Categories:
hippos, animal, love,
Form: Haiku
Animal Poems 2
Animal Poems II
These are poems about animals, limericks and other forms of doggerel.
Ballade of the Bicameral Camel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a camel who loved to hump.
Please get your lewd minds out of their slump!
He loved to give RIDES on his large, lordly lump!
The Hippopotami
by Michael R. Burch
There’s no seeing eye to eye
with the
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Categories:
hippos, animal, earth, funny, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Hippos
emergent hippos
snorting playfully at dusk -
expansive pink sky
4/12/2022
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Categories:
hippos, animal,
Form: Haiku
The Hippopotomouse
THE HIPPOPOTOMOUSE
A rare and dangerous species
is the hippopotomouse
If you get one in your attic
Then you’d better leave your house.
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Categories:
hippos, animal, crush, environment, fear,
Form: Light Verse
Want To Go Where Hippos Roam
Want to go where hippos, rhinos, and elephants roam?
Want to see some things you will never see at home?
Zimbabwe is the place to travel. Victoria Falls will delight.
National Gallery of Zimbabwe is full of wonderful light.
Victoria Falls drops into the Batoka Gorge with real beauty.
I think we should head to Africa, it feels like our
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Categories:
hippos, africa,
Form: Rhyme
Hippos Playing Hopscotch
Ghostly giblets granting grinning gibbons grapefruit. But grapes were busy running down the road. Away they shouted away away. And at great speed they went down the roads. Escaping the giblets who cried out in anger at the escapees. The gibbons would not be grinning if they had no grapes for breakfast. And breakfast brought
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Categories:
hippos, anti bullying, art, baby,
Form: I do not know?
Hippos
?I watch you move gracefully through the water
Your sleepy eyes and lazy ways
during the hottest days.
Oh, how great art thou yawn.
From the sun’s rays, you’ve withdrawn.
You don't move around like busy bees.
You keep cool in a watery pool,
fanned by the summer breeze.
To figure you out, why do I bother?
You're one of the most
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Categories:
hippos, animals, nature
Form: I do not know?