Best Dog Days Poems

We let down the top to soak in the sun
Now that the harshness of winter is done

As you let back the seat and put your feet on the dash
Saying, “keep your eyes on the road I don’t want to crash”

I truly must admit that I’m...

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Dog Days Endure

Sirius, rising with late summer sun,
Dog star, your timeless tour has just begun. 
Sweet sultry lazy days beside the lake,
These precious waning days of swimming fun.

How I'll miss the warmth this season bestows
As romance dwells in soft full moon that glows.
I will miss...

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On the first day of Christmas my doggie brought to me, pee-pee under my tree

On the second day of Christmas my doggie brought to me, two licks of love and pee-pee under my tree 

On the third day of Christmas my doggie brought to me,...

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Dog days pass slowly
air is thick but there ain't no
miracle waitin
funnel cloud on horizon
and we’re still in Kansas, friend....

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August days bring sweltering waves of heat.
Lethargic breezes fail to cool our
sun baked bodies, so we languish,
praying for relief ... perhaps
a refreshing rain ... How
I long for autumn,
but for now the
dog days of 
summer
reign.

8/6/13
A reversed etheree...

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Sleeping cavalier
Draped in Blenheim silk
Russet red reflecting
Autumn’s fiery cloak
Dozing, snoring softly
Dreaming dog days.

In his mind Orion’s
Hound ignites the sky to
Mark the changing season
Autumn burns the wood
From green to red to gold
Summer’s over.
 
Playful cavalier
Tracking leaves and berries
Falling to the touch of
Autumn’s sweet enchantment
Barking at the...

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sunlit beams soak through
gilded clouds glisten brightly
rich flora sheds crown...

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DOG   DAYS



The heat of summer  keeps coming after me
Like a dog hounding me to a sweat 
Growling with thunderous fury before the storm
Lashes my face
If I run  from  one place too hot 
He trails me to my cooler lair
Dogging my...

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The sun continues to shine;
and the songbirds sweetly sing.
But the dog days of Summer
are on a steady decline.

Leaves retain a shade of green;
and the roses are in bloom.
Yet, as temperatures drop;
Nature starts to change the scene.

The crops ripen in the field;
harvest time is approaching.
And ever...

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the wicked dog days
     bringing unforgiving drought
           and sweltering heat




Haiku Poetry Contest/Winner(3rd Place)
Theme: Summer
Sponsored by Mik Talbot
Date written and posted: 05/23/2018...

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DOG DAYS… (or when my wife was in  hospital)
Dog days change the way you think about days
some days you feel  their  paws dig into your dream
other days when she’s home you feel fine
 and that everything’s 
oky doky  tra la la

her...

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The days slowly slumber in summer's liquid heat,
and flowers lie comatose in parched cracked beds,
as two bluejays squabble in bellicose tones
raging over baptism in a
twelve-dollar-ninety, nine-cent birdbath.

Duke naps in freshly dug dirt beneath
once green shrubs, with ears twitching 
away pesky flies, and I, in manly...

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The sky is cracked tonight.  The moon slips through and the clouds dance across her slender back.  I’m hunkered down here for the night in an arroyo filled with pain and I wait for her.
Knowing she will never come.  My fingers lift...

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Elm trees are folding their leaves
Like umbrellas after a river storm
The weeping willow quietly grieves,
In summer heat neither conceives
That only mid-December relieves
This is Dog Day's scorching norm,
Elm trees are folding their leaves
Like umbrellas after a river storm. 

Written July 22, 2022...

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The sun, now joined in battle, scorches earth;
young, bellicose, brash Sirius draws nigh.
The rains, diminished, scarce sustain new birth,
and so commence the dog days of July.

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for The Sky in July Poetry Contest
sponsored by Andrea Dietrich
written on 07/02/2022
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