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Pygmy Poems - Poems about Pygmy


Premium Member born a pygmy
Born a pygmy I can reach nothing Five foot nothing I lie about the extra two inches...

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Categories: pygmy, me,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member 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....

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Categories: pygmy, animal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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...

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

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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;...

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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...

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

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