Introspection Dog Poems

I have grown old,
Yet I am still so young.
I am aged,
Like a fine wine.
My grapes have been crushed,
I have no juice left to give.
I am...

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Offerings we hold on to,
in time become egoic glue
and thus suspect are desires,
chasing dreams ego aspires.

Ego’s but an interface,
letting memory retrace
fond longings holding appeal,
rekindled with...

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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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A deep blue darkness blankets the evening 
Drawing me toward sleep, away from today
Peace is there where I am able to stop.

This is Home.
The word...

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--- Matamoros, 2:00p.m., December 6, 2014

I sit at this table
(as I have done many times)
wielding a ball-point pen,
with insufficiencies of
thoughts and words --
out of place.
All...

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she pips in fear for lateness like her peers,

hauteur cloaked with reticence,

her-boo-boo-vague, though walled around and palpable

official Narcissist disguised in rude affronts

Bravado of naughtiness in...

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Little fox my teacher, do you come here
Alone tonight in my dream
To prepare my courage?

Today’s task was successfully achieved;
Tomorrow’s is more daunting;
I dread its vicious...

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I could sell my house but then I would not have it,
so why would I do that?

I could shave my head, but I already look...

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"Yep!" was the telling yell yet failing to fail safely
And so I continued to train through inch forth by inch
Carefully unraveling my self-hate plainly
And Echo...

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The dog smells like cow manure,
My feet are black from the blacktop I've been
running around on all day, and the daisy backpack
I purchased solely to...

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a doG meditation...

this is about what we call "pets"
about ownership..objectivity..
an anachronism now..?
the inner model of
consciousness-only
may provide a hint:
only consciousness Knows
not plants..not animals..not us..
that is a...

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Walking the Dog on a Foggy Morning

Walking the dog on a foggy morning;
Eerie, quiet, meditative time.
Footsteps compete with unseen others,
Humming low to figure define.

Far away...

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#MIDNIGHT AND ME

I had a Dog named Midnight...he was every bit my Sunlight! At nine years old, I was told he died from a Hit...

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Clean mouth nose eyes ears and butt
And an all weather coat

You had me at domesticated wolf...

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His life was madness ... and then it stopped.
Air so thick in weight of night,
to be drafted, wars' jungle so casually dropped,
lone dog soldier on...

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