Life Panther Poems

Refrain:

In these mountains, far from the sea,
Where hearts have heard the tales,
Screams a lady, she’s wild and free,
Her life bears in details.

Though we never named...

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I looked up into the eyes of a panther
she looked enraged and ready to eat
a carnivore who could eat our flesh pre-kill
her opulent eyes were...

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Stealthy, hidden within the shadows of night. 
Camouflaged, out of mind, out of sight. 
   Stalking, awaiting for the chance to strike. 
Pounce...

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Legendary Panthers life is the best
Without working they just eat and take rest
While I toil real hard for my food
They just roar loudly and get...

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Legendary Panthers life is the best
Without working they just eat and take rest
While I toil real hard for my food
They just roar loudly and get...

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On camera they caught a black jaguar crossing the Amazon in plain day 
he was black and sleek and swam like an otter with motion...

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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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Captivating with its coat of deepest black
Vibrant in a way that only the wild creates
This creature leaves only its deep track
To show the fullness of...

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Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch

Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand

and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands

where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting

and Passion seems
like...

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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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Panther

Red eyes glow as you walk through the forest
You search in the darkness
Looking for an innocent creature
Claws sharpened as you wait
You know what they can...

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Always on the prowl
Searching for something new
A hunger that burns inside
Ready to flame at any moment
Sometimes it takes days
Even nights just wandering around
Keeping an open...

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