Animal Bereavement Poems

Never met her, yet I've heard
the crazy Tante von Vogt
lived her life as any would,
if they were crazy.

She'd walk to butcher's each week
no nod greeting...

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I see them lurking around the streets with vicious eyes that are sinking deep; they are hungry for your flesh, and they are walking with...

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Goodbye, Odie

My little old cat is dying.
His steps are awkward, eyes unfocussed
and he cries when he can’t see me.
I’m not sure I want to be...

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Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.

Ah... what luxury to wax poetic 
as freedom to trumpet thoughts, 
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president...

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Au revoir oh perilous freedom...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.

Ever since the notions
of life, liberty...

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Sharp eyes dimmed ,a last spark of life  

Looking puzzle and questioning  

Into my soul went his silent plea, 

As if to say...

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G or T Personification Poetry Contest   Sponsored by: Joseph May
Written: August 22, 2023
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Deep in the typhoon of my maelstrom of anger.
I swirl in...

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What I only wished for most was 
another chance to see your glance
another chance to see your dance
as I walked in that door.

You came into...

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Your ghost is in clouds -
hidden in a song,
and sometimes sits by the apple tree;
where you are, where you belong,
always here with me. 

Little white...

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"Te recuerdo como eras en el ultimo otono..."
  ---- Pablo Neruda

Dawn seems much later --
the nights much longer
than they used to be...
I am achier,...

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The howl beseeches—
Crying for its true mate; it’s
Not a hungered prowl....

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Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations

Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass killings
rip...

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suffering Dog
when do you say
enough...

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They are like some other beings altogether

the cry more animal than human

wordless pathos,musical,disturbing

They have gone back to a troubled and imagined infancy

but no mother responds...

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My cat is a rescue me,
The abandonment of loneliness
He had his Forever Home promise
My love and affection were his.

See, he turns out to be, 
Complete...

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