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Picked Milk
Betsy was quite fickle
A cow who loved her pickle
She ate it with corn
As her calf bawled, forlorn
To be left with only a trickle
Of milk not worth a nickel
Since, in all truth, it did mourn
For milk...
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Categories:
animal, childhood, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Secrets of a Summer NightSecrets of a Summer Night
They met in a cornfield at midnight
‘Neath the light of a pale harvest moon
No sweet music played in the background
But the crickets provided a tune
Away from the gaze of the barn...
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Categories:
animal, cute love, night,
Form: Rhyme
Another Bigboy
Stray cat entity
cautions me at an arms length
therein food for thought...
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Categories:
animal, appreciation, desire, fear,
Form: Haiku
Bigboy
I feed a stray cat
all God's creatures great to small
humbled food archives...
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Categories:
animal, cat, food, hurt,
Form: Haiku
Mother Natureglory of morning sun on forest of trees,
the twitter of birds from many nests unseen,
what devilish mind, cruel hands would fell these?
clear stream lilting through, reflect moon’s silver sheen,
caressing pebbled shores, nurturing the seeds,
what evil...
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Categories:
animal, betrayal, bird, evil,
Form: Terza Rima
Lots of Hare in ThemThey have lots of hare in them, he warned me, but that was okay.
My family has a lot of hair too, even at the end of our life.
I still want to meet them. I told...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Rhyme
canine
canine ears perked
march winds
howling
posted on March 4, 2021...
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Categories:
animal, dog, march, nature,
Form: Haiku
Coyotes in the NeighborhoodAround our neighborhood coyotes stalk,
Looking for helpless newborn animals
Count them among unwanted cannibals
Be aware when taking your evening walk;
Danger for older folks who stand and gawk,
In nature,...
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Categories:
animal, nature,
Form: Verse
She Enjoyed a Lot of Love -- about a dog -- BOTH Audio and Text
“This is quite a picture,” Uncle Theodore remarked. “It shows them in their Hudson…with that little dog they had.
Abbie says that you and Vernon bought him as a puppy somewhere ‘round a year or...
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Categories:
animal, dog, love, pets,
Form: Narrative
The Explanation - BOTH Audio and Text - w-IllustrationMany of us have - or have had - an incredibly close relationship with a dog, and the grief brought about by losing them is often devastating -
...
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Categories:
animal, dog, loss, love,
Form: Verse
Hopeful Hogs
One hog to another: It’s a relief when Easter passes.
I count it a miracle that so many of us survived.
As for next Easter, I’m praying we will by then have died –
how else can we...
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Categories:
animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
A Tiger In My Trifle[Just once in a while, I try to write a child friendly
Poem which doesn’t end up as a horrific gore-fest...
This is one such attempt...]
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Categories:
animal, humorous, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Fake Cow-Milking News
There is quite a big ruckus on the street
Lad's milking a cow without any teats
How does he do it?
He stands, doesn't sit
Hey look, Mom, no hands. I'm using my...
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Categories:
animal, drink, truth,
Form: Limerick
The Lions Prayer
Lord, I sense it isn’t right
that I have such a deadly bite
and wish it could be different.
Forgive me if I sound irreverent,
but didn’t YOU create my appetite?...
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Categories:
animal, prayer,
Form: Light Verse
Puppy DreamsHe curled up
snug and safe in his bed
eyes blink then closed, dosing
as he tucked his little head,
At first a sigh
and then a softer deep snore
then feet traveling hurrying to somewhere
with subtle...
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Categories:
analogy, animal,
Form: Quatrain
Specific Types of Animal Poems
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Definition | What is Animal in Poetry?
Poems Related to Animal
natural, bodily, wild, brute, beastly, bestial, corporeal, earthly, earthy, feral, fleshy, muscular, physical, sensual, untamed, mammalian, brutish, zoological, pet, beast, creature, stray, being, brute, mutt, bum, vertebrate, invertebrate, varmint, critter, living thing, wild thing,