Animal Planet Poems

Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku

Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.

Having seen the moon
I can bid...

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Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction,
the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly.

Deforestation dehydrates the caliginous evergreen region,
scorching...

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Zebra
By Michelle Morris
17/07/2020

Ebony and ivory stripes
Grace its form;
Roaming the savanna from
The day it's born...

As one of Africa's 
Majestic creatures, 
The zebra is one of earth's...

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Gaia will recreate 
By Michelle Morris 
20/10/2020 

It's raining outside,
Showing tears Gaia's trying to hide...

Nature is hurting by our hands, 
And we were given promised...

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Even the smallest creature makes ripples,
When it enters Life’s Great Pond,
And those ripples just keep on expanding -
Far, far, far beyond....

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Hundred million K' away neighbour, Mars
     Hovers bolognese smeared brother, ice brick
     Fondness for possibles although bizarre
...

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Forest

It’s difficult to imagine
The vast amount of secrets
That are kept in the forest

I strained my neck upwards
Staring up at the canopy of trees
So high that...

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A Rottweiler  Shepard mix
longsuffering had proven to be
With the Doberman pup, a red one,
won on a gambling spree

Rocky the mix and BoBo
 coexisted for...

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I need clear blue rivers of life
to not always flow away from me,
in some direction
I can't
or won't
go right now.

I need green commitments to home
to feel...

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"Ark"



books have eyes here 
they sense things 
through the turning of leaves

strange chapters
they listen to small sounds
loud lives lived quietly

they are grounded cells
measured by rings...

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Not long will it be when the grass
Be nothing more than sand.
And forests through where rivers pass
Are but a barren land.
Not long until the songs...

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Humans have long trespassed
and destroyed animal territories
Humans have poached
And selfishly encroached
upon animal habitats
cutting down trees to build
human habitations.
Now the tables have turned
Humans are quarantined  in...

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From mountains high to lakes below,
The glaciers melt their winter snow,
Spring emerges much to show.

To re-awaken from its sleep,
Life continues, not ours to keep,
Spring jumps...

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When we remember that we are one,
feeling the emphatic soul connection
of the other animals, extending love
to the raccoons, foxes, mice, spiders,
grasshoppers, cobras, sharks, grizzlies ...

When...

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At a very young age, David spent his early days 
collecting natural specimens, fossils and stones
always venturing out, to our planets sun rays
throughout his amazing...

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