Green Needs
...Indigo moods within my chest
Not choosing foods like chicken breast
I’m gently beginning vegetarians quest
And I’m pretty hungry I must confess
I still eat butter I still eat cheese
So I’m no...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, angst, animal, appreciation, art,
Form: Rhyme
In the News Today Texas
...In the News Today
How much water does a soldier’s water bottle contain?
Do we need to know, or do we want to know? Probably not
Whatever it is, the secret will be exposed when a young
man is ha...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, anger, angst, animal, death,
Form: Blank verse
Prince of a Cat - Ninth Life Long Since Spent
...While rifling through outdated poems of mine
some written quite a number of years ago,
the following mewing effort, I decided to post
for all purring cyber surfers linkedin
to the webbed, wide w...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, absence, age, angel, best
Form: Rhyme
Legacy
...In the 1960’s all around me were cheerful chants
inviting us all to ‘Make Love not War’
John Lennon asked us to give peace a chance,
some joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
We all wante...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, angst, dark, destiny, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Animal Cruelty
...animal
cruelty makes
me sick...
to my stomach!
quite abhorrent and
upsett...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, abuse, anger, animal, perspective,
Form: Verse
A Spirit Broke - Animal Cruelty
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Her body full of broken bones, a spirit broke
Her eyes dull, fail in gratitude to your stroke
Fragile and emaciated, as starved from food
Life not worth living so to death didn’t elude
Refu...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, abuse, animal, betrayal, caregiving,
Form: Couplet
Finish Lines
...The toys sit idle….the cat and the kids play in the boxes.
Deer paw the frozen ground…. the sparrows hope.
Old church pews creak under the weight… of the season.
A line forms at the homeless...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, christmas, irony,
Form: Free verse
Olive Exposure
...Olive was vibrant and deliberated in awe in front of her wardrobe
Should she put on that glorious fox pelt for the night’s Hunters Ball
Surely it had to be politically correct and she would cla...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, rights,
Form: Free verse
Speed
...Once I worked for 'tcouncil sweepin streets and diggin' 'oles,
and was quite contented fulfillin' both these roles.
But like many workers I weren't inclined to rush,
'specially while in't gutter s...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, humorous,
Form: Lyric
Freedom
...It appears that I was both half asleep and awake. For all intents and purposes, let's just call it a dream. There was a zoo and everything about it seemed normal. That is, if we consider the humane ...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, america, animal, freedom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Horsemother
...Oh, great horsemother in the sky,
Here is a question from a bard, such as I!
Are you shooting a racing vet today?
Another horse was destroyed for gain,
This is, of course,
A personal hobby hors...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, animal, horse, obituary, race,
Form: Free verse
Prince of a Cat - Ninth Life Long Since Spent
...Preface to this brief bitty
written snap ting snapshot – word ditty
dates back before I reached gritty
age of eight and fifty, aye recall a kitty
rescued by my youngest sister, who took pity
and...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, animal, beautiful, creation, cute
Form: Elegy
Animals Deserve Better
...An animal deserves to be treated right
Whether it be wild or has taken fright
It shouldn't be harmed or left alone
If it's a domestic it needs a home
It needs love and people who care
Not to b...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, animal, care, environment, hope,
Form: Free verse
Just Felt Like Ranting
...Many see me as that crazy cat guy,
who dresses in black all of the time,
and keeps to himself, or to just a chosen few,
and while the latter two accusations may very well be true,
"crazy cat guy...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, animal, cat, people, political,
Form: Rhyme
My Perfect World
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In my perfect world there would be no guns,
or bombs, no terrorists and no wars;
we would bring our soldiers home alive,
no poverty or abuse would exist.
Love,...
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Categories:
animal cruelty, peace, world,
Form: Verse
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