Animal Free Verse Poems

The first week without you is an eternal bee sting
Too much pain to talk
Paralyzed from the waist down
Confined to a lonely bed
The pain lessens up...

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New marching orders issued from comandante Bergen meister

After proper manager 
distributed the latest bulletin
to all the residents at Highland Manor,
plus wrinkled her nose at noxious...

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Children who grow up, who will one day become 
men,
Do not forget to live, live the moment,
One day you will not scare the boars,
Nor to...

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He came back wrong.

They said he'd graze in peace,
a living museum piece—
proof we could right old wrongs.

But the mammoth didn’t come back peaceful.
He came back...

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suddenly from somewhere
a street urchin
an untamed bird of the wider sky
dropped down into the circus tent.

before him unfurled,
scenes eerie, awesome!
soaring lions and tigers,
gibbering baboons, caravans...

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I thought that I was living in modern times but something dynamic has crossed my path and I found myself gliding
Between the earth and the...

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Have to keep the door closed
(after that midnight treat)
The coyote or wolf far off
(too close)
Can’t remember the plot
(salsa has tightened its grip)
upon awakening
(not at all...

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Centuries ago
BC time
Fossils and Dinosaurs roamed the Earth
Kings of their world
A world unknown
Life extraordinary
Museums with artifacts to show
Civilization of another kind
No cities, towns nor humans...

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As Far as our Eyes will see,
In a Vast, and seemingly
endless World
to the Future’s greatest of Extents,
in a little Hut,
Hidden in a Swamp,
Lies little Old
Ms.
Garratha.
with...

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Have you called ?
Have you kissed ?
Have you missed ?
Even thought ?


Love was gentle when I knew you not,
Your body warm when your name was...

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exotic continent of contradictions
remote as remote can be
where deserts and cities coexist
where I can still go safari hunting
with traditional tribes like the Maasai




posted on April...

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2024.4.28
It was our third and final day trip.
We visited AI on The Great Ocean Road.
For the first time, you admired the scenery was great,
While standing...

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scared of cats, dogs, frogs, voles, mice, snakes,
baby elephant jumped into a tree and held on
vastly amusing the little creatures
who had power over almost no...

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the last blackbird


even now, i’m not sure
why i walked to the end of the avenue
before sitting on the curb.

one city bus marquee after another boasted
that...

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one trick pony

the man was too corpulent to dress in lime green and lemon yellow
yet it was his colored grapefruit vest that identified him with...

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