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Categories:
animal,
Form: Senryu
pondside whisper hikuFor Sir Brian Strand's 1398 Poetry Contest
24 July 2025
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Categories:
animal, nature,
Form: Haiku
THE HEAVYWEIGHT AND THE FEATHERWEIGHTTHE HEAVYWEIGHT AND THE FEATHERWEIGHT
Poem written for Ridiculous Comparisons Poetry Contest, Miranda Hawley, sponsor, July 23, 2025
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There’s the elephant, a lumbering titan,
a true heavy weight with a heart that beats like thunder,
each footfall a seismic event,
a gentle giant, who with the grace of a ballet dancer
could crush a car if ballet were performed in...
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Categories:
12th grade, animal, bird,
Form: Free verse
homeTake me out back,
I'll face the other way,
Lay me on the floor,
Help me gain my balance,
So you can hurt me more.
Treat me like a dog,
kick me till I bleed,
Watch me come back to you,
And lay at your feet.
Call it love,
call it loyalty,
call it anything
but what it really is—
a craving to be needed
even in the breaking.
I...
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Categories:
anger, animal, change, dog,
Form: Free verse
The Green Fields of Leisure WorldHear the tale of the green fields where I roam,
Leisure World, the place that I call home.
If you take strolls (a healthy habit),
at dawn or dusk, you'll see a rabbit.
(If you were faster, you could grab it)
You'll see four-legged, curly-haired cuties
who lead their pets while they do their duties,
and grey-brown squirrels on their haunches
meticulously chewing their...
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Categories:
animal, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Breed ViatorEco-anxiety over the big cats,
I am in fear of an empty space.
Sitting on top of the food chain
in their absence balance is off.
Every day they slowly decline,
eco-anxiety over the big cats.
Panic is no longer dwindling,
increasing as numbers shrink.
The racing pulse of a lush forest
every creature is a part of it.
Eco-anxiety...
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Categories:
animal, anxiety, cat, nature,
Form: Other
Ophidiophobia
Ophid air of misconception
Polarizing those of superstition
Hideous to some and
Indescribably beautiful to many
Devoid of human soul
Involved in man’s downfall
Only to be cursed as
Pretense of innocence
Holding unfounded fear
Of snakes who serve
Behind our sight with
Intense appearance and
Always omnipresent...
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Categories:
animal, discrimination, fear, judgement,
Form: Acrostic
TRAINING TURKEYS
Deborah’s Grandfather was fond of saying, other than at Thanksgiving, turkeys had no worth
for he believed that turkeys were the stupidest creatures on Earth.
He told stories of turkeys innocently and ignorantly standing on the ground
and staring up into the rain so long…they ultimately drowned…
Of course we know this isn’t true….and the reason for her grandfather’s...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Rhyme
Guy the Excitable ChickWe are plain yellow chicks in my barnyard, my family and I
Well, we were, until the birth of my younger brother, Guy
He is the most excitable chick we had ever hoped to see
Getting enthusiastic to the utmost degree
When his feathers begin to turn from yellow to pink
And then blue and red, we know what to...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Rhyme
Loyalty, Thou art a Frog
A loyal being is my pet frog
More reliable than any dog
For a car a dog will chase
Maybe even win the race
While my trusty frog stays in...
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Categories:
animal, home, trust,
Form: Limerick
Pie-Faced
I've oft been offered but not tempted by
large helpings of pie in the sky
from too many crooks
who indeed the broth did spoil
and so as not to be sullied
by such greasy oil
I stay out of their kitchen
not because I can't stand the heat
but what's on their menu
ain't my cup of meat
apple or cherry by the slice...
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Categories:
animal, food, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Answer's A lemming
There are those who think the masses
are like a legion of lemmings
doing a death march into the sea
(actually a river)
but suicidal lemmings are a myth
created by none other than Walt Disney
in Alberta, Canada where
(no lemmings live)
the 1958 film 'White Wilderness' was made
and the sordid scandalous scene
by the filmmakers was staged
spinning turntables were constructed
all covered...
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Categories:
abuse, animal, death, snow,
Form: Rhyme
An Amoeba's SongA brave sailor who sails the high sea
will aim knowing his aft from his lee,
but Brownian motion,
that fabulous notion,
works well for an amoeba like me. ...
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Categories:
animal, humor, nature, science,
Form: Limerick
A Fly and a BirdI saw a buzzing, birding fly go by.
It spied a puzzling, flying bird up high.
When it said, "that's a flycatcher, I think",
that bird caught lunch - a fly and a drink....
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Categories:
animal, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Sitting on the Porchsomething small almost imperceptible is crawling across the porch
I have to get closer to see it; it is a tiny bug, so small it has no color
I wonder if my dogs have noticed; but they are asleep, not caring
leaves of my lilac tree capture my attention next; they seem to shimmer.
a different color on the...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Narrative
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