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Best Critter Poems

Below are the all-time best Critter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of critter poems written by PoetrySoup members


Pikes Peak Cranky Critter Confab
Up in Colorado, in the forests of Pikes Peak
A cranky critters conference was held just this week
It was led by a mouse, 3 legs, whiskerless...

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Categories: critter, animals, cowboy-western, funny, nature,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Premium Member The No-Chicken Critter
Six sick skunks of one stinking litter
get startled by a fox; five of the six sick skunks scamper.
But one of the six sick skunk siblings...

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Categories: critter, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On My Loneliness
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

My childhood spent without peers
alone and prey to my fears.

Nights spent face buried in my pillow
my emotions  like a weeping willow.

The school kid disliked and...

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Categories: critter, loneliness, planet,
Form: Free verse
Thanksgiving Turkey
They organized a church bazaar,
To raise money for the poor.
A booth for selling chances
Was set up, outside the door.

When I bought the raffle ticket, 
My...

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Categories: critter, animals, food, funny, seasons,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pee Yew- Collaboration
Yesterday I was in a little funk
because I got peed on by a big skunk
          ...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critter, humor,
Form: Limerick



Here Kitty Kitty
I can't help myself, it's what I do
I'm just so addicted to the trade
I was too dang scared to steal the dog
'Cause of all the...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critter, funnyme,
Form: Rhyme
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To School
A funny thing happened on the way to school,
I swear I saw an alligator in Ms. Mary's pool.
I kept on walking but it looked at...

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Categories: critter, childhood, fun, funny, school,
Form: Rhyme
The Cow At the Car Wash
By Elton Camp

Tex had a longhorn he hoped to sell
But it was too dirty to do very well

It’d been lolling in the mud and dust
To...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critter, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmic Respect
IT'S SAID A FEW HUNDRED MILLION YEARS AGO
I WAS LIVING IN THE SEA
I HAD NO LEGS TO WALK
I COULDN'T EVEN TALK
I WAS JUST A SEA...

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Categories: critter, creation, eve, garden, gospel,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Resignation Leaves
Resignation leaves.
Then inside his room he grieves
sitting on a little chair wearing just his underwear.

Resistance says, “No way!
Never will I go away.”
He is like a...

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Categories: critter, character,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Ggrrrrr the Spider Has Returned
I prepare myself for a deep relaxing bath
but that dratted spider was out to have a laugh

As I pour scented bubble bath into the water
Spidey...

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Categories: critter, home, humorous, insect,
Form: Couplet
Tangling Your Fingers In My Hair
Beautiful one
    its you I adore,
your angelic way,
   the knowledge you store.
Grace resides
    upon your skin,
sparking my...

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Categories: critter, devotion, love, passionme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Jungle Jamboree
When panthers prowl and lions stalk,
the lone wolves howl and parrots talk.
The bee hives hum and wild boars snort;
the grouses drum; the deer cavort.
And as...

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Categories: critter, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Armano the Auracano
Armano the Auracano of Rock Star fame
Will never be singing on his stage again

A fan. a critter, or even a possum 
Has taken his life,...

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Categories: critter, animals, family, loss, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ninja Flop
Sticks
landing!
Crucial flaw -
cool critter flops
Ninja Warrior's cool million Pipe Dream.




*Pipe Dream is a Phase 3 American Ninja Warrior obstacle ~ so close, little guy ;)

Make...

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Categories: critter, silly,
Form: Tetractys

Book: Shattered Sighs