Short Menagerie Poems

her christmas cluster
santa claus menagerie 
jolliest decor...

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suburban slumbers
mantelpiece menagerie 
dreams of wild places...

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Cracked sunflower seeds
Paw print menagerie
Heart-warming traces...

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Bolt of lightning strikes,
    from sandy surface appears
             glass menagerie.......

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'Menagerie' 
    applied to you and me

  on display our humanity
    showcased ~ insanity...

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bilbo baggins bop
middle earth menagerie
ringmaster Galloum prowls his loss
Sharoun's fire eye tracks the prize
Crack of Doom awaits...

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cerise love letters precisely folded
affectionately showcased
opaque menagerie

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(C) May 2017...

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and what
bread of
heaven
stars transforming
themselves
onto a menagerie
of galactic
islands
mating 
every now
and then,
without
courtship...

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A menagerie of broken hearts
once carelessly displayed;
like a shooting star to start,
beauty bright that died away -
now tiny shards in disarray....

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Carol dear Carol and her menagerie
Are always bestowing on me much flattery
Loyal to the core
Reviewed 2,000 or more
Happily, they contain very few calories


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Hungry Bird

bobbin
robin

Spewing out Babies

fertile
turtle

Caught in the Rain

soggy
doggy

Loved Pet

pretty
kitty

Bigger Bird

sturdy
birdie

Angry Bovines

cattle
battle

Written: 3/3/16...

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Management Style More Like A Menagerie

What we did discover was politician's strategy,
When compared to everything else is contrary;
Loud and clear,
A bum steer;
Management style now more like a menagerie.

Jim Horn...

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A 
crystal
delicate
menagerie
waiting for the morn
like nature's debutants -
all with sparkling limbs adorned.
The spotlight of the golden glow
now glistening like glass tapestry
and tinkling like an intricate wind charm....

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How did I arrive
In this glass menagerie?
Why look at all those peoples' eyes
Just staring in at me
Not one of them to say
"let's just unscrew the lid"
and let me out to fly- 
oh wait! That one just  d         i         d...

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Once upon a planet, Once upon a place
Once upon a grand menagerie floating in space
Once upon a voice, Once upon a face
Once upon splendor, style and grace
Once upon a pretty, precious, and perfect rhyme
Once upon a time...

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The carefree menagerie
          a very merry coterie
        of holiday lovers, and
          well-heeled brothelers
        they rarely miss a chance
               to freeload for free

        Not stranded at borders
        shell-shocked from orders
            ~ no pretense of royalty...

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Ancestral ripples infuse my mind
As I look out early morn.

Twilight luscious, Vermillion hued
The day anew reborn.

Frangipani scents the air
As mockingbirds serenade,

I love this land, where I was born
Where my roots were laid.

A menagerie of memories I have,
Pellucid, are the days....

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Tiny voices 
Sizzling cola fluorinated acids
Wiggles as worms 
Smells liking baby breath 
counterfeit 
Sweet and sour
 cauliflower ears of corn 
Resounding screams of unicorns 
Catalyst deceiving all believing
Ballerina mistletoe

1/8/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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Although, having split personality 
in his tiny palms, 

he gleams...
and perceives life 
without fear 

but with warmth 
of a mystical womb 

that lures him
to enter a menagerie
of words, 

entertaining 
his shadow, not drunken--
but a bit drenched,

to huddle not 
on a cold concrete like 
a sleeping failure...

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How can I ever forgive and forget
that evening in my ancestral home,
as past the menagerie we roamed.
Your luscious lips of vermillion
broke my heart in a trillion
pieces as mockingbirds deluded
in the  twilight garden secluded
by frangipani which infuse the
air by the moonlit pellucid ripples.
Masking the sound of my sniffles....

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misery, so dainty, comes closer,
forms a space in time. it's no crime
to misinterpret, to let cries loose to
reverberate back again. attack attack 
& then, relax, from bruise to callus-
i must trust- healing is revealing.
still concealing, feeling about, searching
the music notes, the shout, the
sticky grime of doubt. here, misery,
lock me in menagerie....

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Nostalgia drove me to my ancestral  home
The air there was infused with scent of Frangipani
At twilight vermillion rays made the water so
flying mockingbirds made ripples 
 with droppings on  the pellucid river
Some trees bent down with fruits so luscious 
The only sound that broke the tranquil
Came from the menagerie
Poor animals made noises 
Wanting desperately  their release....

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Slaphappy monkeys swinging from trees to trees
Cartwheeling giraffes heads nodding in the breeze
Burly sea lions chasing sperm whales in the seas
A menagerie of animals dancing as they please

Bushmen collecting emporium honey bees,
Whistling cardinals chasing pretty chickadees,
Creatures playing pinnacle, cards upon their knees
Greedy gorillas wondering if their life’s carefree....

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Preternatural beauty dense and thickly lush 
elegantly displayed requiring very little gush 
A terrarium bottle garden in a growing rush
staving deep with vibrancy and gentle hush; 
A wardian case of coruscating light, forever plush 
inside a menagerie of green plants falling afresh 
the intransigent resilience of this herbal flesh 
is both, a healing balm and a lovely garden bush....

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Pounding my fist hard! 
Trying to dislodge emotion’s shards…

Pounding my fist, smashing 
my glass menagerie…

Blood trickles from cuts deep! 

Trying to pull the bitter weeds  
from hurtful words 

Feeling small screaming 
into an empty room 

Pulling the glass from my heart 

as fast as one can, still…  
Pounding the wall 

Feeling distant in the hall 
Blood settles at gravity’s will....

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