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Best Shep Poems

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


Old Shep and Me
Old shep and me, while
growing up, that's the way
it was.

For this dog was my
best friend I ever had,
wherever I went he
was sure to go.

Waited for...

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Categories: shep, childhood, petsme, drug,
Form: Free verse



Old Shep
Mum will be worried and tonight will be a frost
The sun is going down quickly I know I am lost
Not at all sure if we...

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Categories: shep, animal, child, dog, life,
Form: Rhyme
Shep and the Pup
Shep the pup was working the sheep;
He had to work hard to earn his keep.
Away, come bye, walk in; but never a scold,
Because he always...

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Categories: shep, animals, life
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Winter's Tale
Biting winds and swirling flakes of snow had finally abated

We surveyed the deep drifts, which lay on the fields
The silvery moon peeped through the clouds...

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Categories: shep, animal, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Sitting On the Front Porch In the Evening Shade
Sitting on the front porch in the evening shade,
strumming on a flattop guitar that was made
to play along with a country song 
about a sad...

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Categories: shep, music,
Form: Rhyme



The Cellar Door
The cellar door where I could find him,

just dreaming his cares away,

thinking of his younger days,

when he would roam

the back woods looking

for rabbits or a...

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Categories: shep, devotion
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Boogeyman
We lived in a home near 
the edge of the woods.
Old wooden floors would 
creak with every step.
One night when I was 
home alone with...

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Categories: shep, dark, fear, mystery, scary,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Tree
The tree was magnificent in all its green glory
Its limbs spread proud and true
Beautifully shaped and full of new growth
It stood tall against the blue.
Many...

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Categories: shep, family, tree,
Form: Rhyme
1960
It was the start of a decade not to be forgotten.

It was my growing up period.  A very bad year for me

in many ways....

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Categories: shep, nostalgia, school, football, life,
Form: Free verse
Little Cindy
We had a little Beagle named Cindy,

such a sweet little girl she was,

brother Darrell training her so well,

to be a great hunter, and that she...

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Categories: shep, pets, sweet, dog, dog,
Form: Free verse
Back To the Barnyard
My name is Tom and I'm the cat here on Manor Farm 
Let me introduce you  to the gang .
I rule the roost as...

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Categories: shep, farm, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet

Moe
Larry
Curly

Shep 
Joe

This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know

Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry...

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Categories: shep, fun, humor, parody, political,
Form: Light Verse
The Land Just Outside of Heaven
The land just outside of Heaven,
the bible doesn't mention it, but
it's there just the same.

I saw a vision of it, the day
my dog Murphy died,...

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Categories: shep, inspirationalhappy, me, pain, dog,
Form: I do not know?
Little Hole By Railroad Tracks
Many years ago walking down

railroad tracks with my old dog shep.

We always passed by this old hole

next to tracks that laid over a little

bed of...

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Categories: shep, pets, old, home, day,
Form: Free verse
Dog Day Afternoon
I start in the morning
With a spring in my step
Like an excited puppy
Full of vigour and pep
But at the end of the day
I walk with...

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Categories: shep, funny
Form: I do not know?

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