Breed Viator
Eco-anxiety over the big cats,
I am in fear of an empty space.
Sitting on top of the food chain
in their absence balance is off.
Every day they slowly decline,
eco-anxiety over the big cats.
Panic is no longer dwindling,
increasing as numbers shrink.
The racing pulse of a lush forest
every creature is a part of it.
Eco-anxiety
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Categories:
breed, animal, anxiety, cat, nature,
Form: Other
True Love is Another Breed
True love is a connection
a recognition of each other's soul
a respect that only grows
True love is when exposing vulnerability
is not a sign of weakness
but an act of total trust
True love knows no borders
it can even survive death
because love is stronger than grief
AP: 2nd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2025
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Categories:
breed, love, true love, trust,
Form: Free verse
Fear Will Breed Hate
"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater." -George Washington Carver
"Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate
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Categories:
breed, emotions, fear, hate,
Form: Quatern
If distance were to breed love
If just for a while
Let me part, go far from thee
On an unknown isle,
I want ye badly miss me,
And ever the more love me.
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Translation |03.01.2025| Tanka, irony, love, separation
Urdu:
Mujhe tujhse bichadna hi padega,
Mein tumhe yad ana chahta huñ. - Phehmi Badayuni
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Categories:
breed, irony, love,
Form: Tanka
The Dying Breed
Old timers, history;4th/5th generation
The friends we knew, now just memories
A forgotten world past, new bringing
AI, technology; what is it we become
The past barely existing, rotting away
Like dust is to the wind
Particles of human flesh decay
Our worth, only the price of money
Our dignity, forgotten; lost among mankind
A broken society disarrayed in their path
Dreams of life we
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Categories:
breed, absence, change, conflict, humanity,
Form: Narrative
Breed Not Violence
How worthless is he who paves violence:
Is not he who bewilders the land of peace?
With his thoughts, moulding it to corrupt the people;
In the interest of satisfying himself.
But I tell you: violence spells complete anarchy!
Of that land: will development be prevented,
In the face of unaccountability;
Bad reputations altogether.
It steals the land of peace with and love
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Categories:
breed, 12th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Breed Not Violence
How worthless is he who paves violence:
Is not he who bewilders the land of peace?
With his thoughts, moulding it to corrupt the people;
In the interest of satisfying himself.
But I tell you: violence spells complete anarchy!
Of that land: will development be prevented,
In the face of unaccountability;
Bad reputations altogether.
It steals the land of peace with and love
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Categories:
breed, 12th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Last of the Dying Breed
The source of pleasure, that life once bring to me is over,
The sacrifices I made, till this day there is no total.
I have tried, time and time to add up what I have lost will take forever,
What I came up with is this, I lost two children and my companion all together.
What I have now
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Categories:
breed, angel, blessing, children, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Let Not Desires Breed
Let not desires breed, which we feed
Problem is indulgence
It's addiction we need to weed
To feel soul’s effulgence
Whence unfettered like space
Flowing at a slow pace
We then imbibe God's grace
Succumb not to greed
Let not desires breed
06-October-2022
Quietus
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Categories:
breed, desire,
Form: Rhyme
She Is a Half Breed Some Said
Look at that tail, she is a half-breed some said.
Her mother was a cat, but her father was dead.
I think he was a squirrel more than one did surmise.
Yes, he was. Some of us knew him, so it was no huge surprise.
This was a new orchard; the day was Halloween.
Costumed witches and goblins were easily
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Categories:
breed, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Toy Breed
dog
breathing
rapid pants
snorting loudly
pug
written July 18, 2021
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Categories:
breed, animal, dog,
Form: Lanterne
Familiarity Can Breed Contempt
Having been on my own
for the past ten years
I suppose I am set in my ways
If I’ve no planned routine
at the start of each day
I just come and I go as I may
Awaking each morn just before dawn
I can go where my mood may take me
Disliking routine I meander free
to come and
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Categories:
breed, family, friendship, solitude, space,
Form: Rhyme
Catitiousscrulcatiapawnee
the scurlcat is the perfect animal
it's agile, strong, and smart
it corners it's prey
and stalks until
it's opponents are tired
making them submit
to the will of the large cat
the ceiling is what they see
as they disappear into
the line of opponents that
have been outclassed by
the scurlcat
the scurlcat is native of
ghetto-citia
it is a wise breed
of cat
it's nimble grace allow it
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Categories:
breed, america, analogy, education, identity,
Form: Bio
Familiarity Does Breed Contempt
Familiarity Does Breed Contempt
Contempt can often be bred by familiarity,
And an ideal environment appeals to parity;
We tried to find,
But left behind,
Fear from despair they created by disparity.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
breed, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
I Truly Come From a Rare Breed
I TRULY COME FROM “ A RARE BREED “
I am a woman who can follow, but I normally choose to lead.
For I am a phenomenal woman, Yesss indeed, I am a Rare Breed.
I wear many Hats and can be whatever it is you want or need me to be.
Never invisible, deliberate in all
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Categories:
breed, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Couplet
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