Animal Possum Poems

babies on her back
     the possum crossed the river
          a log was...

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Beautiful possum
lying in the street
buzzard food...

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Peter Possum had a nasty rep
He was so white, he couldn't be hep
  He got him some brown paint
  Said, "I am what...

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Playing possum
            to an Alaskan grizzly
        ...

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rabbits leap across
loneliest graveled dirt roads
barely missing tires
~
possum shuffle past
the white lines along the curbs
hopes fill their belly
~
raccoon dart out from
beneath laurels and pine trees
hustling...

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THE BALLAD OF MA POSSUM
Roofing like a penthouse floor,
Tis not a haunt but Ma's snore.
A wombatic possum in appearance,
Being nature's pinup is her arrogance.
Her distintictive,...

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I once had a Manx who constantly primped; her white underbelly never sported one piece of grass or dirt.  She kept so clean and...

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Thought I heard my possum,
my sweet dear little pet.
Hurried to the kitchen;
No food for poss-poss, yet.

Recalling mothers' babies,
big eyes and hungry gapes.
Happily discovering-
some over- turning...

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Alley cat sitting
On a fence post, in the dark;
Movement in shadow,
Catches his marbled, green eyes;
One leap and dinner is served.

Such a feast will last
Him and...

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POSSUM SONG

You are the same possum
I saw eating my garbage
like a recluse,
your long pointed snout
hissing at me through your teeth.

When I first saw you
I backed...

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Because I have a possum for a pet, people think I'm weird.
They're trying to ship me off to the funny farm like my family has...

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