Dog Imagism Poems

         
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My sharp 
              eyes  
                      saw
           
A dog  
        digging 
                    a hole
                             at Davenport.
A cat 
        catching 
                     a cobra and 
                                        cutting 
                                                  ...

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Walking over to the wrong parked car
Remembering it is Monday

A bird squawking over the sweet tweeters
An extrovert in a meeting of introverts

Putting my own booted...

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I do not see the house at first, I see the bird feeders and a fat cat.
The striped beast lies in wait on the path...

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The wailing shrieks 
of a banshee
warns of death
hidden amidst the chaos
created by a blizzard.
And skeleton trees
rattle bare bones
as Winter's wrath
shakes and pounds them
with fists of...

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I 'm a cloud watcher
Always watching clouds
The sky is so blue
With patches of white
All different shapes 

There were animals 
Dogs kissing cats
Cats sitting beside 
A...

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I see my next life
A vision clearly
Being married young
Having twins babies
A boy and a girl
Having a pet cat

A house on a hill
Near by town to...

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I come to the railing of my deck
and look out on the view which every day I see.
A yard which is still surprisingly green
despite our...

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In the past the wind of this riverside would not have comforted me
I probably would have never noticed the fragrance of delicate violets.
The robins' chatter...

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I was melting on this Missouri day, but I knew where to go
We live on thirty-three acres of woods, and in the center is a...

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The day yawns
stretches...
like a flower
petals upturned
ghostlike vapors
drift away
Bullfrogs croak
My dog slumbers...

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The leaves crunch under my feet as I walk.
Admiring my forest for the hundredth time.
Loving it that deer bound away flashing me with their tails.
Sometimes...

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IT WAS a dreary February day
That melancholy walk by the park with a blue morning 
And a cloudless sky.

Alas! I met a stray puppy, effulgent...

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The dog slinks past me
   a plea in its eye
bowed head upraised
   barely 

Turning toward me 
   piteously --

Snap!...

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A stray chocolate Weimaraner
On the left side of the road
Scooped up, yet lovingly licking a face
Whimpering in pain, yet wagging its tail
Poor thing's been struck
By...

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