Animal Self Poems

Laughter trills through fire
Joy is spun on a lyre
Feathers were just growing in
And the bird watched its kin
Playing, scratching, screaming

I want to play!
You're on fire!
Thats...

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heroic white stag
Keeper of winter light
Protector of frost and ice
He parades into my mind
Bringing peace doves
Showing what innocence can do
The newness of January
Refreshing me
Giving me...

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Fighting against external enemies is natural.
Isn't my fight against myself a Herculean task?
Desires and drives that decrease me into an animal
In my predicament, my consciousness...

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I Will Be The Better
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To have left the world
Without making it a better
Place for ourselves and 
Our animal friends, 
What kind of a life was...

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The frogs leap across lily pads.
Splash! The water flicks up.
Despite the obstacle, they carry on.

Lions roar as the prey whimpers.
Scratch! Ripped to shreds like nothing.
Yet...

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dead rat in the road
flat rat in the road
as if placed without gore
more like a small fur rug
than a rodent
as it ran to its conclusion
not...

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I need to see what Cleff passed through
To be able to say “it’s true”
And then, fast, arrange a lorry
Bursting with folks who are sorry.
I won’t...

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I need to see what Cleff passed through
To be able to say “it’s true”
And then, fast, arrange a lorry
Bursting with folks who are sorry.
I won’t...

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Paul the Apostle said "I once breathed apart from the law's voice
I lived in the clay of a singing bird or a roaring tamed beast
I...

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sweet decadent belly
how ever will you forgive me
i didn’t know
couldn’t know 
how to love you

i didn’t see that you were more than a belly
you were...

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Animals in top hats,
Ride bicycles en road,
Spoked wheels and pedaled spats,
Round about, in ornamental spode. 

Animals in monocles,
Spectate in obeisance,
Cuffed by inked chronicle:
Renascence-linked complacence.

Animals in...

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Lying halfway across the path,
there was nothing
to alert the eye or hint 
it was anything but a discarded
length of rope. 
Then, approaching closer, 
I saw...

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Who is that? His sister asked, staring at his art.
It’s me! Rodney Rooter said. Don’t be so smart!
But you don’t look that dapper, that handsome,...

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Home makers like the sun , I salute
Who helps me clean more or less that I can’t
giving me  hand. 

 love lies in this...

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Imagine being born into the world as a guinea pig. An experiment that as the ‘master’ of this guinea pig, you have a complete rule...

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