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DamselfliesColorful needles
Glide through the sky
Flying critters daedal~
Swarm of Damselflies
With vibrant slender bodies
And intricately designed wings
They jubilantly dance in the sky
True glee to the viewers, they bring
Merrily drench in the rain showers
Rhythmically jump around the flowers
Angels...
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Categories:
animal, art, blessing, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Loud Crash in the Woods
at 6:18 a.m. there was a loud crash in the woods
It startled Ed due to the hours of silent prelude
He lifted his Browning 1885 high wall to his shoulder
Thinking he was about to get...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Narrative
The Fiddler and the FrogOn edge of the marsh trills a Spring Peeper.
His pal is a fiddler, whose strum’s deeper.
Together their tune’s not bad,
yet driving the neighbor’s mad.
Their hands over ears - still not one sleeper.
The fiddler and frog...
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Categories:
angst, animal, music,
Form: Limerick
Shaggy Dog Limericks IIIThe Doberman Pinscher
A Doberman’s known to be picky
With friends so to greet one is tricky
To kiss is a bummer
Undoubtedly dumber
Is to sneak up and give one a hickey
The English Setter
The reason we call them a...
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Categories:
animal, cute, dog, funny,
Form: Limerick
A psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers mothersA psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers/mothers...
Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably,
and unwittingly script vitality
and the prologue to Thanksgiving,
(which theme poem initially written)
about three hundred and ninety seven years,
and nine months after February third 1621,
yet...
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Categories:
animal, adventure, africa, age, america,
Form: Rhyme
Night Rider Leaves Empty HandedHow many owls can I hold? I wondered as they appeared.
They were perched on each limb as the night rider neared.
I cannot handle this volume, the night rider said in a mean way.
But we promised...
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Categories:
animal, tree,
Form: Rhyme
To walk your DogAnd where for art though gone
To tree or hedge or coffee found
Perhaps to bed and cushioned pillow gone
Ahh but only to back yard in a dog to walk in
a late moon to see what...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Free verse
To walk your DogAnd where for art though gone
To tree or hedge or coffee found
Perhaps to bed and cushioned pillow gone
Ahh but only to back yard in a dog to walk in
a late moon to see what...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Free verse
To walk your DogAnd where for art though gone
From my text
To tree or hedge or coffee found
Perhaps to bed and cushioned pillow gone
Ahh but only to back yard in a dog to walk
in
a late moon...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Free verse
I Saw It
“I saw it! I saw it!”, the groundhog announced.
“My shadow – it grew and it flounced!
Run! Hide! Save yourself and those you love
and leave the cold to the ground above!
Six more weeks of huddling and...
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Categories:
animal, cute, feelings, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Groundhog day - Thursday, February 2nd 2023The date of the celebration
(the second day of February) coincides
with medieval feast of Candlemas,
and its pre-Christian predecessor,
Imbolc, a day also rich in folklore.
An old Scottish prophecy foretells
sunny weather on Candlemas
means a long winter.
The tradition is...
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Categories:
animal, 12th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
beesunambitious bees
slowly fly out of their hives
searching for new jobs
...
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Categories:
animal, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Brumby 6-25The brumby of Australia, not known to be well bred
Some are tough as leather, but that not often said
More criticised that praised, for damage that they do
Muddying the waterholes, as cattle never do
The biggest problem...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Rhyme
Yesterday and Forever
When I think about the LORD and
His having a plan for my life,*
I rejoice that He cares so much-
His everlasting love so rife
When a young girl on the farm
Life was hard but it was charmed
As...
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Categories:
animal, childhood, christian, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
An Endearing Day My bunny is my bestie, but I don’t want to hurt my dog.
So, I do not say it aloud, for Fido is super sensitive most days.
I am followed by geese, a turtle, a sparrow, butterfly...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Quatrain
Specific Types of Animal Poems
Read wonderful animal poetry on the following sub-topics:
acrostic, cruelty, death, farm, funny, haiku, kids, metaphor, nature, passing away, rights, rhyme, shape,
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Definition | What is Animal in Poetry?
Poems Related to Animal
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