Animal Marriage Poems

Don't let all this go to your head

But you're an animal in bed

He knew his wife lied

Which wounded his pride

Then slept in the doghouse instead...

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  A pony grows into a horse
    Some marry to get divorced

  A cute piglet grows into a sow
 ...

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Whispers and sighs, softest of smiles
Reveal the music playing in the heart.
Beautiful rhymes, soothing the nights,
Stirring joy, faith and love – 

Breaths of prayers, some...

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long-distance marriage


I sat on the terrace, thinking of my children and their
mother who had lived in a pool behind the houses
She they became adults had...

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To snag a prince, ambitious ladies
bet all their money on a snog
but as a rule they end up getting...
a frog....

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Never slap a Rattlesnake,
He'll bite you in the Asp.
Grab it behind the head,
And use a gentle grasp.

Never feed a Grizzly Cub,
Cause Mama Bear is near.
She'll...

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Of all the mammals I could be
  I select marsupial

'Cos as I watch them, seems to me
  They're all connubial and fiducial...

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Is our bliss a desert storm or did the camel spit?

             — quote...

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The Cat

Sleek and soft, 
with mighty..., fierce claws. 
Not a friend to birds, 
of any kind. 

Mischievous, carnivorous, 
and a wanderer of the dark. 
Yet...

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LION

She was upset, beleaguered and beautiful
(in a wholesome feline kind of way)
He saw her problems as recurrent and swift, 
maneuverable, agile, hostile, a little bit...

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I can hear my breath
Blood pounding in my ears
The tune too fast for comfort
My palms unhelpfully moist
Conversely my mouth bone dry
I feel unsteady on my...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Present wedded bliss haint no touchstone...

Circa ~ late spring/ early summer 1978
twas at behest of Harriet Harris,
thus due credit mother dearest
(she long since passed away)
who...

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There once were masks 
Used in drama class 
One was happy one was sad 
After the lecture the students mastered the art to hailing a...

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These are poems about animals by Michael R. Burch

Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his...

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