Chipmunk
...A ping of appearance,
while the world skids on.
I expect Wiley Coyote to turn up,
but it is only chipmunk,
a little mousy hot-rod, tuned-up
to outrun perception.
Yours is the trembl...
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Categories:
murine, poetry,
Form: Free verse
White World
...This is a Burmese climbing rhyme. It needs work. But we have had so much snow, of course, I thought about snowbirds. Haha.
White world snowbird
Hunts lunch blurred under fluff
He heard the seed ...
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Categories:
murine, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Ode Murine---Ode To a Mouse
...There’s a mouse in my house,
a greedy little souse
He’s clever for I never
eyewitness his endeavors,
But the cat sentinel sat,
and I know the little rat
is there.
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Categories:
murine, animal, cat, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
When the Cat's Away
...WHEN THE CAT’S AWAY
The murine stars
Hide timorously as the cat’s yellow eye
Appears early each morning
Trying to catch those tiny
Scurrying distant dwarfs
But they stay hidden un...
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Categories:
murine, cat,
Form: Free verse
Vulpes Vulpes Stares
...Vulpes vulpes stares
Wind whispers, a hunter’s pose
Murine meal under snow
for Debbie Guzzi's Animal Haiku Contest
Shawn Sackman (Northern CA)...
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Categories:
murine, nature,
Form: Haiku
Tom Thumb (The Cat)
...Tom Thumb, with split ears and abscess,
came to us on an autumn night.
A feline atlas with alley hard shoulders,
but a calm, cool warrior nonetheless.
Named for his Hemingway mittens,
an irony o...
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Categories:
murine, petsold, autumn, autumn, old,
Form: Free verse
Inside a Drum
...I dreamt of a washing machine,
In colours so obscene,
Of shades of caffeine,
It washed everything that was clean,
To a shiny muddy unclean,
It was part of it's routine,
It was never to fond of ...
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Categories:
murine, art, funny,
Form: Rhyme