Best Canis Poems

I'd been watching him for years, (black as coal),

          Almost two decades now, an extraordinary age for a wolf ...

               Every full...

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Canis Lupus, gray wolf of forest and brushlands,
Where denning sites throughout are plentiful and safe,
With gifts of strength, endurance and great stamina,
You travel on for hours before fatigue sets in.

As Alpha male, joined with your Alpha female mate,
You lead the pack which heeds and follows...

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Canis Lupus the Wolf

Spring is here  
and almost  to the end of April
when I will give birth to my pups
the inner layer of my wool, fur has shed    
it will help keep me cool during the summer

My den is well...

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Canis Lupus the Dufus

He did battle with three little hams
was embroiled in the Riding Hood scams
now slower of gait
he simply must wait
for a visit from Mary’s sweet lambs



John G. Lawless
3/30/2015

Not submitted to the contest
for obvious reasons....

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Vapour’s breath disappears into silent moonlight
	Past pearl white teeth.
Chilled -
Air frozen with fear and awe, hush -
Branches slow their clapping and bend to listen
	As paws crunch into an icy clearing.
Still -
Icicles fall in a symphony of crystal wonder
Her eyes a dusty grey, as glass
Peer through...

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there was a dog who craved fish

if served upon a posh dish

dining out it sat

by a cultured cat

whose manners were oh snobbish.
...

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In this crazy world I walk this dark forest alone
Refusing to be part of a pack 
I don’t want to be known
I think independently
So I hunt alone
I carefully keep track of my evolution
Every day I have grown
But now I am in unchartered territory
I have fallen...

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Part man part creature this spirit, fallen, from her skies..
Nineteen fifty-nine an expedition discovering His child floating
Gallantly down Love's reinish river ? Wrapped in a cloth of many colours
Black pearl eyes gazing past her wickers wedge; by and by beloved, their baby....
Mixed metaphors prodigical doors;...

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In days of gray, my legs will lumber,
As time moves swiftly on, it does not break,
In my sleep, dreams will drive me wide awake
And the nightmares keep me deep in slumber.

Provoked by the simplest things, a clumber,
But saddened by the man who forsake
It’s gentle heart,...

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Let them sleep
Do not let hunters
Into dens creep.
Predator kin predator
Mothers and babes
In your safe harbor
Killed without grace.
Who amongst us
Will let this take place?
It's the man on the throne
With the lobbyists' ear;
Overboard humanity is thrown
As no more dangerous
A predator exists
In our world on this ark than...

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or was it my dreamless eyes
that you distinguished it was already night?
I really can't say.
did you see that in them the future had died?
the truth is that I sent these signals
trying to show some clues,
show you before tragedy what I am,
as a warning to your...

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Canis Lupus

The sound of a pin drop in the
kitchen downstairs wakens me.
I get a whiff of a strange scent
not one I can identify.

My eyes open and I can
see in the dark.
Unusual, as I always stub
my toe on something.

The nightlight is on and
I make my way...

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~ for Ana ~

I was there many times -
I’d been watching him for years,
(he, black as coal),
almost two decades now,
an extraordinary age for a wolf ...
every full moon, and only then,
he came to the clifftops …
to howl, you ask?
yes, to howl ... certainly that,
for his...

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In so many ways I see them as being better than us.
They'll die for you and never betray your trust,
and yet this breed of over 400 plus
wouldn't be here today if not for us.
Canis Lupus Familiaris.
More commonly known as Dogs to most of us....

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When asked by his shrink
what he most wanted in a wife, 
a future husband replied:
a loving dog and faithful for life.

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