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Poems About DogsPoems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
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Categories:
shaggy, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You PlayEvery Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
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Categories:
shaggy, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
shaggy, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your FavoriteThe 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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Categories:
shaggy, animal, cat, cute, dog, fun, humor, pets,
Form:
Limerick
Bionic Betty: Another True Tale From the Mental WardBetty was bonafide crazy. She had shot her husband after a night of drunken quarreling, and was in the state mental hospital instead of being in the slammer. She'd shot the louse in the stomach...
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Categories:
shaggy, crazy, woman,
Form:
Narrative
Beauty In DisguiseMy parents had both passed and I felt orphaned, alone --
Although I was married and lived hours away with a family of my own.
And today was a day I had dreaded for months
Silently traveling the...
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Categories:
shaggy, age, beauty, childhood, death, home, love, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliationPariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation
Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes
wordsworth their weight in gold
(exhumed from the pith
of these lovely bones -
beclothed with mottled skin)
presages afterlife of hellish horror
(think Dante's inferno),
nevertheless a respite from...
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Categories:
shaggy, 12th grade, absence, age, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
My Pen Is LoadedMy pen is loaded and I'm not taking any prisoners
I've been held hostage by depression for too long, so I'm sorry for not having many visitors
I've been going through it, and have spent many...
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Categories:
shaggy, depression, emotions, encouraging, fun, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair LineCourtesy severely receding hair line...,
yours truly enveloped within morose mood
I (Samson incarnate)
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.
Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...
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Categories:
shaggy, absence, anger, crush, cry, fate, heartbroken, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Shaggy Dog Limericks ViThe Rottweiler
I wouldn’t provoke a Rottweiler
Not unless I were prepped like a miler
Seems a little inbreeding
Done without heeding
Has turned Benji into a Sieg Heiler
The Saint Bernard
Though not in his nature to beg
He would flip for...
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Categories:
shaggy, animal, cute, dog, fun, funny, humor, pets,
Form:
Limerick
When You Are ReadyKublai has swollen lymph nodes in his throat that is why
it is hard for him to eat. The lymph nodes have spread
down his back, he won't last long. When it is time he won't eat...
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Categories:
shaggy, dog, love, pets,
Form:
Free verse
Peeps Eed To Come Together Part Twothere is a fountain hidden with peace in our society to set mens hearts free
folks its time we came together no matter what the weather & smile
for we know all the great while that its...
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Categories:
shaggy, art, autumn, baseball, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
My Son JohnMy son, John, was an engaging fellow, who was barely ten years old;
And liked frogs, marbles and playing ball, in luscious, noontime gold.
My son, John, was rather a dreamer, like the lazy cloud, sky features.
My...
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Categories:
shaggy, character, color, fantasy, nature, nursery rhyme, son,
Form:
Couplet
A Boy Who Loved BlueHe lived on a beautiful, rural farm, back in fond, good old days of yore,
With his parents and two brothers; like sun's going in and out the door.
He had always adored the color blue, so...
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Categories:
shaggy, blue, boy, dream, fantasy, imagery, nature, sleep,
Form:
Couplet
Ramsay RoeI am Flight Sgt Ramsay Roe, and my memories have faded,
Of my experiences in Burma, and their chronological order,
But into my memory’s deep recesses i have dug and waded,
Although the exact...
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Categories:
shaggy, courage, hero, history, political, pride, remember, world
Form:
Quatrain
Literary Orgasm(alternate title – A bona
er fide dog day afternoon delight).
A mere half dozen vowels
constitute the English language
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay
Consonants comprise majority
(sans remaining twenty)
...
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Categories:
shaggy, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Lay
Love That Could Not BeLove is an enchantment, a passion, but most of all a mystery.
No one knows how it starts or where it will end
But, once you've been stung by its infectious delight
You...
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Categories:
shaggy, adventure, fantasy, imagination, loveday, woman, women, clothes,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Legend of Leap CastleTHE LEGEND OF LEAP CASTLE
In the dark shadows of the ancient past,
Creatures move within the kingdom of darkness,
Hidden illusions of faded forms of existence, roaming the hallowed
Halls in echoing’s of delusions, royal tombs shudder beneath
The...
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Categories:
shaggy, evil, halloween, history, holiday, horror, mystery, myth,
Form:
Free verse
Lords of the Prairies - An Epitaph : a Tribute To the BisonDressed in my shaggy brown coat
I stand nearly six feet
at my shoulders
and weigh almost a ton
My brethren and I
once roamed the prairies
in herds of millions
grazing on its grass
which fed and nourished us
for tens of...
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Categories:
shaggy, animal, death, eulogy, native american, obituary, tribute,
Form:
Personification
Captain Nate Part 2Aye aye, said the captain, who spoke to his mate,
The very same mate, who choked on his plate,
A young pirate laddie, with one common trait,
A rabid distaste for the food which he ate.
Oh how can...
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Categories:
shaggy, appreciation, blessing, character, depression, forgiveness, leadership, pride,
Form:
Rhyme
Brave American KnightDriving home one day after hours of monotonous office work,
Saw a man sitting by the road; looked as one down on his luck.
Paid small notice to the figure; my lonely life was in a rut.
He...
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Categories:
shaggy, character, hero, strength, tribute, veterans day, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Bull-Bison Rodeo, Part II was drifting west through old Wyoming,
to see if ranches were hiring,
it had been some weeks since I’d gotten work,
sought a new scene to see what it might bring.
I was somewhere just east of Yellowstone,
the...
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Categories:
shaggy, adventure, animal, fun, humor, imagery, nature, silly,
Form:
Narrative
They Are More Than Just RocksOnce there was a woman
Who hap to pass this way,
She examined all the rocks she could
To pass the time of day.
With each stone she did pick up,
She felt the weight of time,
T'was just as if...
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Categories:
shaggy, adventure, imagination, nature,
Form:
Verse
Memo For Destroyer Poet a Linda: 3 20 P M, 23rd April 2013 Paris, FranceMEMO for Destroyer Poet A Linda: 3. 20 p.m., 23rd April 2013 – Paris, France
If you are Red I am Brown
If you’re not
Then as one concrete painter using phonemes
...
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Categories:
shaggy, dedication,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Educating Bigfoot, Part Ii...The bigfoot poked out again the next day
with the little one not that far behind,
came lunch time Julio put out apples,
before each he would stop and make the sign.
He did this for days, an entire...
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Categories:
shaggy, animal, education, friendship, humanity, nature, teacher, tree,
Form:
Narrative