Born a pygmy
I can reach nothing
Five foot nothing
I lie about the extra two inches
Categories:
pygmy, me,
Form: Light Verse
I have a mini pygmy now
Oh wow, I said. Oh Wow, oh Wow.
I had no idea what a pygmy is.
A pig? A puppy? A snake with whiz?
It looks like a mini donkey he said.
He must have gotten inside my head.
Categories:
pygmy, animal,
Form: Rhyme
It's back to the wilds, for the unexplored
Panama's island, Pygmy Three-Toed Sloths.
Tree huggers, twenty hours daily, course, lots
of trees. Four of a kind, their fifth, record
as the smallest. Clocked slow, a leaf lasts one
month in its tummies till its slow slop drops.
They're six pounds and twenty inches, a pop.
Furs algae-fied hide them. Swim can be done.
Again, it resurfaces, a world-wide
dilemma, in pictures and portrait drapes
over a posh hotel table of crepes.
Concerned and unconcerned, great the divide.
In twenty-twelve, I.U.C.N., counted ...
less than eighty, now ... they're, unaccounted.
Categories:
pygmy, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Borneo Pygmy Elephants are listed as, endangered
and they were isolated, about 300 thousand years ago
from their cousins, on mainland Asia and Sumatra
and they are known as, the smallest Asian Elephant
They have shrinking forests, with human settlements
and there’s a lot of logging, with a conveyor belt running
There are palm oil plantations, creating a lot of sediment
and a lot of agriculture, destroying their natural environment
Categories:
pygmy, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme
I lost you out there.
You never came on home.
I called for you and I called to you,
but you never came on home.
I lost you out there,
in the bushes and the brush.
I called for you and I yelled for you,
but you never did come home.
Don't say you couldn't hear me.
I won't listen if you do.
I lost you, and I left you,
and you never came on home.
I lost you out there,
but it's what you seemed to want.
I yelled for you for nights and days,
but you never once yelled back.
I walked and walked between the trees,
squinting toward the sun.
I called for you and I screamed for you,
but no, you never did come home.
Categories:
pygmy, death, farewell, goodbye, grief,
Form: Elegiac Lyric