Animal Onomatopoeia Poems

I never get lost 

I have never been lost. 

Yet

Here I am 

Lost, in a place unknown 

Crunch! Crack!

 Such sounds indicate

 I'm here,not alone

squawk...

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In the kitchen, pots clatter and pans clang,
The blender whirs as the kettle hisses and sings,
A spoon clinks in a mug, stirring tea,
While toast pops...

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When you live on a farm and hear cockadoodle-doo
What do those words mean to you?

They mean pretty soon you'll hear moo,
and you'll have lots of...

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the snoring of a smoorsgord beast
is louder than a drunken feast

he flaps his lips like shivering cold
his nostrils wide like rabbit holes

his mouth can fit...

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In what to me now seems like ages
I've only read some sundry pages;
Lord Byron, a Romantic poet, 
was a dark wit; you'd just know it.

But...

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WOW! that dog is amazing.
it jumped of the wall and hit the villain in the face. POW!
BOOM! the villain hit him back.
BANG! the dog picked...

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Alley cats meow
Bees buzz
Canines bark
Ducks quack
Elephants snort
Frogs croak
Geese honk
Horses neigh
Iquanas wheeze
Jaquars snarl
Kangaroos thump
Lions roar
Mice squeak
Northern flickers wick wick wick
Owls hoot
Parakeets chirp
Quaggas whoop
Roosters cock-a-doodle-doo
Scorpions snap
Turkeys gobble
Urials...

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Bumblebees buzzing...
Erie irritating sounds:
“Ouch”! bees also sting...

Confined to his bowl,
A fish, seemingly talking,
Jumps! wiggling free...

Penguins standing proud,
Poised as if to soon take flight,
Flap their wings…then…splash!...

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Wretched fox, how you compel me to write!
I hate the way you scavenge, shriek and prowl,
Invading my mind through the humid night,
With calls that drown...

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CHAMELIONS AND WATERMELONS 

One foot forward, pause a sec
Two foot forward, pause and check
Googley green goggles, round and round spies. 
Slow reptilian eyes spots garden...

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The Crazy Kitten
 

The crazy kitten purred.
Its soft and slender  body 
Brushed around my skin.
It meowed as it juggled 
The ball of woolly yarn
All...

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Like a royal parade,
they waddled across
the well traveled thoroughfare
teeming with autos crawling to a stop;
otherwise road rage reduced to admiration.

The regal drake held his head...

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What is that roaring, throwing dust                   ...

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Where this time?
The pair makes several tries--
my hard hat, a can of nails, window ledge
all filled with leaves.
How do they judge
those inferior, this one prime?
It's...

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