Who I Am
...Who I Am - Updated Poetry Contest
Constance La France
I'm a flame glove
His heat kept me warm but burned me
I jumped into his fire, I'...
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Categories:
lapdogs, lost, relationship,
Form: Verse
Dead Dog Walking
...Took my dead dog for a long walk today.
I like to think that some that passed by
glimpsed the whisk of her bushy tail
or heard her cheerful panting,
as she strained at the leash.
I was reading...
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Categories:
lapdogs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sheltie
...Took my dead dog for a long walk today.
No one that past-by saw her,
even I only glimpsed the whisk
of her tail as she pulled at her leash,
or overheard her cheerful panting
as ice-crun...
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Categories:
lapdogs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
You 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:
lapdogs, dog, love, people,
Form: Rhyme
Theater of Utter Charm Part 4
...Part 4
this is a big high nine
to all my homies and homers and homoerotics
out there where the pedal hits the mental
as we head off upon a merry adventure
to the 20th century's aftermath party...
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Categories:
lapdogs, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Frolic In the Off-Leash Dog Park
...With a wag of tail and tongue bedraggled
dogs drag their owners to frolic off-leash
in parks devoted to dog meets dog dalliance and play.
Despite their authority, the owners know each
not by th...
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Categories:
lapdogs, dog,
Form: Prose Poetry
There Is No More
...There is NO MORE!
There Is No More!
9/10/2013
Now that Afghanistan is winding down
A new battlefield must be found
Preferably a place with internal strife
Where we can promise a better life
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Categories:
lapdogs, arabic, grief, political, war,
Form: Rhyme
Seclusion
...The Curse of Seclusion
The emaciated dog so lonely it sought company
by looking into a puddle. Afar glittering street light
It had been there seeking food and shelter, but had
been chased away...
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Categories:
lapdogs, dog, humor,
Form: Blank verse
Jigsaw Puzzle
...(Manifesto)
VIII … stop! - Skid! - Shift knobs, slide gears, vomit numbness, fondle!… the music of
guillotines!…
VII … unmannered retching! since everything is a percentage of death in mote...
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Categories:
lapdogs, socialdark, dark, love, giggle,
Form: Free verse
Indignant
...well, you're indignant as hell
at his slavish hunger for praise,
demanding and grabbing credit
for deeds that were never his;
at his sense of infallibility,
his utter inability to brook
criti...
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Categories:
lapdogs, on work and working,
Form: Free verse
Hubristic Power
...Inscrutable torrents of history shall crush
him who ignores the lessons in his greedy rush,
his rabid obsession to subjugate others
tears this despot's humanity into tatters
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Categories:
lapdogs, people, philosophy, social, death,
Form: Rhyme