Extinct Poems - Poems about Extinct

The cold, so cold ground Binding and pulling And holding me down Embraced by the crypt Confined and restrained And life’s breath stripped Stygian inked Such stifling dark And soul’s light extinct I find myself here Trussed by death’s grave Without hope, just fear In the cold, cold ground Decayed and corrupt Neath my burial mound ...

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Altho' fearless it was flightless I do declare and when it found itself earthbound was the dodo despondent in despair or even think it would become extinct if it knew it was in deep doo-doo somewhat akin to the the missing link unafraid of man who thought them dumb as they come on the quiet an easy prey for sailors a whole new different dinner diet but there was nothing...

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Will pens (I'd have to think when last I dipped mine in ink) and sad to say pencils go the dodo's way become extinct or obsolete (oh no) to the average man in the street as if it weren't for junk mail no matter how large or small never mind trees and ecology wouldn't have no mail at all when I was young still a nipper a lot more...

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I watch the sun rise and once again bring another dawn, Another day in which we are alive. I stand 30 feet above the muddy ground, on the top of our walls, at the end of my watch shift. In the mud I see what...

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The biggest game is extinct Thousands of years ago megafauna roamed the earth Wolf-sized otter Rhinos twice the size of elephants Heavy seven-foot giraffes called sivatherium They are all gone now But skeletal remains do not lie...

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Words are born and some change, adapt, some wilt; Norse drips into French seeps into English, hidden treasures under silt. Blendings swirl meanings and semantics shift our daily use; once uttered by tongue, electric touch now lets language loose. Ancient lexis under threat became narrower with colonial treks; Luhu and Yahagn, two dodo vocabularies now buried within texts....

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-Written for the Thylacine, and all the other animals that have been made extinct. You will be loved. You will be remembered Dear thylacine, you died alone: the last of your kind. How were you to know that, with your death, an entire species would end? The peculiar mammal-marsupial that looked like a tiger crossed with a wolf, Unable to compete with modern dogs; wiped out...

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Forever extinct seems the age of classical poetry, With all its cheers from caves, cottages, marble domes and temples, When now a country honors not classical bards: O Hugh MacDiarmid, Petrarch, Ono No Komachi, Thomas Chatterton, Robert Browning, James Macpherson, Christina Rossetti, Theophile Gautier, Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Beside their essence and dignity, little gifts grow dim, While their Fame...

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twit twit twit, twitter little blue bird was crossed out now eXtinct eXcised...

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The lost mirror of humanity’s soul, covered by helix threads Or a creature who would destroy the wall of man and beast Who would rip apart man’s olive crown for the kingdom of nature...

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Say bye-bye to these: "Hold, please." (Hold what?) Typewriter Repairman Ads "Dial this number..." (What's 'dial?') Down-time... Offline Compliments (Complaint Departments have swallowed them up). "Mail me your resume." Shame, and its...

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In a sketch made doubly distinct I have seen The Great Monster inked By a lover of The Extinct, Who noticing my interest winked Dinosaurs that killed on instinct: The Alive soon dead before one blinked Some hopes he'd via bringing them back? Then, Lions would their actions slack! God had quilted them for Lion; Their bones had been complete iron They'd been linked...

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INSPIRED BY THE FILM DON’T LOOK UP Humanity has become oblivious, ignorant to an inevitable lightening quick catastrophe, Politicians and the rich and famous are known for their eccentric outrageous audacity, Nobody has anything nice to say to anyone, anywhere, so totally unsatisfactory, Each human being doing their own thing like...

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They're going extinct Man? They're almost there An... It's hard to take Man For all the wait Man That has our fates Man In more than late Damn...

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Sumatran Rhinos are listed as, critically endangered and are now classified as, “functionally extinct” as they are only seen in zoos, for their genes to be preserved but the death of two subspecies, makes them so distinct Sumatran Rhinos used to live, on Borneo and Sumatra islands and are the smallest, of the living Asian Rhinos These Rhinos have two horns,...

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