Animal Natural Disasters Poems

Along the paw-trod path
Narrow and dainty through the gorse
Where yellow flowers
Lie dim like fallen stars in the mist
Comes a silent visitor, hesitant
It licks its lips
A...

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The hide of a horse
    The tongue of an ox
  No cloak of remorse
    from a chicken with...

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God is met not as an object to be understood, 
but as a mystery to be loved  -attributed to Gregory of Nyssa
d. 19 July,...

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In a land of crime, pets too are killed
A goose was struck by an upset Ouma
I saw it in a fenced yard, life bleeding ...
It...

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The animals wailed to the almighty king of the jungle,
"We broke our slumber and found ourselves in flames of raging fire
Thee save my fawn from...

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Options Underwater: The Song of the First Amphibian
by Michael R. Burch

“Evolution’s a Fishy Business!”

1.
Breathing underwater through antiquated gills,
I’m running out of options. I need to...

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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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In the wild, there are predators and prey
as this has always been, Mother Nature’s way

In our societies, humans are not prey for predators
apart from the...

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Orange and flaming
The redwood tree’s trunk in sparkling fires
So many red barked knotted giants gone
Leaves crinkled like fireplace paper
Animals gone, squirrels and rabbits scorched
Baby bears...

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Economic ruin does loom
as hog industry shows no bloom
since swine fever brings pig pen gloom…
Oh, ham and bacon losses boom.

With avian flu’s sudden attack
chicken-kill was...

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The Amazon is burning
Human carelessness the cause
Environmentalists blame policies

From Brazilian government laws.
It will have a tragic impact the
Rainforest is 
Earth's lung

Reducing global emissions,
A habitat for...

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Never stand behind a hippo!
Never stand behind a hippo!
Never stand behind a hippo!
Projectile diarrhea!...

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Dedicated to my favourite poet - Shelley

If a tortoise, if a turtle
You are never going to hurtle
Witness how your limbs are placed
Splayed east to west,...

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Ugh, Why Must The Missus Vacuum At The Crack Of Dawn?
(circa: early December 27, 2018 morning)

There appears to be a
virulent (possibly deadly) strain
of housekeeping virus
Hoover...

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Mark Clarke was the gentlest man of Denmark 
Yet considered by all a most unlikely patriarch
He was proud being Noah’s apprentice on the ark

Mark was...

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