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 face look back at me.
Yellow eyes, dark black pupils
look out from narrow slits.
Long pointy snout with
silky whiskers from each side.
Jet black lips curve back, reveal
yellowish curved fangs.
Pink tongue with dripping saliva
hangs out the left side of the mouth.
A full moon shines through
the bathroom window.
I feel the call of the wild
in my bones.
As I bound down the stairs
nothing can stop me.
At last I am free to live
the life I was called to.
Categories:
canis, horror,
Form: Free verse
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 attack in packs but we are solitary.
I wish I had the dexterity of calm hearts,
subdue the genesis of my insolence with kisses,
but inside you already know how it is:
in the end it all comes down to flesh, blood
and need to survive.
rejoice, you are still alive.
Categories:
canis, fear, scary,
Form: Free verse
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.
Categories:
canis, animal, dog, fish, fishing,
Form: Limerick
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.
To howl? Yes, to howl ... certainly that, for his voice was majestic,
But it was far more than just a howl, it was a cry ... a sad, mournful weep,
Torn from the depths of his sorrow, and cast in hatred at the moon.
He'd lost his mate there, you see, a beautiful she-wolf ...
Eyes like tanzanite, with a thick, shaggy coat the color of sea foam.
I had witnessed it myself, all those years ago, under a full, blood moon ...
They had been playing in the long grass at the top of the cliffs,
And a gust of wind had swept her off the edge ... and into the sea.
Now, he howled, and he would howl until the moon ... was no more.
~ 1st Place ~ in the "Wolves and the Moon" Poetry Contest, Julia Ward, Judge & Sponsor.
Categories:
canis, animal, loss, nature,
Form: Free verse
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 cumbers!
So then! We shall fight until the very end,
With sharpened dents and needle-piercing eyes -
Dare the mingy man cast us both aside?
At war, with enduringness, we defend
Our fragmented souls as we chastise,
Until your mangy skin is ossified.
Categories:
canis, anger, anti bullying, dog,
Form: Sonnet
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.
Categories:
canis, animal, political, sin,
Form: Rhyme
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.
Categories:
canis, nursery rhyme,
Form: Limerick
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.
Categories:
canis, baby,
Form: I do not know?
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.
Categories:
canis, animals
Form: Rhyme
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
Categories:
canis, animals
Form: I do not know?
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 into a sparkling midnight sky.
A gust of bitter wind blows across the snowy mantle
Lifting her haunting call in a spiral of wintry glitter.
She slips back into frosty shadows
Between pillars of seclusion.
No trace -
Except a set of prints.
Categories:
canis, animals, mystery, nature, seasons,
Form: Romanticism