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Best Basset Hound Poems

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The Basset Hound
“Who’s the boss ?” I heard her say.
ME, I tell her every day!
I let you know by my stare
when you force me off the chair.
You...

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Categories: basset hound, petsme, me,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Bailey the Whining Basset Hound
A dog named Bailey
Is a basset hound
She would eat all day
If it could be done

She always wants food
Her stomach is never full
At night when tired...

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Categories: basset hound, cry, dog,
Form: Free verse
Lost and Found Basset Hound
Fuzzy and I driving along
Going to Ricky’s to eat
He had to swerve his truck to miss
A Basset Hound in the street

Fuzzy! Stop the truck, let’s...

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Categories: basset hound, animals, dog, dog,
Form: Quatrain
Paper Doll
 Once upon a time
There was a little paper doll
She lived in a paper house
Made of paper walls

She had a paper mom
She had a paper...

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© Avery Ken  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: basset hound, angst, deep, depression, suicide,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Nineseventeenpm
As the second hand ticks away my breaths
a half-clad moon catches my eye.
Was a time when I might've seen
the ghost of half-eaten melon,
but I'm older...

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Categories: basset hound, age, retirement,
Form: Free verse



A Beach Within My Reach
I am a basset hound and I love to play
I can run and jump all day
I really love magic and tricks
I also love chocolate bics
Yummy!...

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Categories: basset hound, adventure, children, dog, kids,
Form: Limerick
Shady Sadie
Just a saggy-sad dumbfounded Basset Hound
Got claimed at the doggone-it lost puppy pound
Just hangin' out now and nosing around
Waiting for my supper to get back...

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Categories: basset hound, pets, life, life,
Form: Monorhyme
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The Spaniel

A Spaniel that uses its head 
Can tell when its owner’s unfed 
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck 
Will deliver...

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Categories: basset hound, animal, cat, cute, dog,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Oh Maggie Jo Nursery Rhyme
Oh, Maggie-Jo Sparks, my basset hound
The best of the houndom breed
A friendlier pooch cannot be found
You are a grand ol' gal indeed!

Oh, oh Maggie-Jo you...

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Categories: basset hound, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Famiy Dog Passes
Bailey is getting worse
Her illness is cancer
She is brought to the vet
We gather around the bed
Everyone pets Bailey
With tears being shed
Everyone says goodbye
While the vet...

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Categories: basset hound, cry, death, dog, remember,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Missing Stuff
Since moving to our brand new home
There's things I haven't found
Like my pair of pearly white dentures
And Dufus our basset hound

Still haven't located my tightie...

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Categories: basset hound, humorous, moving on,
Form: Quatrain
Bloody Bassett Hound
Bloody Bassett Hound

According to facts which are well-rooted
To be a fine poet, I am properly suited
With an imagination which is astounding
Like some fathers who were...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: basset hound, humor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Opened Paris' Letter and Cry
I opened Paris' letter and cry


my heart dropped
my fingers trembled
I opened Paris' letter
mama it's been three days ...
then the dam burst, 
not the happy kind
unregretfully
the...

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Categories: basset hound, confusion, daughter, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dripping Blood From Her Heart Needed To Clot
the dripping blood from her heart needed to clot

the couple was rolling along in their boat
on a river to nowhere, on a cloudy day
when she...

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Categories: basset hound, betrayal, break up, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why Most Chickens Don'T Snore
Could there possibly be a single topic
I haven't as yet explored
The love life of the lowly earthworm
Or why most chickens don't snore

And have you ever...

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Categories: basset hound, silly,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs