Dog Introspection Poems

It has been sitting there for seventy long years, and nobody knew that it was there, it is just a simple tree erected in the...

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Enthusiasm, a fickle friend,
Illumining the soul, or chasing an end.

A trumpet call to start the race,
Run with heart, or without a face.

Honoring the master’s call...

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My candle burns at both ends.
It will not last the night.
But, ah my foes, and oh, my friends,    
it sheds a lovely...

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("Winter's Edge", 2018, original encaustic)

Darkness

Darkness darkness be the pillow 
That pulls me in and holds me down
When all around the light had faded 
And nowhere...

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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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Thoughts like entries in a old maritime log;
They're kenneled on a shelf like a dog;
From a ship; dry docked in a bottle,
Within a remote hut;...

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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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Today on our morning dog walk in the hills 
I use my wife  
for a role she’s supremely suited for, 
a reflective foil for...

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There are certain colours in the world that dogs can't see.
There's a dog in my neighbourhood,
Always alone,
Always sitting patiently,
As if he's waiting for something, or...

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In a breeze of timid whispers 
and with wary downcast eyes
the secret world was opened 
to where true depth of feeling lies.

With each step, stories...

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eat when hungry
and sleep when sleepy ~
an age old counsel of monks
seemingly easy but we cannot 
being in bondage to ego agendas
and so it’s time...

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Jack built a magnificent house
Filled it with objects of beauty 
But in it he yet felt lonely
So he bought a dog
As a companion 
It still...

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I am an  angry man 
I considered butchering my mother 
So that the government could offer me 
Other accommodations away from her 
Just because...

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The sober drunk

He woke up early, had fallen asleep when drunk
now, he was sober trembling hands and blurred vision 
full of self-loathing; what happened once,...

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Without an iota…
out of the pan
into the fire
for my wokeness
an eternal pyre
God given compassion 
comfort 
I cannot see
for my own
you will not believe
they say you...

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