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Lapdog Poems - Poems about Lapdog

A Sticky Silence

...A keyboard lays across my knees
like a sleeping lapdog,

The B and the K are sticky keys
that cannot bark
or pronounce their own function.

The keys are unstuck by pure alt control,
I have al...
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Categories: lapdog, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLapdog

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  Preaching ‘constructive dialog’
  Rule-breakers mock her

  Minouche Shafik is in whole-hog
  Puppet of Progressives ~ the left’s lapdog


   __________________
  Minouche Shafik is the c...
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Categories: lapdog, analogy, education, irony, political,
Form: Rubai



papillon

...a glass magnifies

small lapdog
butterfly
landing perfectly
on a flat nose

the glass pushes detail
into a wide eye

the picture is a thumbnail

maximum enlargement
knocks over it digita...
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Categories: lapdog, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYou're the Reason

...Not easy following you,
picking up the pieces
my, how you
wreck with a vengeance.

Not talking just this life, 
so many others, no choice
still as mine (the choice), take heed! 
come back to ...
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Categories: lapdog, perspective, remember,
Form: Prose Poetry

Desk

...The oak desk is a polished surface 
holding-up nothing, reflecting nothing
not even a base of anything.

Once it was an upheaval of random displacements 
of elbows and eyes.
E-mails wriggled li...
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Categories: lapdog, poetry,
Form: Free verse



The Broken Valkyrie

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"The Broken Valkyrie"



when 
the artificial 
sun 
replaced 
true Light,
revolution 
was a forgotten 
Valkyrie, 
Liberty 
had been 
put to bed
broken whore 
of ...
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Categories: lapdog, dark, humanity, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTea Party In the Attic

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The attic is creaky and full of dust,
but, I just pretend it is my stardust;
I love playing tea party with my pets,
they sit as I recite my alphabets !

At the table is Willy a hu...
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Categories: lapdog, children, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPearls Before Swine

...Drove past your old house, slowin' just because..
perhaps just to return to scene of the crime.
Kinda sad to find nothing left as once was, 
proof your lapdog better comfort than I.

Came to set...
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Categories: lapdog, absence, appreciation, life, lost
Form: Rhyme

We Ain'T Want That

...Crumbling I say our country is crumbling
A president that don't have self confidence
we ain't want that at all
A so call vice president with no dignity
Pulling the strings like a puppet master
W...
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Categories: lapdog, conflict, devotion, future, history,
Form: Free verse

No End

...The lapdog is our friend
The laptop is our mend

There’s no end
We are trapped in a pen
Maybe this is a trend
We don’t need to spend
However, we need to pretend
We enjoy our weekend
Although...
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Categories: lapdog, community,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYou Have To Be a Dog Lover

...The Heinz dog and the Silky and that Precious Papillion,
A Terrier and Chihauhau-are a few that I have known.
Not all at once, of course, but a few throughout the years,
They delegate their tails ...
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Categories: lapdog, dog, love, people,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe News Seller

...Callum is an old-fashioned man on the verge of becoming history’s memory

Ancient even in that he holds only one job but that is for privation of another 

Sort of a whiz kid at what he does and ...
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Categories: lapdog, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Brainwashing a Greenhorn In My College Den

...I dubbed a first year my room mate
Upon arrival into our teacher training college
To baptize him. His pride in quick order I did decimate
Taking him at high celerity on a binge

Initiating him i...
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Categories: lapdog, poems,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChained

...Chained

Winged, winking devils dance
on onyx tinted wings entice
burnt appendages so broken inside rib cage

Unable to fly out of this hell hole
a shadow lifted nevermore
a touch as cold as ...
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Categories: lapdog, dark, heart,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChained

...Winged, winking devils dance
on onyx tinted wings entice
burnt appendages so broken inside rib cage

Unable to fly out of this hell hole
a shadow lifted nevermore
a touch as cold as night lures...
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Categories: lapdog, dark, desire, heart, lust,
Form: Free verse

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