Animal Muse Poems

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
- J.M. Barrie,...

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Will of Tudela
Whose zeal burned for the white wolves 
Against Languedoc's black lambs 

Nameless soul of gold
Guided by heaven's muses
Pitied the southern pastures 


Poem inspired...

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The camel musk entered my tent today 
a quiet sand storm arouse the warm 
wind settled outside white garments 
blew in the breeze i could...

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"eloquent birds"

eloquent birds 
pass my eyes 
the sky heavy 
full-bellied pregnant
and hailstorm green 
it lifts
their wings 
signing
singing
other worlds away
heart beats
up and down 
down and up
notes...

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my muse -

departed …

sometimes reality squeezes you dry,

and breathes you away with the dust …

words, beings, cadences,

the gists of the gloaming -

gone …

so …

just write.









Copyright...

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My animal took her animal
away from the human zoo
we became a true love poem.

Later her animal claimed to have a soul,
that she needed more than
relief...

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“Sunshine Superman and the Oriental Nightfish” 

Mellow Yellow
cool for katz, 
is chillin’

with his dream,
Oriental Nightfish,
in her universe 

Wings, 
he thinks
will work, 

his way 
into 
my...

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How lovely are his cheeks, so soft and plush
like fluffy clouds against a moonlit dream.
Graceful are his whiskers like a paintbrush,
tracing our ankles like a...

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“The Apocrypha of Familiars” 

Wings hover 
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family 

highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique 
spiralling into shape

more black and grey
than...

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See the owl in swift silent flight,
Surfing the darkness of the night,
In control of its black domain,
Its prey killed quick, no time for pain.

Don’t be...

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This life

Rituals we’re asked to follow
Seem to separate man from man
Something’s wrong, it seems so shallow
Sun shines upon all with elan

So we went to temple...

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The others gather in the kitchen
between verses

The cabin in the nature center
shuns city life.

A hummingbird hovers at the window
fluttering my imagination.

I keep secret our conversation
while...

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DISCORD
All is not at rest in the halls of the dead. 
In the fields were we roam. Something sits, waits, bides its time. 
Tell me...

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Joy contracts when outcomes are sought
Subtle thought forms spiral
Fears and desires, delusion brought
Toxins that go viral

Witness alone unbound
Song in heart, feet on ground
Animal nature drowned

Ego...

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recognition that cause of agitation is stagnation
fear of freedom keeps us in ego fetters bound
resonation with love offers instant liberation

desires birth thoughts as cause and...

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