Best Yawp Poems

See the recumbent lion,
it yawns, mouth stretched open
a wide silence – he is not tired,
just philosophically bored.

It is a yawp
as much as the startled jaw
of a newborn kitten
is a visible caricature of surprise
for having arrived and survived.

Sparrows yawp in the beaks of raptors,
raptors yawp also...

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