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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
love in a boatLove in a boat
The water in the bay is blue and calm
a couple in a sailboat sits close together
he has one hand on the tiller and the other
hand around her waist
she rests her head on...
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Categories:
animal, arabic,
Form: Blank verse
wolf and deer are my constantsTwo solid spirit animals I have are the wolf and the deer.
They get along well, apparently, for they are my constants.
Wolf uplifts my confidence, assuring me I am right.
Deer helps me to remain humble and...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Free verse
auntie needs seven giraffesIf I had seven giraffes, my life would be complete.
It would make my days tasty, my entire weeks sweet.
She is my aunt, but crazy, if you ask me or cousin Lou.
We figured out why she...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Couplet
Thought you took your woolen scarfMeredee returned to the house shivering from the cold.
I thought you took your woolen scarf, said her Grandma Bold.
I did, she said, but her teeth were shaking, her fate sealed.
Look here grandma, said her daughter,...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Rhyme
I AM THE HOUSE MOUSEBeneath old floorboards I reside,
from where I wander far and wide
I climb cavities in each wall
taking great care so I don’t fall.
The family here are Jack and Jill
and a baby by...
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Categories:
animal, home,
Form: Personification
Dogtrot
There is only one port-a-pot
and all the pups are quite distraught.
The largest bladder of all
inside a poodle so small!
He’s peeing at a full dogtrot!...
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Categories:
animal, cute, dog, funny,
Form: Limerick
PegasusSomewhere, deep in a cave, an unknown creature is born.
It will open its eyes to the harsh realities to be called ungodly;
Yet, through a mother's eyes, it is beautiful in its very design.
The way it...
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Categories:
animal, beauty, horse, mother,
Form: Free verse
In the Eye of a HorseYesterday, I stroked a horse:
I ran my hand along his back
And watched his every muscle twitch,
So sensitive—what a proud and
Ceremonious beast. He held his head
Lightly—comfortable, with no fear—
And his ears tipped gently forward,
Relaxed. They flicked...
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Categories:
animal, care, horse, nature,
Form: Free verse
I'm at a 4-year-old birthday party asking other parents if they're into the Velvet Undergroundnot going well
this
i've got a tattoo of a butterfly on my right cheek
it will remain there til monday morning
there's a bouncy castle and a bubble machine
i'm smacking the hell out of the piñata...
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Categories:
animal, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Lost Track of a Ginger SnapGet in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun.
Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone,
something must be wrong,
I ask she looked at me and welts started to run,
down we hunkered under the...
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Categories:
animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative
Animal IdentitiesA is an ape who wishes he were a man - why?
B is a butterfly who dreamed he was a man - why not?
C is the cat who wants to sit in my chair, when...
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Categories:
animal, identity,
Form: Abecedarian
rockstar hedgehogRock star hedgehog rocked the world of New York with his guitar.
He had gigs lined up from sixth Madison to the Village, place named Garr.
When he began to rock out, the crowd went nuts and...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Rhyme
Delusions of GrandeurWhy does the mouse disguise itself as a rat?
Because it has delusions of grandeur.
The mouse thinks it must win in life,
And to win in life is to be intimidating;
To make a name for yourself.
Rats are...
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Categories:
allusion, animal, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Beauty of DeathI stare into the soul of death:
She has eyes like nothing I have seen before,
And she exhibits her wrath by staring right back.
She knows what she is doing—cold;
Merciless. Her body coils around me,
And with every...
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Categories:
animal, art, death,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Animal Poems
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Definition | What is Animal in Poetry?
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