Death Panther Poems

the jungle is dark
     the panther colored in black
          anxious to attack
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Into the darkening night he slipped
He slid. He gleamed the mean of
No polite glory. 
He knows you are there. At a whiff 
His whiskers turned....

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Hush hush busy muskrat;
all you bucktoothed beavers
gnaw on unheard, work you unseen.

The sleek panther is stalking
slipping silently through the feathergrass
an angel of hunger is in...

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The black panther is a cutie
The way he struts is a thing of beauty
That sleek black fur makes him hard to see
He can camouflage himself...

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When grapes ripen and flow down barrels,
drunk ancient Greeks abandon morals,
roar accosts their ears from distant cave,
ushers season of feasting and rave!

With every roar spreads...

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Once the gentle panther was loved by all
save dragon, the Devil, who hid in fear.
Believed to be good it held all in thrall
likened to the...

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A story had been told about the Great Lakes,                ...

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The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is...

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Archaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions....

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As the only large cat with a voice I roar from within my solitude
 Prowling with swagga and a side of attitude
 My voice is...

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