September Personification Poems

Greeting the day's offerings, we cat souls 
Were watching for scampering voles and moles.
Five vigilant cousins and I, perched up high,
watching the sun rise in...

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Dear Jan.                       ...

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I came in a tattered old box,
the grand size of a man's shoebox.
I knew that I was unwanted,
around a big empty house I wandered.
On a...

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She appeared in the middle of winter on our
porch.  She was the kitten we all fell in 
love with.   But her true...

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Fancy feast
In my own china dish
How she loved to be finnicky
Wearing nothing but
Her pretty pink rhinestone collar
As she tiptoed across the room
Slinky and sleek
With a...

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Thoughts of an Old Elm Tree

I am tired, oh, so tired,
My dried brown leaves are falling,
I am losing my looks before my time,
In the hot...

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On such a dreary and dismal night;
no moon in the sky to give them light.
  The black cat and the raven, out for a...

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Tongues of my temptress fire lick, 
arousing your ardent artistic desire,
if you dare, imagine me — the intensity
capture me, take your chance;
I’ll love you, leave...

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My name is Susan, Black-Eyed Susan I am called,
     I am hardy, one real tough fighting flower;  I was
born in...

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He awakens me at dawn with the touch of his first light
   His warmth opens my azure bloom after the chill of night
I'm...

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I didn't notice when sunshine had come and started talking
In loud amber tongue with the pink rhododendron flowers
And the grey shadow of tall oak inquisitively...

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I live next to a window where the sun shines down on me.
Oh, how I worship its life-giving, everlasting glow!
Each day I try to bend...

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Tremulous soil plays host to fleeing frightened fauna as
cacophonic outpourings shatter my serenity.

Whilst my delicate limbs shake in symphonic sympathy,
spluttering engines of destruction belch caustic...

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Oh, beautiful Rose, how nice to meet you!
Fresh, cheerful, and ready for your day’s work,
Of greeting and cheering up people who care for you, 
And...

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		I think I’ll never see a greater presence than this tree,
		the tallest in my yard. He’s like a mighty, stalwart guard.
		I sit by him some...

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The first time I saw her
There she stood
Just a silhouette
Breathtaking
On top of a hill
Tall and elegant
Alone and free
Long youthful mane
Swaying ever so gracefully
To the beat...

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On a frosty day in winter an old defoliated tree 
denied the sky and the soil by the younger ones
walks out of the green forest...

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Come my love, come rest with my brittle bones,
I call you from my dark tomb-  Can you hear me?
I so miss those thrilling days...

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Lurking amongst shabby, impenetrable, undergrowth,
cloistered effigy is sheltered from casual view,
languishing, neglected, forgotten... but content.

No longer possessing a name; no longer serving a purpose;
whatever inscription...

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