Old 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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He bellied up to the bar
All cuddly-wuddly thought the barkeep
He ignored the pup
The pup began to whine
I cannot serve you! The barkeep said
You are a...

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I ran across a photo of our old dog Whitman with Thanksgiving just a day away…
It was a photo of him healthy and happy…before his...

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Of late I find myself talking at length 
to my dog – just “puppy talk” at first.
Then with a more grown-up vocabulary
 
most doting dog-owners...

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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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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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His exuberance overwhelmed all that met him. 

He was joyful every minute of every day He loved life and everything that beset him.

The missing rabbit...

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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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The dog wore a rainbow bandana
A feral cat hissed at it
Birds bullied each other at the feeder
A hawk in the shadows
Rats scurried through the alleys
Of...

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At nights we’d sit out on the balcony drinkin
Breathin
That thick mug air
Of a New Orleans summer evening.
Livin as easy
As they’d let us
In the bowels of...

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I hear little whimpers from out in the yard.
He is searching everywhere, looking really hard.

Then I realize he is missing his littler toy dog.
He looks...

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Old age is a mystery,
     Because, for some there is war,
     For some there is peace.

 ...

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Time passes so slowly and yet speeds by in a flash
Where on earth do the days of yester years go?

I look at my very old...

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