Best Animal Rights Poems

Lawrence Strauss, based on The Nazarene by Sholem Asch

The Rabbi saw in the hand of a man an awl,
Such as a driver would use to pierce an animal’s skin, 
And not let the wound be healed,
But whenever the creature refused to move
The driver would stab...

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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 trespass against his white supremacist Master,
has been imprisoned
and sentenced to death
by euthanasia.

Thompson Gould Page
has finally appealed past redundant losses
to Roberts'...

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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 race

I feel a hunger, its a hunger
To see them finally rise
And look up...

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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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