National, Not Tribal
...
As some Indians
(dot, not feather)
go to great lengths
to ingratiate themselves
by obsequious behaviour
(bob your head if you agree with me)
could it be the origin
of the expression,...
...
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Categories:
ungulates, animal, food, fun, horse,
Form: Rhyme
National, Not Tribal
...
As some Indians
(dot, not feather)
go to great lengths
to ingratiate themselves
by obsequious behaviour
(bob your head if you agree with me)
could it be the origin
of the expression,...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
ungulates, animal, food, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
When the Birds Fall Silent
...Like a Disney movie, sparrows fly in my head.
An hour after coffee I grasp reality as if it were
survivable.
A deep snow drifts into camel humps
a few reckless birds have escaped my skull
to a...
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Categories:
ungulates, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Didactyl Doe Dactyl
...A double dact doe dance:
Six deer in a row prance
Merrily, playfully
Dancing so sweet!
Ungulates ruminate
Chewing the cud is great
And most amazingly,
Didactyl feet!
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ok, ok, i...
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Categories:
ungulates, silly,
Form: McWhirtle
His Bright Withering
...You can tell him no
but the training wheels on his head
spin on,
he thinks you don’t mean it,
that you don’t mean a thing
even when that ‘thing’ is a
tense bubble of spitting camels.
He just...
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Categories:
ungulates, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Himalayas
...Himalayas
Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan m...
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Categories:
ungulates, culture, education, environment, mountains,
Form: Verse
My Jouncing Gait During Boyhood
...(an All Poetry feat to walk in
the poetic feet of Robert Frost)
Bucolic New England, circa
Early twentieth century New England
awash with dynamic harmonic leisureliness,
when much of North Am...
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Categories:
ungulates, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
The Force That Placed Us Here Cannot Be Trusted
...At dinner, Zach asks
about our nation's history, wars.
I say We're taking on everyone, one at a time.
First Britain, then Britain again: "He was the surly English pluck, and
there is no t...
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Categories:
ungulates, america, death, fire, history,
Form: Verse
The Alpha Male
...The howling of the lone gray wolf
His fingerprint sound waves
Reaches out to his alpha female
And to enemies like staves
His hunt unfruitful this night
No ungulates found alive
Few scave...
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Categories:
ungulates, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Jungle Cats
...A
big
cat
can
do
easy
formulation-
grasping,
hanging,
injuring...
Jungle's
keeper
lust
many
nights
over
prey.
Quietly-
ruminating
shameless
toward
ungulates,
ver...
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Categories:
ungulates, animals
Form: ABC