Critterature: A Prickly Situation
...Old joke: How do porkypines mate? Very carefully.
The porcupine's a modest
And mostly solitary beast,
Akin to capybara and to beaver,
Though in size he is the least.
He rarely gets invited
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Categories:
capybara, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Flat Wrong
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The Spanish had armadas;
the Americas, flotillas.
The Amazon has capybara;
the Andes has chinchillas.
Kentucky has its sassafras;
Madagascar has vanilla.
Napoleon lost at Waterloo;
F...
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Categories:
capybara, silly,
Form: Rhyme
And the Word Was Made Flesh
...Birds have their moments,
capybara have moments.
Bison, bighorns, and bumblebees,
all creatures, despite the harshness
or savagery of their life
enter that moment where they quite simply
deligh...
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Categories:
capybara, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Birds Have Moments
...Birds have their moments,
capybara have moments.
Bison, bighorns, and bumblebees,
all creatures, despite the harshness
or savagery of their life
enter that moment where they quite simply
deligh...
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Categories:
capybara, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Zoo Trip
...I went to the zoo with my brother
on this glorious day.
And many curious things did happen,
Which may be awkward to say...
First the kangaroo caretaker
had to help make the baby Joey pee.
Thi...
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Categories:
capybara, youth,
Form: Rhyme
The Capybara Way
...Meet the friendly capybara
Rodent large without a care, a
Chill companion, friend to all, for
Clearing any gloomy pall
Sitting still or hanging out, with
Capybara social clout, a
Being presen...
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Categories:
capybara, allegory, care, cool, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Accountant
...We love to make lists,
To describe, name, number.
How can it have value,
If not on my list.
As logger I stand
Before the green forest,
The numbered trees
Are ones to cut.
The forest cut down
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Categories:
capybara, anger, animal, nature,
Form: Free verse
Rainforest Anthology
...from three miles away
the unmistakable sounds~
of howlers chorus
a slithering snake.
crushing prey without mercy~
green anaconda
small eyed black caiman
twenty foot alligator ...
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Categories:
capybara, animal, insect, nature, rainforest,
Form: Haiku
Pretty In Pink
...Pretty in Pink
There was a time I felt the urge
To venture in the Amazon
To see a mammal at the dawn
A dolphin pink in water fresh
To gaze and watch it’s morning thresh
So solitary in this w...
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Categories:
capybara, education, rainforest,
Form: Free verse
The Amazon River
...The Amazon River
The Capybara wades the shore
A Wooly monkey climbs a vine
To search for food up on the trees
The Amazon that I adore
Its total nature I will bind
Bromeliads have blushed wit...
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Categories:
capybara, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Amazon
...Above the palms I scan the ebon night
With crystal stars reflecting in the dark
The yellow moon is shining on the boat
A crocodile swims by without a sound
A cacophony of sound is stirred in th...
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Categories:
capybara, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Green Anaconda
...Green Anaconda was the cute friend of Rhonda
Slippin’ and slidin’, so fast and strong like Honda
They went to Hotel La Boanara
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Categories:
capybara, fun, funny, , cute,
Form: Limerick