Best Horned Poems

In the daylight hours, I spend  my time
So high on a perch, in a lofty pine
Where I fluff and comb my pretty plumes
And wait for the rise of the silver moon

I bob and weave on the top of the tree
Watching my world, in dimensions...

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Many many moons ago
leaving the porch
of a south-facing canyon,
I hiked to a place 
where the foothills
narrowed,

Where the asphalt road
ran astride the reservoir lake
into which kingfishers
dived at will,  
and Great Horned owls
hooted at passerby,

And crickets chirped
in the castor bean 
in the broom grass,
in the sumac...

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The horned helmet of the dawn has met my sight
They’re shouting loudly, that I’m wrong – I’m right
The sky is putting on the armour of mournful clouds
I’m man with weapon I’m not farmer let someone shouts.

I’ve taken sword with hand of vengeance I’ve taken shield
I’ve...

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I SIT SILENT during the day.
I FLY FREELY during the night.

Being nocturnal I catch prey only in the night,
by day I keep quiet and I stay out of sight.
My face feathered fur is shaped like a heart,
Strength twenty eight pounds,...

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Hoo H'hoo's!  Hoo H'hoo's!
My nocturnal catch in the bacyard has been a feast 
One good hold and the rodent is put to rest
With unwarranted suspicion a woman with stick shoos me away
My hoots are ominous she says and disturb her peaceful rest.

Hoo H'hoo's! Hoo...

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Where I grew up there’s a unique creature
Has Horns everywhere, a unique feature
Six inches in length and dinosaur like
The horns on his head stick out like a spike

They call him a “Horned Toad” where I was raised
“Horney Toad” or “Horned Frog” he’s also phrased
Actually he’s...

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The Great Horned Owl sits on his branch
Surveys the land around
Searching for some prey to eat
He knows they do abound

His head turns near full circle
His stomach needs to fill
Has to see a movement
Misses any that stay still

A Hare looks out but does not see
The threat...

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Hello and welcome to “The Plains of the Serengeti Show”,
I’m your host Bwana Bob come on let’s get ready and go.
 
Right outside of this window, just a short half step away,
You can see all kinds of wildlife as they go about their day.
 
See...

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I saw a beautiful great horned owl today while out on my nature walk
He was sitting proudly while snapping his bill and deeply hooting at me
And watching me so intensely from his predatory eyes with piercing gawks
I was delighted until I saw bloody skeletal remains...

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Green Horned Rhino

Have you seen the Green Horned Rhino? 
A creature so scarce and so rare. 
We think he’s living in Norwich, 
Dressed as a Hippo, with curly pink hair...

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The snake snatched 
it;s single horn clipped
for strong medicine,
to be used on a worrier
or a chief  who,
is facing a valley of death from bullets
would be brave, unfinding 
- - - - - untouched
when moon looked the other way
      ...

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The short-horned grasshoppers are here.
Not a great morn to walk with the deer.
They came in a form
A gigantic swarm.
Taunting, laughing, ready to jeer....

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Somewhere in the bowels of purgatory lives a horned me-devil drinking tea
Most know he is too evil to comprehend, others run into him, including me.
We knew not to look into his dastardly devilish dank deadened eyes.
If we face him as an equal, our souls would...

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Any brave, dedicated soul who has made it
To their mountain top of lofty summit
And looked down upon a setting sun
As it bleeds the last few hues of daylight

Or has braved the predawn chill
For no other reason than to feel the thrill
Of the sun's ebbing spring...

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I glide through the night on silent wings
Watching, waiting, for moving things
To swoop and grab and eat my fill
Before the sun rises over the hill
Nesting in branches high in the air
I watch as you approach and stare
“who?” says you, “who” says me
As I take off...

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