Animal Innocence Poems

There is nothing like falling for a wolf.
To which you would do anything for.
After once wounding the wolf,
there is not a length you will go...

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The Indian elephant


I knew of an Indian elephant who worked at a circus 
on an act where unhappy animals sit up and beg 
and sad...

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My burning heart is broken forever —
it's beyond my melted power to fix it clever.
My dark thoughts don't help me recover.
My mind can't see clearly,...

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See them crawling all over the ceiling
Pointing their slender anther in the air,
Their bugling eyes covered in a pound of flesh 
Waiting to plunge to...

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Born into a world, beautiful, free
Innocence, beauty, perfection.
Can do no harm, a soul without sin.
Happiness, excitement, time to explore.

Taking time to trust oneself,
The world so...

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From deep melancholy
I can see things are still moving.
Droning buildings, persons and some
pales of persons (inside), animal airs,
and walking phantasms yearning 
to be beautiful.

It all...

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Are you the butterfly
while in my dreams
I flit after Soshi?
—Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

It's not at all anxious to bloom,
the plum tree at...

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You want to reach out
And touch her
To stroke her golden fur
But no,
This one fights back
She isn’t yours.
She’s hers and hers alone.
She’ll sting you for your...

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The Cabin

There is a cabin 
That sits on the shore 
Of an emerald lake,
Alive, with sun and swallows
Birds hum along with the children at play
Knee...

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Listen

He spoke to me one day,
The ant!
He was nothing special really,
Small and insignificant,
An ant,
Nothing more nothing less.
How lucky!
How extraordinary!
How noble!
How grand!
To walk the earth leaving...

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Cool raindrops kiss my cheeks
A warm breeze rises within me
As I recall the moments
Which linger in my heart forever

The pulsating sphere of light and dark
Polar...

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I'm happy to spend my day
    away from the political fray

  Innocents wade into that water
    ~ like...

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Animalbalism

Fully sentient loving mother
And her adoring young
Frolic in the barn

Sudden glint from farmer's axe
Fried pig flesh and body parts
Served for dinner tonight...

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There are no adults here.. 
Only confused kids. 
Children under the delusion that they know what they're doing.
Youngsters playing make-believe in a world they perceive...

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A springtime fawn found a placid pond and knelt down for a drink.

She bent her knees into the mud,
And placed her velveted chin 
parallel to...

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