Animal Poems

Animal Poems

The Street, by Jules Romains

I DID not wish to come into this street.  ...

To the Multitude Which Is Here, by Jules Romains

O MULTITUDE!
Here in the hollow of
The theatr...

Tenebrous, by Julia Gibson

Wading through the misty lamp-lit streets
I st...

A Thought, by Julia Gibson

In America the
Dead are laid
Out in ordered...

Autumn Love, by Julijana Velichkovska

I waited for you to come
as a predator
behind...

Open Book, by Julijana Velichkovska

You’ re an open book,
He said,
You&rs...

Man Went to the Moon, by Justin Roberti

Man went to the moon
Never asked what she wan...

Geology Made Easy, by Katharine Lee Bates

I tell a tale which makes me pale
For its dism...

Cloud-Eye, by Katherine Gallagher

The sting in a limbering spring day
foreshadow...

Knebworth Park, by Katherine Gallagher

A cave of air softens,
hovers over our heads....

A Bird Hatches, by Keith Holyoak

In glory of genesis
the oval universe
took fo...

The Chase, by Keith Holyoak

As my love gave chase to a butterfly
  &n...

The Cougar, by Keith Holyoak

At dawn I took my boat and crossed
Over to Son...

Descent, by Keith Holyoak

I. The Bank “ It goes in ninety seconds!...

The Happy Trout, by Keith Holyoak

The trout had much to celebrate
Not just the l...

The Lonely Road, by Kenneth Rand

I think thou waitest, Love, beyond the Gate--...

Spring in the Semi-Tropics, by Kenneth Rand

The tossing tops of the palm are loud with a wi...

Straw-Death, by Kenneth Rand

I who have lived my life,
My years of hot-blo...

Another Toxic Relationship, by Kris Price

Here comes the beast that lays the golden egg, ...

My Leopard of the Night, by Kristijana Xhuxhi

My flesh it curdles
Seeps out of me
As red b...

A Street Poet, by Ladislav Sedlak

There were ten fingers on my hands, now I got s...

Dear Father, by Lara Thomas

Dear Father
I wrote a poem for you once
I wro...

Crabber, by Larry D. Thomas

from The Lighthouse Keeper (Timberline Press, ...

A Fig-Tree, by Leonidas of Tarentum

Democritus fig-loving shouldst thou see,
Bear...

Honor Well the Shades, by Leonidas of Tarentum

Shepherds that on this mountain ridge abide,
...