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Cheery Squirrel
He
hops to
the window
waits patiently
for I am his friend-
my fingers hold his prize.
With gentleness takes his nut
as loving smiles spread on my face
knowing this friendship's a special gift.
Our cheery bond strengthens my happy day.
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Categories:
animal, friendship, happiness, love,
Form: Etheree
milking cowsmilking cows
This is an easy day
I wrote something this morning
it is hard
to make sentences flow
softly, like the narrow river
where I sat transfixed for hours
doing absolutely nothing
I saw a baby trout looking at me
swim away, it...
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Categories:
absence, america, animal, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
in the middle of nowheresitting in deer stand
watching waiting to see deer
prance around the stand...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Haiku
Critterature: The Saga of Veronica VoleThis is the saga of Veronica Vole
Who committed the perfect crime.
She murdered three lovers,
But not all at once,
She did 'em in one at a time.
The first was a lemur,
A two-timing schemer,
Who seduced all thirteen of...
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Categories:
animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Alligator Sashay, UnabridgedCircle left, hang on tight
Don't get caught in an alligator bite
Allemande left, what you want to do
Is turn that alligator into stew
Do-si-do, listen to the band
Alligator shoes look mighty grand
Roll away to a half sashay
If...
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Categories:
animal, dance, humor, music,
Form: Lyric
Solitude In The SeaMy heart yearns for something that is bigger than me and my spirit keeps searching for it, it is not buried in the sand by the sea but it is somewhere beyond hills waiting...
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Categories:
absence, animal, beach, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
THE HEIFER TAKES THE LEADtwo cows come down a hill;
they’ve come down before;
and again they shall…
unless Noah finds them
wandering off
takes them under his wing
of two by two;
enjoys the milk of she
& the horny glance of he
& the frightened glimpse...
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Categories:
angst, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Mercy DogI watched a dog sweep across the land where no man stands:
So delicate in his every step. He manoeuvred across it
With very little fault, and he didn’t worry for the mud
That clung his feet like...
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Categories:
animal, death, dog, feelings,
Form: Free verse
MY METAMORPHOSISAs fertile egg in pond I stay
till, by magic, a nymph one day.
Then comes new instinct to tempt me
to break my tether and go free.
From murky depth of birthplace pond
it’s time...
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Categories:
animal, flying,
Form: Rhyme
WHO AM I IN THE SKY?I’m flying here and flying there
to prey on others in the air.
I am forever on the feed
for lots of energy I need.
As carnivore I eat live meat.
The vulture bee...
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Categories:
animal, food,
Form: Couplet
I AM THE HOUSE MOUSE - PART 2They won’t get me with crude device.
I may be mouse but I am wise.
There’s ample food for me to eat
and every day I find a treat.
Jill notices the trap...
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Categories:
animal, home,
Form: Personification
Infatuated by Barney BullBarnyard animals were intimidated by the bull.
He is from Chicago, he must be part of the mafia.
Whisper whisper gossip gossip
Barney was a quiet animal, he stayed to himself
He was not antisocial, just not socialized.
He wanted...
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Categories:
animal, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Puppy Love
"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar ... Samual Taylor Coleridge
There lived no better heart to know.
His love was like a light,
Coloring lives in visions of gold,
Softest visions, alive, so bold,
Beautiful...
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Categories:
animal, appreciation, dog, words,
Form: Ballad
A Mouse Or A Mountain
Growing up,
I was the runt of the litter.
My siblings called me Cute,
because I was the youngest one.
It was very hard growing up as a little mouse,
gray with tiny white spots.
I saw myself as big as...
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Categories:
animal, family, giggle, home,
Form: Free verse
Pat
Rat-a-tat and pit-a-pat!
‘Pon my word!
Pit-a-pat and rat-a-tat!
It’s a bird –
A woodpecker knocking!
Loudest I’ve heard!
His noise shocking!.
Thrashing the habitat.
His visage mocking....
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Categories:
animal, bird, environment, nature,
Form: Other
Specific Types of Animal Poems
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