Get Your Premium Membership

Best Animal Poems

Below are the all-time best Animal poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of animal poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Squirrel
~My Nutty Squirrel Poem~

Up in a tree, on a branch
Now you see me, now you don't!

Sneaky and fast, I'm adorable
Now, why would you hunt or...

Read more of this work...
Categories: adventure, animal, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Campfire
CAMPFIRE 

I thirst to taste your solid wood stare
I see you and no one else 
Nestling under the stars
Hungry for each others ears

Chasing every comet across the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: analogy, animal, earth, fire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member African Anthology
walking gracefully  
with a pendulum movement ~
a herd of giraffes   

the mass migration
crocodiles at the river~
food for the taking

gazelles are running ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: africa, animal, nature, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Effervescence
I am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious...

Read more of this work...
Categories: animal, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Music To My Ears
Effervescent elation arises and dances to ancient echoes; the rhythm of the drums heartbeat.  
Champagne notes bubble into the night sky; night music of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: animal, bird, dream, image,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Avian Legos
...to the finessed fowl
humming by my ear      tell me
Did anyone ever tell you
just how glad they are
to have you here?

Poignant...

Read more of this work...
Categories: animal, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Band of Bunnies
As the sun appears from its winter hush,
earthy meadows now appear green and lush.
As its refreshing rays begin to peep
animals awaken from their deep sleep.

A...

Read more of this work...
© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whilst Walking Through the Woods
Whilst walking through the woods one day
A crystal brook there, shone so gay
The sun was shining oh' so bright
As brook reflected all it's light

Buzzing insects...

Read more of this work...
Categories: animal, beauty, bird, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Jesus Was Turkish
A strange claim
Of a man of passion
Of kindness
He said
Let the children come to me
For what man would refuse the smile
The innocence of a child
He parted...

Read more of this work...
Categories: age, animal, bible, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Peacocks and Predators
The raptor and the peacock hence,
Sit pensive on a rambling fence.
The first, inclined to be the host,
Jumped down to claim the nearest post.
The pea averse...

Read more of this work...
Categories: animal, identity,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member A Winter's Tale
Biting winds and swirling flakes of snow had finally abated

We surveyed the deep drifts, which lay on the fields
The silvery moon peeped through the clouds...

Read more of this work...
Categories: animal, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Another Day Safe From the Harvester's Jaws
Out of the burrows and hedges and dreys
Heads came a bobbing in frantic relays.
Rumours were twittered and grunted and squealed:
‘The Harvester’s coming to furrow the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: angst, animal, fear, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Wolf
My nostrils sniff the air seeking,
the various scents tantalising.
Then I smell the bison and throwing
back my head I howl to my pack.

The bison start to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: animal, howl,
Form: Personification
Black Beauty
Black like a rare diamond.
Perfectly sculpted.
White as a snowy peek .
Reflecting off the glistening waves.
Your beauty and grace challenge us.
Mostly free, we morn for your...

Read more of this work...
Categories: animal, blue, ocean, sea,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs