Mongrel Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Categories
	Throwing the Light on Birth	Lindsay Laurie	Rhyme	mongrel, humor,
	A Little Kindness Never Hurts	Lawrence Sharp	Free verse	mongrel, humanity,
	Harvest Inferno	Justin Bordner	Epic	mongrel, birthday, creation,
	Debts	Ibohal Kshetrimayum	ABC	mongrel, addiction, animal, anxiety, appreciation,
	Goebbel Voices	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Tristich	mongrel, evil, history, holocaust, wisdom,
	Liberty Bow Face	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Rhyme	mongrel, allusion, imagery, truth, wisdom,
	I Hate Flamin' Crows	Lindsay Laurie	Rhyme	mongrel, humor,
	100 99 98 off to the land of	matthew harris	Enclosed Rhyme	mongrel, 10th grade, 12th grade,
	Go on Back	John lawless	Rhyme	mongrel, childhood, city,
	Lost in the City	Lindsay Laurie	Rhyme	mongrel, humorous,
	Dining With the Refined	Lindsay Laurie	Rhyme	mongrel, humorous,
	Agricultural Show Rodeo	Lindsay Laurie	Rhyme	mongrel, adventure, animal, humorous,
	ST DOBPITROTGER	Lindsay Laurie	Rhyme	mongrel, humorous,
	A blind man and his poetic friend- in braille	Lewis Raynes	Quatrain	mongrel, love, perspective, philosophy, wisdom,
	10 LINES 5 WORDS	Andras Horvath	Rhyme	mongrel, analogy,
	Standing Tall	James Edward Lee Sr.	Free verse	mongrel, analogy, celebration,
	Babylonian Anthem	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Narrative	mongrel, bible, patriotic, religious, truth,
	Inspired by a lint cloth	Taoi Chanan	I do not know?	mongrel, baptism,
	Question the Answer	Freddie Robinson Jr.	Verse	mongrel, allegory, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
	City Sun Spots	John lawless	Quatrain	mongrel, art, city, dance, music,
	Cerberus	Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer	Rubaiyat	mongrel, horror, myth, mythology, nature,
	A ROADSIDE TALE	Amar Agarwala	Elegy	mongrel, death,
	SECURED	LEWIS NYAGA	Verse	mongrel, community, night,
	Creep	Robert Stoner Jr	Free verse	mongrel, introspection, poetry,
	Tozzath	Stanley Carter	Free verse	mongrel, death, fantasy, girl, magic,
	Dance the Sycamore	niall cuddy	Prose Poetry	mongrel, faith, introspection, jealousy, memory,
	Thoughts of a Blond Tyrant	dennis faherty	Dramatic monologue	mongrel, abuse, allusion, america, anger,
	Us	Christian Fuller	Free verse	mongrel, anxiety, confusion, evil, feelings,
	ASLEEP IN THE CITY - For SF Homeless	Edlynn Nau	Free verse	mongrel, beauty, city, loneliness, sleep,
	mongrel mongeese	Taoi Chanan	I do not know?	mongrel, assonance, baseball,
	The secret lives of chimney pots V	john fleming	Rhyme	mongrel, philosophy,
	Strays	Jerrell Jones	Iambic Pentameter	mongrel, animal, dog, , cute,
	REPO	Pete Yuhas	Rhyme	mongrel, car, irony, night, rights,
	Peoples Peace Day	DON JOHNSON	Ballad	mongrel, adventure,
	See Spot Run	Roderick Molasar	Rhyme	mongrel, animal, dog, children, kids,
	Rotten bananas	Feli Elizab	Free verse	mongrel, childhood, dad, family, father,
	Smartest Duck Dog in the World	Kevin Fairbrother	Free verse	mongrel, adventure, crazy, dog, smart,
	Passive	Gary Gene Linney	Free verse	mongrel, absence, sad,
	Between Two Dunderhead Friends	Onalethuso Petruss Buyile Mambo Ntema	Concrete	mongrel, anger, anxiety,
	Giv'us a Push	Lindsay Laurie	Rhyme	mongrel, humorous, , cute,
	The Chocolate Cake	Lindsay Laurie	Rhyme	mongrel, food, humor,
	Old Teddy	Diane Lefebvre	Narrative	mongrel, dog, humorous, memory,
	Out-Foxed by a Mongrel	Carrie Richards	Limerick	mongrel, animal, dog, funny,
	Army Brat	Ivor Davies	Rhyme	mongrel, introspection,
	Beautiful 'But' Ugly	TAMMY REAMS	Lyric	mongrel, beautiful, betrayal, desire, feelings,
	I am Fire	Peter Lewis Holmes	Free verse	mongrel, angst, death, fear, fire,
	He's Just a Dog	Lindsay Laurie	Rhyme	mongrel, animal, dog, trust, mum,
	The Grieving	Victoria Schmidt	Free verse	mongrel, christmas, death, grief,
	Con Artist	Cona Adams	Free verse	mongrel, abuse, father daughter,
	In Windsor, At The Library	Chris G. Vaillancourt	Free verse	mongrel, imagery, wisdom,

Mongrel Poem Example

He's Just a Dog

He’s just a dog, a mongrel pup that fitted in me hand,
short haired, tan and white, with needs of high demand,
he’s whingy and he’s whiny, I s’pose he misses Mum,
but now his Mum and Dad are what me wife and I become.

And the recommending is that we must take him to the vet,
to have all his virus shots with rates that put us into debt,
we had to have him micro-chipped in case of getting lost,
and then de-sexing and to register all added to the cost.

We made a fuss of him and spoilt him rotten to the core,
even after peeing on the carpet on the lounge room floor,
we fed him ‘smackos’, munchies, and tins of high-class meat,
and let him lick our plates for a special little treat.

We knew we shouldn’t feed him sitting at the dinner table,
but when those eyes stared through me, I just wasn’t able
to ignore the little blighter who was pleading for a crust,
and of course I’m feeling guilty, so ignoring is unjust.

He mightn’t talk, but body language gets his tale across,
by demanding his intentions with a bark “I am the boss!”
That can mean our double bed, becomes one of his beds,
it’s a God given right to scratch a pillow into shreds.

He’s just a dog, but as he grew from pup to fully grown,
there are more human aspects that our little dog has shown.
He’s believing in his own mind, we are not his Dad and Mum,
because now he is the King, and slaves we’re now become.

Dogs shouldn’t have to take a bath; a chain should be denied,
and a dog definitely should never have to sleep outside,
to prove his point before its dawn our actions are defied,
he’s barking at the back door demanding to be let inside.

He’s just a dog with habits that does reimburse our training,
he licks his bum and then me face, and thinks it’s entertaining,
then rubs his bum along the carpet, so we have to come to terms,
that we have to medicate him… ‘oh my God it’s bloody worms!’

The more we tried to train him, then the more he’s training us,
for he always gets his own way when he’s kicking up a fuss,
his wicker chair and blanket are for him and him alone,
and every week on shopping day he gets a king size bone.

And doesn’t he love visitors; it’s all ‘welcome to my joint,’
wagging tail and somersaults, but to get more to the point,
if he can’t grab the sole attention when he sits up and begs,
then it becomes acceptable to go humping people’s legs.

It took him very little time to claim the television set,
he’s the closest to the heater, and he does get quite upset
if we don’t take him in the car… and now when being fed,
he’s expecting us to feed him, his brekkie in our bed.

The house is rearranged these days to suit his every need,
each day by his insistence he is walked upon the lead,
we bow to all his wishes, to his commands and dialogue,
but for anyone who drops in… they only see a bloody dog.

Poem Copyright © Lindsay Laurie