Abcedarian Poem Because it is Great Practice for Me
...aristocratic antelope alarms and annoys
blue-eyed baboon’s billy goat buster
causing confusion, consternation and crying
distressing and disturbing deliberate donkey
egg-producing egret elevates ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
Turtle Sees the Coming Storm
...Turtle is ancient, he speaks now and always
for the indigenous who have lost their voices.
By day, Turtle's form embellishes,
he sits outside of a Chinese restaurant
by the side of an ornamenta...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Country Road Food Chain
...Yowling and howling late at night
Meeting of cats by the bright moonlight
Wild yipping and one long scream
Coyotes cornered something by a stream
It might be a cat, it’s a sacrifice
Excited yi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, animal,
Form: Rhyme
the yipping dog bark
...I hear a barking dog in the distance tonight
Not a desperate bark or a warning bark
One of those weird I-am-bored-with-life-barks
Neither of my own dogs respond
They also have no use for small co...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, dog,
Form: Free verse
a soundless morning
...Placid stillness
It is practically soundless
Two tiny wind chimes sing
Woods and trees are silent
Dogs take off with their tails high up
Hearing something I do not hear
They are yipping like co...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, silence,
Form: Free verse
divas
...amazingly brilliant clandestine divas
effectively foretold general hilarity
ignoring jealous kings
letting melodious nightingales
offer preconceived quality rhythms
soothing treacherous undercov...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
I step into the Newness of the Night
...I step into the newness of the night
feeling sticky in the warm air
It is twenty degrees cooler now
Still warm at eighty degrees
But this is Kansas in August
a streak across the sky grabs my a...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, night,
Form: Free verse
The Sunlight was Playing
...
The talkers were talking,
texting.
Walkers were walking,
skipping, jogging.
Strollers were shaking,
prams rocking.
Kids were shouting,
yipping, yelling.
The pond went roundly arou...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
To My First Dog
...To My First Dog
Long asleep in your unknown grave,
My companion, loyal and beloved
Throughout my youth’s growing years,
You cannot know nor now see
How you do still bring tears to me
With ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, grief, imagery, peace, pets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Yon Interloper 16
...Arlis and Grunt left shortly after breakfast for all humans dog and pups.Otherwise the young man could not have slipped up unaware.In the day to day security
Of uneventfulness and the nipping yippi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Animal Babies
...All the baby chicks
From their shells do spring
I’ve seen so many pics
A smile they do bring
Then there are the pups
Wagging little tails
Slurps from puppy cups
Yipping little wails
"Coll...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, animal, children,
Form: Rhyme
Missing Cats
...cats are gone nightly
evenings darkest mystery
coyotes yipping...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, animal, cat,
Form: Senryu
Mama Wolf
...She sat on the edge of the cliff watching her wolf pups
They were howling and growling and rolling in their cups
She needed a break, was high enough they could not reach her
She loved them all of ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Break Up
...It is an impressive break up.
The maestro conducts a symphony that
crushes eardrums with locomotive rumbling,
thumping, bumping, and dumping
of large chunks of cracking, crackling
crystalline...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, animal, break up, environment,
Form: Free verse
I Love Christmas
...They came in singing and the beagle jumped off the couch.
Ran straight to the door, yipping with excitement. It was beginning.
Are we the first? Melinda asked. The kids were laden with presents
Gl...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
yipping, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Related Poems