Animals Free Verse Poems

A tribute to "The Little Prince," by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Little being, descending from your star,
Your heart draws desert animals.
And when night slowly unveils her altar,
Your bright...

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The outdoors. 
Underground is where they live. 
We walk mostly above ground. 
We see flowers and walk on the trails. 

The outdoors. 
There are snakes...

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They call us snakes. Evil. Cold blooded. Cruel. Why would you say that when learning someone was diagnosed with a mental disorder that was out...

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O,Samadon(pony)fast runner,
the mount of Lord Marjing,
you are  animals today
looking for food on the roads,
you are animals today
eating plastic and dust,
let me call you to...

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What heads would I mount
If I were a head-mounter?
Would I mount them in the kitchen
So they could watch me cook?

I know I would not mount...

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                A vivid imagination
      ...

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The perfect petals puncture the fabric’s purple-blue,
 And silver-platter fins paint the water every hue.
 A globed sky has thawed, ripe with pine and sapphire...

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I once read: "100 women trafficked and enslaved in a human egg farm-drugged, violated, and harvested. The world barely blinks." The words sat in my...

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Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears...

of diverse and sundry sizes engaged 
in woebegone wild rumpus
as a last hoorah 
for diversity, equity and inclusion,
whose somber bowed...

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Spring is here again
run and tell your friends
the pigs are grunting
donkeys are braying
cows are mooing
sheep are bleating 
dogs are barking
hens are clucking
and the farm animals
have...

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“The Scorpion’s Touch”

Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath 
like insects running around 
frantically out of time
we are...

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What can I say
I dream about dead things
Skeletons in my closet
Hanging on hangers with names of people I no longer know
They whisper remnants of the...

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I

The bell the Town Courier want to toll
To salute the day of reckoning in Getham City
Is now on the neck of the scary-witty cat her...

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I

The bell the Town Courier want to toll
To salute the day of reckoning in Getham City
Is now on the neck of the scary-witty cat her...

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Washed ashore on the lost island

Skin already peeling on the beach

Burning from the hot green summer sun

Meat melting off to become bone

Jumping back into the...

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