Dog Daughter Poems

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night...

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I was only four, 
when Blackie my dog died. 
My dad ran my best friend over, 
yes it was a horrible accident. 

 
I was...

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Nicky, the neighbor’s dog, drags a road kill home.
A beautiful pelt like those fox shoulder garments women wore in the
      forties.
But the head is crushed beyond...

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Written for and about my eldest daughter, Freya Lily (Pickle).


Ive loved you,
from the very first second I saw you,
you are my beautiful first born.
So the...

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Quote By Poet "True friends know when to keep their tongues locked up and not to speak."

Can you keep a secret?
If you can,
then you are...

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I can still remember visiting a small musical town,  
a young boy holding his hat and singing his heart out for money.  
His...

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When Mother and I cooked in her kitchen, we often referred to Granny’s recipe cards. Frequently, though, the cards just listed the ingredients without exact...

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Quote By Poet "Puppies and kittens are what little kids dreams are made of." 

My puppy is tan and small,
she likes to sleep in mommy's shawl.
She...

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Fifty fathoms ’neath the sea aboard the ‘Neptune’s Daughter’
The captain guards her secret in three hundred feet of water
For twenty years he floundered in a...

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This true story must be told,                                       ...

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HEAVEN SEND ME A MIRACLE 

I walk on by and see you smile rainy nights keep you in my arms
longer than awhile.
hope is kept with...

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We ate our bread with many tears
Laden with guilt and many fears
Bread crumbs fell off all around
Our small dog licked them off the ground 

Our...

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When winds collect the forlorn pages
of every newspaper that failed to meet
a sympathetic bystander
I will call you to the porch and
relieve you of your shoes

except...

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Why can't the world be like it was when I was young
    No one cleaning up dog-due dung

  Kids dying right...

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Grandma has a pretty flower garden,                   ...

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