Animal Sound Poems

caught in frigid traps
seals struggle against the sea…
population culls

*Strong waves hurled seals against rock walls, killing some....

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bellowing stag
deepest blackness 
a fox barks...

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Owl hooting "Who you"?
Pack of wolves howl at the moon.
So alive, twilight.
I imbibe all sounds with glee.
May this night last forever!



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Feral pigs
fight for food
squeal...

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        I sat on the back of a burro
         ...

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     Babes cry
     Moms sigh

     Winds whirr
     Leaves stir
...

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Creatures of
the night 
in song...
welcome me
to sing along;
cricket arias
froggy croaks
plopping waters
hooting owls.
Skeletal trees
spooky limbs
shadows weave as
moonlight beams;
a bulbous moon
o’er horizon
wolves that bay
to its beauty.
Twitterers sleep
‘neath...

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Epigrams VII

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: 
am I or are the others crazy?
—Albert Einstein, poetic interpretation by Michael R. Burch


The Whole of Wit
by...

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Soaring Amidst Song

sudden chance meeting
of a cheetah and monkey
then green treetop flight


Happenstance 

zebra on the plain
rain ended, here is the sun
and rainbow's hued stripes


Scent and...

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Chinese Translations III


"Lu Zhai" ("Deer Park")
by Wang Wei (699-759)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Uninhabited hills ...
except that now and again the silence is broken
by something...

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In the early dawn, the loud barking of my dog
Woke me up;
I arose and went to the door leading out onto
The veranda;
I adjusted the blinds...

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spots four-legged friend
tilts head and starts to whimper ~
pooch watching TV




Date written: 12/24/2021...

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snow swathed twilight woods
     owl’s screech stirs superstition -
          the deer hunter...

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Crickets sit chirping 
and echo our speechlessness
at the night’s beauty....

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hooves beating
on the pavement-
drums
...

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