Animal Narrative Poems

THE  PAINTER OF DREAMS 

The more I looked at his photo, 
the more his eyes seemed depicted.
I could feel a strong power from 
what...

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So many years had passed, he was the offspring of a horse and ass. 
Quickly discounted, the young mule was sold over and over again...

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Why do careless and heartless people abuse both animals and children?  I would like to think one reason is purely ignorance.  They simply...

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So we took Bonnie the Border Collie to the vet yesterday for a wellness check and to update his shots. While there we discussed Bonnies...

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Twas the night before deer season
and all through the town
all the hunters were campin';
there was no one around.

The guys weren't all snuggled 
and warm in...

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The spirit of God guided me,
To the love of Christ and the love of the Father for me,
Made known of the condition of my heart;
And...

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Cherry Tree Music Co-op
(Saint Mary's Church -
3916 Locust Walk; City)
(Circa mid nineteen nineteen eighties
after the common lee
washed out tide dull era - CODA).

Naughty bits and...

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I decided to have an Andy Griffith moment with Tyler and Violet last night and brought them outside to check out the once every century...

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A LOVER'S DREAM

In the dark, cold shade, for some unknown reason,
Your eyes seduce, yet they betray no treason,
As you kiss my bosom,
Igniting my unbounded feminine...

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If by some technical error I get to Heaven,
I don't think I'll be there long.
The powers that be, God's helpers, 
would soon realise I'd slipped...

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My God I thought Christ had just returned...I was in a dead sleep when one of the cats jumped up on this 300 button multi...

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My husband and I are well-loved and visited by night creatures. There were once seventeen raccoons on our deck, fighting over six boxes of stale...

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I was walking down a Vermont road
to stretch my legs and blow off stress,
stone walls flanked the hard, brown dirt,
half-obscured by dead leaves and grass.

When...

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16b Stargazing 

Here they filed into a hallway
Into almost total darkness
Just a pair of flick’ring candles
Led them to an inner circle
 
At its center was...

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Oh, the blithering allies full of pests
rats! With their creeping paws and slimy nests
they screech and moan and scare
while dragging everything to their lair
nothing if...

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Beneath a hazy blue sky
I walked down a grassy bank
My little dog trotted beside me
Across from us bush land dotted with
Gum trees, Banksia, Wattyl and...

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The forest had enjoyed a magical transformation.
Dusk had ushered in the firefly brigade.
They lit up the pond area like tiny LED lights.
I could see they...

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“He is out there again.”
It was said in a menacing way.  One check-out woman to another,
In front of me, the customer.
It startled me.
Someone was...

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In the early 70’s my husband and our first baby, Angela, moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in the middle of the night, in the summer time....

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