Animal Conflict Poems

Believe it or not, their ubiquitous webs
Are everywhere; they are the dictators
Who kidnap, maim, torture and kill teachers,
Poets, ordinary folks and babies in their cribs.
They...

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Will of Tudela
Whose zeal burned for the white wolves 
Against Languedoc's black lambs 

Nameless soul of gold
Guided by heaven's muses
Pitied the southern pastures 


Poem inspired...

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There once was an old man we called Harry
That felt all animals were quite scary
     When the big bear stood tall
...

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My burning heart is broken forever —
it's beyond my melted power to fix it clever.
My dark thoughts don't help me recover.
My mind can't see clearly,...

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Formidable flourishing fiends...

harangue since landing 
yours truly immersed 
in a dream-like 
fiercesome state of war,  
not quite a dream 
can be described 
as a...

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REPAID       	
by Doug Stoiber 
 
Out walking on a mindless errand, lost in thoughts of this and that
I came...

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Fighting against external enemies is natural.
Isn't my fight against myself a Herculean task?
Desires and drives that decrease me into an animal
In my predicament, my consciousness...

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Alone
Hungry and Thirty
Loss
Surrounded by trees and swamp
One could be animal food
As darkness falls into the night
Bearings unknown
One can lose their mind
Trance of thought to nowhere
Movement...

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I once knew a cowboy named Stew
Riding broncs caused him to ahchoo
The broncs didn’t care
Bucking in the air
It was all they knew how to do
...

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A Cornered Rat


No matter what the enemy’s might.
The smallest of beasts will stand and fight.
Whether a cat or a mighty bear.
Confront him only if you...

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Smooth Talkers are double-minded in the mind and heart.
  Your words have no actions only reactions and are
   similar to cymbals that...

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We remember

That night of horror
When the future was stamped and the cogs were slain
When the execution ground shone red with blood
The blood of the helpless...

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Sometimes I am a shadow

Casting images upon a wall

Having no effect on life

A curiosity to all

 

Sometimes I am a rock

Moved by others pain

At times...

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Violet’s an arrogant bossy cow
I know the farmer knows this now
Luke the farmer says, “It's time to mate her”
Evan the bull moos, “No deal, I...

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To Live, To Dream, Being With The Goddess Yet Again

I walk with trepidation, nine inch nails in my aching soul
A grieving ghost, far, far atop...

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