Animal Haiku Poems

 Dragonfly, shiny
Windup toy, in flight, you dance
Among the cattails....

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Female Pygmy Sloth
By Valerie D. Staton


Female pygmy sloth
Emits emergent mating call,
Males hurry…slowly
...

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Sifaka
By Valerie D. Staton

Sifaka Lemurs,
Leap branch to branch in pursuit
of food and water
...

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Bird song rings in tones
Of gold and orange sunlight;
Floating to Heaven...

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Fighting Giraffes
By Valerie D. Staton

Dominant giraffes
Fight for female attention
Necks go a swinging
...

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To fly with eagles,
Refreshing goal is delight,
As all souls are one.

Wings alight to sky,
Floating feathers on air waves,
Living kites in flight....

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 Leopard sneaks up close...
An unsuspecting gazelle
 Pounce! Dinner's ready...


Date written and posted: 01/06/2019...

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A mourning dove coos
               Its distinctive tale of woe
  ...

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dogs and humans smile
both bare their teeth doing so
what is a smile

smiling means greeting
in a friendly challenge-play
with open hand shake

hollywoods best style
and the tv ads...

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Walk by the water 
See the fish swimming along
Take joy in the moment...

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fawning … adorable …

   wooing Faline … SMACK!

         ~ bucks' antlers crash...

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sabre toothed tiger
slithering just like a snake
with fur and four legs...

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the lightness of stones
is a time for poetry...
shhh harks in the soup

do give me goose bumps...
comforting lover...she's boss...
won't be home...christmas

...just feeling divine
for my dearest beloved...
oh...

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microbe infections...
we are ninety percent them...
some are called disease...

termed brain conditions...
paradigms that we behave...
doing this...or that...

symbols are the script...
from words to hologram dreams...
that sketch a...

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we are batteries...
nothing but chemical soup...
generating dreams...

holograms of what...
this and that...these and those...just...
words appearances...

serving a purpose...
but infectious to...context...
us...with paradigms...

stan sand
...

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Who is that creature?
hiding in the deep water.
with yellow colour?...

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bird's fear
like me
can't fly...

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(a regurgitation rewrite)

animal research...
in(to) knowing...empathy and...
communication...

shows man's languages...
(victorian...biblical)...
not of nature's sort...

human dialects...
ideas...notions...dreams are...
made to fit mankind...

just speeches...rules...
stories...scripts...scrolls...books and laws...
imagination...

language short changes...
and words...distort every truth...
handicapping science...

darwin...

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animal research...
understanding...empathy...
communication...

and man's languages...
victorian...biblical...
(not of nature's realm)...

human dialects...
their ideas...notions...dreams...
imagination...

just speeches...rules...
stories...scripts...scrolls...books and laws...
made to fit mankind...

language short changes...
and darwin was handicapped...
man's inferior


stan sand...

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pink toes in snow
wet silver fur darkened
whiskers shivering

soft grass nest nearby
his mate is waiting
with warmth and love  
...

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