Best Hippo Poems

Harvey the Hippo

Harvey is a huge hippopotamus
Who bathes in a bay that is bottomless
HIs mouth is as large as a riverboat barge
And he weighs ten times more than a lot of us

Big Harvey isn’t nasty or troublesome
Nor like other guys who are double dumb
He just...

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A hippo and a kangaroo
were in a bar in Kathmandu. 
The hippo ordered a cold beer,
let us make that very clear.
The kangaroo on the other hand
was clever enough to understand
that getting drunk in Katmandu
is not the wisest thing to do!...

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The giant of the east, a thorn in the most prosperous continent
possessing land so massive which is second to none
having each day measured in nine different scales
and twelve large waters in full interaction with its borders

Its pride feeds on most of European and global superlatives
is...

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Hippo

While having to watch you take shower
My mind shudders
After witnessing what I saw
I can’t believe what you are
So plump and rude
What is it you do
Oh, heaven help, its only hippo
What shall we do without you 
Little Hippo



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Hippopotamus
Only one of these will do!
Want one for Christmas?



Inspired by the song I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas...

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Hippo in a Tree

If you saw a Hippo, sitting in a tree, 
One thing is certain, as certain can be, 
Upon my word, then I’ll be bound, 
A tree and a Hippo, flattened on the ground....

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A hippopotamus walked the tight rope
Wobbling to and fro he did grope
To find some balance as he peered beneath
The spectators looked like ants in their seats

He tried to convince himself he was not afraid
He counted to ten and then he made
A deal with himself that...

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The Hippopotamus and the Dodo Bird wanted to paint pictures on the rocks.
They truly loved what humans did and were called pictographs.
Now the Dodo bird was flighty, so much so, that he could not even fly.
But still he took off all day long, FaLaLa’ing... inspiration...

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my hippo has a big clock,
he uses when he takes his walk,
he is never late,
for a date,
the most punctual hippo on the block...

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Part 3

They quickly learned... there was cause for concern
     As the lifeboat was barely afloat.
When the Atheist turned and swiftly discerned,
    "A large Hippo is swamping our boat."

The Captain was clear to allay their fears
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Reincarnation is for me sublime.
I’ll be a hippopotamus next time.
They do not eat ants
They devour plants
African River is where I will dine....

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Chinnu, the chipmunk got a gift, a corn,
from her best friend, Hugo, the hippo.
She planned to eat the tasty corn soon,
and meet Hugo the next afternoon 
to give him a large pear that she’d stored
in her burrow near the neem tree.

An idea sparked in Chinnu’s...

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Animal Poems II

These are poems about animals, limericks and other forms of doggerel.



Ballade of the Bicameral Camel
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a camel who loved to hump.
Please get your lewd minds out of their slump!
He loved to give RIDES on his large, lordly lump!



The...

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My Snailippo Herd 

Have you ever seen a snail go a crawling up a leaf
and wonder how it eats without some tiny teeth?

My back yard hosts the sailippo that grew from such a cause
without the need of feet nor hoofs, nor tail, or tiny claws?

He...

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Rolled twenty four hour emblem
Seraphim wing big bugle salute
Brass hark sinking eve rendered
In mango skin peach bleed fruit
Feeding starved ice vivid sphere
Jelly spread scone sweet revere


Flambe set circle tart crumbles 
Untouched chains gold dissolve
Serpent thin silhouette humbles
Orange scorch ball's Hell resolve
Tempers the tepid forget me...

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