Animal Miracle Poems

I have seen pictures of friends on Alaska cruise,
The Denali landscape looked so stark, no hues.
No frozen or floating icebergs, no polar bears catching the...

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A new conception

Two mammals form a pair bond
The basis for monogamy

Friction against a membrane
Producing a sensation
Stimulation leading to a release

Contractions propel cells into tubes
Searching for...

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A Bad Man

The dark cowboy wears a black hat, 
to tell all those he comes across 
that he is a bad man, 
before he says...

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Miracle ova fertilized cell...

Yielded pink bundle of joy
self determined autonomous millennial
relocated University of Pennsylvania
Engineering graduate class of 2019
calls Oakland, California home
(employed at Certified B Corporation)
lives...

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Turning around that day, I see...
When a four legged wonder, walked with me...
With glittery eyes, and a Lil damp nose...
He walked inn...and became so close..

His...

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We dream of reason 
A dry season
a setting of the western sun
A dark wraith 
a bold hold of hands-on high
A reason for the gun
A black...

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ornamental pond  
overflowing with frog’s eggs 
tadpoles soon appear  

FOURTH PLACE WINNER
Written 3/29/21

For “Spring Haiku” contest 
Of Tania Kitchin 
(syllable count by PS:...

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A Piece of the Miracle

I could barely breath for seeing
the light on glass splintering
what I knew of her. A bird on 
the wing, cracked glass.

She...

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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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The Fever Spreads

I am slipping. 
Not slowly but faster than expected. 
I wanted it to go better. 
I made a plan and have a goal....

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Far Away Close Up

Right beside me in the car, 
but not here at all. 
Are you with her?
Who is she?
Do I care?
Should I, 
would it...

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Gray Like Mist

The bird died today. 
My bird.
I cried for an hour. 
I can not cry anymore. 
There is no time left. 
I had to...

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Good Trouble

Shorty, and Curly came to live,
with papa after mama passed away. 
They were not worried, 
They were thrilled to have a “home”. 
 
An...

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Drink deep the gathering dawn
The pond is a stone throw away
Over a cold road twisting narrow
Turned muddy by mixing rain
Fawns must bow before they drink
Genuflect...

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In sickness and health

He will not last long, the doctor said
a mother cried, the boy remember
the darkened room and the murmur
of whispering voices.
Sunlight shone through...

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