Pets Africa Poems

If you knitted a scarf 
For a long necked giraffe
How long would the scarf need to be
If you wrapped it around
Would it reach to the...

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Slavery is not the end of atrocities 
Suffered by minority communities
The every day systematic sway
Of bricks piled against you like
A wall of pain
So many bricks
The...

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II
I was thinking ... Absences
Used to make hearts grow fonder
Or so the proverb said, in my youth
True in some ways ... Untrue in another 
Some...

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Two Fridays ago, a fowl thief 
Ruled over hearts, pets, relationships
Broke in (burglary) during my absence
Took Mr. Five (her half- brother) for his unearned pot
I...

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I
I click, call "Kaalnek"  - the hen -
She, rooster come! They greet me
As dogs do, at gate

II
They stay in yard - waiting
Faithful? Guard pets?...

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I
She's now almost four months old
He is at least four months older
She is half-sister, sharing a mother
So far, she, Kaalnek, somewhat bolder
Than her half-brother, somewhat...

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I
In a land of crime, pets too are killed
A goose was struck by an upset Ouma
I saw it in a fenced yard, life bleeding ...
It...

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I
Siblings stolen
Why list the nations ills ...
Bring Chicken Little home

II
Kuiken has cage during light
Twilight cheeps, louder -- plaintive --
Back in box, quietest baby...

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Man loves friends
Babies have toys as friends
Children have peer groups as friends
Young men like making friends
Friends can become spouses
Entrepreneurs have ambitions and dreams 
as friends
Stars...

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pets, feeding times
my presence, their animation -
two broods: chickens...

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I
Decades in America changed me
Yes, piglets are cute, obese ones not!
America regulates farming,  pets, husbandry 
People of color, here, practice pig-cleaning:
Pigs eat human feces;...

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IT'S ABOUT TIME

Let us talk to the birds visiting us in summer,
Let us talk to the afternoon shadow,
Let us raise our pets to our level,
Let...

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Hey guys! Check out my very first article posted on the blog The Stories We Tell! This is a amazing adventure I just began and...

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Aussie Pet Doors, we are providing Surefeed Microchip Pet Feeder which is specially designed for multi-pets for homes and helping pets use the feeder in...

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IT WAS a dreary February day
That melancholy walk by the park with a blue morning 
And a cloudless sky.

Alas! I met a stray puppy, effulgent...

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