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Best Poems Written by Caitlin Feely

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Jungle

Pitter, patter
Drip, drop
Wet green leaves.
Plants rustle
Creak, shriek
Of the rainforest's sleeves.
Thunder crackle
Boom, clap
Pour of dark rain
Tweet, tweet
Birds' feet
Soaked sugarcane
Quiet night
Dark sight
Tomorrow is another day.

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Ocean

Rush forward to greet the shore-bound partner
Send away to hide in the sea
Come back, come back to the sunny altar
Away from the darkness and smothering algae.
Sucked in where underwater, a world moves along
Through death and life and blackness too
Down deep, where there lives a fatal throng.
That simmers in the profound blue.

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Watch Her Break

Scrambled legs
Tingling fingers
Grayscale of concrete.
Shimmering metal
Dancing air
No energy to deplete.
Rasping breaths
Stomach twisted
Into a crumpled bow.
Quietly shrinking
Girl in a dryer
Shriveled lips of snow.
Lurching throat
Dried up tongue
But nothing will come up,
Scarecrow arms
And glass-shard legs
Are never thin enough.

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Birds

Blue feathers, black eyes
Squeaking calls are no surprise.
Snapped twig, wing twitch
Nimble and small as a Golden Snitch.
Hop below or soar above,
Robin, wren, jay, or dove,
Let us all give a toast
To the birds, the animals we love the most.

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Mindless

The hack of a hatchet on an unwilling door
"Stop, please stop, I can't take it anymore."
A slam of wood as the door hits the floor.
"Stop, please stop, please, no more."
The creak of the floor as the weight shifts above,
The rising of a knife, as quick as a dove,
"Take anything you'd like, but please leave this place!"
Sprint towards the bed, has to make haste,
The ear-splitting screech and stop of a heart
Is how the crime of a murder starts.

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Storm

Crack of thunder
Flash of light
Jerks out of thunder
Screams in fright
Silver rain drowns out the crash of a tree
Slap the ground hard, hurry and flee
Drowning the weak, the strong, and the poor,
Pounding them into the worn-down floor.
Swept away in gargantuan flood
Washed away in a river of tears and blood.

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The Playground

One wobbling foot on the ground
The other in the humid air
The chalky squares shimmer, not found
Waiting for the rope to tear.
Squeaky pavement with hole-filled shoes
Consequence of lazy leaps
No one likes to lose
Or fall in a hole a mile deep.
Skipping stone jumps from square to square
A tiny, petrified bug
Life is full of games and fairs
But most are pulled from drugs.
When the pebble leaves the game
And falls into a hole
Lost steps
Fall down
Without a sound
Wait for another pebble to roll.

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Fantasy

Pounding, rushing waterfall
White foam mist creates a wall
For hidden creatures down under deep,
Where fairies and elves crawl and creep.
Unicorns with gleaming coats
Tiny castles with puddles for moats
If you look closer, you can see
A world behind a long-lost key.

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Death

Widened wings sweep over the sky
Animals cower to hear her cry.
She swoops down low to search the ground
Tiny creatures scuttle to where they can't be found.
But out in the open lay an innocent shrew
His life lay ahead of him, but he never knew
That the shadow ahead was the end of his life
With a shriek like a harsh, broken fife
With outstretched talons so bony and hard
And beady black eyes, like a gate are they barred
A spatter of blood and the tear of lungs
Is how tiny lives will end so young.

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Wildfire

The hiss and snap of a lethal snake
Crackling through the sky, through the forest he rakes
Down all of the trees, plants, and innocent creatures
Burning them horribly to grotesque features
Red, orange, and yellow consuming the earth
Taking the forest away from its worth
And leaving behind the tattered old remains
The snake has won, the land in its chains
Of greed, power, the snake's lifelong slave
For when all hope is gone, there’s no room for the brave.