Best Cottontail Poems

My son draws images 
On a scroll-like object 
Storyboarding
At the age of five
He is learning that time is linear
When it isn't
He loves his watch 
How...

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On the plains in the Texas panhandle
The fight for survival is real
As I watched from the derrick 
On a short smoke break
A scene rather harsh...

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*Image of Pala au & Nanahoa by Historic Hawaii
AUDIO: Couplet read
VIDEO: Unique Okala Island Off Monumental Cliffs of Moloka'i


Cliff

Cliff's supply the bemused aback.
Amassed jaws sink...

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Something spoke a promise
Whispered by the sky
And nodding clouds then passed it on
To eagles flying high
Something told the meadow
And gave the sparrow song
Who sang it...

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EASTER BUNNY OF FLORIDA

God sends gifts to sensitive hearts.
My grandson left his pets behind
as we travelled from familiar parts
of Georgia to Florida. God is kind.

Muffin,...

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It’s been ten days, the Easter Bunny is gone with hardly a trace,
The Missus is inconsolable- an Easter basket-case,
Evidence in plastic bags, some fibers and...

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WHEN THE DOGWOOD IS IN BLOOM AND THE RANGE HAS TURNED TO GREEN
I WILL RIDE YOUR WAY AGAIN LIKE THE HAPPY VISION IN YOUR DREAM.
WITH...

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White cottontail hops
Leaving behind trails of hope
Prints of cheerfulness

July 22, 2014
©2014 by Regina Riddle...

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Fox Hunting

She turns tail to snake through the dust,
parting orderly heads of corn,
breathing heat and eating dark
On her way to escape—she hopes—
from the fox chasing...

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I WANNA KNOW
                (Children's Rhyme intended for Picture Rhyme Book)

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His harness swung across his shoulders and neck,
  a little snug and uncomfortable underneath his chest
we had to assure the neighbors his walk was...

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There once was a gray cottontail rabbit.
All of her brothers and sisters were brown.
The gray one, named Suzie, had a habit.
She would hide when the...

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I am Babbit's rabbit, a cute and fluffy kisser
   with a cottontail and lopped eared listeners.
Bought on the farm not the store, picked...

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Coyote

Coyote grins in the night 
ear tingling howls, locate their kill sight
or did they rumage another dump site

A Crafty Survalist at peace with the night
Shy,...

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The  traditional Easter bunny,
With ears long and funny.

He hops down the bunny trail,
With the cutest cottontail.

Bringing a basket for all the girls and boys,
Filled...

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