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Animal Rights Poems - Poems about Animal Rights

Premium Memberlevels of it

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stubbed toe / during a broken heart—
you said pain is pain, offered to kiss both.

we nursed the plot of a favorite episode,
argued over what constituted foreshadowing.

talking to you about ...
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Categories: animal rights, age, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBetty White

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An American legendary comedian and actress
Now smiles on new stamp of USPS
A long-lived fellow born in Illinois
With perpetual charm and glamor, oh boy!

Betty Marion Ludden-- her re...
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Categories: animal rights, memorial,
Form: Ekphrasis



ANIMA MUNDI

...we walk alone as the time commends
as the need arises as the love fulfills
mother of each day’s world

I have engaged in intimacies before
holding a cat as he died
a child with a sore throat
s...
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Categories: animal rights, animal, growth, self,
Form: Free verse

Wild Life and the White Man

...Wild life some guard with their last drop of blood,
Save God should want to waste it with fierce flood:
I have in mind white men, sometimes, funny,
Quick to buy strange theatre with money…

Arre...
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Categories: animal rights, animal, appreciation, creation, education,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEnemy Mine

...Enemy Mine


An enemy imagined is greater than an enemy that is real. For a real enemy can be killed, but an imagined enemy is invincible. No matter how much money we spend on def...
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Categories: animal rights, children, evil, halloween, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGet Thee Up

...Get Thee Up is an old way
Of saying Giddy Up, latter-day.
I rather like the original best,
Although Giddy Up has stood the test
Of time.
Cowboys and Horsemen use this still,
It seems to fit the...
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Categories: animal rights, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

I Have Labored Sore Translation

...I Have Labored Sore
anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I have labored sore / and suffered death, 
so now I rest / and ca...
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Categories: animal rights, christian, death, earth, heaven,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStrange Justice Dreams

...It is a strange dream
in which an animal rights advocate
is swamped with questions
from Chief Justice Roberts.

A vicious dog,
trained to attack humans 
with politically incorrect audacity
to...
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Categories: animal rights, caregiving, earth, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberLoyal

...Animals forced to do man's fatal, dirty work
Penalised by the superior species
Men without sanity, crazy, berserk
Dogs delivering bombs get blown to pieces,

Animal mascots, monkeys, pigs, c...
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Categories: animal rights, abuse, anger, animal, betrayal,
Form: Sonnet

Human Rights Watch and Yemen

...oh human rights watch
aren't you tired of watching

the
roasted Yemeni children 
is conscious haunting

an illiterate Emirati pilot
got his finger on the trigger

next to him a Saudi shyloc...
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Categories: animal rights, child abuse, conflict, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Prairie Dog Run

...Let it go
And burrow little one
Make your home at the base of the willow...

If you've ever watched that anchor on TV
You should know about the abuses they face
Such a downtrodden yet friendly ...
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Categories: animal rights, animal, art,
Form: Verse

If Chicken Soup

...If chicken soup is for the soul,
Where does the chicken's soul go?
When all the soup's drained from its bowl,
What sort of life did that chicken know?...
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Categories: animal rights, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTurkeys: a Love Story

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            Turkeys~A Love Story

Ah! Realizing his end was near,
Tom Turkey went out hunting for a little dear.
He found her, and a hot number, she!!
It was love at first sight, under a
g...
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Categories: animal rights, america, animal, thanksgiving,
Form: I do not know?

The Fox Hunt

...All horses and hounds alert, 
when the horn blows!
The chase is on, where to?
Nobody bloody knows!

Illegal is the sport,
everybody is on edge.
A fox runs for it is life,
as a horse is whippe...
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Categories: animal rights, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBring On the Dancing Bears

...At the famous Folies Bergère
all the dancing girls fell sick
No one to entertain the tourists
who wouldn’t get to see high kicks

The manager of the venue
thought so long and very h...
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Categories: animal rights, dance, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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