Long Basset Poems

The Spaniel

A Spaniel that uses its head 
Can tell when its owner’s unfed 
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck 
Will deliver a pizza instead
 
The Afghan Hound

The Afghan’s a dog groomer’s...

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I opened Paris' letter and cry


my heart dropped
my fingers trembled
I opened Paris' letter
mama it's been three days ...
then the dam burst, 
not the happy kind
unregretfully
the kind that spells gloom
sobs of tears roll down my face
uncontrollably...

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I am a basset hound and I love to play
I can run and jump all day
I really love magic and tricks
I also love chocolate bics
Yummy! They are so good 
I would eat a packet a...

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Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever (Toller)

To “toll” is to dance like a fox
Luring mallards or teals to the rocks
Where a hunter’s awaiting
What the dog has been baiting
Scaring duckies right out of their jocks

The Old English...

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somewhere out there

a basset hound lives in the same house as a

macaw.

 

the gorgeous tropical bird,

bearing its staggeringly spectacular array of

intensely prepossessing &

polychromasiac

hues,

dominant in the household as an exotic

spectacle

whose mere presence in a non-tropical environment

pulls...

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the dripping blood from her heart needed to clot

the couple was rolling along in their boat
on a river to nowhere, on a cloudy day
when she decided to push him overboard
she was tired of his cheating...

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The Spaniel

A Spaniel that uses its head 
Can tell when its owner’s unfed 
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck 
Will deliver a pizza instead
 
The Affenpinscher (Affen)

Not sniffle nor snuffle nor...

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I shook my hips down at Heart Break Hotel...
My ghost now supposedly wanders to where, I just
will not tell.
I had a twin brother that died at birth...
My mother i dearly loved had died and i...

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Let me tell you a story about a dog named Sam
Sam was a basset hound of most dubious origins
He had a huge ugly wart on his back, not so glam,
A neighborhood dog, at supper he...

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She leads her army up and down,
two sides of Main Street, and is found
companioned by three basset hounds.
They follow, closely, at her heels
like foundlings gathered round

I've often wondered where she goes,
with shopping cart, and dogs...

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Grandpa

a kind face
 
skin leathery and creased from years of working in the sun
 
long jowls like a basset hounds
 
sad droplet eyes
 
always a slight aroma of beer
 
brown wrinkled callous palms
 
dirt-stained fingernails...

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"Velvet Smooth" she disquised her
Voice to speak to her followers.
Basset toned, they said she was a
Soprano. The course of years revealed
she was a he. A man nicknamed
"Phatez" who couldn't get a break in
Music, he opened...

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During the day
there's a deceptive lull
in the staid common parlor
when the home seems deadly dull

Stale air, disinfectant and potpourri
stirred only by the worried, hurried strides
of harried nurses down hectic halls
stuffy efficiency personified

In contrast to those,...

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ANOTHER POETRY SOUP 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me
	a squirrel in a sycamore tree 
On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me
	two...

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As the second hand ticks away my breaths
a half-clad moon catches my eye.
Was a time when I might've seen
the ghost of half-eaten melon,
but I'm older now, my thoughts less spry.
Dark fear's hobgoblins
were long since relegated
to...

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Autumn leaves in mid-day sunlight swirl down, crimson 
and golden brown, from atop the sugar maple trees crown.

Fisher, a six-year-old boy, with fine fiery red curls like maple leaves,
angelic almond shape emerald green eyes, and...

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Just a saggy-sad dumbfounded Basset Hound
Got claimed at the doggone-it lost puppy pound
Just hangin' out now and nosing around
Waiting for my supper to get back from town
Hooray! A dog's life for an ole' English lass

Can't...

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Basset Hound had a gift to deliver, but he forgot to whom.
He had reminded himself by remembering to say witch’s broom.
Was it Witch Hazel? Asked his mother, trying to help.
He thought it was another, possibly...

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EVER SEEN TWO OSTRICHES KISSING

Could there possibly be a single topic
I haven't as yet explored
The love life of the lowly earthworm
Or why most chickens don't snore

And have you ever considered this
Why dogs and household cats
Never...

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Could there possibly be a single topic
I haven't as yet explored
The love life of the lowly earthworm
Or why most chickens don't snore

And have you ever considered this
Why dogs and household cats
Never wear off the shoulder...

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Could there possibly be a single topic
I haven't as yet explored
The love life of the lowly earthworm
Or why most chickens don't snore

And have you ever considered this
Why dogs and household cats
Never wear off the shoulder...

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Not only is Juliette Lewis an attractive actress, she's also one of the greatest female
rock stars since Mia Zapata. When she's on the stage with her band, all rock/indie rock
fans are really amazed. Juliette's not...

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Fuzzy and I driving along
Going to Ricky’s to eat
He had to swerve his truck to miss
A Basset Hound in the street

Fuzzy! Stop the truck, let’s go back
And check out that Basset Hound
By God, that’s got...

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 Once upon a time
There was a little paper doll
She lived in a paper house
Made of paper walls

She had a paper mom
She had a paper dad
And a little paper basset hound
All wrinkled up and sad

This...

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two lost forlorn basset hounds had their tempers on the ground
they were wet and soggy and soppy and lonely, and it was cold.
two gooders named Sammy and Petey came quickly around.
Sammy the cat was the...

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