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Best Dog Poems

Below are the all-time best Dog poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dog poems written by PoetrySoup members


And the Dog Laughed Too
He stood on the street corner
Having a much needed smoke
Somehow we got chatting
And he told me a joke 
And i started laughing
The way that you...

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Categories: dog, friendship, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Dog
Every time you look at me
Brown eyes say, "I love you"
When you're lying next to me
Your snuggle says it too

That soft brown skin's inviting smell
I...

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Categories: best friend, dog, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dog On the Beach
I watched a dog fight back the sea
to chase a ball thrown on the surf
it sensed no danger unlike me
when I chased young dreams on...

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Categories: allegory, beach, dog, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shelter Dog - With Spelling Edit
I’ve been sitting here for long lonely days
In this small space that I cannot escape from.
I am one of many other dogs in their own...

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Categories: dog,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Oscar Wiener Dog
A dachshund named Oscar was he,
which adored trick or treating with me,
so I had me some fun
when I sewed a cloth bun,
for a Halloween weenie...

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Categories: dog,
Form: Limerick



He's Just a Dog
He’s just a dog, a mongrel pup that fitted in me hand,
short haired, tan and white, with needs of high demand,
he’s whingy and he’s whiny,...

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Categories: animal, dog, trust, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Labrador
If I wasn't there,
the rain swollen clouds
would have still dumped 
their dark weight over the bay
and through a gaping tear,
let down a curtain of sunlight
to...

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Categories: care, creation, dog, earth,
Form: Free verse
Asteroid Gravity Graced
Asteroid


You were out of this world 
named for the Perseids
the meteor 
that exploded in two striking the blue 
between the sun and the moon 
the...

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Categories: dog, star,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lassie
I stand before you after all these years
Amid the ocean brine with misty tears
On these old banks above the Fundy Bay
With all those words I...

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Categories: childhood, dog,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dogs and Cats
In my life, I’ve had about five . . . . . . . . . . . DOGS

What naughty chewing little beasts they ....

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Categories: cat, dog,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Hello and Goodbye Coco
HELLO AND GOODBYE COCO	

I wanted a brown Labrador, blonde and black ,
I love them all
But I had made up my mind, anxiously I sat waiting...

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Categories: death, dog, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holly's Christmas Story
Our sweet dog Holly lies under our tree
She is wagging her tail so gleefully,

Knocking about the light Christmas tree balls.
She becomes quite shocked as one...

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Categories: adventure, christmas, dog, snow,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Early Morn On the Old Farm
Early Morn On The Old Farm

tomcat cat fast asleep
new house painted darkest of greens
old sun drenched, low-weeping willow
young black dog awakens
eager dawn, stretches its new...

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Categories: art, cat, color, dog,
Form: Verse
Premium Member - On the Moon -
Thea, grandfather Alferd's dog died, she was so old and sick
Now is Thea on the moon, says Adrian who is six

Michael Jackson died so unexpectedly...

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Categories: death, dog, funny, grandfather,
Form: Couplet

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