Civet Poems - Poems about Civet

Musk Hibiscus

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      Sugar paper petals rippable Hibiscus
      Musk sap via jungle civet melts to jelly 
      Turkish Delight icing, licked clean fingers
      Rubber soft texture entices tongues joyfully ...

Categories: civet, change, color, environment, gender,
Form: Rhyme

Fun At the Zoo

...Antisocial anacondas don't associate in numbers;
Bears and beavers don't become the best of friends.
Civet cats catch rats, so is it any wonder
On doleful dingoes dire dilemmas do descend?
Effete...

Categories: civet, animal, humor,
Form: Alliteration

Civet Cat

...If I ask you would you give me some time
A brief moment shared in rhythm and rhyme
I will not ask for any more than that
Just the merest glimpse of sweet paradise
Inhaling your sweet scent of civ...

Categories: civet, love, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Have a Cuppa

...We used to just have a cup of coffee

	Black

		Possibly with milk

			Maybe with sugar

Mostly on Sundays and with cream as a bonus


Today they call it caffe latte or cappuccino

	Amer...

Categories: civet, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Wild Child

...Wild child!
Have your father told you that the day
children  decided to go hunting, antelopes
learn to climb trees and snails develop wings
to fly home with yams from the local barns 
made for t...

Categories: civet, art, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Allure

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Fortune, fame, fortitude reign,

But draw not the tame-spirited

From their lofty perch

As distinction never clouds the space

Claimed to trace the paths of attraction!

Calm...

Categories: civet, imagery, imagination, inspirational, senses,
Form: Free verse

The Scent of Your Soul

...Wafting in the air,sweet scent of your soul,
Like a garden of lilac shrub and sweet pea;
Exuding my path, deodorant of your whole,
Like the path of African civet cat or hill
Of scent-born-beetles...

Categories: civet, addiction, identity, love,
Form: Verse

Jabberwocky Redux

...Jabberwocky Redux
 
                  After reading too much Aquinas
 
Would an aphid reside in an onager’s ear
if the onager’s master spoke Twi?
Or a Gascony scop with a leper elope
if a cive...

Categories: civet, confusion
Form: Free verse

Let Any Agnostic Provide a Reply

...Let Any Agnostic Provide a Reply

		After reading too much Aquinas

Would an aphid reside in an onager’s ear
if the onager’s master spoke Twi?
Or a Gascony scop with a leper elope
if a civet l...

Categories: civet, faith
Form: Free verse