Long Armadillos Poems

Alligators, Aardvarks; Arctic fox and hare. Also Armadillos and Asses will be there!

Bobcats, Beavers, Boars; One Blue whale will do! Bovines and a Booby (maybe 2)!

Caribou & Camels; *Cavies & a *Coot; Cottontails, Chipmunks, Chinchillas...

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A post from the past.....just trying to put down all the ones I have written but deleted when I left the site for a while......this is almost too long, but I couldn't find which animal...

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As I look out upon the desert floor, its beauty I espy.
A lizard awaits the sun to land for its’ sunning to apply.
A mother quail runs from her hole with 7 chicks in tow.
A comedy...

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Hey kids get out in the car !
Dad, are we going very far ?
You don't ask, I won't tell...
We're going crazy, oh well.

Got to get out on the road...
to forget that heavy load !
It winds...

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Trees still shade the road
where Gramps and I once rode
in his old green car -- I drove --
on dusky early evenings
in my fifteenth year.
We stopped, as he insisted, at spots
where an armadillo scratched
among the tender...

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I: Sheep
 (A poem about Covid)

next door to 19 chimneys
and 'the dark satanic mills'
a flock of sheep is grazing
oblivious in the hills.


II: Other Animals
(They do all exist!)

goblin sharks and pangolins
sea pigs, star-nosed moles

mata matas, sugar...

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As I drove to town today
My heart did fill with grief
To see all the little critters
Along the roads deceased.

Opossums, Coons 
And skunks too,
Now Armadillos
Are more than a few.

I couldn’t help but wonder
If we’d their species...

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Ailing armadillos advertising artichokes. But bringing back brilliance brought big booming bangs. Courteous cats creating canopies. Dogs do dare dream during digs. Energetic eggs evaluating effigies. Frying fortresses frees flamingos. Grateful goats grinning greedily. Hippos...

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They have their helmets on, and bodies heavily covered
as they walk slowly towards the crowd like armadillos.
Each one of the men in helmets know that it is their duty
to stop their friends, strangers, and countrymen
from...

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Why Didn’t the Armadillo Cross the Road?

By Elton Camp

We see them on the highway dead as a doornail
Despite a suit or armor over all but head & tail
Is it because they’re stupid or are they...

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The Great Plains offers it beauty slowly as the edge of 


The Rocky Mountains rose like a rugged and 


Unclimbable fence keeping them penned in


Driving southwest the line of fence posts became a blur of


Old...

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Africa; my home of growth.
Your jungles plants for flesh.
Your cooling shade between the leaves.
Your air to make it fresh.

Small jitter flies around your plants.
Aroma fresh as blood.
Just winged things alive with lust
all cherishing the mud.

Horned...

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yah, I took the red pill
and the Matrix came apart 
like a cheap suit in a car wash
while the distance between bad to good 
became a weaving graph line
down the two lane blacktop
as traffic in...

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Maybe dinosaurs existed in the old days or maybe they did not 
an andrewsarchus,  was a large-snouted predator I am told, 
may I  be so bold to say, I never met one anyway,...

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Everything's Big In Texas

I'd like to saddle up my horse...
Lope on down to Texas. 
Pack my Peacemaker, (Colt of course)...
Oh! My solar plexus!

I'm told that everything down there
Is ALL, so much bigger...
Buildings, barns, boots, buckles,...

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The mountains with white tops
 Are the emblematic
 Symbol of the reserves
 Visited by the tourists
 Acclaimed by followers
 Viewed as academic
 Global patrimonies

 Birds flock in azure sky
 Lake is very placid
 Clouds are...

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In the spring, the crows sit in the tall pines
Capitalizing on the field of newly planted corn.
Farmer dreams of corn on the cob which he will dine
Caw, caw the lookout calls to his mates to...

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Red cones on the blacktop
August is a burning blanket.
Dusty crows perch on long dead armadillos.

The Chevys' air-con
chokes up a warm blow.
A Navaho in Ohio has phoned.
he needs to talk about his dead wife.
He will have...

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An Unfortunate Ricochet 

By Elton Camp

Armadillos can be quite the pest
In your yard, they’ll build a nest

The holes they make get big
As for delicious grubs they dig

Not all of them are disease free
A few can...

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Oh where oh where,
Are the Tortoise and Hare?
They're not over here,
And they're not over there.

One of them was fast,
The other was slow.
You'd spy one another,
Wherever you'd go.

Walking in the woods,
Following their tracks.
Catching one with a...

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Famine ... charities ... complementary.
Killers; Lions, Hyenas, Snakes, the very
highest on the list, Human traffickers,
with their ad lib, and full-on characters.
Pangolin's are anteaters resembling
armadillos but different. Trembling
leads to curling up into a ball when
they sense...

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Crazy rabbits chomping on my lettuce
Deer eating the flowers right down to their nubs
Woodpeckers drilling right through the siding
Armadillos rooting in search of grubs

Squirrels trying to climb down the chimney
Possums and racoon dumping out the...

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Late in fall, before the first freeze,
Flowers speckled the woodland paths.
Zebra long-wing butterflies wafted.
Red summer racemes bloomed on upright stems.
Bees and butterflies endured strong breezes.
Impassioned, life embraced every creature.
Squirrels and feline played tree top hide...

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