Vertebrates Poems - Poems about Vertebrates

The Scorpion's Touch

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“The Scorpion’s Touch”

Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath 
like insects running around 
frantically out of time
we are ...

HEART TYPES-

...Beating heart,        fleeting starts
                         Beating so now      beats seemingly
                      This old heartbeats  sure is new heart
                    Such mine hea...

The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth

...The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth

Sent my smooching life south,
whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie,
who kissed the girls and made them cry.

The medical term for c...

The Gaping Yawning Chasm

...Do you yawn more when tired
than when you've just woken up?
This is the gaping gap of yawn's yolk
in 'chasmology', the study of yawning!
Why you do it, when, and what brings it on?
One qu...

Theory In Crisis: Ii

...If function is king, then there aren’t any Types,
but the living show us that’s simply not true.
The class tree is ordered according to forms
and not by the functions a critter can do.

So here’...

Behind Your Eyes

...Have you ever noticed when the birds in the morning sing?
The tunes and melodies are like an orchestra of finely tuned precision strings

Have you ever noticed a cats eyes under the light of the m...

The Reptilian Anthropocene

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"The Reptilian Anthropocene"



The Reptilians
war daily 
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges 
pinned to their lap...

Gibraltar Crumbling

...The Dune on the Rock
    where fine grains of time     
gradually slip
revealing footprints
of lost vertebrates:

an archaic 
human being -
Neanderthal;
red deer, aurochs

elephant...

A Better Person

...10/4/19
"A Better Person"

Long ago I learned it
Nobody on this Earth is 
Perfect
That's for certain

I'm determined
To be a better person
As I continue workin'
Ready to handle any burden
...

Reflection

...an emptiness and coolness just 
 in the midst of the chest, unease
 my corgi terrier, black and white
 watches me and stares with her dark black eyes
 she paces back and forth to my bedroom and
...

Changing the Mind's Diaper

...Changing The Mind's Diaper

My mind is clouded and I just had these thoughts
So much going on my head is constipated
Filled with prime everything I was taught, 
The quantity is carried in my min...

Beneath the Sea

...https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/beneath-the-sea

Through the journey, life arrives
Underwater – start their lives
Stable neither hot nor cold
Soft tiny eggs there to behold

Of such a ...

Due Season

...https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/due-season

Vertebrates with feathers and tails
Reptiles with their shiny scales
Birds of which that range in size
Returning cycles that comprise

Solid...

Turkey Necks and Bat Wings

...*Inspired by Cheryl Hoffman’s “The Skin We’re In”  — Go read it!

On a turkey it's called a wattle
on a moose, "the bell," (not “the bottle”)
Those batlike things?
(too small - see wings)...

Pickling Polarisation

...Vibrational vertabrims vanquish vertebrates on a vista. But custard once opened must be consumed within eleven hours and forty three minutes. But eleven hours and forty three years is a time old game...

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