Short Hyenas Poems

Scorching Sun
Water just a distant memory
Hyenas on the prowl...

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hold your dreams to your chest
hyenas are following from the bush...

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when hyenas laugh
goats count remaining days
with their strong legs...

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Sloths running around
sidewalks...
Elephants sans "trunks"...
Sorrowful crying hyenas...
Happy and satisfied men...!
Table legs walking,,...

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A gringo in Argentina
made his hosts all laugh like hyenas.
Wanting food before bed,
what he asked them instead:
donde estan las llaves de la cochina...

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We drink your blood while we laugh at you in your drowning lungs we feast on your skin and flesh. We are hyenas that stand on two feet we serve leviathan melter of those that sleep....

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African Lion Safari, a joy to behold
Fenced in wildlife, a vast expanse unfolds
Lions and tigers at play
Hyenas, no favorite I'd say
Perhaps an African Hyena Safari of their own...

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Hyenas are really no laughing matter
In fact they're scavengers, if you see one, scatter
They'll bite your bum
Their dinner you'll become
Unceremoniously, don't need a silver platter...

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Hyenas are really no laughing matter
In fact they're scavengers, if you see one, scatter
They'll bite your bum
Their dinner you'll become
Unceremoniously, they don't use a silver platter...

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I am fine
'bout your kind
ness and
mindness so chill.

Who taught
birds to sing
or hyenas 
to kill?

Who created
Hitler's head?
Who watches over
you in bed?

Is it me and me and
me...
and me and me?
Or him....

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lioness finds food
          for her young
                   hyenas nearby laughed 



Contest: Let's Get Creative With Haiku
Sponsor: Constance La France
                 March 19, 2021
Third Place Winner...

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Hyena called hyenas
to teach them humility
but a fight broke out

They shouted and fought
other animals laughed loud
many broke their ribs

The Hare told them
Do not wear oversize cloth
Think before you try...

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We are together
and apart, like hyenas.

You demand to be captured -
roped to a pulse 
but I have forgotten 
how to knot blood.

Love arrives quietly. 
My lips brush the wet vines
of your hair....

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Hyenas on this site
Show teeth knife of their might

All of field coated risk
Full of funk, rage 'n fight

Namely, I'm a human
With no love with no right

On chaos wide lands
My poem is like a kite

M Heidari...

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Aggressive, brave, confident
distinguished emperor
fighting groveling hyenas
intimidating jackals
killing large mammals
nimble, overpowering
pouncing quickly,Roaring
stalking the usually vulnerable wildebeast
'xasperating young zebras...

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We are together
and apart, like hyenas.

You demand to be captured -
roped to a pulse;
we still know
how to knot blood.

After the questing
tenderness arrives quietly.
My lips brush the wet vines
of your hair....

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The tour operator is crazy
In the name of wildlife safari
We are 
In the midst of
Ferocious tigers, bisons, hyenas

We planned to share
Some poetry and painting
For the forthcoming examination

What to do
To be with the beasts
Or with the books

We are at a loss...

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Wild Kingdom

every Sunday night
Marlin and Jim
traveling throughout the world

catching cats
lassoing llamas
herding hyenas

interspersed with insurance commercials
Mutual of Omaha protecting the wild and you

My favorite:
Snagging snakes
I rooted for the snake!!!
...

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Blood and bone
A colourful black and white
On brown dust

A feast for flies,
Merry making for vultures
And dinner for hyenas

Yet, peace unto souls
For in life, diversities
But in death, unity

Grey hairs declare
"Better a man inexistent
Than one with the breath of life."...

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Hunger and horses

Spring 1945
A horse collapsed
In the street
Of hunger.
Skinny men in black
From doorways came.
Long knives
Tore into
Shivering flesh.
Hyenas.
A shot fired
The horse was dead
The hyenas 
Would return.
An officer
Who loved horses
Released
The animal
From suffering....

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one freshly killed prey
          sparks a feeding frenzy as...
                    lions fight for scraps

hyenas steal some
          vultures wait for slim pickings
                    spoils of war are theirs 



Date written: 11/14/2019...

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I am alone
Hyenas are on land
Alligators are in water
The air above is full of fire,

I am not coward
Looking for a way
To show them the difference
Between powerful and powerless,

I know it is difficult
As hyenas, alligators are beasts
To make them civilized
I have to be strategic and to wait....

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The snake dances past them in the air
    Fear frozen in eyes of charming pair
  Hyenas cackle, vultures on high
    streaks of lightning stab the sky

  A night not fit for man or beast
    blood gushing from ancient fountains
  Apparitions looming every place they turn
    O, for creature comforts do they yearn...

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Im black im black
I don't melanin lack
Tribe begotten by sun
Heathed and fully done
I might be brown by fraud
But Inside im black and proud
A race that tamed hyenas
Riding them around like cotinas
Reared owls as fowls
Before our black wisdom was foiled
Black me back if i bleach it
Its my identity, to my heart stitch it....

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Display of Animals

The lion roars,other animals are doom
This divides antelopes into fractions
Confused Mole digs the ground to make a room
Many games had to hide without options
Monkeys gathered on trees with great sanctions
This makes the wild hyenas to be loyal
Tigers declare a feast which was royal.



Olusegun Arowolo;contest:Rhyme Royal....

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