Animal Society Poems

Lonely pearl what troubles you
Is it the clam within you grew
Dont forget you'll shine so bright
Dont forget you'll be harvested at night

Flimsy string what is...

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Shame loves to hide under a rock
It worries that the rock will be lifted
That pure sunlight will flood in
That darkness of normalcy will flee

Do the...

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Once upon a most wonderful walk, a girl and her seven dogs
Shared an entirely spontaneous and ridiculously rude,
Yet delightfully playful social interaction.

To the dreary, disapproving...

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Committee of Vultures

There they sit squabbling
Up in a tree or on the ground
Waiting greedily for the next carcass
Laughing, they don’t care how it got dead

Always...

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("And Dream Of Sheep", 2018, original encaustic)

La La Land

Somewhere out beyond these solid walls
A wilderness howls
While inside dogs lay sleeping
Contented on hearth and couch.

Here domestic...

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October is one of those months that begin to transition and change to prepare for winter.

As our days begin to shorten, this tenth month brings...

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Wait until you meet here
She is a society chick
Made big money in the markets
Lazing around these days, doing nothing

I have met these types before
Not anxious...

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Enemy Mine


An enemy imagined is greater than an enemy that is real. For a real enemy can be killed, but an imagined enemy is invincible....

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Amidst the savannah roam conniving beasts,
Their motives mask their actions all too well,
In politics, their power never ceases,
Nigeria's fate, it seems, they seek to quell.

A...

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sweet decadent belly
how ever will you forgive me
i didn’t know
couldn’t know 
how to love you

i didn’t see that you were more than a belly
you were...

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Animals in top hats,
Ride bicycles en road,
Spoked wheels and pedaled spats,
Round about, in ornamental spode. 

Animals in monocles,
Spectate in obeisance,
Cuffed by inked chronicle:
Renascence-linked complacence.

Animals in...

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In the dead half of night, when the dark is too still,
The Sacred Meow Society convenes to court thrill,
A council of cats, with eyes all...

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Meow
meaningfully echoes our unique distinction
making functional feline existence
mightily declaring our sacred raison d'etre
marvelously designed by the great Creator.
Meow! Meow! Meow!

Meow
magnifies the expression of what we...

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The Sacred Meow Society

The sacred meow society
Dripping in their jewels
They lead with unseen fisted paw
Make no deals with mice nor fools
Their eyes as gold as...

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Let the light shine in. 
Let me out of this darkness.
I'm tired of this pain.
I’m tired of seeing bars, with the bite marks
I made a...

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