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Best Pup Poems

Below are the all-time best Pup poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pup poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member No Pup
Excited puppy; she’s no pup,
And yet she runs in circles ‘round. 
I know she’s younger in dog years, 
But her time comes, not long from...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pup, age, dog,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: pup, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Categories: pup, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Our Christmas Eve Dinner
'Twas our Christmas Eve dinner; we all had sat down
at the table to eat. Grandma couldn’t be found!
We children were fussing; Dad rose to his...

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Categories: pup, dad, humorous, mom, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Hello and Goodbye Coco
HELLO AND GOODBYE COCO	

I wanted a brown Labrador, blonde and black ,
I love them all
But I had made up my mind, anxiously I sat waiting...

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Categories: pup, death, dog, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Snickers With Link To His Picture
Barking at the people who
walk behind our house
is a dog that as a pup
was bought by my spouse.

Tiny border collie mix
he was meant to be,
but...

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Categories: pup, pets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To An Injured Fox Cub - With Thanks To Michael Coy
Today I found you cornered, drenched in cold,
your fur coat nothing but a newborn's down,
a tiny ball unfolding while I hold
you shivering. Your lacerations frown

and...

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Categories: pup, analogy, animal, hurt, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain
He's Just a Dog
He’s just a dog, a mongrel pup that fitted in me hand,
short haired, tan and white, with needs of high demand,
he’s whingy and he’s whiny,...

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Categories: pup, animal, dog, trust, mum,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Puppy Named 'Pig' N a Puddle
Just a regular curbside puddle,
It really wasn't that big.
But it had the look of an ocean,
To a sweet little puppy named 'Pig.'

"Your paws might touch...

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Categories: pup, dog, fear, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Playing Enthusiastically
Playmates illusion
                       ...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pup, cat, dog, friendship,
Form: Tanka
Know How
Thankless job, I think watching
as Thurman tries to teach the young man

The lad sitting up
on the tractor
like a proud young pup
is full of piss and...

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Categories: pup, age, humanity, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Keepin Up
Got a wild hair and found  a younger woman
did I.
Took a trip oh howtime did fly.

I wake up she already ran three miles.
Going eighty...

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Categories: pup, funnynight, me, night, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Weasel
WEASEL

Tiny little weasel,
Sneaking `round the house,
Searching for a midnight snack,
A chick, a kit or mouse.

Crafty little rascal,
Scurries here and there,
Must find enough to feed the...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pup, nature
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Will Be With You
I walk upon the earth with my pup
No one is in sight they are all closed up
Tight within their homes with flight and fear 
From...

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Categories: pup, courage, god, hope, jesus,
Form: Prose
Some Pets Stay
It's true, for some hearts burning embers
 that a pet is like a family member
and how painful life is, when they slip away
 but some...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pup, dog, pets,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs