Short Antelope Poems

Blossoms fall like snow
where deer and antelope play
and spanish moss hangs...

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An antelope
     bounded from rock to reed to
Dash the stream
      in a prismic mist....

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lioness with her sights on the prize
antelope feels her; pops out her eyes
the chase is on
one is a pawn
antelope’s heartbeat is on the rise....

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An antelope at the zoo’s gala
Stuck both horns right through a koala 
He skewered an ox
And one Arctic fox
They now call him Vlad the impala...

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Marking deep footsteps 

of a youthful antelope

along thickened woodland--

earth's glory is replete

with a creature in motion.




Brian Strand Contest...

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I was off to hunt some Antelope;
I taught I saw one down the slope
Not So-ugh-ugh nope-!
Instead it was a Jackalope!
Momma Mia! What a dope!


Copyright McCuen 2008...

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The thickets were traitors,
Front and back they cut me down
Till I lost the sight of my buttery;
Gasping like blacksmith’s belows I asked: 
What flesh did antelope even have?...

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teriyaki tepee 
telegraphs telescope
temperamental tentacles
teasing testy antelope
televising tempting tempos
torturing terriers who mope
teriyaki tepee
you are the utter dope!...

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"Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam
and the deer and the antelope play"
One day that old song 
like the buffalo, deer and antelope will be gone.
No one will be able to relate....

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HAIKU

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shush... antelope... keen
lion pride prostrate... sleeping
thirst... a chance to quench

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#quench, #thirst, #lions, #antelope...

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Cross (Pleiades)

Caught by a leopard in
chase, the antelope slack--
carted off whole to a 
crotch in the tree to be
consumed, sacrificed.  A
Christ on a Cross, and a
consummated being....

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She blows the prettiest bubbles from the moon.
Adorable! Said an antelope, who acts like a goon.
She is probably coming back to earth, and I mean soon.
This was stated by a gossipy grandpa baboon....

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The Elephant’s not elegant
The  Hippo isn’t hip
The Antelope is not an Ant
The Camel’s not a ship
The Turkey isn’t Turkish
The fly is just a fly
Orang Utan is almost man
But tell me, who am I ?...

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Antelope
Brown Bear
Cat
Dolphin
Elephant
Flamingo
Goose
Hippopotamus
Iguana
Jellyfish
King Snake
Leopard
Mink
Newt
Opossum
Puma
Quail
Rat
Snail
Tiger
Uakari
Viper
Whale
X-ray Fish
Yak
Zebra...

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Many think that I'm going on vacation,
when I go thru hiking,
backpacking where the deer and the antelope roam,
but I am not at all going on vacation,
by any stretch of the imagination.
The truth is I'm going home....

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ebony puma waits in dark shadows
for a slow-walking snack to walk by

her cousin, the tiger, in India,
has a similar position, watching antelope

lion yawns his disgust at work
as his lioness catches and kills his lunch...

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camouflage pattern
she outwaits her prey
calculating eye
antelope killer
gargantuous paws

a race car’s speed
proud in her pride
enormous roar
mountain lion

unique coat
meat eating
carnivore

panther
puma

cat...

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The Dik-Dik is an antelope
Who longs to be a misanthrope

But since he “pronks”, instead of lopes,
He doesn’t really have a hope …





* “Pronk” is the name of the dik-dik’s jaunty little bounce when he runs.
 It is an Afrikaans description....

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A man of Wyoming ate cantaloupe                 
While watching some galloping antelope       
To his aunt he said                                              
You must truly wed                                             
A right proper woman just cantaloupe...

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Cockroach sat on heap of dung
Cock sat on the cockroach
Fox sat on the cock
Cheetah sat on the fox
Antelope sat on cheetah
King sat on slave-man
Baby came, to sit on king
“Treason, treason, treason”
Arrest, detain, interrogate”
Security guards, shouted loud...

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Nature compares but classes
Are imminent and permanent
In levity of stratified system.



Even when a cat kills and eats
A rat it can't be equal
To a lion in the jungle.


Hunting speedy antelope
They may both be carnivores
But one is king of the jungle....

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'Tis noted that some media at times express divisive and jaundiced views!

Hence, such inane twaddle has reputedly become known as fake gnus!

(Written with considerable tongue in cheek and with profuse apologies
to the innocent African antelope known as a gnu!)...

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Small, striped sensuous in form
In strength mighty
Tenacious in the cooling mud.
An antelope breed, Sitatunga named
Treading water with the surfing hippo
Under a canopy of okoume trees.
Needing home always to be in
Gabon's forested world but
Already, the chain saws arrive....

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A momentary lapse of reason

While navigating the road ahead

And with antelope now in season

I'm going home with its mounted head

It's too bad how much damage was done

Repairs will cost an arm and a leg

But the deer wasn't the only one

Now I'm left with a hook and a peg...

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Today I was a lion
I lay out on the lawn
With the cat by my side
And together 
We were a small pride
Beneath the searing heat
Of the Serengeti
Well South Herts
To be precise
But it was nice
In our jungle garden home
And we would like to reassure you
That no antelope were harmed
In the making of this poem...

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