Leopard
He is sleeping.
And I have taken time
To watch and enjoy him;
He is wearing a white undershirt,
That shows his white arms
And smooth skin;
The line of his muscles,
Play with the light.
And I can not but fix my eyes
On his strength coming out
And evaporating in the room;
A handsome flexible animal.
Designed to be fast and
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Categories:
leopard, art,
Form: Free verse
waking up leopard
Leopard narrowed his yellow eyes for the night
His body is stretched across upper branch tight
He snores easily, but is awakened by a small boor
This small tasty mammal rustled across the jungle floor
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Categories:
leopard, animal,
Form: Rhyme
The Two Little Leopard Cubs: A Quest for Identity
The Two Little Cubs: A Quest for identity.
(A Cautionary Tale)
Two little leopard cubs
One shy, one bold,
went out to play
in the wild wide world.
Bold so bright -
Life a big adventure.
Shy so quiet-
Life a no go venture.
Played games together-
Shy learnt from Bold,
Rough and tumble
Not always gentle.
Which one do you think escapes
the focus of real
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Categories:
leopard, education, environment, growing up,
Form: Free verse
The Leopard Leaps
I need a fix and it is so strange
This addiction to poetry is a stain
Like a birthmark on my rainbow brain
Can't shake it off for it is engrained
I hear white word and it leopard leaps
Into violet verse singing screaming
It is my teal torture it is my purple peace
Poetry as affliction is a big part of
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Categories:
leopard, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Leopard Butterfly
leopard butterfly
the brush-footed butterfly
sun-loving light touch
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Categories:
leopard, butterfly,
Form: Haiku
snow leopard
soft, yet ...
like a breath of Noshaq
you are gone in a whisper
bound for some dreamy realm (imagining)
where exquisiteness affords you
a throne in Valhalla …
you dance among the frosted peaks
like Misha with the Mouse King
prancing on a puff of wint'ry wind
yearning for the bloom
of early Spring
the nuzzle of a warm nose
or the easy gift
of a frozen
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Categories:
leopard, animal, beauty,
Form: Free verse
A leopard with a lithp,
I knew a leopard with a lithp,
A religiouth thort of beatht,
He thaid hith inclinationth,
Came from eating a prietht.
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Categories:
leopard, animal, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Animal Orphanage
Its the sight waft of rotting flesh
That first hits you
While the smartly dressed
Smiling warden ushers you in,
Through narrow turnstiles
There are rows of enclosures
A maze of them, a maze of the wild
Its like a snapshot of danger
A dangerous predator-laden savanna
Danger enclosed
Lions...
You will hear their shouting matches
Royal majestic roars
Like cage competitions
Even the females join in
While one stares
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Categories:
leopard, africa, animal,
Form: Free verse
leopard tries to sleep
How can you sleep here? Asks an artist from the north.
Leopard is used to the vivid colors of the rainforest.
He can sleep anywhere, but especially here.
It is his home, his hunting ground, his safe place.
The stranger keeps talking, annoying leopard.
He may have to snack before lunch.
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Categories:
leopard, life,
Form: Free verse
sir daddy leopard
Sir Daddy Leopard had income tax woes, issues that stomped his toes.
He put on his suit, and went to work, saying “this blows!”
His children had asked him for money time and again.
Giving you money for free would be a loss, not a win.
“You need to give them fifteen thou apiece,” said his accountant man.
He thought
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Categories:
leopard, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
how far can a snow leopard leap
How far could he possibly leap? The child asked her father.
Stop talking and start backing up slowly, her Daddy told her.
He already knew a snow leopard can leap forty-five feet.
Which is longer than most semi-trucks.
He kept this to himself, but he never stopped watching the leopard
Who was also watching him and his daughter.
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Categories:
leopard, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
ROYAL LEOPARD ROARS
as young bavila princess smiles, many folks are happy, royal leopard roars.
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Categories:
leopard, africa,
Form: Monoku
Leopard Butterfly
leopard butterfly
the brush-footed butterfly
sun-loving light touch
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Categories:
leopard, butterfly, light, sun, tiger,
Form: Haiku
The Gay Leopard
I love flowers he told his mama,
Shh! She said, you know the llama!
The llama was the biggest gossip around.
She would soon have this admission all over town.
Leopards are not supposed to like flowers Mama said.
Admitting this might land you upside down on your head.
Worse, it might land you down in a gully, practically dead.
Do not
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Categories:
leopard, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Leopard
25-04-2022
A male leopard high
Up on a tree looks down at
A pack of wild dogs
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Categories:
leopard, anger, conflict, family,
Form: Haiku
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