Best Menagerie Poems

Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps flapping, bright colors peek
"Brown Bear, Brown Bear," what do you seek?

Mama's voice is a gentle hum
Sleepy fireflies as bedtime comes.
"Will...

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At daybreak,  
I approach the beach across a soft hill of clover, 
past sleeping Pandanus palms,
and down a small sand dune.

I am enveloped by sea wind.

I look up to a flight of swallows - symbol of returning.
They occupy the airspace of seagulls.
A kookaburra laughs, somewhere to land-ward,
bringing fond memories of far off bushland. 

A...

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There’s a frog sitting on the potty going, “Rib-bit”.
Sitting down where I normally sit.
I am not sure why the frog came to visit,
But he’s sitting on the potty going, “Rib-bit.

There’s a cow sitting on the potty going, “Moo-moo”.
She’s sitting in the same place that I do.
I am not sure why the cow came to see...

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She was ethereal in her beauty.
 I always loved her of course.
 But only from a respectful distance.
 She collected glass animal's.
 I always gave her one for birthdays.
 She would kiss my cheek in thanks.
 Not the kiss I craved but a kiss.
 Her perfect French braids
 framing her lovely face.
 I fantasized unfastening...

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Hungry Bird

bobbin
robin

Spewing out Babies

fertile
turtle

Caught in the Rain

soggy
doggy

Loved Pet

pretty
kitty

Bigger Bird

sturdy
birdie

Angry Bovines

cattle
battle

Written: 3/3/16...

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As a dying sun sets,
mosquitoes start to thirst.
And hungry females swarm,
vying for who'll bite first.

Twilight highlights fireflies;
as they flash in the night.
And the moths court fire's flame,
enamored with its light.

Silence is broken by
a cricket's eerie shrill.
And a cicada's chirp;
haunts the night like a chill.

As Dawn breaks, Sol rises;
flooding the sky with light.
And butterflies flutter
to every...

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Lights out, lights out!
In the run about, the critters flee to me
Storm, blazing lightning, air too warm
My friends with fur feel a curse
On the wind- a sense of berzerk
Huddling together, kitty close for good measure
Ozone green, birds stop the preen
Feels like a train is gliding by, so close nigh
Rumble the ground before the sound
The animals...

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suburban slumbers
mantelpiece menagerie 
dreams of wild places...

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An ABC Menagerie  

“A” is for apples and animals like ants.
“B” is for baboons with bright blue balloons. 
“C” is for the circus clowns calling big cats.
“D” is for a dozing doggies dreaming delights.
“E” is for elves, elephants, and enormous ears.
“F” is for fantastic fun, and fuzzy-furry friends.
“G” is for giraffes and giant gibbering...

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Oh, menagerie, like the song of the Mockingbirds,
forever changing ripples in pellucid water.

My heart beats, chained and caged, yet as wild as your beasts,
unable to escape this emotional circus,
you the Ring Master and I your sad clown.

As vermilion drops infuse the myriad of ache
within my throbbing tumultuous breast,
my luscious ancestral desire for you
weeps fragrant petals...

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[indulging in mystical dreams of faeries and nymphs]

Bathed in the pale shafts of moonlight
they float on silent wings, barely
fluttering, soft as a whisper
as they hover inside my room.

Tiny gossamer nymphs snatching
stray moonbeams, flirting, cavorting,
crazily misbehaving - they
glide and dance around my roses.

They may exist only in my
bare dream moonscape, mere creations
lurking in cobwebs of the...

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As I opened the velvet box 
I was suddenly flooded with a wealth of memories...
The smells, the sights, the sounds of a happy childhood almost forgotten...
Tiny rings that used to fit tiny fingers 
Gleefully now fit a small princess 
Rembrance of a time when Hearts and flowers and unbridled abounded
Carefree, gilded love, recounted 
Half of...

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she saved a bird
after
he landed
with feet in the air
near
the ceramic bunny —
someone’s brother
(in the garden)

ginger snaps
on her cool desk.
cages upon cages
of snakes
and an orange-cheeked
cockatiel.

i loved to talk
to that bird
“Twhoo, twhoo, twhoo”

the bird was there
in the afternoon
when
almost all
classrooms were dark.

one day they removed
all the fun
from her room

not one gingercrumb was left.
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A (growing) menagerie of stuffed animals And Beanie Babies

The following doth constitute
combination of fact and fiction
unfortunately not sentences
referencing overactive spousal glute
though sphincter roaring
could muscle us into ample loot
(after wife explodes open bank vault)
versus ass spire ring writer root
ting to live nsync ecologically
viz hypothetical analogous member 
of indigenous people named Yakut
living in scattered settlements in northern...

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   The vermilion and sangria sunset sets across the sky,
mockingbirds land gently on barren branches as they fly-
                 Twilight ascends and all is ebon in the darkened night,
the frangipani bushes glow as the moonlight shines, 
 ...

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