Specimen Poems - Poems about Specimen

...Chetta Achara wrote a blog about Mount St. Helens. The volcano erupted in May 1980 and Chetta was a witness. I hope you read her blog. It inspired my poem. I saw ash on the highway 6 months later......Read the rest...

... "Treasure Box" The etymologist considered "themselves" singular; like a butterfly collector they pulled the pincushion out from the treasure box and proceeded to cap......Read the rest...

...Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus... courtesy evil ferocious wraithlike grimace Acrimonious scurrilous words flew out the mouth of vicious nasty shortish brute leaving yours t......Read the rest...

... Quote: Some believe bluebirds are a symbol of joy and hope or good news arriving soon. Others think of them as a connection between the living and deceased. Before your eyes on a wa......Read the rest...

...“A genius has been at work And we know you never shirk It’s not your fault: you’ve had things tough You always do more than enough” These things were never said to me Although they will one day,......Read the rest...

...An anticlimactic sexual event... with Barb Black née Beebee to help set the ghost of little Willy Brandt free (a non German, but germane fellow courtesy Craigslist classified personals of m......Read the rest...

... It's something inconclusive This feeling that I'm not A perfect human specimen Lukewarm compared to hot I scrutinise the mirror That I carry in my phone It tells me of belonging Yet I fee......Read the rest...

... Those who hate him are on the attack That vile, vulgar specimen Donald J. Trump is back Don't look now, but so is Jill Stein "Replace capitalism with 'democratic......Read the rest...

... Life has many ups and downs Personally more ups than downs A happy long life with many more years A bunch more smiles than frowns Surely one of the fortunate ones The genes were a ve......Read the rest...

...Close up, the finality of our work will be revealed from the encased sealed specimen, now under the microscope, three years of research and hundreds of failed attempts ... alas, t......Read the rest...

...What is that? The child asked, pointing at the man. His mother was horrified, trying to get him to stop. Child could see what mom could not – a monster man. With claws and teeth and extra heads to......Read the rest...

...I see a massacre of a thousand different versions of myself. The leaves flutter, heralding the only living specimen of myself. I've always been a warrior but it's a lonely night. Sometimes i w......Read the rest...

...Disgusting could be a weaker word to express the scene, Nauseating and stomach-churning the locus has been; Sliding, slithering, groveling, crouching, crawling, creeping, Filling, feeling, and fa......Read the rest...

...The human being (also referred throughout history as 'long pig' and 'hairless goat' in the case of younger specimens) Observing the anatomy and skeleton, one can see that the human animal after......Read the rest...

...trapped, safeguarded, each appendage secured in amber, some Jurassic specimen created for your gaze you regard me with a quizzical eye, comb your notes carefully for collected data on my......Read the rest...