Tag: Zoo

• The best pet i never had

  Another #Napowrimo prompt from Maire @ #Writeclub enjoy the poem! I In my life i’ve had a few pets and lots of trips to the local vets i’ve had a dog and lots of cats but i’ve never had a giant fruit bat II You see i always saw them at the zoo and watched […]

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  10 Apr 2022

  Animals, Cats, Poetry, Zoo

  Bats, best, Cat, Cave, Flight, Fruit, Furry, Giant, Had, Moon, Napowrimo, Never, Night, Pets, Sky, Sun, Trees, writeclub, Zoo

• Steampunk Panda

  

  Pandas prescribed lactulose lollies By steampunk physicians and vets Took the taste of tangerine too far Ambidextrous animal antics led to Somewhat surprised siblings at lightning reaction of Confused children looking through cages

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  25 Jan 2022

  Animals

  Children, Confused, Lollies, Panda, Physicians, Steampunk, Vets, Whathappenednext, Zoo

• Forward planning

  

  #Holidays Christmas and new year are formally over and winters gone to town its made me think of warm places where the sand is soft and brown and the sea is brilliant aqua blue and the waters are clear as can be while little fish nibble away at your feet for something for their tea […]

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  8 Jan 2022

  Greece, Holidays

  Beach, Christmas, Family, Fish, Holidays, New Year, planning, Restaurant, Sand, Sea, taverna, Winter, Zoo

• Mayhem

  #fowc #Mayhem There was a great hullabaloo at the local coastal zoo the animals were out to play as Mr Keeper was on holiday The Lions were playing the rhinos in a game of five a side The mummy lions with their cubs cheering on with pride The elephants had experienced ice cream and enjoyed […]

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  23 Nov 2021

  Animals, Zoo

  adults, Animals, Bears, Brown, Children, Elephants, Holiday, Lions, Polar, rhinos, Zoo, Zookeeper

• Pandamonium

  

  #Pandamonium #picandmix written for the picandmix poetry event by inky. In a zoo near beijing an explosion took place was it the bamboo or the sugar cane black and white fur covering the panda’s home line of little pandas going from end to end held and fed by keepers while mummy panda takes a well […]

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  12 Nov 2021

  Poetry

  Baby, Beijing, Giant, Keepers, Mummy, Panda, Pandas, picandmix, Poetry, Sleeping, Zoo

• Pink flamingo

  

  #cyw #pinkflamingo #octpowrimo playing around with his feathers Balanced on one leg Waiting for that moment When the keeper comes in And throws another shovel Of fresh Morecambe shrimp Into the water

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  6 Oct 2020

  Birds, Colours, Poetry

  Animals, birds, coloryourworld, Colours, Colouryourworld, CYW, Feathers, flamingo, octpowrimo, Pink, Water, Wildlife, Zoo

• Encounter

  #Fowc #Encounter #Rhino #Zoo Armour Plated cousin of Our dear old friend the horse Lives off lots of green stuff and fruits and berries of course! With that great big horn on the end of his snout you’d be careful when he starts running about but he’s friendly to all who visit his lawn and […]

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  6 Sep 2020

  Animals, Poetry, Zoo

  africa, Animal, asia, Encounter, fowc, Jungle, Poetry, Rhino, Wildlife, Zoo

• Rex

  

  Salford (via Manchester Museum), 20th June 2020 King of the Dinosaurs! woken up by the sound of a wide brush, and now sitting proud in a grand hall towering over us all while human children look and read, what he liked, for a feed.

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  20 Jun 2020

  Animals, Character, Museum, Museums, Photography

  Archaeology, Archeology, Artefact, buried, Character, Chester, Dinosaurs, Extinct, Lockdown poems, Manchester, Museum, Photography, Remains, skeleton, T-Rex, Zoo

• Ivory

  

  #Fowc #Ivory An acrostic in response to fandangos one word challenge by Inky. It’s found in various jungles, very few animals don’t have it often found in the mouth you see really the hunters shouldn’t go after it – they would yell the trees down if the animals went after theirs

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  2 Nov 2019

  Poetry

  Animals, Chester, Elephant, fowc, ivory, Jungle, Zoo

• Penguin en vacances

  

  Chester Zoo via Blackpool beach, August 2018 #Penguin Paying a visit to his relatives upshore eager young penguin travelled round the coast navigating the north wales coast and Irish Sea, he got to the sands of Blackpool, where under cover , while holiday makers and zoo keepers slept into the frosty enclosure he got – […]

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  26 Aug 2018

  Animals, Poetry

  Beach, Blackpool, Chester, Family, Holiday, penguin, Poetry, Zoo