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Animal Poems | Examples of Animal Poetry

Animal Poems - Examples of all types of animal poetry to share and read. This list of animal poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of animal poetry. This list of works about animal is an excellent resource for examples on how to write animal poems.
Premium Member chimpanzee
chimpanzee people watchers studying and learning an amazing astute student chimpanzee...Read the rest...
Categories: animal,
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member lions
lions pride of savanna devours meat at last feeling contentment lions...Read the rest...
Categories: animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member bear marks his territory
bear tree lean urinates territory marked...Read the rest...
Categories: animal,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member hawk and wolf
hawk catching, tearing, soaring, swooping, fishing howling, braying, keening stealthy, loyal wolf...Read the rest...
Categories: animal,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member Sing A New Song
Psalms 96:1 (KJV) “O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.” Seas of twittering, Tweets, gentle as noon, Melodious uprising from the nest. Colors like wildfire, glowing hues, Erasing the morning mist, Seas of...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, bird, hope, music,
Form: Verse

Premium Member why do moths fly in circles
why do moths fly in circles toward light at night? Are they trying to shake pursuers, do they feel fright? Actually, they turn toward source where they see the most bright Which causes a circular or spiral pattern...Read the rest...
Categories: animal,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Devoured by a Cat or Dog
Would you rather be devoured by a dog or a cat? I had asked this of a meadow lark, a rodent, bacon and a bat. The bacon was silent, but the other three quickly chimed in about...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member the one advantage a rabbit has
Rabbits ears are the one advantage they have says one they are delicate, so these ears are a warning to run rabbits keep them straight up, pointed to the sun For their enemies are all over the place,...Read the rest...
Categories: animal,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Sing Your Song
“birds care not for whom they sing” - Silent One You have your place in nature's choir, Singing creation's songbook. You're divine when you sing what you desire, Like water in a brook, Or leaves when a quaking aspen shook.   When...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, animal, art, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Valentines Heart
If I compare this to a love in time and relate a Valentine's love within his heart the focus of this rhyme he seeks his mate to win. All arrayed with wings unfurled a partner for all time, Female geese are...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, bird, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
Earth
At night soil dreams in silent technicolour, peaceful and alone. It exhales gently without the trampling of mankind snapping roots; without the world above and its usual stampede. Branches notice it first, having time to...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member BADGER SLAUGHTER
We now claim that badgers spread Bovine TB. So with nature we once more begin a battle to protect precious profits from our cows. Now executed poor brock shall be, for we must keep our...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, violence,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member My Photaxis Response
I have a phototaxis response, being; a firefly queen Attracted to starlight, as is nightly by the little dipper seen. Some evenings I want to fly straight into the moon’s pleasant beam. Because I can feel the vibrational...Read the rest...
Categories: animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Damselfly and Her Big Eye
which insect has a large eye you see when she flies… this eye is actually made up of several small eyes… her compound eyes detect movement much better than they make out shapes or inclement weather If you guessed...Read the rest...
Categories: animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member flower fly
see the tiny bee? I smirk, for it is a lie. It is not a bee but striped like one, it is a flower fly Because she is small, and at nature’s mercy He made her as great a camouflage...Read the rest...
Categories: animal,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Animal Poems

Read wonderful animal poetry on the following sub-topics: acrostic, cruelty, death, farm, funny, haiku, kids, metaphor, nature, passing away, rights, rhyme, shape, and more.

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