Animals Rhyme Poems

THE BUG BITES –AGAIN!

We begin to get restless,
And know that feeling
The one when our heads
Start reeling!
It’s time to visit the Kruger Park,
Although sparse rain, and
The...

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I’ve got a mate named Marty who went through the school with me,
but like most teenage scholars gave the teachers buggery,
and when it came to...

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Big top three-ring-circus ferris wheel and sideshow freaks
Ringmaster draws your attention to the center ring
Presenting the bareback rider with a graceful fling

Silly clowns riding tricycles
Fierce...

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A most terrible thing that brings me to tears, attacking my innermost soul
Is the only time I ever feel that I could lose control
It is...

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Will the elephant cry 
when he loses a friend?
When the dog is wounded
Will he bleed red?

When the calf strays from his pod
Will the whales sing...

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WHAT HAPPENED

Darkness is enveloping sinister 
and frightening,
Elusive, alluring, captivating and
Inviting,
Every night it falls like a 
clock that is punctual,
And we accept it as a part...

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Rats and other vermin abound through the waste of mankind's making,
No one working to keep streets safe, such an important undertaking.
The jobs of such are...

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PROUD STAR OF BETHLEHEM

The Christ Child was born in a stable bare
Among all the animals gathered there
The donkey, the cow, the dove, the sheep
Watched in...

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It's the latest intellectual thing; it's in vogue
   To dare to say it doesn't make you a rogue
You can let people know that...

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It would be nice on a day that is mild
To decorate a tree out in the wild
To bring Christmas, for animals to share
To celebrate this...

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THE DESPERATES

The hungry and the poor,
Will always try to find a door,
That will offer them a little more,
Than what they had before.
They cross the border...

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My mossy ferns awakened, anticipating something wonderful and new.
They are coming, the violets whispered. Their tiny voices flowing through.

Faerie parades whimsically teaching my woodland creatures...

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When I see a homeless man or woman
 I instantly just throw prayer their way.
When with a little, child I will listen,
No matter if it...

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Tinkling tones, sung upside down,
throughout the eucalyptus stand,
in native bush close to town,
'tis here, the last of un-cleared land.

Ti-tree, Dogwood must search for sun;
sword grass...

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The Wisemen were summoned to Herod’s palace, a night so fine.
He wanted to know when the star in the east rose, so sublime.
They hemmed and...

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My husband had a godliness about him that I saw in few if any others.
The man who followed his heart, not his sisters or his...

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Tahlia Rose, The Fairy

Once upon a time in a world of fairies
No hatred in this land was ever seen
And all around were birds of many...

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I suffer for you.
I suffer for me.
I suffer for the way 
life used to be.

I suffer for women with babies 
who'll feel the pain
of not...

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It stood alone Christmas Morn on the bleak and windswept mountainside.
Towering spruce that once surrounded it now graced many a fireplace side.
Rejected again, the Littlest...

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Joan Of Ark


Noah was a geyser, a bible kind of guy
Wouldn’t take no messing from a vicious gospel sky
He’d got the nod from Mr God...

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