i should not be here
croaking at your window
i know it's too late to save us

if you could spare just a kiss
i would live heart broken
somewhere not here

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frogadillow
toadagillow
do you see

snapperturtle
break a girdle
a beauty

fell in the water
was the daughter
of the king

she took a breath
avoided death
and now i sing

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reptilian breath
still warm from the day
mingles rising
fog the chorus pause
wings whisper

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frogs hop on the sidewalk
at their own risk

when you share a world with giants
crossing paths can be fatal

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why can i
justify
the eating of
flies and bugs
when the squishing of
toads in the mud
is a sudden torment

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far too many
people in my life
told me who i should be
never seeing what i am

that such company
turned me to a toad
seems less a mystery
now i have time to think

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learning the hard way

propaganda at best
of a world intellectualized
and companionship relegated
the way would not be so difficult
the stone so cold
nor the journey so fraught
with a guide an advocate
teacher who keeps safe
the student learning in practice

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there are days i'd rather not
days i have no hope
there are days dark as hell
and days i cannot cope

there are days when arms are absent
and no one comes to hold
days of feast and pain forgotten
with some storied wisdom told

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jumpalpaca
zootyflies
dandylion
buttereyes
heartsting
tigersmile
absurdeath
lovinguile

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the warmth of your hand
reminds my cold blooded heart
to keep beating

they will say
i stole your kiss
but will they ever know
love's pure bliss

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am i
amphibian
homunculus
illustrious
wonder is
to behold
verdant world
wet and cold

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froglets grow tailless
enchanted i must have missed
back legs learning
to skip hop imbalanced

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crickets are the worst soloists
they have no sense of a room

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caught between
a copperhead
and
a wasp
gonna get stung

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oh the eyes of the iris
are golden in hue
and the rosebud
is redder than sky
but lilly my pad none
hold me as you do
hovering in the pond
you and i

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come little pollywog
listen to our song
we croak
we chirp
our nightly work
to grow your
legs out long

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Serenity

As the cricket’s song fades,
spun in gossamer’s snare,
time suspends, thin as air.

The web’s delicate hush,
where dust motes softly gleam,
holds a librarian’s dream.

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it's a hullabaloo
in the dark shiny blue
wall clouds tussle
come rumbling through

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oh human hands
i miss fingernails
sticky discs
hanging vertical
exhilaration but pain
for the flesh of leaf
the rough of bark
hold not the tactile bliss
of human hands

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what does it mean
to be enchanted
is it ever only curse
or would the rest
of convalescence
make toady heart worse

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hide in the tall grass
away from bird eyes
where the ground stays moist
with the buzzing of flies

#poetry #poem #lyrical #writing

sometimes
it strikes me
as sad
how close
the buggy
monsters
wish to be
to fleshy giants
who cannot
stand them
and have
only swats
to offer
and i
with
hospitable
open jaws

#poetry #poem #micropoetry #creativewriting #writing

stars in the night
do you shine
for a heart
like mine
do you shine

will you explode
like the heart
in this toad
when the siren
drinks wine
and you fall
asleep fine
oh stars
do you shine

#poetry #micropoetry #poem #lyrical

oh toad in the dust bowl
will you ever know
or drink the cool waters of
a crystal spring flow

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i asked the crocodile

why they cried

they replied

i let millions of pounds
of food rot while they starve
i took sick babies
from mother's arms
i sent their children
into needless war
i sold their soul
for more debtors scars

and here the tears welled

and they do not like me

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do the frog songs
writ of love
at times
it's true
but mainly
they scream insane
into the night
for everyone to hear

no flies or food
have not found a bite
no one come over here
this is my foodless rock

none believe
but boast in return
of empty stomachs

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a ribbit
a hoot
a screech
a thud
for all
their bony
taloned paws
cannot withstand
skin venomous
wounded
a toad
will croak on

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tadpoles are not parentless
but they are wombless unmilked

woe to the tadpoles
un-held by mother's arms

oh i was turned as a froglet
with legs and still be-tailed

truly banished to alien land
with motherhood
and mother's love
unknown

#poetry #creativewriting #poem #MothersDay #writing #art

“A shrug”

Let there be life
admist the anguish
for that is the only
eternity I am
interest in

#poem

red nose
large hands
big shoes
oversized
to hide in
plain sight
under paint
striped pants

a toad in
clown's wool

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