death has separated no one
...Our cocker spaniel Sophie had a stroke
She could not lift her head or drink water
Even after we poured some out onto the floor
We had no choice but to take her to a vet
And have her put out of ...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, dog,
Form: Free verse
King Beau
...my husband and I love dogs
he was totally against paying big money for one
I did not care; I wanted a golden retriever
so I paid for one
actually, ended up with an English Crème retriever
an a...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, dog,
Form: Free verse
Poochie
...I didn't expect my black Cocker Spaniel to die.
He died 30 years ago today on the 14th of July.
He was born in 1981 and Poochie was his name.
He was killed by a car and it was a damn shame.
Pooch...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, anniversary, death, dog,
Form: Rhyme
My New Puppy Beau Takes Care of the Problem
...My medicine is getting me down
I feel depressed
Why don’t you take two? Someone suggests
As if that ever works
Someone does not know; he does not even go to a doctor.
A golden retriever puppy,...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, dog,
Form: Narrative
new king in town
...Sophie, our black cocker spaniel can be a mean old broad.
She is thirteen, so that is ninety-one in dog years.
We were wondering how she would “do with the new puppy”.
My husband wanted to wait un...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, dog,
Form: Free verse
Jack Turners Other Lifetimes
...I had read about reincarnation and past lives and there was a suggestion.
To ask a young child “who were you before you were GABBY.”
On Saturday September 15th 2012 I asked my grandson Jack Turne...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
never again
...Fortune teller squirrel gives me the old once-over
I squirm a bit, like my half-blind eye, Cocker Spaniel, Rover.
I see that you think you are special, she says, glaring at me.
Feeling uncomfortab...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
God Is Great
...When I was just a child it was a very big deal
to offer God thanks before each meal..
We never just dove in as that would have been rude
before reciting "God is great, God is good."
Sometimes mom...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, 1st grade, childhood, god,
Form: Light Verse
A Placid Docile April Day
...it is one of those placid docile what-do-we-do April days.
I sit outside naked except for my light polyester mumu.
an airplane wakes the cloud with her powerful engine noises.
my wind chimes tingl...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, april,
Form: Free verse
Dear Spaniel Daniel
...He left us and chased after rainbow and dove
And found his soul mate in the hills up above
Did we know the real Daniel
Our beloved cocker spaniel?
Farewell, our dear heart, adieu our true love
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, humor,
Form: Limerick
Kingdom of Frozen Wet Feet-
...I hear the cracklings, combat boots walking
Much I marveled the smelly cocker spaniel
On the leash wearing a sweater I am walking
There’s a hole in the tongue and sole
Of the boots...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, adventure, analogy, anxiety, community,
Form: Free verse
Oscar - Nursery Rhyme
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Oscar was a little white canine
Cocker spaniel was in his bloodline
He was such a good dog
Even played with a frog
He was like a heartfelt valentine
Oscar wasn’t like his little br...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, children, dog, nursery rhyme,
Form: Limerick
The Tramp Persona -POTW
...The Tramp Persona
Who was this boy, a pauper born?
Existing in despair and continual forlorn
Scandalized, accused of communist sympathies
Encompassing both adulation, and social controvers...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, analogy, celebrity, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
On Behalf of Dogs
...Happy National Dog Day, PS!
Beagle, boxer, poodle, pug,
Airedale, cocker spaniel, terrier,
Shiatsu, pom, or something furrier,
Pedigreed or cur-ish mug,
Dogs make our lives ever so much merrie...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, best friend, dog, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Butler Did It
...Suspicion always finds the poor butler.
This time, he was carrying a large box.
I think I saw her fingers--if not her
perhaps it was her sister's golden locks.
People say that she slapped his l...
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Categories:
cocker spaniel, 12th grade, animal, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
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