Child Dog Poems

Help me please!  I'm a kid, and I'm confused. 
Something's wrong with me - 
I like to run wild and free 'neath the sun,
And...

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Our four grandchildren have grown up before our eyes…it’s hard to imagine that!
Which means it’s been years since they spent the night with us and...

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Little boys in caps
Dirt on their seat,
Puppies in their laps
Toy cars at their feet

Dirt on their seat 
Baseball at their side,
Toy cars at their feet...

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Relaxed and warm I'm feeling
under this warm blanket,
I can sleep out from the cold.

Sometimes I wonder
if others are so lucky, 
I guess many don't,
then I...

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To My First Dog


Long asleep in your unknown grave,
My companion, loyal and beloved
Throughout my youth’s growing years,
You cannot know nor now see
How you do still...

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(Pema, spring 2019)

It’s All About Grooming

I’ve had my pug now almost 13 years,
and we both adore each other,
but I clearly have the advantage
because I’ve been...

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There's a hospice for sick children, in the woods by where I live
and many times I wonder, just what I wouldn't give
to hear those small...

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When Daddy brought Serena a wolf pup
He did not realize what would happen
When the pup grew up and became her guardian

Serena did not have to...

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There you are-
A favored photograph
Framed upon the smooth, bisque-colored door
Of our Kenmore refrigerator
Centered-
Fastened in prominence by
Blue and yellow star-shaped magnets with
"Importance" inscribed upon each corner.
You-
A...

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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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Kiki Lindstrom had a dog
A tiny puppy poodle
When she took it for a slog
It flipped a puppy's noodle

Kiki think about your pup
And think about the...

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Poor Blue. Written about a visit to the butchers with my mum, in Liverpool, when I was a child

Poor Blue

To butchers I went
With mother to...

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My cute little puppy,
let us go riding in my doll buggy,
let us go riding in my doll buggy.


My cute little puppy, 
I am so very...

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"Give the Dog a Bone"

It's a 'nursery rhyme' and sung 'wisdom' for ages,
which this child ('would be' man) sees as 'love' now (life stages?)
I don't...

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Ode to Lua, my dog.
Lua was lost, she was gone.
I wanted to be gone with her.
She was my last, my lost child, my full heart.
Confused...

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