Animals Free Verse Poems

Mountain Forests
Driving through the vast forests
Of Central Oregon 
Through the wall of trees
I imagine them talking to me 

The trees are whispering 
Dark satanic rituals...

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BETWEEN ART AND LUNACY

Between art and madness
My mind dwells 
In search of peace, between the craziness and lunacy
 I die

But it improves my art
Although it...

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Woe the few brave
That fear cowered behind
Waiting to deprave
Till shots rung
Viewed as the addled
We are engulfed
We are only
The silhouette of our substance
We have been formed...

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Scarlets, purples, greens and blues.
deeply dark colors, 
not enhancing the stark black blowing tree
rather making it appear darker

Where is the sun? someone asked.
When she gets...

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Al’z hammered but game

That life-is-death syncopation thang
     is how the master described old age
And there was nothing to be done 
...

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Roses on fire
The line of bliss and contentment 
The crucible of undiluted lies
Shorelines on horizons ablaze 
Thighlines with guidelines 
Deceptions beneath the fabric of need
Temptations...

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Since time immemorial
happenstance bestowed Homo sapiens
ability to become self aware
double edged figurative sword
allowing, enabling, providing...
forebears of yesteryear
to marvel at life, and
reckon with death,

which mixed blessing
confronts...

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GRETA WEPT

She wept but it wasn’t just crying 
It was the kind of weeping that makes you feel her profound pain
He could not stand the...

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We love to make lists,
To describe, name, number.
How can it have value,
If not on my list.
As logger I stand
Before the green forest,
The numbered trees
Are ones...

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I opened my eyes to see
A faint blanket of mist
At the earliest part of sunrise
As the fog began to lift

With my tripod
I could not resist
To...

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Ice say... water we dew wing to planet Earth?

Tis appalling Homo sapiens legacy,
the future survival of species can ill afford
hence we must not dodge and...

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"EVACUEES."


when I woke up 
that morning, 
I knew you 
weren't next to 
me. 

I could've 
climbed the 
tallest 
of buildings 
and screamed 
it. 

why couldn't...

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dear sister,

if I was more like you, I’d fight for your 
memory,
cascade waves in oceans in honor of you-
maybe thoughts of your final farewell flood...

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Waves curling into a gentle foam 
 gathering round coral and rock 
 breathing into the earth’s sand and stone
 grey fog holding forth on...

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Living in a world of different types of people…
Kindness will always teach you the best lessons..
Broken people will always break a person… 
Negative minded will...

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Translated by Przemyslaw Musialowski 9/1/2019

I got up, as dawn - you are asleep, because it's night: 
I have, among the mountains, my own home -...

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Blessed are curses as a path
to the riches in aftermath
before the bell tones at last
denying more while giving less

embraced by fools counting sins
there aren’t enough...

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Translated by Przemyslaw Musialowski 8/19/2019

The wind has swept away the track of the skids, 
frost glazes white roads 
and puffs hoar frost 
onto the smooth...

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Animal Crackers

We go to see the animals, 
the zebra and the bear.
The lion, the tiger, 
and sometimes the small hair.
No, not the one… on top...

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Evergreens clasp the grounded earth
Roots dig in to hold firm their homes
Deep enough to keep them in one place
At rest, rocks know they are alone
As...

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