Extinction - The Speech of Artemis
...I cannot curse as others can,
I remedy, not hate.
Too well I know that beast in Man
That ever forms their fate.
Didst once we think that reason made
The mortal struggle cease or fade?
So loneso...
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Categories:
trilobite, animal, dark, death, nature,
Form: Couplet
Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
...Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).
neverth...
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Categories:
trilobite, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Oceanic Encounters of a Pinching Kind
...Swimming in the ocean
a wincing couple pinches
Little creature on my leg
not more than six or seven inches
I looked again, to my surprise
Hello! - a trilobite!...
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Categories:
trilobite, fantasy, giggle, hyperbole, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
The Climate Yo-Yo
...I’m a trilobite, I took my leave
Nature had a shocker up its sleeve
In hot water
Air gets shorter
Things got heated and I couldn’t breathe
I’m a stegosaur and I’m long dead
I got a ...
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Categories:
trilobite, earth,
Form: Limerick
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda
...A trilobite born in a pond
thought that he would evolve
But untutored was he in DNA
gene puzzles he just couldn't solve
Two million years or three went by
his fossil embed...
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Categories:
trilobite, fish, food, future, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Call Me Terry T Trilobite
...An eighteen-inch trilobite, which is me.
Related to spiders and crabs….tee hee.
Advanced life form.
Will not conform.
If you want me, I’ll be in the sea....
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Categories:
trilobite, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Limerick
Neanderthal
...NEANDERTHAL
In times gone by, now recondite,
Neanderthal, erect, upright,
spoke softly, tones so lily-white,
and tried to put the world aright.
He taught us how the flame ignites
tha...
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Categories:
trilobite, allegory,
Form: Monorhyme
The Creature In My Mirror
...You,
A creature so unlike a dinosaur,
Pallid, weak and frail.
No fossil in the stony flesh of Mother Earth,
Unlike trilobite, leaf or snail.
Worse yet, no one searches for your trace,
Or r...
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Categories:
trilobite, imagination
Form: Verse
Trilobite Shores.
...When heart of me be despot,
Solation overwhelms my serbonian mind.
On shoal of sand I take me there,
To lie in tamarisk bed of natures hand.
With tearful sighs and wave’d cries
I listen to the...
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Categories:
trilobite, imagination, inspirational, philosophy, me,
Form: Rhyme