Animal Mythology Poems

Believe it or not, their ubiquitous webs
Are everywhere; they are the dictators
Who kidnap, maim, torture and kill teachers,
Poets, ordinary folks and babies in their cribs.
They...

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And there ...
I saw the unicorn, 
The sunlight beamed
Off her golden horn

She just stood there
By the edge of the brook,
Never startled ...
As I stopped to...

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The creek was the color
of weak tea, a bronze brew
that filtered light to bathe 
the bottom in the soft glow
of an autumn morning.
Even after a...

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Like a phoenix, she's risen
To come back to win again
Nobody can end her streak.

Redemption. Worth the wars
Broken down to your cores
Her tears with not leak.

Returning...

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Beauty of yours, informed by moon's illume,
Irises lilac, heaven sent thee here,
Adducing stock's spiced vanilla perfume,
My heart all consumed, I must have your ear.

Oh, creature...

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Praying to the light
Trampling the night's basilisk
With its seven heads
Crushing serpent and lion
Trampling the legless dragon 
Through the light stream that crowned her

This is a...

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Word Bank 2: animal names

This time the theme is picking an animal mythical or real and try to rhyme with a person's name. E.g. Doug...

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Having horns of coal 
His hair is of twisting smoke 
His flesh a dim gold 
His black blood tastes of sea salt 
Holding a tyrant's...

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Athenians were losing to the Persians led by Xerxes one.
but Athena came along, and spoiled that militant’s fun.
she helped the Greeks defeat them, and they...

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Manu strolled to his stainless sink
To wash his hands and have a think.

He reached for soap, a bar was handy,
A square pink cake that looked...

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“ We  are
                    What we...

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The only game to be found was one tiny runt
Goddess Diana was sent by the gods to help with the hunt
The forest was amazed at...

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Lying halfway across the path,
there was nothing
to alert the eye or hint 
it was anything but a discarded
length of rope. 
Then, approaching closer, 
I saw...

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Prisoner mortally confined,
plotting your escape like Papillon,
conceiving freedom like a zoo animal.
Then dreaming on, 
you meet a flying child in all your mirrors.
Nearly weightless, pulled...

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Well this is my story from way back
you'll probably have heard about me
there's been quite a few sightings
over the years people wonder what they see

Many...

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