Snow Deer Poems

Albino deer you are in such danger
Hunters have been told not to hunt you
Unfortunately, some will anyway
Because they are bloodthirsty

You are the easiest to see
With...

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snow blankets the ground
sun is glaring down by noon -
deer cavort in streets

April 6, 2023
for Tania Kitchin's A New Nature Themed Haiku Poetry Contest

(a weird...

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“The Winter Tree’.

 The winter trees are dreaming,
 of violent summer storms,
 wind, thunder, and lightning.
 Of wild horses running in the rain, under a...

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Dainty Christmas deer with his blonde fur aglow.
He prances with magnificence in the twinkling snow.
His mother has put glitzy ornaments on his sweet head.
We dream...

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a deer family 

leaving tracks in snow pristine . . . 

berry shrubs stripped clean


Dec. 6, 2022...

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Think, children: what will you tell
your grandchildren when they ask
about Earth--once bursting green
and red and yellow with blossoms
everywhere, and bushes serene 
in shadows of lime-colored...

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Snow at the Red Fox Ranch
David J Walker

There is snow 
At the Red Fox Ranch
On New Year’s day
The Bucks and the Does
Have come out to...

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We can’t afford no tree this year.
We spent it all on dog, and feed.
We got enough to buy birdseed,
and a salt block for the deer.

We...

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Sit down here on this mountain pine covered ridge
Wait for the mid-morning sun, about ten o’clock,
See now Blue Point canyon and air turn thick blue
“Look!...

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After the quiet snow
comes the grinding grit
throwing blind shrapnel
at windshields.

Night drives wind-horses,
stampeding phantoms 
that enter my glassy eyes,
then tug at the steering wheel
as I edgily...

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...A gentle squeeze back on the trigger
and the slug shot straight out for its target,
the buck jerked hard, then he bolted away,
for a second Devin...

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Deer Cross Path

Deer cross path
in winter-spring,
a panoramic parade
of a graceful herd family
serene and slender
in the snow-park sunshine.
Shady woods offer refuge
to the group 
as they make...

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A snow white deer was downed by a hunter.
A once in a lifetime trophy, he boasted.
Some folks were crimson pissed 
because a snow-white deer is...

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It seems like we thrive from the adrenaline flow
While hunting the morning of the very first snow.
For all the mornings that we practically froze
When we...

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The Deer

Walking through the woods
Silently across the snow
Leaving a row of tracks
The man hides in a tree
Looking down into the forest
His eyes catch a faint...

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