Animal No Go Poems

Hey! Let’s go see the bats!
At first I am thinking baseball bats.
But this is late evening, so the black ones come into my head.
What bats?...

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like Labrador retriever 
squirrel wags his bushy tail
forth and back and forth
happy go lucky* amidst
Autumnal storm of acorns


*cheerfully unconcerned about the future...

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Let’s go horseback riding; it will be fun!
I say “I don’t want to.”
She keeps hounding me.
I say “Do you want me to lie?”
I finally lie.

Because...

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Sabati was eight years old on the day
that his grandfather told him to sit down,
there was a story that he had to share,
that he was...

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Seems like the spiders are playing a game
Wherever I go, there the littles are
Some are different, but most are the same
I watch them dance, like...

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To live well, and it can...
                the animal seeks the...

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Let's go to park
Daily by walk
We shall talk
of birds in flock
and dogs that bark
Until the dark

Let's go to Lake
To see the crakes
the floating ducks
and their...

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The story of the Gokooko'oo
Tells of an Ojibwe animal spirit
Many within the tribe 
Have been brought up to fear it.

Gookooko'oo is an animal spirit,
The spirit...

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It is time to leave us now

In life of passage we are blessed with an unspoken connection 
His destiny quivering in my hands as the...

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It’s hot in the car 
squashed beside my brother and sister,
I can’t breathe open the window
no, they giggle and whisper.

We arrive at the horse stables
I...

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I’ve gone through several dragons; 
each one had to leave.
They’d discovered gifts and talents, 
to make their lives complete.

Musicians, sculptors, chefs and more; 
have trained...

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When you walk deep into a wildland
Seeing butterflies dancing in flowers
It's chanting by flying you understand
Suchlike the angels touring in the clouds
You are romantic

While you...

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I JUST THINK YOUR IN DENIAL AND WITH NO PLACE TO GO--

You say you love me but your won’t look at me;
You say you care...

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Kittens spinning ‘round-and-‘round on a record player’s turn table;

Fuzzy balls of velvet hair, enjoying the ride.

Oh the elation of a, feline merry-go-round!
...

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WHERE THE GOOD ANIMALS GO

Through all of Heaven's hiding place,
the animals run through time and space.
There God sends thoughts into the sky
to remake every butterfly.
Far...

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