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Best Endangered Poems

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


Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: endangered, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

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Categories: endangered, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Neopocha
"Neophoca"

I was dragged 
out of my ocean 
of dreams 

when they peeled
my skin, I was broken,
an endangered species

feeding bits of me 
to the carniverous 
genus...

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Categories: endangered, abuse, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Spirit Animal Is a Zoo
Beware the morning tiger
Before his first coffee
     Look out for the afternoon lizard:
     Ectotherm on the sidewalk...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: endangered, animal, tiger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Owl Parliament, Eagle Owl Presiding
Owl Parliament is now in session, so be quiet please.
All whistles, hoots, growls, grunts and screeches need to cease.

As the largest of you all, I’m...

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Categories: endangered, bird, , cute,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Plastic Paradise
Time's ticking for whooping cranes
wild buffalo and prairie dogs.
For their losses outweigh their gains;
displaced by cattle, sheep, and hogs.

The elephant and the blue whale
may share...

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Categories: endangered, environment, future, how i
Form: Quatrain
On Butterfly Wings
On clear bright days I catch a glimpse
Of what is a rare and beautiful sight.
Endangered, once feared to be lost to time
A gem to the...

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Categories: endangered, animals, inspirational, nature, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Hades Siren


            Belladonnic poison seeps from your eyes, 
      ...

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Categories: endangered, art,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle in the sky.
Soaring oh so high.
As I watch the Eagle fly;
Brings a teardrop to my eye.
Bald Eagle diving super fast
Endangered species of the...

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Categories: endangered, animals
Form: Verse
Premium Member Rainforest Anthology
from three miles away
the unmistakable sounds~
of howlers chorus  

a slithering snake. 
crushing prey without mercy~
green anaconda  

small eyed black caiman
twenty foot alligator ...

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Categories: endangered, animal, insect, nature, rainforest,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member If I Were An Elephant
Of all the mammals living on the land,
the elephant is largest of that kind.
But if I were an elephant, I’d show
the largest also were my...

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Categories: endangered, animal,
Form: Quatrain
Ocean of Sorrow
Since you left I seem to drift
Sorrow's current, very swift
Pulling me beyond yesterday's
Searing pain of velvet stingrays.

In this vast deceiving ocean
I drown in waves of...

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Categories: endangered, introspection, loss, sadocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Requiem For a Seahorse
On a sultry, sizzling July day
I swear it happened just this way
In a tidal pool, a lifeless seahorse lay

He’d not galloped to meet his fate
But...

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Categories: endangered, animal, inspiration,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Extinction Is Forever
He wakes as sun surrenders to nightfall;
emitting a haunting howl, he rises to prowl.
Bright amber eyes fixate on sources of nourishment. 

Leaving his protected den...

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Categories: endangered, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All That You Imagine
My imaginary restaurant will be named “All That You Imagine.”
Any food you can imagine, you will be served.
Thanks to technology and a world-class cooking staff,
I...

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Categories: endangered, food,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things