Animal Extinction Poems

These Animal Extinction poems are examples of Extinction poems about Animal. These are the best examples of Extinction Animal poems written by international poets.

So if this be the last song I sing,
Let it be more beautiful and haunting
Than anything I have performed on this earth before.

Let the open

© Amelie Ison  

"Sam Dumpty here for National Geoplastic Magazine. I am surrounded by the most prominent scientists and archeologists in the world. The occasion? The unveiling of

© Tom Woody  

I cannot curse as others can,
I remedy, not hate.
Too well I know that beast in Man
That ever forms their fate.
Didst once we think that reason

© Jerrold Prothero  

-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

© Amelie Ison  

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

© David Hyatt-Bickle  

In golden dawn of day
Fish the color of lake and sky
Swam Lake Erie wide in eye.

Twenty thousand years past
Fins chased by glaciers:
Blue pike survived
Until too

© John Michael Campbell  

They are disappearing
animals in the wild going extinct 
livestock in the oceans going extinct
plastic pollution fills the land and sea
strangling the life from them
trophy hunters

© Sheila Henry  

Huge life like mockup 
rigged up to bark
dare buzzfeed outsize monstrosity
diet coke, McDonald's and meatloaf
pet banality, execrable, and misogynistic words
greets visitors at formerly named
Mosquito State

© Matthew Harris  

I spoke to the dodo the other day,
He seemed upset to be the last.
Not knowing why he was the only
one to survive.  I asked

© Juli Freda  

"The Day The World Died"
By: T.C.Fulton

You were the voice in the crowd..
You were there when they all listened..
How quiet you were? 
How loud was the

© Travis Fulton  

When gallons of water fall from the faucet,
my mother reminds me to turn off the faucet when not in use.

But as I count the last

© Nathasha Thalpaguruge  

We invented the spear, and the mammoths were dead.
Then our flintlocks and muskets filled bison with dread.
Next came chainsaws and oil:
planting bones in the soil.
What

© Vladimir Tumanov  

Noah strove for enviro-protection.
Plants and beasts he saved section by section.
And now thanks to our brain
all that soon will remain
is a zoo and an herbal

© Vladimir Tumanov  

I feel a sense of haste thrust out towards the coast,
All motions disturbed and turned to one way,
The sea has made the work of man

© Mustafa Seker  

Will the human race actually feel triumphant 
with the extinction of our African elephant,

why don’t humans believe it’s preposterous 
that Earth only homes two hundred

© Roy Pett