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The term "zoo animal poems" has been searched for 10 times on the American Poems site since April 29th, 2007.
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1. My Life - written by Joe Wenderoth
From It Is If I Speak.
Published in 2000.
Read 1216 times on American Poems.
after Henri Michaux
Somehow it got into my room.
I found it, and it was, naturally, trapped.
It was nothing more than a frightened animal.
Since than I raised it up.
I kept it for myself, kept it in my room,
kept it for its... (Read full poem)
2. O Love, Sweet Animal - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 1570 times on American Poems.
O Love, dark animal,
With your strangeness go
Like any freak or clown:
Appease tee child in her
Because she is alone
Many years ago
Terrified by a look
Which was not meant for her.
Brush your heavy fur
Against her, long and slow
Stare at her like a... (Read full poem)
4. What Is To Be Given - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 928 times on American Poems.
What is to be given,
Is spirit, yet animal,
Colored, like heaven,
Blue, yellow, beautiful.
The blood is checkered by
So many stains and wishes,
Between it and the sky
You could not choose, for riches.
Yet let me now be careful
Not to give too... (Read full poem)
5. The New Dog - written by Linda Pastan
Read 1332 times on American Poems.
Into the gravity of my life,
the serious ceremonies
of polish and paper
and pen, has come
this manic animal
whose innocent disruptions
make nonsense
of my old simplicities--
as if I needed him
to prove again that after
all the careful... (Read full poem)
6. The Excesses Of God - written by Robinson Jeffers
From Selected Poems.
Read 968 times on American Poems.
Is it not by his high superfluousness we know
Our God? For to be equal a need
Is natural, animal, mineral: but to fling
Rainbows over the rain
And beauty above the moon, and secret rainbows
On the domes of deep sea-shells,
And make the necessary... (Read full poem)
7. Meditatio - written by Ezra Pound
Read 9976 times on American Poems.
When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs
I am compelled to conclude
That man is the superior animal.
When I consider the curious habits of man
I confess, my friend, I am puzzled.(Read full poem)
8. Stalk Me - written by Maggie Estep
From Love Is A Dog From Hell.
Read 1143 times on American Poems.
Liner Notes - (from Love Is A Dog From Hell)
My friend Jenny is really
worried that people are going to follow me around and send me dead animal
parts and doll heads as a result of this song but please, if you feel inclined
to send me dead animal... (Read full poem)
9. Rough Beast - written by Jean Monahan
From http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/monahan/roughbeast.htm.
Read 604 times on American Poems.
Don't tell a camel about need and want.
Look at the big lips
pursed
in perpetual kiss,
the dangerous lashes
of a born coquette.
The camel is an animal
grateful for less.
It keeps to itself
the hidden spring choked with grass,
the sharpest... (Read full poem)
10. 2 Futilists - written by Bill Knott
Read 811 times on American Poems.
Even if the mountain I climbed
Proved to be merely a duncecap It
was only on gaining its peak
That that knowledge reached me.
*
Is there a single inch--
one square millimeter
on the face of our planet
which some animal
human... (Read full poem)
11. She Understands Me - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 989 times on American Poems.
it is all blood and breaking,
blood and breaking, the thing
drops out of its box squalling
into the light. they are both squalling,
animal and cage. her bars lie wet, open
and empty and she has made herself again
out of flesh out of... (Read full poem)
12. The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me - written by Delmore Schwartz
Read 2067 times on American Poems.
"the withness of the body" --Whitehead
The heavy bear who goes with me,
A manifold honey to smear his face,
Clumsy and lumbering here and there,
The central ton of every place,
The hungry beating brutish one
In love with candy, anger, and... (Read full poem)
13. What We Want - written by Linda Pastan
Read 1625 times on American Poems.
What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
a face, a room, an open book
and these things bear our names--
now they want us.
But what we want appears
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past,
holding out our... (Read full poem)
14. Beginning my Studies. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass.
Published in 1900.
Read 8743 times on American Poems.
BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas’d me so much,
The mere fact, consciousness—these forms—the power of motion,
The least insect or animal—the senses—eyesight—love;
The first step, I say, aw’d me and... (Read full poem)
15. telling our stories - written by Lucille Clifton
Read 737 times on American Poems.
the fox came every evening to my door
asking for nothing. my fear
trapped me inside, hoping to dismiss her
but she sat till morning, waiting.
at dawn we would, each of us,
rise frm our haunches, look through the glass
then walk away.
did... (Read full poem)
16. Yes And No - written by Laura Riding Jackson
Read 2483 times on American Poems.
Across a continent imaginary
Because it cannot be discovered now
Upon this fully apprehended planet—
No more applicants considered,
Alas, alas—
Ran an animal unzoological,
Without a fate, without a fact,
Its private history... (Read full poem)
17. February: Thinking of Flowers - written by Jane Kenyon
Read 2581 times on American Poems.
Now wind torments the field,
turning the white surface back
on itself, back and back on itself,
like an animal licking a wound.
Nothing but white--the air, the light;
only one brown milkweed pod
bobbing in the gully, smallest
brown boat on... (Read full poem)
18. Horse - written by Louise Gluck
Read 2147 times on American Poems.
What does the horse give you
That I cannot give you?
I watch you when you are alone,
When you ride into the field behind the dairy,
Your hands buried in the mare's
Dark mane.
Then I know what lies behind your silence:
Scorn, hatred of... (Read full poem)
19. Yeats Died Saturday In France - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1939.
Read 1012 times on American Poems.
Yeats died Saturday in France.
Freedom from his animal
Has come at last in alien Nice,
His heart beat separate from his will:
He knows at last the old abyss
Which always faced his staring face.
No ability, no dignity
Can fail him now who trained so... (Read full poem)
20. January 3 - written by David Lehman
Read 502 times on American Poems.
The shrink says, "Everything depends
on how many stuffed animals you had
as a boy," and my mother tells me my
father was left-handed and so is my son
and they're both named Joe whose favorite
stuffed animal was a bear called Sweetheart
while I, the... (Read full poem)
21. Ape And Coffee - written by Russell Edson
From The Tunnel.
Published in 1994.
Read 1306 times on American Poems.
Some coffee had gotten on a man's ape. The man said,
animal did you get on my coffee?
No no, whistled the ape, the coffee got on me.
You're sure you didn't spill on my coffee? said the man.
Do I look like a liquid? peeped the ape.
Well you... (Read full poem)
22. What Can We Do? - written by Charles Bukowski
Read 3818 times on American Poems.
at their best, there is gentleness in Humanity.
some understanding and, at times, acts of
courage
but all in all it is a mass, a glob that doesn't
have too much.
it is like a large animal deep in sleep and
almost nothing can awaken it.
when... (Read full poem)
23. The Fury Of Cocks - written by Anne Sexton
From The Death Notebooks.
Published in 1974.
Read 5492 times on American Poems.
There they are
drooping over the breakfast plates,
angel-like,
folding in their sad wing,
animal sad,
and only the night before
there they were
playing the banjo.
Once more the day's light comes
with its immense sun,
its mother trucks,... (Read full poem)
24. Rondeau at the Train Stop - written by Erin Belieu
Read 387 times on American Poems.
It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay
drifting toward me on the T stop, the train
circling the city like a dingy, year-round
Christmas display. The Puritans were right! Sin
is everywhere in Massachusetts, hell-bound
in the population.... (Read full poem)
25. Dream Song 106: 28 July - written by John Berryman
From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
Published in 1968.
Read 720 times on American Poems.
28 July
Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noise
delight fuller than he can ready sing
or studiously say,
on hearing that the year had swung to pause
and culminated in an abundant thing,
came his... (Read full poem)
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