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Cocker Poems - Poems about Cocker


The old fart alter cocker shuffle
The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle as one fairly long run on sentence unwittingly made locally famous courtesy residents here at Highland Manor Apartments as first one foot and then the other painstakingly, and agonizingly dragged across the cement walkway making absolutely sure the entire foot touches the ground, (analogous to geriatric version of the hokey pokey) made like toe tilly particularly more...

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Categories: cocker, age, courage, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blame the Cocker Spaniels
It’s the Cocker Spaniels this time the media screams I roll my eyes, wondering when the cats will get some blame Or the monkeys, cheetahs, sharks or giraffes They are diabolical, plotting your death, the announcer says I do not plot her death, but I plot taping her mouth up. The pit bulls were the last group to blame. What about...

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Categories: cocker, irony,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member My Pet Poems, Watson
Watson “This is a definite, future champion,” The breeder stated knowingly, as He’d raised a few. So, we debated calling him Sherlock, the royally-held-high detective of all British literature. “See,” the breeder had added, “His long ears, nearly touching down To the ground! A standard for winning!” But, what we saw in the small, perfectly shiny, Entirely all-black ball, who lay in Jim’s...

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Categories: cocker, beauty, christian, dog, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sophie Helen Our Cocker Spaniel
Sophie Helen, my snuggle bunny, Knows my whereabouts day and night. She launches herself next to the small of my back And we snore and dream together. I dream I am flying She dreams she is flying with me Sophie Helen adores me. She is territorial. I am her property, and she warns me about others. Birds, cats, trucks on the road,...

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Categories: cocker, dog,
Form: Free verse
In Memory of Joe Cocker
Today I pass the time reading a favorite note from you, and saying our acronym over and over. It feels like hearing you call my name, from a dream, again and again. Yasbtm. Yasbtm. I lie on my back on the bed and say it. I drum the syllables on the pillow. I see your secret code of affection in the pattern...

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Categories: cocker, beautiful, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cocker Spaniel Alert
Curly black hair lying in my lap Snoring peacefully, contented Sweet adoring puppy eyes Loud ham lid popping sound Black nose up in air Cocker spaniel Leaps from chair Searching Snack...

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Categories: cocker, 1st grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Joe Cocker
The music fades but I hear his voice out the bathroom window....

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Categories: cocker, absence, appreciation, death,
Form: Haiku

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