Wildebeests Poems

Premium Memberwho am I channeling

...words come to me in batches
for days they will include witches, goblins and jack-o-lanterns
like obsessions, they include spell books, brooms, bats and ghosts

in an abrupt about face
they chang...
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Categories: wildebeests, write, writing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSecret of Machu Picchu

...Machu Picchu in Peru
ancient city
where Inca disappeared

were they taken by aliens?
if so why?
Did wildebeests devour them?

Was there a flood?
An avalanche?
No evidence remains

Or did ...
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Categories: wildebeests, travel,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberWildebeest

...It’s a beautiful landscape of Serengeti animal refuge,
Near a parched savannah with skeleton trees, lies a water hole,
You see a beautiful picture of animal kingdom paradise,
Elephants, zebras, Gi...
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Categories: wildebeests, animal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWaking Up Fast In Serengeti

...in the middle of the Serengeti I fell asleep one day
hoping wildebeests and cheetahs were far away
eyes dared me to wake up, and I was scared for a minute
but then I saw the giraffes, and saw the ...
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Categories: wildebeests, africa,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMusk

...Excuse me if I come across as brusque,
but you exude a certain pungent musk,
as though you’ve grown up with the wildebeests,
or recently discovered ancient yeasts.
And so for your forgiveness, I ...
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Categories: wildebeests, nonsense, silly,
Form: Couplet


Premium MemberWild Mustangs

...We heard their hooves twenty minutes before they appeared
stallions and mares rounding the corner of the world at break leg speed
blur of  red, black and gray wild mustangs, free to roam the plains...
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Categories: wildebeests, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Fragile Planet

..."I truly feel that it is only when humanity can genuinely show love and
         respect, by nurturing and protecting the environment and all forms of 
         terrestrial life on this planet, may...
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Categories: wildebeests, nature, planet,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMade In Heaven

...We are people of plan and of purpose, not cargo or merchandise for commerce and trade. We were not born in the wrong place at the wrong  time, nor were we made in China or America. Neither an acciden...
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Categories: wildebeests, birth, creation, destiny, god,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberRun To the Sea

...There are recalls of blasting winds across my cheek.
It was during an 8 year tenure in the city by the bay.
Performance of my tasks required early morning risings,
and so many of those early morni...
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Categories: wildebeests, christian, destiny, endurance,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberMonoku Monday - Dec 2020

..."Reigning Cats and Dogs"   Posted 6 Dec 2020

the difference between dogs and cats is      dogs have owners, cats have staff 

who's supposed to read the signs that say 's...
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Categories: wildebeests, cat, dog, humor, pets,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberBorn To Be Free

...From the gentle water flows  and the mighty windy blows, to the weeping willow trees further down stream, to the white water rapids, rushing like wildebeests. It's where the leaves are flying steadil...
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Categories: wildebeests, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCrescent Island 6-11-18

...Tranquil spaces as we wander through the park,
the heat oppressive.
The zebras herding sheep like the watchful alpaca,
yet there are no predators
A motley selection of animals in one space - dome...
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Categories: wildebeests, imagery,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberYearly Assault On the Grasslands

...Grasslands felt them a week early,
Knew they were coming, 
Heard them from many days off.
Not in a hearing way, more of a spiritual knowing.

Grasslands had keen eyes, and strong feelings,
And ...
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Categories: wildebeests, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Personification

Blue Cheese

...But for your manifestation in dried pulp 
Minds neglect your invasion 
The crave for you unquenchable .

Lime light shining on your possessors 
Underdogs gazing loathsomly at your managers
Soo ...
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Categories: wildebeests, 7th grade, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWall Street and the Serengeti

...On the one hand, there is a remarkable beauty                                                                                      in watching one entity blend into the environment
of a different en...
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Categories: wildebeests, adventure, america, animal, beauty,
Form: Prose

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