Pygmy Poems - Poems about Pygmy

born a pygmy

Born a pygmy
I can reach nothing
Five foot nothing
I lie about the extra two inches

Categories: pygmy, me,
Form: Light Verse

a mini pygmy Wow

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

Song of The Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth No 9: ABBA

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

Categories: pygmy, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Borneo Pygmy Elephants

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

Categories: pygmy, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme

His Pygmy

His Pygmy 

Its there. 
Small, bare, 
simple 
to grab hold. 

No one envies 
what they can barely 
see, and no one cares 
enough to see 
what they can barely 
feel, themselves. 

At 3am 
it is there 
beside me, staring 
wide-eyed into the 
night. 
We stare at nothing 
together.

I think about a rough hand 
to hold;

Categories: pygmy, abuse, addiction, courage,
Form: Free verse

Pygmy Forest Song

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

Categories: pygmy, death, farewell, goodbye, grief,
Form: Elegiac Lyric