Cockatoo Parrot Poems | Examples

Surveillance of a Guinea Pig

I inspect him,
a sweetheart specimen
in a cage. 
Fluffy like winter snow.
Squeaking in tempo. 

In a cage.
Critically

he secretly watches me. 
A wave of dread seeps into my head when I scroll through 
my phone instead 
of studying.
He monitors me in captivity.

Crazy cute and certainly not mute, Marshmallow the
Guinea pig squeals to demand a cold crunchy carrot. 
Feisty while foraging through the vegetable garden, Marshmallow 
the guinea pig has more to say than a cockatoo parrot. 
Jolts of excitement race inside his fun-sized body. 

In a cage.
Critically

lurking. 
If I pick my nose, he knows. 
Under his mustache smirking.
His squeak sounds meek 
but
if he could talk fur - real, I’d undergo 
an ordeal 
if my secrets he chose to reveal. 

A puff of fluff that I cuddle when life gets rough. 
He popcorns and plays while I spend my days 
in lectures on Zoom. 
Marshmallow knows
 I hate being alone 
in a room. 

In a cage.
Critically
I need him.