Autumn Dog Poems

Dotty doggy duo, daily derring-do,
descending leaves decorating yard,
Beau-black as coal,
brown-eyed batty Gus,
barking brazenly, bounding,
both bonkers?
a boisterous, "You betcha!"

Kings of calamity-
canines of chaos,
squirrels scurry for sweet...

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A collage of warm leaves
Branches tangled against the fierce horizon
The pulse of paws hitting the ground
The soft melody of her collar
Bitter autumn air
Biting at our...

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Kit

Before I opened the carton,
   I’d chose the name Kit,
      Thinking of strong Wild West women.

Our little girl,...

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The sun hangs high in an ocean of space 
Above the mature pinnacle of trees.  
My friends and I walk down a dusty path....

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Acorn boy met mushroom dog in the autumn, it was fine.
They both were lost in the forest, finding each other in time.
They cuddled up during...

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dog catcher ferguson jeeves

found a new job raking leaves

since he turned eighty one

neighbors now have more fun

hes no longer spreading fleas.
...

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Can you hear the melody the wind breathes
into the branches brown and green and some black
Its like the familiar noise your nose makes
when you have...

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Autumn leaves in mid-day sunlight swirl down, crimson 
and golden brown, from atop the sugar maple trees crown.

Fisher, a six-year-old boy, with fine fiery red...

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How swiftly my thoughts fly now
  to corduroy pants and caps

Facing a howling northeaster
  whistles, the rally of hunting dogs
   ...

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In the crisp days of autumn
hot breezes mute his distant bark:
the happy wanderer's song sung
from his old canine heart.

The autumn hunt is on.  He'll...

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IN THE PLAYGROUND

by

LIZZY DUNKS

Juniors bulling readily.
Wind howling loudly. 
Infants spying quietly.
Dogs barking roughly.
Mums watching cruelly.
Cats purring softly.
Branches falling swiftly,

By Lizzy Dunks aged 7
Leslie Manser Primary...

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I went out back
And sat
On a stone bench
To watch the sun set
Just before 5:00 on Winter Solstice

The cold stung the skin of my Levis
Then fit...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Poems about Children V

Pan
by Michael R. Burch

Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves

Once there were paths that led to...

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23 Sept 2020 9:01 pm

Two old country gentleman step out on an autumn night
And stare into the heavens to see the stars so bright

One last...

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