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Best Barking Up The Wrong Tree Poems

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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...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, animal, dog, howl, irony,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
Silly Christmas Cartoon
Once again the cat was in the cradle
and I didn't even have a silver spoon,
my master always at work leaving me with this loon,
always standing...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, dog, humor, snow,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member That's What They Say
They say...

Still waters run deep...
Then why are there so many shallow people?

When it rains it pours...
Usually the day after I wash my truck.

Walk softly and...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, america, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Isn'T the Same Old Spiel
8/10/17


Be careful what you ask for
Next thing you know it wasn't all that great, or you want even more

This isn't the same old spiel
I'll tell...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



Gone
The relationship between us began to thaw,
my thoughts tumbled in my head, 
making and breaking alliances,
 like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
Talking and...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, baby, bangla, basketball, beach,
Form: ABC
You Know Nothing About
Dark origin behind the dawn of life
Dumb souls laugh far-off stream
A chip heavy on shoulders
Crash with thunder storm
Generous thoughts from heaven
Fall like cold dew in...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, blessing, power, relationship, solitude,
Form: Free verse
A Dog Called: Eagle
There are a lot of different breeds of dog,

A dog is a very common four legged-animal
That is often kept by people
Or used to guard 
Or...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, animals,
Form: Free verse
In Prays of Legal Tender
Preface:
Aye do attest
that poetry may not be best
to express whoosh to chest

git a lee till bitta chump change
boot an overpowering literary force
   to...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
You Say... What About Me
You say you need your space, room to breathe
You turn completely cold, I begin to freeze
You now smile and yell I am finally free
You say......

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, lovelove, me,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Love Letter
LOVE LETTER by James Edward Lee Sr.

C-My name is Meow and I am a calico cat now
C-And I am not ashamed to say I'm in...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, adventure, animal, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Extreme Heights
10/31/22


I've weathered rough storms
Always high and drunk or
Trying to have love form
I was once torn
All this B.S. occurs out my front door
You've woken up the...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, dark, deep, life, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Rainy Days Continued
5/4/22

Under the stars we'd sleep out
At night we'd sneak out
To another party up the street, just like that we out

Catch you red handed for trying...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Way That It Goes
I awake to find it is raining today.
As I sit down to write what shall I say?
Sometimes it feels like I’m barking up the wrong...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, introspection, life, life, me,
Form: Narrative
Tournament King
I stand tall in the center ring
Everyone pays attention
For I'm about to start the game
The world is going to turn
One wears blue
He who wears red
But...

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Categories: barking up the wrong tree, sports,
Form: Narrative

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