Grief Dog Poems
These Grief Dog poems are examples of Dog poems about Grief. These are the best examples of Dog Grief poems written by international poets.
Dog Chases Tail
Written August 13, 2025, for a contest by Edward Ibeh
Quote: The grief you cry out from draws you toward union. Your pure sadness that wants
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Categories:
dog, animal, appreciation,
A Difficult Decision
dog stricken
with cancer;
euthanized.
out of her
m i s e r y;
dog owner
hollowed out
by deep grief;
best friend, gone!
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Categories:
cancer, death, dog, friend,
The Eternal Dog
A dog is love.
Love is a dog.
You always love me.
Of course, I love you, too.
You run fast.
Sometimes I miss you.
But you always come back to
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Categories:
animal, dog, emotions, grief,
Gate
It was a late night of the lively day,
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Categories:
dog, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Lost
I lost my beautiful dog today
I lost my dearest friend
She took with her
a piece of my heart
I’ll never feel again
I
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Categories:
animal, death, dog, friend,
For Sugar, My Sweet Dog
Sugar, my sweet, you’ve slipped away,
Into the light of a softer day.
My heart aches deep, it’s hard to bear,
This quiet house, this empty air.
You were
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Categories:
angel, dog, grief,
Steadfast Soul
Sometimes, I need some time alone
without the echoes of another voice,
the shadows, the silhouettes, the mist
crashing against the night, breaking
through the easy blue of summer
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Categories:
dog, appreciation, beautiful, devotion, friend,
Pause
Footsteps frozen in time:
Your last words.
Your final memory
Embroidered on my soul
In the garden,
Where you used to play.
You made pawprints on my heart
The day I met
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Categories:
animal, death, dog, grief,
ABEL-CAN ANIMALS SUBSTITUTE HUMAN LOVE?
Well, there is someone for me now-
I thought as I bought him home from the pet-shop,
My boy had left me last week,
Now I have him
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Categories:
dog, allusion, anger, anxiety, best
The Hungry Dog
I was born into a world that does not see me.
My body tells the story of absence;
The hollow of my stomach,
The jagged outline of my
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dog, angst, animal, beautiful, grief,
Can I be Selfish?
Let me have this moment
This space that'll forever be lost
Let it live on inside me
In my heart
In my mind
Can I be selfish?
Do I deserve to
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Categories:
animal, dog, fear, grief,
Christmas Yapping
To The Tune Of Christmas Wrapping By The Waitresses
Damn and blast ! Somethings wrong
My dog ran off down the freeway
I was away working hard
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Categories:
christmas, dog,
No Such Thing as Just a Dog
I know your heart is in the right place, trying to unburden me from my grief,
But the words coming out of your face are inconsistent
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Categories:
dog, grief,
I still see
*I still deal with my loving dog's death.
I still see her next to me
I still cannot kook at her photo
Deliberately burned toxins, killed her
My life
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Categories:
dog, grief, loss,
My Dog, Pig
My Dog, Pig,
was a British Bull
A heavy but steady
scary looking fool
She would stand like a statue
Perfectly hilarious
And balance on things we thought precarious
She
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Categories:
angst, death, dog, friendship,