my cockapoo pup
brings me happiness each day
fuzzy curly hair
The cat, named Cat, has died.
The silky Persian who nested in my grandson’s arms.
Strange, how things of the past
are only a few weeks old.
The cat dampened the dog’s fox with his tongue
while Teddy was preoccupied. His paw
in the fox’s cavity, whilst the filiform papillae
roughly combed the puppet’s fur.
Cat was a friendly black Persian, right away welcoming me
into my son’s home. I captured the cockapoo and Persian,
in a photo, side by side, looking out the window.
My heart aches…
The other grandson, after they buried their beloved
in the backyard, was caught taking hair from the brush.
Oh, my heart aches…
I have a best friend named Madam Lulu
She's my good old faithful Cockapoo
Like sister and brother
We're there for each other
She makes the drabbest days sparkle like new
2/27/23
sweating snow, travel
a go? heavenly flakes
fluttering, stimulating, drawing
attention to themselves
cockapoo doesn’t sweat
his tail, sweep
sweep,sweep
his black coal nose nuzzles
the glorious landscape
slowly inches, back
to hearth and home
idly i stare, through off-white
curtains - they seemed white
yesterday; today
a go? impact:
will we head home…
Nov 2022
Monday night in my blue flesh
Shouldn’t complain it’s cold
Minnesota will be much crueler
and much warmer too
cozied up with the grandson crew
and their cockapoo
11/14/2022
A lonesome young mutt in Kalamazoo
Was so downcast he kept out of view
Just a schnauzer pug-mix
Shunned by smug pure-bred chicks
He’s found true love with his dear cockapoo
1/15/22
seeking warmth of blanket
and sun, Minnesota coated
with snow and ice. cockapoo
paws the window, stretches
near the door…raucous barks
at footfall on the front porch.
father of his master, a stranger
not yet accepted into the pack.
12/23/2021
Once upon a midnight silent
In the Cat's house
Meow
Rabbiting
the thought of the cats
So distracting
'Cats!' said I, 'thing of chat.'
Huh? Waz tat
Rats
My passion is the Pekinese cockapoo
Deep into that darkness vomiting a mouse says boo!
This lonely kitty
Now in self-pity
Meow, come catcalling
Here kitty kitty
kitty
7/2/20
WRITTEN WORDS BY James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©
When I saw Susan's cute little contest on the famous Roses are Red poem,
I went upstairs and said to Joe, "How would you finish this poem:
Roses are red
Violets are blue. . ." ?
(in case you don't know this famous little English poem, the actual finishing lines are "sugar is sweet/ and so are you")
Very quickly my husband gave me an ending that was a twist on the old poem's
lines. But I was proud of him for actually coming up with something, so I put it into Susan's contest. I wanted to see how my hubbie would do if he were to enter a contest
here!
(if you want to see it, it's the post I made before my Abracadabra poem)
Later I thought up a bunch of other endings. These are some I came up
with for
Roses are Red
Violets are blue:
1. Be my spicy meatball
and I'll be your Ragu.
2. your library book
is long overdue.
3. I'd tell you much more
but it's all Taboo.
4. Do you style your hair
with Dippity-Do?
5. Your cocker and my poodle
would make one great Cockapoo.
6. You tempt me like honey
tempts Winnie the Pooh.
7. I'll play you a love song
on my kazoo.
8. you'd make a good rooster
Cock a doodle do!
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