Nature Animal Poems

Coming back into this world
being no human at all this time
and not able to talk even at all
just concentrate to waddle in rhyme

You've guessed it,...

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a
lone
grey wolf 
banished from 
the pack; an outcast 
roaming the vast Arctic tundra 
in search of prey and another pack to belong to.
encountering polar bears;...

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A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
  
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering 
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher...

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As I wandered down the lane,
I met a snail, quite slow and vain,
"I'm late!" it cried, with a mournful strain,
"I missed my train, I missed...

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Night,
lunar-
lit.
The eyes
luminous,
surprise
prey.
Fearsome
hunters of
lowly creatures.
Nocturnal
dwellers
in
darkness 
encounter
nightmares
of
savage
death.

NB: Waltz Wave form

22 March 2023
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a hibernating bear
          in the dead of winter
during the day,
      ...

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She is lost in a vast ocean
And swimming round and round.
This baby dugong all alone.
Where can her mum be found?
 
Seagrass she now attempts to...

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Ambush Hunter

Raining, periodic glimpses
of eyes glinting, stripes disclosing
a tiger prowling through the forest:
peering, listening, smelling,
drooling, stalking, circling, pausing.

Thunder, lightning revealing
the tiger slinking in the tall...

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Each week she enters the building with smiles all around
She’s come to bring them happiness and hope to abound

Her large Newfoundland body sets many aback
They...

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EPHEMERAL 

Life is short. Power is ephemeral. 
Physical beauty is deciduous,
I have seen it in the fiercest of lions. 
I have seen it in aged...

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seems man is doing fine
but wildlife in decline
octopus next in line

more of them now we eat
as a high protein treat
and they are easy meat

with this,...

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caught in frigid traps
seals struggle against the sea…
population culls

*Strong waves hurled seals against rock walls, killing some....

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drifting pollen swathes
golden contours round wood’s edge
fox cubs investigate...

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Animals in top hats,
Ride bicycles en road,
Spoked wheels and pedaled spats,
Round about, in ornamental spode. 

Animals in monocles,
Spectate in obeisance,
Cuffed by inked chronicle:
Renascence-linked complacence.

Animals in...

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Two piglets out together, walking side by side,
Pressing snuggly wuggly, in wonder big eyed,
On the first stroll, brother and sister sunshine,
As blue birds prance and...

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