Dog Night Poems

Did you ever have the felling you are being watched?

The night is dark with a subtle light softly glowing through curtain windows
the outside porch light...

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The spruce boughs looks so much larger once we get inside,
green needles trickle to the ground, a slow and steady tide,
so tall and stately you’d...

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I didn’t really know what I should do.
Dad said, “you need to pull her close to you.”
When I tried to do like he told me...

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As promised to Sara Baker... here is the Night Before Christmas, 
Cajun style ~ by James Rice
        ...

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("Howling Rock", City of Rocks, 2016)

Hate Speech

My dogs bark into the night
scared and excited about something in the dark
coyotes or deer or maybe just their...

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Eerie Midnight …walking through empty field,
found three strange witches asking me to yield,
abominable they looked,
brewing, following their book! 
had no choice but to those creatures...

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The night is deliciously hot 
every child is decked out 
in a Halloween costume
 the full moon beams 
as witches prepare 
their concocted spells 
spending...

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Whatever happened to the twelve o ‘clock rambler,
nocturnal venturesome brushstroke sort,
they face whirlwind snowfall, freezing ice,
while others brazenly squirm,
not for stoic diarist this threadbare exit,
exodus...

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Once I had a big fright,
It was dark, it was cold, was the middle of the night
Not so bright.

Fur on hand,
Such pungent air I cannot...

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The red double-decker, is not crowded,
A late night and I am riding home dog tired.
She's sitting two rows ahead of me,
but I can see her...

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See there marches Orion
   With Sirius close at his feet
Tarrying not long in the air
   To begin the midnight hunt. 

His...

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a
dark limo
picks up my
still undressed
shadow

the driver is
known to me
as a frequent stranger

we are going to a gym
where some time later

i hang upside down
on inversion cables

blood...

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The Moon became quietly jealous
   One night when I surveyed Venus.
The usual glory reserved for her
   Went to the dancer with...

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I had become bubble wrapped,
cotton candy had stuck to my brain
as I drifted
from one dream to another.

I went out to study the night sky,
to reflect.
As...

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.So this one was really just a bit of fun I wanted to try and incorporate some really old slang type language within the piece,...

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