ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
The Gardener
Poem Published
27th Jan 2023 5:20pm
27th Jan 2023 5:20pm
Shapeshifter
Shapeshifter
She is in water,
between lands,
body full and blue and still,
exhaling.
Grasses move,
shoals flash by her,
submarine volcanoes erupt -
in near silence.
She is
between spaces,
without judgement,
analysing
what was once left
on shore.
There,
between the then and now,
between the loss and growth,
she is neither malleable nor ridged,
ruined nor fully built,
neither healed nor wounded
and there,
in the inbetween,
where stars have eyes ...
She is in water,
between lands,
body full and blue and still,
exhaling.
Grasses move,
shoals flash by her,
submarine volcanoes erupt -
in near silence.
She is
between spaces,
without judgement,
analysing
what was once left
on shore.
There,
between the then and now,
between the loss and growth,
she is neither malleable nor ridged,
ruined nor fully built,
neither healed nor wounded
and there,
in the inbetween,
where stars have eyes ...
#universe
#animals
#nature #humankind
#nature #humankind
60 reads
2 Comments
cjflier
Poem Published
25th Jan 2023 2:21am
25th Jan 2023 2:21am
Haiku - Winter Sleep
an icy wind blows
a leaf over crusty snow,
animals slumber
a leaf over crusty snow,
animals slumber
#animals
#winter
#nature #haiku
#nature #haiku
27 reads
2 Comments
ElizaHart
GrettaGrace
GrettaGrace
Poem Published
18th Jan 2023 4:57pm
18th Jan 2023 4:57pm
Playing Possum
Caught a possum yesterday while I was cleaning out the barn. She showed her teeth ready to attack. I gently scratched her head, no fear of her teeth really. Being bitten would at least allow me to feel as if I'm not dead.
I named her Sassy, she growled at me over and over again. Yet right before I let her go she quieted down and cuddled in my arms. Her defense mechanism resonated with me, I dont let anyone close, I show teeth if I know they are getting too close, then I play dead when they ask too much of a tired, worn out me. Even if its just a, hi, how ya doing? When I went back to...
I named her Sassy, she growled at me over and over again. Yet right before I let her go she quieted down and cuddled in my arms. Her defense mechanism resonated with me, I dont let anyone close, I show teeth if I know they are getting too close, then I play dead when they ask too much of a tired, worn out me. Even if its just a, hi, how ya doing? When I went back to...
#animals
#nature
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Naajir
Poem Published
12th Jan 2023 5:14am
12th Jan 2023 5:14am
Clit Bait
So handsome and hung
He knew all the She-bears would
Get strung on that Tongue
Make sure He's fed right
Let him Hibernate all night
Tucked in Honeydew
He knew all the She-bears would
Get strung on that Tongue
Make sure He's fed right
Let him Hibernate all night
Tucked in Honeydew
#animals
#funny
#sexy
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Naajir
Poem Published
5th Jan 2023 6:57am
5th Jan 2023 6:57am
Majesty
it's your majesty
exuding in prominence
a story you tell
wizened thru patience
powerful and purposeful
your time is at hand
the legend of you
stalks the memory of man
etched in his passage
this ode is for you
sowed in a cheapened reserve
while the {wild} roam free
i apologize
for the zoos and circuses
and the mockery
as i write this rite
i know words won't make this right
but they're all i have
it's...
exuding in prominence
a story you tell
wizened thru patience
powerful and purposeful
your time is at hand
the legend of you
stalks the memory of man
etched in his passage
this ode is for you
sowed in a cheapened reserve
while the {wild} roam free
i apologize
for the zoos and circuses
and the mockery
as i write this rite
i know words won't make this right
but they're all i have
it's...
#beauty
#oppression
#animals
#nature
#hypocrisy
145 reads
2 Comments
ThePoet632
ZenZen
ZenZen
Poem Published
29th Dec 2022 12:17pm
29th Dec 2022 12:17pm
When The Baa Is Heard
Where the baa is heard
And the sound is bird
Where the flow is theme
Seen in running stream
When the rain is mist
And the eye is moon
And the river is twist
Fringed with the trees
Where the dove does croon
When the sheep and bird
Voice nature's chord
Chiming with the breeze
Wafting from the trees
It's here where pain is relief
Nothing from town to grief
It's the mountain call
When you're about to fall
Just take only your soul
And wing your fly and stroll
Among the mead and...
And the sound is bird
Where the flow is theme
Seen in running stream
When the rain is mist
And the eye is moon
And the river is twist
Fringed with the trees
Where the dove does croon
When the sheep and bird
Voice nature's chord
Chiming with the breeze
Wafting from the trees
It's here where pain is relief
Nothing from town to grief
It's the mountain call
When you're about to fall
Just take only your soul
And wing your fly and stroll
Among the mead and...
#animals
#birds
84 reads
1 Comment
grandmother_surrea
Poem Published
28th Dec 2022 4:10am
28th Dec 2022 4:10am
metapoem three
banana peel
lighthouse wheel
bone in a bucket
hot bus...
... sheep
arrangement
grow
shine
w
h
y
why not ?
lighthouse wheel
bone in a bucket
hot bus...
... sheep
arrangement
grow
shine
w
h
y
why not ?
#animals
#nature
#food
#haiku
#symbolism
34 reads
1 Comment
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
17th Dec 2022 1:20am
17th Dec 2022 1:20am
Holiday Odds
One day a pig and a turkey in pens side by side find themselves talking. The pig ask the turkey, “what are you in for.” The turkey say, “I’m in for Thanksgiving.” The pig says, “dam that’s hard time.” The turkey ask the pig, “well what are you in for.” The pig said, “I’m in for Christmas.” The turkey said, “well that’s hard time also.” The pig said, “ no it could be a fifty-fifty chance for me.”
#animals
#holiday
#funny
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Naajir
Poem Published
11th Dec 2022 7:49am
11th Dec 2022 7:49am
In Nature
Perched in our Darkness
We survey cloaked Wilderness
Beckoning the Soul
We survey cloaked Wilderness
Beckoning the Soul
#dark
#animals
#nature
#spiritual
#lover
212 reads
3 Comments
ConsequentialChaos
Poem Published
10th Dec 2022 6:28pm
10th Dec 2022 6:28pm
Feral Beasts
It is not my place to ask why the Meadowlark sings
It is not my place to ask why the wind blows fair
In the absence of human life, the trees are my muse
In the absence of fire, the snow is my blanket
I would rather die, to the natural maws of a lion
Than to the maws of the progress of man
For nature knows its place
It does not question its existence
The laws of the jungle may be cruel
But far less cruel than the laws of the waning, war-torn world of mankind
It is not my place to ask why the wind blows fair
In the absence of human life, the trees are my muse
In the absence of fire, the snow is my blanket
I would rather die, to the natural maws of a lion
Than to the maws of the progress of man
For nature knows its place
It does not question its existence
The laws of the jungle may be cruel
But far less cruel than the laws of the waning, war-torn world of mankind
#pollution
#animals
#nature #humankind
#nature #humankind
126 reads
10 Comments
BlueBeastGirl
Beasty
Beasty
Poem Published
6th Dec 2022 5:51am
6th Dec 2022 5:51am
Broken Shells
There's something melancholy about seashells
I find them in many places so far from the sea
In those old jelly candles at thrift stores
Or the cloudy ones that burn the shells when lit
Bowls of shells from someone elses vacations
Big ones that are broken and dusty
Their pinks and purples long faded away
The spiky comb ones with only nubs left
It's strange to me that we don't view them like bones
Beautiful mural remains of creatures called mollusks
They're such beautiful unpraised little things
Taken far away and left to gather dust
I find them in many places so far from the sea
In those old jelly candles at thrift stores
Or the cloudy ones that burn the shells when lit
Bowls of shells from someone elses vacations
Big ones that are broken and dusty
Their pinks and purples long faded away
The spiky comb ones with only nubs left
It's strange to me that we don't view them like bones
Beautiful mural remains of creatures called mollusks
They're such beautiful unpraised little things
Taken far away and left to gather dust
#sadness
#grief
#sea
#animals
#money
77 reads
5 Comments
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
1st Nov 2022 8:45pm
1st Nov 2022 8:45pm
Hey, Marv! Call The Cops!
Hey, Marv! Call the cops!
I think that this little squirrel
has solved the Jimmy Hoffa
case! You want a share of
the cash reward?
I think that this little squirrel
has solved the Jimmy Hoffa
case! You want a share of
the cash reward?
#animals
#fiction
#FreeVerse
#dialogue
#nostalgia
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