Dog Assonance Poems

I live in a small pueblo where every day or so

my neighbours sweep the pavement to keep

their side of the road clean and pick up...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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See the wallowing of the man,
I think he's angry at the madman.
He finds it hard to see the girlfriend,
Shadowed over by the crazed gable end.
Who...

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Man WORKING- Sitting Under the Autumn Sun

Envision concrete steps;
3 @ 8”inches each;
A man at home, alone;
Dog lying down to the left of him;
Alone;
These two, enjoying...

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Gallimaufry of linkedin words appeal,
(particularly spoken by renown orator)
'cept when unnamed poetaster afflicted
with chatterbox syndrome,
nonetheless deliberate effected

muzzle restraint imposed
suppressing groundswell analogous
to swollen dam bursting at...

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In early April the bus from Lecce
				unloads us at the fabled fish market.
				The place is shuttered down, not even
				the scent of chowders past lingering
				in the...

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ARE THERE PEAR TREES IN HEAVEN-GODS PEAR TREES


mama are there pear trees in heaven
daddy, daddy are there pear trees in heaven;
Oh Lord, oh Lord
Lord I...

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Resolution To...Too... Tooth... Thou..
(house sand zero, and own nine)

Wine hot ja... jes... justa bead devout
boo... boos...booze hound 'n
frog git (hic cup) bout...
new yea ears rez:...

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And there’s a Charlie
A character curiously cartooning
One of the Charlie’s careening and in crusade
Maybe someday he’ll be in a Macy Day parade

Charlie Chicken 1942 anthropomorphic...

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Time and Its Sad Afterglows

porch swing, one old dog
green pasture and fallen barn
dawn's light, empty house

Robert J. Lindley, 6-11-2018
Haiku...

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Off to the races for Grandpa Norm

Off to the races for Grandpa Norm
Off to the races for Grandpa Norm
He's my favorite grandpa though

Some may consider...

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The big Lie

 My daughter rang from Spain where had gone to see her mother,
to tell me she would never speak to me again for...

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In the frozen tundra
Nowhere has love been
feeling temperatures
never being here
Cold hearted plastic
No feeling in the rain
Haven't got tree branches
Dirty plates in the sink
Jagged rags, placed...

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I once had a dog
I made it live with my hog
He always stunk really bad
What happened to him was pretty sad
I got sick of the...

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Carnage creators. Crackerbreads chats. And a wide angled grinning photographer who is having appalling dreams of incorrect information is now ironed flat. Just like a...

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