The Cat Named Cat Has Died
...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
whil...
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Categories:
cockapoo, animal, grief,
Form: Free verse
Lulu My Cockapoo
...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...
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Categories:
cockapoo, humor,
Form: Limerick
Sweating Snow
...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 gl...
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Categories:
cockapoo, animal, weather,
Form: Free verse
Monday Night In My Blue Flesh
...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...
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Categories:
cockapoo, family, weather,
Form: Free verse
A Lonesome Young Mutt
...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...
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Categories:
cockapoo, dog, humor,
Form: Limerick
Ted
...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 ...
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Categories:
cockapoo, dog,
Form: Free verse
In the Cat's House-Meow
...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 coc...
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Categories:
cockapoo, adventure, analogy, anxiety, cat,
Form: Free verse
Seven Dog Lives
...It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.
Jim Harrison (1937 - 2016) - The Road Home
First Bobo, a cocker spaniel,
I remember o...
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Categories:
cockapoo, dog,
Form: Free verse
Fun With Roses Are Red
...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 k...
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Categories:
cockapoo, funny, me, roses are
Form: Rhyme