Short Yowl Poems

I yowl and cry
   to go outside.

                      Maybe....

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Oh, you muse owl...oh, you muse owl...wise owl
Wander through the woods of my mind
Lovely as a coyote’s yowl in the dead of night...

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i shout hello to
          squirrels playing in the sun 
          they all squawk at me 
          i fall on nettles and yowl
          my cat looks on with a smirk...

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a big full moon
a coyote yowl
in the tree
a hooting owl
a warm night
and I can't sleep
counting sheep
does not help me
so I lay here
wide awake
knowing soon
the dawn will break...

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my fromp 
gorg yaow go^
yowl meem to yaou all afrog
faog yorforg for yaou agroc too
quoobi, quoobi my fromp
                                xooxo
                                Zorg...

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gregarious wolf
	monogamous mating pair ~
		voracious young yowl

winter feast scarce
	rapacious wolf snuffles snow ~
		nimble hare cowers

alpha female reigns
	wolf pack provides provisions ~
		playful pups gambol...

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Yell 'n tell, here and now 
And again felt myself yowl
I grasped that slant 
As the skirt of a poem chant

Howl of voice and pen
Shout, articulate, vast in gist yen
Quill 'n reed in actuality
O' I bend one's ear, tittle-tattle lyrically...

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Jan Allison



Jan Allison gave me a grinning big chuckle
Only wish she met my quirky Uncle Buckle
She might have to fend off
Then she may have to cough
A mighty big yowl to scare a honey suckle



Written: 2/19/15
Theresa Marie W-C...

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Midnight
Bat flight

Crows caw
Ghouls gnaw

Mists swirl
Leaves whirl

Wolves howl
Cats yowl

Ghost moans
Chilled bones 

Dark halls
Skin crawls

Foul breath
Taste death

Fright, fear
They're here!



For Donna Golden's Footle Fright contest...

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Pudgy Pumpkins glow round and orange bright
On Allhallows Eve star filled moonlit night
Bold Black Cats yowl with a canorous chorus
While children's joy explodes wide eyed before us



November 9, 2019
Picture #1
Good Luck Halloween Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Eve Roper...

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Haikuish

Rain in end of June
I don`t mind it cools the land 
Unclutters the mind
Rain in end of June
Promises moderate times
Dogs do not yowl
The hoary oak smiles
Dust free and verdant leaves
Rain in end of June
No flies fly today
Sparrows sleep under roof tiles
Nests dry and cosy...

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were that i could speak again
the thoughts frozen in my head
the sun rarely burns me now
and the moon a haughty stranger
lifting its one eyebrow at me.

i stir uneasy in the concrete bowels
where skitters my fears
in halloween masks.

i think i'll yowl with the cats
on the roofdeck

(5 feb 79)...

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I'm a Poet 
It goes without saying
In the event that you need 
Some poesy rhyme 
Come on and read some
Verse with me
Take a tour down poetry road
I got lots of jingle knowledge
I yowl, bellow and roar
I'm a Poet 
And it fits me to a tee
On the off chance that you 
Need some poetry in motion
Come and howl with me...

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clouds tumble over peaks damp air chews chill skin
fingers grip their bones no retreat or trace of steps
snaking tongues of mist race upwards leaden cloud overhang
two worlds press
hammer hands  nail a tiring flesh 
breath hooked to peril
now grin and yowl  now shout 
a stone arrowhead aimed at nothing and everything
climb on...

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Dogs howl, people also,
that moonful yowl is a sustaining thread,
a link to soul.

Most folks beat the bushes
looking for God knows what?

Only those who've done with howling
get it -got it - know it -
they've got that sustaining thread,

even so, now and again,
everyone’s still got to bay a bit,

just like any other dawg,
even so.
...

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heavy is the night
balmy breezy eve
moon insanely bright

powerful place to grieve
ghosts paraded in his mind
urging him to leave

I think it was vastly kind
This was the night demons prowl
Soul dreams of his did bind

heard large cat give off a yowl
was this then to be his end?
now I heard a white wolf’s growl

hoot of owl against the wind
let him know he was his friend...

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Flames emanate everywhere
heat can be felt across the town
Every fire in sight
glows a different tint
red roars
blues bereave
turquoise turns blue
to their shade
yellow radiate their aura in the form of yowl
purple flare prominence
white glimmers grace and wings
black emits mystery
and among the other million blazes
denizens of the rainbow city
burn with diversity
in their souls...

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Listen to poem:

Written: September 22, 2023
Pleiades 6 Poetry Contest                         Sponsored by: Joseph May     
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Yaupon, mighty stands veiled
Yarn-like branches waving
Yaud of caffeine green source
Yowl, drink that holds wisdom
Yelps of knowledge unwind,
Yoke armor to illness
Your pearl steeped in legends...

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there is a land beyond your eyes
but you must stare at the sun
the whitish glare but a disguise
it is one that hides another one

there is a land beyond your ears
you must be a dog to even hear
the mystic cloud ever nears
never mind it, never fear

there is a land beyond the pale
that can be seen, but not understood
its milk and honey have gone stale
as screaming babes yowl for their food...

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Stray cat, cool sleek alley cat,
A vivid tan, with mottled black,
In soft moonlight, creeping back,
To the scented nights of lilac!

One eye of brown, one of blue,
The shadows always welcome you,
And you go where they take you,
And yowl on the starlit avenue!

Pretty cat, you stray alley cat,
Upon a tall fence, singing scat,
Free to roam when skies are black,
Not caring if dawn ever gets back!...

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The messiah in him perspired and pushed unto a stone shadow curtain behind 
which laid an enigma floral canyon; his pulse took then reverberated back shrill 
eagles cast halos en flight. Mercury in the background singing twilight while 
exposed parts encountered Mars. Proper manner aside, wavering creation mind 
spasms penetrated deeper. Maria wept.

A trace from an atmosphere drown in indescribable fruition; tempest yowl...

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Children know
That giants grow,
Ghosts are true,
And witches too.

Grown-ups don’t,
And so they won’t
Hear things wail
Inside the gale.

“It’s an owl
Or some cat’s yowl,”
They insist 
With whitened fist. 

You know more:
You lock your door,
Snuggle deep
And pray you sleep.

Then at dawn 
Behold the lawn:
Sunrise glints
On fresh, fresh prints.

Bones have walked, 
Ghosts darkly stalked, 
Tombs have stirred,
And you, YOU heard....

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a way to call a greater sky
into a drinking bowl

a way to call
while staying
inside
the odor of this
world eat world reality

your creature self
will sniff out
the scent
of an ungroomed holiness

turn the prayer on its back
expose belly
wriggle
where your tail
spins like a prayer wheel

lost bones will return
still rich with marrow

offer licks and loll
lollygag for a while

then

when you see
your original face
shining
behind the moon

yowl with gratitude

...

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