A Bambi Boom
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Has anybody noticed the proliferation of white-tailed deer?
Recently, there have been so many running around here.
In order to obviate causing a collective bothersome fuss,
they roam at ...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, animal,
Form: Rhyme
white tailed deer
...a deep cough
in the thicket
i sense a deer
a quick movement
I see a splash of white
white-tailed deer...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, animal,
Form: Free verse
Forever, You Live In My Heart
...O' my Candied fruit of patience, why your face glimmer
Beneath my eyelids, flares of love shimmer
In my heart ,you live forever into "pieces of peace"
as white...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, angel, beautiful, blessing, books,
Form: Couplet
Alaska Sitka Sunset
...As I near the stratosphere, I let loose
an untamed, raw rainbow
I pull on the tattered, worn ropes
of my hand-sewn hot-air balloon across
the hidden boreal quarry hill in the north
they ...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, analogy, appreciation, sunset, tree,
Form: Free verse
He Was By My Side
...Climbed up on the mountain
Fingers almost touched the sky
Even had to duck my head
As a cloud came tumbling by
Felt I was invincible
Amongst the blue and gray
Maybe God had rested here
On th...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Birds In All Seasons
...poetic trilling of joyful greedy song birds in summer
faded pink male cardinals swoop and flip
running red squirrel flashes tail
excited white-tailed deer knocks down bird feeder
mushy wet bir...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, bird,
Form: Free verse
He Is Chinning On Our Fence
...The skeleton man is doing chin ups on our fence!
This is said in anger by my cousin, Little Spence.
It doesn’t bother me, I tell him. What is the harm?
He is never polite, he’s rude, and he lacks ...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Lack of Concern For Life
...I drive slowly through a winding lane
Where white-tailed deer are often seen
I see, sadly, carcasses of creatures slain.
I am careful driving the fencerows between
Respecting the ri...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, animal, anti bullying, life,
Form: Terzanelle
Sonnet 10b, the Spring Crossing
...Sun slowly dipping in a springtime sky;
the wind's blowing and the pine boughs tossing.
From their warm, peaceful beds the meek and shy,
walk down to the river; and the crossing.
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Categories:
white tailed deer, 11th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Sonnet
To Sing Their Praises
...I sing to the night sky
to worlds near and far
to starlight and moonbeams
wherever they are
I sing to the vast ocean
to denizens of the deep
to dolphins who communicate
and lampreys ...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, animal, bird, fish, god,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Fruits
...Succulent strawberries slide off the vine in front of appreciative robins
The smell of fresh cantaloupe wafts in the warm July Kansas air
White tailed deer have wandered up to eat my juicy yellow a...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, garden,
Form: Blank verse
The Oak
...The oak is a most pleasant tree
She gently towers over thee
Shading everything on the ground
Inspired by small brownish round tiny acorn wee
Red squirrels claim her for their home
She provides...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, tree,
Form: Rhyme
An Amazon Adventure
...An Amazon Adventure
A Narrative Poem by C Russell
Let’s go, let’s go to the Amazon far,
We’ll catch a boat, won’t need a car!
Let’s see, let’s see the wildlife here,
Jaguar, anteater and whi...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, 3rd grade,
Form: Narrative
A Wooded Trail
...I was walking down a wooded trail.
Sunlight filtered in through the trees.
I came across a weathered fence, post and rail.
The fence held a hive of noisy, busy bees.
I looked across an open fie...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, nature,
Form: Quatrain
To Hunt the Bugaboo
...With the morning crisp and frosty
and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
as the Sun rose in the East.
The forest became warm and fervent
whil...
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Categories:
white tailed deer, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
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