Best Barkley Poems

Barkley

He was barely nine weeks old
When Jim set him down inside the front door
And he came in, not timidly
To this new home with all its...

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Summer Shimmers
In my rear vision
Its super hot
But i dare not stop
Here
On the ruddy Barkley
If i get out 
This car
I will become instant
Yum cha
As its steaming
Ruddy...

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Barkley Wants Dinner

My little dog is barking
through thin air,
inhaling the promise of food.
With every breath
he augments his desire
for meat
with deep pride
in his wolf ancestry:
the gnashing...

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Barkley DeVile, Barkley DeVile
Barkley’s my Beagle and hes handsome as hell! 
If you saw him, you’d see just what I mean! 
Barkley, Oh Barkley
You must...

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A Farewell To Arms


I was expecting our first child.
   Catherine, in love with Frederic,
was also happily pregnant.

She awakened unexpected, 
   strong,...

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Favorite Movie

Ernest Hemingway's book,
"A Farewell To Arms" was 
made for movie theaters
and stirred my emotions
in the year 'fifty-eight.
It was a big hit then.

Since I was...

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"Transport Terminals" 

When ghosts find ghosts
they walk through the 
core of each other 
expecting knowledge 
of the other’s being
it’s surprising mirrors
are considered 
transport terminals
eerily reflective
otherworldly...

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Sarah and John, awaiting their firstborn;
	a nurse and soldier, in each other's arms,
in war-time setting, were at times forlorn
	by their romantic joy fused with alarms.

This...

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There ain’t never been much love ‘twixt them two out on the range—
Seems cowmen has always thought that them sheepherders were strange.

Then one day in...

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Because I think of Barkley as my
four-year-old son, and I've gotten him
vaccinated to prove it, do I now 
put him in dog obedience school and
call...

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They're great scorers, undeniably true
   So many thrilled to their game-winning shots
Made millions off the game, and Nike shoes
   Projected diplomatic...

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My Pet Poems, Lou

The rains had begun pelting New Orleans.
The warnings were dire.  An insurrection
Of weather on the Gulf coast was coming, urging
Everyone to...

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The internet informs that
Min Pin dogs are fastidious,
obsessive/compulsive--
a fact that bears out
in my dog's life.
He is fastidious, and I am
fascinated by this.

Barkley is black and...

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"I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak
havoc on the basketball court". Charles Barkley


Pop Eye, the sailor man, with the aid...

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At the Dating Auction

Anne drew
Andrew

A Mere Lord

Baron
Aaron

Big City Guy

Boston
Austin

He Who Crashes Weddings

Crasher
Asher

Bird Boy’s Best Feature

Allan’s
Talons

Scam Man

Shady 
Brady

The Arrogant One

Snobby 
Bobby

Christmas Guy

Merry
Barry

Halloween Guy

Scary
Barry

The Proposal

Baxter
asked her

After Laying...

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