Animals Sijo Poems

*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.

The Ides of March

Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed...

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stones voice, echoes in the distance, a baritone frequency.

they tell of earth’s past, the origin of animals and dawn of man.

an edge-of-seat tale the opposite...

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Muscles of steel, needle-claws, scar dense jungle ground.

Human animals try to take huge cats, but you can’t steal from nature.

At best, all of nature responds...

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Forest floor covered,  footsteps echo of breaking branches
Sunlight trying to break through cover, unyielding in defiance
Small animals scurry out of sight, hiding in the...

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His charm captivates me as I stroke his lovely hair
Ohh, his passionate kisses, his tongue on my face, on my neck...
With  amorous eyes, ...

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He roamed the Himalayas, leaving footprints on the ground, 
But, tired of visitors, he ordered stiletto shoes from Ebay,
And now Big Foot doesn’t wander round...

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The aching wings of the butterfly did quiver delicately.
How with such immortal beauty do you escape my grasp?
Alas my sordid fingers could never uphold such...

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The small brown frog has returned with spring to peep from the trees,
tonight he sits in the yellow porch light and shows himself to me
beside...

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                    Oleaginous material, produces threnody in...

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Early in the morning just beyond daybreak, the cooing of doves
Coo, coo, coo always in threes, conveying to its mate of his love
Soon sun will...

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Seagulls saunter the shoreline, nipping at scraps of dead fish

     Hunters and gatherers will soon have more than a bellyful

 ...

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Four chicks forage alone in the woodland, motherless.
Strong of spirit, determined, they hunt and peck anyway.
Before dusk arrived, another hen and rooster protected them.

© Dane...

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Mule kicked and bucked so high, its
hind legs seemed to reach the sky...
Suffering from many a thing, but vowed 
to suffer war no more,
Soldiers differing...

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Skimming the backyard lake water with eyes bent on adventure
while knowing that alligator eyes are skimming shore just for me
I decide on a mint julep...

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