Animal Simile Poems

  Even after a day of fun
    Sunday night can be a drag

  I’d like to see its tail wag

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How I wish I could fly,
Glide away from despair,
Just like a butterfly,
Flutter carelessly in the air.

I want to be brave,
Just like a lion,
But I'm trapped...

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My mom has eyes like a hawk. 
They‘re in the back of her head. 
In town, she told me not to gawk.
I followed down the...

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an elephant summer night

the thunder roars
the lightening sneaks
quick peeks
through the darkness…

staccato cosmic tears
gently fall
in a beautiful rhythmic
splashing…

the piercing pain pinging
the spirit
takes its leave…slowly
fading away…

swollen aged...

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The autumn leaves, like a fiery blaze
Blows across the forest in the fall breeze 
Leaves on the ground, the woods is like a maze.
Birds glide...

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The autumn leaves, like a fiery blaze
Blows across the forest in the fall breeze 
Leaves on the ground, the woods is like a maze.
Birds glide...

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She,
magnet;
attracting
half a dozen
of quacking, waddling ducks like scrap metal
A toddler is casting her magic spell
with mere bread crumbs;
a wondrous
sight to
see!


Double Tetractys Poetry Contest
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The lemming’s way
Is like Hemingway's...

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Takaha Shugyo haiku and tanka translations

hatogata horarete ichiju haya mebuku

A single tree
with a heart carved into its trunk
blossoms prematurely
—Takaha Shugyo, loose translation by Michael R....

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Stalled Beginning…Beautiful Ending

                I
Like a stalled car
with engine running,

I sat...

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Like a living statue, the age-old tree
stoically stood there—anchored
and silently growing in majestic being.

At the tree trunk’s ground level, stood
a tiny squirrel—the happiest
of its anchored...

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Being the infant
that you were,
there you sat;
hunched knees
and settle butt looking
with piercing eyes
reflecting stand-off thoughts
as you huffed and puffed.

Like a water pump
pumping out,
your lungs pumped...

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As the quiet dew
wet blades of grass grew,
hungry rays of sunlight
slowly consumed 
the last morsels of darkness

Faint echoes of the symphony 
of frogs and crickets
waned...

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In hibernation, like a polar bear
After the searing pain dulls
Bearable, day by day


Writing Challenge 4, March 2019- Kimo- Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear Heart (Winner: 5th...

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Surging forward
like ocean swells,
the frog happily hopped
gingerly along its way.

Like stoppable shores,
deep and deeper holes awaited him....

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