Dark Dog Poems

My faithful dog brings so much joy to my life
Always there to comfort me in times of strife
Excepting me no matter what , a quality...

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(Moonshadow in the North Cascades, 1981)

Oh Sweet Hound

The world turns
Full of bright hopes
And dark fears
Love lost and found
And as it spins
Ever faster
There is just one
Source...

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("Pema", 2017, original pen and ink)

The Journey of Souls

Dogs make the ultimate example
Of a conditionable being,
And my deaf-dog buddy
Old Pema the Pug is no exception.

Meanwhile...

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Did you ever have the felling you are being watched?

The night is dark with a subtle light softly glowing through curtain windows
the outside porch light...

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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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The lovechild of a god and a poet 
Your eyes in that photo
They spoke of kindness and innocence
The heart on your neck, I took as...

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Aged man walks on the busy street
Beyond his ability to cross
Cane in hand, old friends he needs to meet
Delayed by rain, worried about loss

Earlier, he...

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Winston’s black dog visits me once again,
forever prowling round on these dark days. 
I’m forced to consider the real problem -
and try to take a...

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("Howling Rock", City of Rocks, 2016)

Hate Speech

My dogs bark into the night
scared and excited about something in the dark
coyotes or deer or maybe just their...

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If I wasn't there,
the rain swollen clouds
would have still dumped 
their dark weight over the bay
and through a gaping tear,
let down a curtain of sunlight
to...

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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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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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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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My house echos with laughter with my Sassy girl
She will be two in November energizing my world
Watching her two little older brothers makes her glad
picks...

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Once I had a big fright,
It was dark, it was cold, was the middle of the night
Not so bright.

Fur on hand,
Such pungent air I cannot...

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