Animal Rhyme Poems

Africa, India and Asia too
leopards can be seen out in the blue
scary up close, these spotted cats
a threat to small voles, mice and rats

on three...

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hide and seek squirrel is a pleasure to watch if you must know
oak trees fight over him, he is clever, and has humor that glows
it’s...

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A fish without a bicycle, 
a squirrel without a tree -
these are the things
that trouble me. 

They make me chew my fingers
and give me such...

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A funny-looking bunny dropped by the other day
black white and brown fur a stray who'd lost his way
and
he let me hand-feed him with carrot tops
and...

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Monopolising Youth And Sorrow



Elevations of my soul soar toward the remnants of a dream 

Revelations on growing old pour out from behind a stifled scream...

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       A tiger cuddling in my lap
         my dog observed
 ...

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Monkeys - start on your typewriters now.
I need you to work fast - and how. 
There is nothing more pressing than a
contest deadline - no...

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We're goin' out to Idaho where the potatoes grow
honey we're leavin' quite soon
but if you call it quits then I've had my chips
and like the...

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At first light trudging through the Arctic Snow,
Is it for thrill or just a Facebook photo show?
As the Arctic wind buffets our flushed face,
The long-awaited...

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I've never been to Kathmandu
it's highly unlikely I'm ever going to
and I don't consider macaques the least bit holy
while some there choose so to do
tho'...

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When the sun sets in the morning
and rises late at night, 
and dogs hop on lily pads,
and frogs viciously bite,
that's when I'll stop loving you,
and...

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Hear the tale of the green fields where I roam,
Leisure World, the place that I call home.
If you take strolls (a healthy habit),
at dawn or dusk,...

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Deborah’s Grandfather was fond of saying, other than at Thanksgiving, turkeys had no worth
for he believed that turkeys were the stupidest creatures on Earth.

He told...

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We are plain yellow chicks in my barnyard, my family and I
Well, we were, until the birth of my younger brother, Guy
He is the most...

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I've oft been offered but not tempted by
large helpings of pie in the sky
from too many crooks
who indeed the broth did spoil
and so as not...

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