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Best Barking Up The Wrong Tree Poems


Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“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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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
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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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, animal, dog, howl, irony,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things