Animal Spring Poems

‘Waupaca Awakens’

The thin ice cracks
As daylight breaks,
Along the still waters
Of a chain of lakes

Melting snow and slush
Both lapping the pier,
Letting the bluegill know
A new season...

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Cool comforts from the moon shining in Spring
diverge from coming Summer's scorching sun.
Sweet honeysuckle lifts its trumpet string
to set swift tempo for the Springtime fun.

The...

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Dine and dash we are on the go
look at all the food below
warm soup is for me
with crackers and brie
are we eating real fast or...

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Behold sequestered by the sea,
not whale, nor seal, nor small sand-flea.

This is the face of old grand Ewe,
whom from the cliffs, has come to view.

Though...

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Sunlight spills on sprightly steeds,  
Spring's sweet song stirs sleeping seeds.  
Spirited stallions, sleek and swift,  
Sashaying through the springtime mist.

Silken shadows...

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Polar Bear

White on white, barely seen,
Its senses aroused and keen.
The legs move cautiously,
And paws touch snow softly;
The chionophile mills, then stills.

And breathes intermittently,
While its heart...

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Children's Poems VI

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Springtime Prayer
by Michael R. Burch

They'll...

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                 ~ let the memories be your hymns -...

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Mama Mallard's hatchlings so downy and sweet,
she's proud to show them, springtime is complete,
waddling along the lake with her brood in tow,
Daddy Mallard quacks as...

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A cool breeze floats in the air.
Up on the hillside, flowers start to bloom.
Amongst the new blades of green grass sat a tiny hare,
Heading to...

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SPRING BUNNIES

It’s Spring, when a young buck’s fancy
Turns to … you know what. 
And soon the hills will be alive
With bunnies as like as not.

Now...

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As a kid I had three bunnies,
they were free I paid no moneys.
It was Easter time,
I had won them and they were all mine.
I had...

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I used to count the bunnies
on my way to work each day.
But then the Winter weather came
and they all just went away.

Now it's Spring and...

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Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled  GENESIS RESPLENDENT)

No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024...

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It started with a blank canvas,
the world I should make but I am anxious.
Making fields of pretty flowers,
to the deep blue seas takes many hours.
Mountains...

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