eyelash
bears bunches of fat yellow legs,
clusters of pendular legs are called hands.
Contradict...
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Categories:
tarantulas, poetry,
Form: Free verse
another abcedarian for fun
...all automatic alligators arrive arrogantly
barely behave beautifully but brazenly
carousing with creepy cruddy crocodiles
desperately denying despicable wiles
effectively expediting expediency
f...
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Categories:
tarantulas, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
Bon Voyage
...The story goes that men have only one thing on their mind
But down throughout the ages there are men far more refined
Sometimes man is called upon to do the righteous thing
And carry out the wish...
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Categories:
tarantulas, rain, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
12 Days of Christmas From West Texas
...On the twelve days of Christmas, West Texas gave to me
twelve tarantulas creepin’,
eleven javelinas diggin’,
ten jack rabbits jumpin’,
nine skunks a stinkin’,
eight mantis prayin’,
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Categories:
tarantulas, animal, bird, christmas, environment,
Form: Lyric
The Bug-Man,Tarantulas
...Slode's new poem: Bug-man
Tarantula
Phantom motion seeking assembled characters
Catatonic semi-demonic the fervent priorities
Damned by honesty and crowned the duke of chill
Something happy
h...
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Categories:
tarantulas, dark, desire, identity, memorial,
Form: Epitaph
Abcedarian To Start My Engines
...astronomical anatomical atoms
buying brilliant blubbery bimbo blobs
collecting claustrophobic colorized clandescently clams
depicting deplorable dependable depraved dendrites
enticing and enlisti...
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Categories:
tarantulas, word play,
Form: Abecedarian
Critterature: Entomophagy, It's An Acquired Taste
...The cooks in the Japanese navy
Make a dish of aquatic fly larvae.
Too small to filet them,
They just lightly sauté them
In well-sugared soy sauce as gravy.
That Venezuelans eat spiders may be ...
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Categories:
tarantulas, food, humor, insect,
Form: Light Verse
Kaleidoscope
...Across the sideways, bronze framed hall mirror,
A ribbon of infrared light imprinted itself,
Like a streak of alien sky;
Hours later, it dimmed and blew out, like an ill-furnished house.
Other re...
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Categories:
tarantulas, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Sky Island
...saguaros
guardians of the sonora
a battalion wafting
in one hundred degree heat
standing sentry on granite slopes
vertical green etches
in carmel cliffs
literally--litter the foothills
r...
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Categories:
tarantulas, granddaughter, grandfather, nature,
Form: Free verse
Fun At the Zoo
...Antisocial anacondas don't associate in numbers;
Bears and beavers don't become the best of friends.
Civet cats catch rats, so is it any wonder
On doleful dingoes dire dilemmas do descend?
Effete...
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Categories:
tarantulas, animal, humor,
Form: Alliteration
The Rain Is Falling Down
...The rain is falling down
high up from the skies above
like hoards of tarantulas
all over me
It's making me feel low and miserable
like the tiniest crumb left on the ground
from a loaf of brea...
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Categories:
tarantulas, rain,
Form: Free verse
Sheep And Other Animals
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I: Sheep
(A poem about Covid)
next door to 19 chimneys
and 'the dark satanic mills'
a flock of sheep is grazing
oblivious in the hills.
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Categories:
tarantulas, allegory, animal, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Displeasure of Aorta Failure
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Jungle club weekend tarantulas walk
with a kingly swagger
wolf man gait
Don Juan alpha moves mirror taught;
nocturnal reflections cast
over past triumphs,
speak of new burning love...
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Categories:
tarantulas, lust, pain, vanity, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Short Heroic Sestet - Wild Meadows
...WILD MEADOWS
Wild meadows left and right, guarded
by hedgerows, each side with gates,
openings on sites regarded
macro, wildlife wonders, elate's
scientist, biologist, all.
We ve...
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Categories:
tarantulas, nature,
Form: I do not know?
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