Dog Lullaby Poems

Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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quatrain with chain rhyme

The edge of the sunset dissolves
into the horizon.  The day's candle
dies, yet fires light the sky once more;
once more, as rioters...

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Tired of feeling sleepy today - August 17th, 2019

Lashed with fatigue,
eye cannot fend off lethargy
hazy, hot, humid weather zaps
mental physical, and spiritual energy
even men of...

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I am feeling creative tonight 

I feel like chicken tonight

Winner , winner chicken dinner 

Whistle my Dog

Bring me my slippers and smoking pipe

And a glass...

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I knew that a baby was hid in that house, 
Though I saw no cradle and heard no cry; 
But the husband was tip-toeing 'round...

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Money consceous in precise.
It's a bone thrown to domesticated dog,
My whole life was set on clock,
Narrow way wasn't part of my want...
Broadway was a prioritised...

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To my Friend, on his First Night in his Own House 
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Come out tonight (Ah! Lock the gate and outer door.
As it's early September 
And...

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When you stand in a canoe it can be hard to keep your balance. Likewise when you live life unsure, scared, unfaithful, it can be...

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as not you with yarmulke
delivering yogurts past the age of curdle
what you asked from me a cuddle

as in a tent you phantom 
I'll be drooling...

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Off his leash, he escapes,
diving under a chair.
Through each room of our house, 
he darts here; he darts there.

Little scamp can’t be caught.
He careens crazily.
For...

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Oh lord hear the lonesome cowboys lullaby, singing beneath
The vast prairie open sky.
Hush, do they not lull the restless cattle to sleep, by a soft
Undertones...

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Of all that is nature, I admire…
the song of night is best.
The frogs and birds and insect writhe,
the breeze in trees undressed.

Do you hear the...

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Death just seems to surround us. They say it comes in threes. A close friend just had a 
death, and then another came along for...

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Somber is the color of the day...
Window glass distorts the view, of the dreary afternoon
Prisms of light cavorting outside, are reflected from the dew
and rainbows...

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It’s an old dog day
when the dragonflies play
and the pines smell sweet
in the Big Thicket heat.

A shallow creek a-runnin’
and the lazy turtles sunnin.’
Soft sand under...

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