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Canis Poems - Poems about Canis

Premium Member Canis Lupus
Canis Lupus The sound of a pin drop in the kitchen downstairs wakens me. I get a whiff of a strange scent not one I can identify. My eyes open and I can see in the dark. Unusual, as I always stub my toe on something. The nightlight is on and I make my way to the bathroom. I glance in the mirror and see a strange...

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Categories: canis, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Canis Fidelis
When asked by his shrink what he most wanted in a wife, a future husband replied: a loving dog and faithful for life. ...

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Categories: canis, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Canis Lupus
~ for Ana ~ I was there many times - I’d been watching him for years, (he, black as coal), almost two decades now, an extraordinary age for a wolf ... every full moon, and only then, he came to the clifftops … to howl, you ask? yes, to howl ... certainly that, for his voice was majestic, but it was far more than just a...

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Categories: canis, animal, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Canis Et Canis
or was it my dreamless eyes that you distinguished it was already night? I really can't say. did you see that in them the future had died? the truth is that I sent these signals trying to show some clues, show you before tragedy what I am, as a warning to your tears. now the world like a rainbow no longer exists, we jackals...

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Categories: canis, fear, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member canis staratthis
there was a dog who craved fish if served upon a posh dish dining out it sat by a cultured cat whose manners were oh snobbish. ...

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Categories: canis, animal, dog, fish, fishing,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Canis Lupus
I'd been watching him for years, (black as coal), Almost two decades now, an extraordinary age for a wolf ... Every full moon, and only then, he came to the clifftops. ...

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Categories: canis, animal, loss, nature,
Form: Free verse
Canis Familiaris
In days of gray, my legs will lumber, As time moves swiftly on, it does not break, In my sleep, dreams will drive me wide awake And the nightmares keep me deep in slumber. Provoked by the simplest things, a clumber, But saddened by the man who forsake It’s gentle heart, of broken love, it aches, When the raging fire inside doth...

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Categories: canis, anger, anti bullying, dog,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Of Cain and Canis
Let them sleep Do not let hunters Into dens creep. Predator kin predator Mothers and babes In your safe harbor Killed without grace. Who amongst us Will let this take place? It's the man on the throne With the lobbyists' ear; Overboard humanity is thrown As no more dangerous A predator exists In our world on this ark than us....

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Categories: canis, animal, political, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Canis Lupus the Wolf
Canis Lupus the Wolf Spring is here and almost to the end of April when I will give birth to my pups the inner layer of my wool, fur has shed it will help keep me cool during the summer My den is well secluded, dug, deep, and large enough for safety of my pups...

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Categories: canis, education,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Canis Lupus the Dufus
Canis Lupus the Dufus He did battle with three little hams was embroiled in the Riding Hood scams now slower of gait he simply must wait for a visit from Mary’s sweet lambs John G. Lawless 3/30/2015 Not submitted to the contest for obvious reasons....

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Categories: canis, nursery rhyme,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Canis Lupus - the Gray Wolf
Canis Lupus, gray wolf of forest and brushlands, Where denning sites throughout are plentiful and safe, With gifts of strength, endurance and great stamina, You travel on for hours before fatigue sets in. As Alpha male, joined with your Alpha female mate, You lead the pack which heeds and follows your commands. You join in pairs, or go alone at times,...

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Categories: canis, animal, nature, tribute, endurance,
Form: Verse
Canis Minor's Orphaned Sucamus
Part man part creature this spirit, fallen, from her skies.. Nineteen fifty-nine an expedition discovering His child floating Gallantly down Love's reinish river ? Wrapped in a cloth of many colours Black pearl eyes gazing past her wickers wedge; by and by beloved, their baby.... Mixed metaphors prodigical doors; chromosomes xxyz ? Part man part creature; Spirits....

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Categories: canis, baby,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Canis Lupus Familiaris
In so many ways I see them as being better than us. They'll die for you and never betray your trust, and yet this breed of over 400 plus wouldn't be here today if not for us. Canis Lupus Familiaris. More commonly known as Dogs to most of us....

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Categories: canis, animals
Form: Rhyme
Canis Lupus
In this crazy world I walk this dark forest alone Refusing to be part of a pack I don’t want to be known I think independently So I hunt alone I carefully keep track of my evolution Every day I have grown But now I am in unchartered territory I have fallen into a hole I plummet like a stone...

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Categories: canis, animals
Form: I do not know?
Canis Lupus
Vapour’s breath disappears into silent moonlight Past pearl white teeth. Chilled - Air frozen with fear and awe, hush - Branches slow their clapping and bend to listen As paws crunch into an icy clearing. Still - Icicles fall in a symphony of crystal wonder Her eyes a dusty grey, as glass Peer through the sleeping timber wood. A blistery silence breaks - Her aerie howl Lifts...

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Categories: canis, animals, mystery, nature, seasons,
Form: Romanticism

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