Animal Sorrow Poems

Whispers and sighs, softest of smiles
Reveal the music playing in the heart.
Beautiful rhymes, soothing the nights,
Stirring joy, faith and love – 

Breaths of prayers, some...

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In the stillness of a cool, spring morning,
A cardinal’s heart is heavy – he’s heartbroken.
Softly calling for the lover he is mourning.

Thumps noisily against the...

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The type of freedom I yearn 
Can only be found in an urn 
The type of life I have led 
Always chained to dread 
But...

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One blissful spring morning
As the sweet sun showered the flowers below in it’s glittering presence
A small butterfly drifted from flower to flower
It surprised the monster...

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Before I knew the day, the time
He’d die, 
I came home to him,
My little smile, knowing he’d
Be there, he was always there
Always aware I was...

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ZEN DEATH HAIKU III

Spring
stirs the clouds
in the sky's teabowl
—Kikusha-ni, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Tonight I saw
how the peony crumples
in the fire's embers
—Katoh Shuhson, loose...

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BORROW BORROW

Mebo mebo
Borrow borrow nation of the world
They cant stop
The wont stop

The whole nation is plunged in debt
The nation never stops borrowing
The world keeps lending
The...

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A peacock to some, 
but to others a confident and close friend.
Confidence, humorous, 
displays feathers, 
selects the perfect mate.

Unbeknownst is he of the 
defects 
within...

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Dear Jane;

My dear sweet animal…We have been left astray. for the strings of mankind torment me so, in my sparrows rusted birdcage.

It may have only...

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Sivananda said it, so have others:
Unless we evolve spiritually
Humans will destroy the whole planet

Over time, we began as non-ethical
Then we progressed to infra-ethical
( The state...

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A season of sadness
A season of sorrow
No one knows what tomorrow
Will bring at this hour of madness
A president is being impeached
Lots of foolish wars are...

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On the edge of gartan lake a forest path once lead, to a clearing down amongst the trees with only stars up over head.

There I...

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On the hill, a mother 
is desperate to nurse babies
who have gone still and silent, 
with milk they'll never take

She knows they are not sleeping...

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Wings black as midnight draw back 
from infernos façade 
Secret devices sharp, 
keen of talons and man-made MAW 
EYES; Scarlet, pumpkin fire orange at the...

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in electric nightmares of horrors unseen 
we will know the hour of our demise. 
We huddle in fear and terror. 
Something scratches at the door...

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