Pet Death Poems

So what is prayer? I have prayed for health, safety, even death for those terminally ill to spare them suffering. Am I selfish in this?...

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When I lost my partner, I thought I would die,
It seemed so unfair, it must be a lie.
It had to be my hands that ended...

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Reflecting On Thy Long Doggone Pooch -
"Georgie Harris"

At present moment thoughts adrift,
     whereat figurative throne,
     this chap...

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I am the Devil, alone in my Room
   Redolent of pungent cologne and perfume 

Naked I parade, in front of my mirror
 ...

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I have always been so hopelessly lazy.
            Stoic and aloof, sometimes psychotic. 
I can...

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The lupus was a she 
howling at an orange winter moon
baying for a he
with pups yelping unison in tune.

“Where could Daddy be?”
They question Mother as...

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While Shuttered Up Inside... ©ozy
Snug Air Conditioned Demesne...

Analogous to my boyhood
     cosseted and bereft, I assay
to poetically elucidate how majority
 ...

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The 5 Stages of grief

Step 1 
          Denial surely that couldn't have been me 
That just...

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I am feeling the deep pain of my loss,
my little pet meant so much;
now, I have emptiness.

My heart is breaking and I need a hug,
but...

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My pet bird,
light brown with
scattered speckles,
perched on the edge
of the cat furniture
and observed
the autumn leaves,
light brown with
scattered speckles,
floating by.

My pet bird,
its speckled feathers
scattered around
the living...

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someone wise told me I should write about my great loss, 
maybe it would help me deal with my sweet boy’s death-
truth is I would...

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Sell the kinetic death metal,
see the swivel profits 
zooming to the stratosphere
Bloody schoolyard body count
is the cost of doing armed ant-farm business
Collateral damage is the...

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What would be the most perfect day?
       What would bring me the most joy?
The very first thing I’d have...

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She talks to blackness
Madness running in the night
I follow her trial through
Field and wood
My trigger finger heavy, good
Pshow the twenty two fires
Blawo blawo the shot...

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I will attempt to explain this using the following analogy.
I went For Help to BluePearl Veterinary,
with a feline medical emergency.
BluePearl saw me coming and thought,...

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The day Karen died you instantly became mine. A five-year-old golden retriever in need of a new mumma to call his own. So, I wrapped...

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It hurts when you lose them,
It hurts when they're gone.
When they've been right beside you,
A best friend for so long.

It doesn't seem fair,
It doesn't seem...

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Not a chance 
I’ll say that
I should have spent
more time housecleaning
But I know I will say...
I should have listened more 
To those voices deep within
What...

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She walked amongst the garden pews,
to smell the rose and honeydew.

She walked under the waning moon,
milky white with sweet perfume.

The restless chirped and sang their...

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THE LAST NEGOTIATIONS



The child that I was – Never believed in death-

Loving life so much that I cud not conceive of it.

Time – states of...

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