Dog Parents Poems

I am running away the four-year-old told his parents.
Take some clothes, his father urged him.
Better take your piggy bank, said his sister.
Would you like a...

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Bob is a grown baby
Spoiled rotten by two doting parents
They do not get along well
Have been divorced for years

Agree on only one thing
Bob should be...

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Raising a Kid isn't Easy
    You notice that fish don't do it
  Some even eat their offspring
    If...

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I had the easiest time letting go of my oldest.
She and I were not getting along any more. 
I had to drag her to college...

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The parents eagerly get on their computer daily
For their first baby is at a college an hour away
Her social posts keep them in the loop
a...

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Some people lose their eyes.
Spiders fall from the sky.
I ate a green hotdog once.
My grandma’s dog poops green.
A giggle.
Two of them look to see if...

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I wanted him to be a scientist.
He did not want that; he was willful and stubborn.
So, I let my dream go, but I was angry.

She...

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He sits in solitude except for the incoherent yelling in the next room.
The yelling is accompanied by the high pitch shrill of breaking glass and...

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Animals hate this night,
Keep them safe inside,
The fireworks are going bang,
The smell of them fills the air,
Bonfire burning bright sparks crackling and spitting,
Stand well back,
The...

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There was a man, calm and collected
With a kid, a dog and wife well connected;
He was a brother, a father, a man
And like any other...

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Bentley, get off the ground!
I smiled because I am shopping child-free.
In charge of no one except myself.
The only Bentley I have known is a dog.
This...

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Biological parents minted circa December 1st, 1957

Amelie Beth Harris
fresh out womb blurted "ahoy"
melded as genetic
deoxynucleic acid alloy
awkward first time parents

natural affection did employ
Boyce and Harriet...

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My parents are bees!
Busy bees!

They keep a dog
Log

It's quite sassy
Bossy

From the top, that dog sees for miles
Smile...

They are recording a discovery now
WOW!

Then, where is my...

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I had a dog.  It did not behave.
I took it back to the shelter.
I got a cat.
It hissed at me.
I kicked it out.
Dumped it...

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Moral- Face your Fear.
After a hot summer day, the little dog was exhausted.  He was panting heavily, needing some water to cool down. ...

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