Animal Couplet Poems

It’s true, we both swim through the muck,
But don’t compare me to a duck.
No, I wouldn’t do that until
You’ve reckoned my rubbery bill....

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Twin giraffes are we
each day at five we take tea

Lots of folk watch us each day
eat scones&cream on a tray

With our tongues we lick clean...

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The story's told of bygone days,
Of a man named Vince with his soul ablaze,
While the hearts of animals far and near
Were filled with abject dread...

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  A pony grows into a horse
    Some marry to get divorced

  A cute piglet grows into a sow
 ...

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“Inspired by a Native American Legend using a story of 
‘hunger unfed’ as a metaphor for inner conflict.”  ~~~ The Poet.~~~


"The Grandfather spoke in...

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  They've no doctors to alleviate pain
    nor nutritionists to stem weight gain

  No carpenters to build them a domicile
...

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Behold sequestered by the sea,
not whale, nor seal, nor small sand-flea.

This is the face of old grand Ewe,
whom from the cliffs, has come to view.

Though...

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"A straight!  Two-three, five-six and eight,"
but Mildred bleated, "Ain't no straight;
you, Alice-ewe, are one dumb rump."
Bright chortles burbled round the stump
till Jingles raised, "Two...

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Gambolling along as ewe do, happy and carefree.
Ewe’d do it all over again, in the greening esprit.

Gambolling in full wool, unaware of morrow’s snip.
Ewe see...

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     Cub with Mom

                 Soft-...

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     I'm wide awake and cannot sleep,
     That's when I started counting sheep.
    ...

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Sally was a silly sheep,
all she did all day was sleep.
She was woolly with skin so fair.
All the rams loved her silky hair.
But she'd always...

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In the verdant pasture perched on the hilly spine,  
ewe leads her frolicking lamb flock in the sunshine.
A lineage of woolly convoy on blithe...

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Hey, little lost Lamb,
get with the program.

Which Ewe you belong,
there'd Ewe's graze beyond.

Be there just one Ewe,
one Ewe that you knew.

Why'd you look at me,
for...

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With an impulsive cognizance of the mother instinct
In physique and psyche, with her lambs, she's lovingly linked.

Her head-butting, as though she looks furious, does not...

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