Best Stray Poems

There was a little dog one day,
Who ambled on his aimless way.
He didn't have a house or home:
A doggy bed or fine meat bone.

His coat was mats and full of fleas.
He owned no boy to try and please.
Near garbage bin was where he sat,
Along with...

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America, why did you stray from the old way.
A constitution put forth, the foundation of our land,
barely recognizable what was originally Jefferson's hand.
Tarnished and smudged by misinterpretation,
overindulgence and greed, to satisfy political,
judicial, and journalistic need.
Once majority rule, now bordering on ridicule,
the law of the land,...

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stray cat under moonlight
                        looks up  pauses and moves on
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Oh, where did you come from? The sad sight of you 
     breaks my heart in two. I see that you're lost, 
            scared, disheveled and emaciated.

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He who is born in the ruthless streets of a busy city
I am without a home
A family
Nor a companion
I am all alone

My homes differ from time to time
Abandoned houses, alleys anywhere the streets welcomes me
I am at the mercy of the changing weather
Every day is...

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I am not a cat person - they just don’t fit my style,
But when that stray walked in my door – she decided to stay a while.
My door is always open, as I work in my shed in back,
She comes and she goes on her...

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If I could write a poem about 
you, what would the subject be?
And would the form be sonnet,
or something far more free?
You are so difficult to define,
the fullness of your broad world 
compared to feral mine – like trying 
to compact eternity.

For if I wrote,...

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such a little dog 
cold and hungry no warm home
four small frozen paws...

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Here we are fans this fine summer day,
to watch Trash Can Cats, versus Downtown Stray.
The field is grand in this deep wooded glen,
pitchers are warming up in the bull pen.

Pitching for the Cats is Crazy Legs Lynx,
his pitching fast and usually sinks.
Throwing for Strays is...

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The stray cat walks on three legs now.
(I swear he’d walk on two.)
I found out just the other night;
My neighbors call him Lou.

He’s weathered one more winter:
The fourth since I arrived.
The shape he’s always in by spring:
Lord . . how does he survive?

I leave a...

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stray winds flick rotor fingers
uranium rods shun sun
for perpetual motion

puny pursuit of power continues...

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Mangled and muddy
a limp could be seen
spat on and bullied
when others were mean

Head hangs to the ground
scrounging a meal
cast out of her comfort
from a love thought as real

Tiptoeing the banks
of a slow moving stream
basking in sunshine
seen in yesterday's dream

Spied a reflection
for who is this cat
one...

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Poor doggy in the hard rain
no umbrella to hide the pain
housing society gates shoo them out
space under parked cars in knee-deep troughs
men and women stuck indoors, sip hot tea
children barred from school sing do re me
closed offices due to waterlogged streets
white and black clouds play...

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Rusty Finds A Home!

Rust-hued kitty’s shunned by day, ignored through the night
Unloved and discarded in a world numb to his plight
As he meows by a door
Rusty meets family Tor
Who give him a home, protection and love glowing bright
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Stoked in low; 
stoked in high;
Try to reach up; 
to that sky.

Your placement here; 
Has just been in passing;
It's over now; 
Life's not that harassing.

Don't look down;
Too late, don't frown;
Come with me; 
We'll have the new town.

Never again; 
Shall I turn away;
Never again; 
Shall I...

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