Short Foxes Poems

screams pierce the night
primeval mating
wise owls winking...

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owl chosen ruler 
for democratic forest
white foxes  restive...

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Next to the river
Two foxes stalk a rabbit
As snow is falling...

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In the forest lays
Little baby red foxes
and a little squirrel...

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Foxes sense danger 
raptors eyes now uncovered
ancient hunt begins...

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Foxes scan the field
hawks drift slowly overhead
rabbits feed in fear...

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politicions words
you'd be better off trusting
foxes snakes and wolves...

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Foxes chasing dreams,
looking for chickens,
to invite to dinner.

wrote 8-8-08...

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I'm a taxidermy with a soul
But I've seen foxes on display that look better than me....

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Foxes
Looking around,
Hiding, sliding, slipping
The silky red fox, runs past you
Sneaky...

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Lavender Cream
Can I bring you some flowers?
I thought we'd go to the river tomorrow.
And dance with the foxes....

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chilly 
billy 
silly 
filly
love ain't for sheep, chilly Billy sighs,
drains many a silly filly dry...

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Ripples

All the ripples in the 
bird baths in the 
backyard disagree the juicers should
become toilets for 
foxes and the 
rare ferrets.

...

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Singing of birds come,
Voice of the turtle is heard.
Fig tree putteth forth.
Take us the foxes.
That spoil the tender grape vines.
The little foxes....

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run school girl run
dogs and foxes are coming

run fast and far
into grandmother’s hut run not

run and run school girl
save your body, hold your integrity...

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Creeping slick as silk
Crimson foxes scour the night
Like screaming banshees.

Mom and pups scatter
Like fluffy roaches fleeing
When we peek outside.

Blub......

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Frightened foxes
Seek night for
Chicken-stealing 
Birds are free from 
Guilt-consciousness
They predate
What they predate 
In daylight 
?
Ethical equilibrium!
...

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we consume lizards, small birds and fruits
our extra furry feet protect us against hot sand
our overdeveloped ears protect us from the sun
we live in Northern Africa’s desert...

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Dogs clearly possess it
Elephants care for young
Foxes protect their young kits
Giraffe’s calves are never shunned

But can they actually embrace them?

© Stacy Lynn Stiles...

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I saw two foxes run through a hole
And my sorrow was weakened still.
I watched two lovers swim through a gull

And the air took my breathe into the sky
Like a frightened lullaby....

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the sentinel trees

as moonlight streams through their limbs . . .

foxes in the dark


April 20, 2020  
for Jenish Somadas'  Let The Pens Flow - Haiku Poetry Contest...

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How many paradigms and how many paradoxes 
can you stuff into a pair of pint-sized treasure boxes?
And the answer is not,
"Oh teacher, I forgot,"
because I taught you to reason like wily little foxes.
...

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Foxes have holes and birds have nests for bed
but Jesus had nowhere to lay his head.
     It is he who calls us
     to leave all without fuss
as we follow in the Way that he led.

Luke 9.57-62...

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Foxes
lay in the dirt
summer heat
red red against the dusk
mama watches kits chase shaking herself
 fireflies dance about
she wanders to the creek for water
they scamper behind her
ready for adventure...

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Flummoxed foxes fleeing, fumbling forward from furious
Hurried heaving hounds howling hourly hitherto

Stop

Withered weathered wild woods would weep when
Man made memories murdering many mammals 

Stop...

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