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poo pilespoo piles like ant hills
how much can a dog go poo
hit- miss with mower...
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Categories:
animal, fun,
Form: Haiku
Reasons to WorryI think of scary things, it seems,
As dogs that jump like cats, in dreams.
They say I spend too much time caring
With no reasons for such scaring;
That, I should learn to relax at...
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Categories:
animal, anxiety, cat, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Checkmate You LoseDo you tremble,
as the monstrous cadence,
of the rhinoceros' stride reverberates,
like the buffalo's onslaught?
Vipers at the water's edge,
darting hither and thither,
not above but beneath the surface,
their sinuous silhouettes fabric of nightmares, tearing sinew from skeleton,
swifter than...
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Categories:
animal, dark, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Yaldabaoth embellished in his shadowsCaliginous eyes
Fearsome face of sickly white
Lion-headed snake
Embellished in his shadows
With flaming orange beneath...
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Categories:
animal, color, evil, horror,
Form: Tanka
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster sagaOh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga...,
crafted when Wallace and Gromit
returned from their trip to the moon,
which I can prov-olone huck curd
(within Trump con feta ration) –
as cheesy poem...
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Categories:
adventure, age, animal, blue,
Form: Free verse
wafflessmall fluffy kitten
too scared too wild to be caught
waffle house mascot...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Haiku
Lucy’s Nervous RunLucy's running nerves made her stew
Race time, her legs stuck like thick glue
When would be her time
Now a hard stool crime
Why did she always have to poo!
He watched as she...
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Categories:
animal, anxiety, child, emotions,
Form: Limerick
Sorrow birdThe sorrow bird
Sings to no living thing
But the rain. It
Shakes its wet wings
So one day it might fly
Away to a new perch
So lovely and dry
...
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Categories:
animal, bird, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
InsomniaThe hassle of Insomnia
Is like foolish dogs in paranoia
Over things they can't understand
Like barking in a magic wand
When will their foolishness stop
Doing things that are all crap,
Minding other's own affair?
Even prying...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Rhyme
dapper giraffeDapper giraffe had never felt spiffy like this.
He danced a little dance around a sweet little miss.
She was a filly who gave him an appreciative eye.
He felt so dapper and handsome, he let out a...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Rhyme
BodilyBodily
We are looking for in the universe.
In the hardening of the liquid.
Crustacean particles in the oceans and seas.
Fat that can be formed by proliferation of oxides in space.
Oil in grasses and plants.
The bodies of ocean...
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Categories:
animal, earth, history, life,
Form: Free verse
word U S P X marc
Categories:
animal, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
MOM DAD WAR AND GRACE
Just the very thought of him, like an artist’s stroke of his
Paintbrush, sealed a promise of a lifetime of tomorrows.
I finally had found myself and, knew my purpose in life.
The instant you were within sight,...
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Categories:
animal, world war ii,
Form: Narrative
Something WILL FALL ThroughSomething WILL FALL Through
I MEAN
It's really hard to
Be "thorough..."
When all the little
HOLES are so
'SMALL.'
-Gray Squirrel
05-10-2024
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Categories:
animal, environment, heart, life,
Form: Free verse
Alligator SashayCircle left, hang on tight
Don't get caught in an alligator bite
Allemande left, what you want to do
Is turn that alligator into stew
Do-si-do, listen to the band
Alligator shoes look mighty grand
Roll away to a half sashay
If...
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Categories:
animal, dance, humor, music,
Form: Lyric
Specific Types of Animal Poems
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Definition | What is Animal in Poetry?
Poems Related to Animal
natural, bodily, wild, brute, beastly, bestial, corporeal, earthly, earthy, feral, fleshy, muscular, physical, sensual, untamed, mammalian, brutish, zoological, pet, beast, creature, stray, being, brute, mutt, bum, vertebrate, invertebrate, varmint, critter, living thing, wild thing,