Animal Poems

    So swift behooves....

    in challenging quest....

    competitive hearts...

      race their best...

     A treasure to win...

   one measurable test...

    for equine

I see you in many forms. One minute you're liquid, fluid in movement, slidding, gliding, slippery.

Then you are a rock, solid, strong, unmoving.you move back

It crows at the dawn of day

Despite sun or rain

Its crowing resounds in my head

As I turn and toss on my bed

And when I step

Basho Japanese Haiku form

snow on mountain

reflect on water

whale breaches

dogs are so happy and self-indulged 

I observe them long and over time

they seem content about life

do not worry in the dark for their sins

do not

There once was a little mighty ant

Who was extravagant and arrogant

Known to be exorbitantly militant

She was so combatant and petulant

They nicknamed her My Commandant

One day

I went to the zoo to feed a giraffe

Brought some chocolates to

Mark Clarke was the gentlest man of Denmark

Yet considered by all a most unlikely