Unbearable
...A giant panda eats leaves and shoots,
several handlers and keepers
fall to a spray of AK-47 bullets.
"Why?"
moans an elderly Chinese lady,
blood oozing from her torn body -
she had nursed hi...
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Categories:
giant panda, poetry,
Form: Free verse
One More, One Less
...The earth is big and the earth is old.
There are so many things
in vast creation to behold
that time and nature bring.
One more, one less, it matters not,
for those who earth, inhabit - ...
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Categories:
giant panda, animal, environment, life,
Form: Rhyme
I'm The Giant Panda
...Do not mistake me for a Bear.
True, I look like one, but my features
Resemble those of a raccoon.
Unlike the hulking Grizzly Bear,<...
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Categories:
giant panda, animal,
Form: Personification
The Solitary Ones
...Although I greatly loved socializing, I really enjoyed being alone,
Like ebony evenings of magic, with no ringing of the telephone.
Since my young childhood, I had been, an introverted extrovert,...
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Categories:
giant panda, animal, fantasy, imagery, life,
Form: Couplet
Trying Not To Eat Bamboo Borers
...Anji County of China is the town of bamboo
Visitors arrive in cars, more than a few.
Cooks could add some stems to their tasty stew
But giant panda consumes most shoots and stems of bamboo
Bamb...
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Categories:
giant panda, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Year of the Rat
...How strange it is and how bizarre
a pandemic should threaten from afar -
some say a bat, some say a lab
and there’s no pill and there’s no jab!
Sniff! Sniff! I smell a virus worse than th...
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Categories:
giant panda, evil, political, world,
Form: Couplet
Red Panda and Giant Panda
...Red Panda aka Foxfire got lost when her plane fell into the China Sea.
She drifted ashore, and was discovered by a giant black and white he.
What are you? The monster asked, fearing she was an alie...
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Categories:
giant panda, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Teeth Eagle
...Note to the many enemies of democracy:
No need to force upon us uranium enemas
just billow a tiny bug into the neon lungs
of our bumbling- deeply divided cities..
Sit back and have a few Molotov...
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Categories:
giant panda, america,
Form: Free verse
Narwhal In the Oval Office
...A narwhal frolicked in the oval office
and stirred the status quo
they tried to remove his potent tusk
but they wound up eating crow-
Much to their great dismay
babies were a little safer
the e...
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Categories:
giant panda, fun, political,
Form: Rhyme
Grizzly and Kodiak Are Wild Women
...Asian Black, Kodiak, Polar Bear, Grizzly and cuddly Teddy bear too….
Which one would you want to find wearing your pajamas when you have the flu?
The purple and pink striped ones would look the pre...
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Categories:
giant panda, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Gentle Spirit
...You came when I needed an etheric friend,
though I never knew you in life.
An angelic guardian I see in dreams.
You died just before I was born yet,
it feels like we've spent a lifetime togethe...
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Categories:
giant panda, emotions, imagery, inspiration, people,
Form: Prose
Out On the Veranda
...A lap full of warm animals
Out sitting on the veranda
Relaxing time my rationale
A lap full of warm animals
At least I have their approval
And glad it's not a Giant Panda
A lap full of warm anim...
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Categories:
giant panda, life,
Form: Triolet
Giant Pandas
...Giant pandas live in China.
They can swim and climb trees, too.
They're black and white and furry
And they love to eat bamboo!
Bonus activity: Print out a giant panda coloring sheet for each ch...
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Categories:
giant panda, children
Form: Rhyme
The Giant
...They call me a giant I don't know why
In this world I feel so small
For if they keep taking all I have
Then I'm really no giant at all
My home is in China but not for long
For my family will s...
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Categories:
giant panda, animalsme,
Form: Rhyme