Best Barking Poems

My slumber knows no measure...
There be no sleep for me.
The hounds are barking through the night
For immortality.

I toss them a leg of hubris
And a banal cliche for slight effect.
But their hunger goes unsated...
I lay waste my self-respect.

A few platitudes and twaddle
Are quickly gobbled by the...

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Sue’s puppy is called Tricky Woo
She’s upset when it does a pooh
There’s pee up the wall
And poop in the hall
She always finding doggy dooh

I suggested she buys a grit tray
And takes Tricky a walk every day
He can play in the park
Do its poop, have a...

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This oak tree and me, we’re made of the same stuff.. Carl Sagan


why lean on my
unmoving breast?

breathe my rest...
climb my milieu...

hull me out
an adventure.

soar amidst
the forest of my branches.

i’ve squirmed as you shimmy up
and scream to be rescued.

i’ve dreaded the hearted-blade
score and singe in my...

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barking dogs 
race after a rabbit
I lost a bundle...

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live alarm system
deters crime -
dogs barking loudly

dogs barking loudly
announcing
unknown visitors

10/6/15...

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“Barking Up the Wrong Tree” 

ghost gums
shed their bark 
the min-min 
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to 
imprint and write
thoughts, like the 
ripening welts of 
green ants 
small bites sting
subcutaneous and 
meridional, 
terra australis sings
for the kneeling
tree huggers, feel
the rough exterior
peel like sun-blistered
thin...

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I stand awkward and unsure
So different from the rest
Unaccepted and rifled with ridicule
Uncomfortable yet hoping to conform
A fate that feels so wrong

I struggle to fight the urge without intent 
A path I forever lament
My tribe will love me if only I can find
Those common attributes...

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My Mix-Breed "Extra Fluffy" 
happy as can be
Entered in the "Dog-Gone" trials
Just one of eighty-three

Some as big as horses 
some as long as trains
Some so smart they spoke to you
You'd think they had our brains

The judges they were different though
The scoring one two three
For each...

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Barking dogs and screaming kids
Can drive a person to drink
There's nothing quite so disconcerting
Worse than loud music methinks

Hard to control a barking dog
They'll bite you and rip off your leg
Beating kiddies is wee bit extreme
But it's fun watching them beg

Go ahead whomp your child
As long...

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The Barking Dog
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

When I was in the army, I trained war dogs you know.
And when I had one out with me, pure happiness did show.

Yet when we both were working, we worked as...

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Irrational waves,
An expanse of flowing wails,
Ripples woof aloud....

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green yellow willow 

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Barking dogs and screaming kids
Can drive a person to drink
There's nothing so disconcerting
Worse than loud music methinks

Hard to control a barking dog
They'll bite you and rip off your leg
Beating kiddies is wee bit extreme
But it's fun watching them beg

Go ahead whomp on your child
As long...

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Beyond the din of vexatious dogs that bark,
The winds of change blow ominously.
Foreboding signs that upon us make their mark
Bring unease and much anxiety.
There is nothing we can do in this dire state
But pray someone stops our dark, impending fate.

In history's pages are precious lessons
From...

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We've hit a bump;
the melodies and notes that
resemble the feelings of our love
hang in the air broken,
and the silence looms over us
like fog in a cemetery.
It's easier to remember the
difference in all equations than
what reoccurs;
and so our hound dogs,
like our past fights
keep us up at...

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