Child Pets Poems

A lonely young girl,
dreams each night for a doggy.
A new furry friend to hold tight,
a new friend to play with.
Someone to love,
someone to care for.
One...

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To My First Dog


Long asleep in your unknown grave,
My companion, loyal and beloved
Throughout my youth’s growing years,
You cannot know nor now see
How you do still...

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(Pema, spring 2019)

It’s All About Grooming

I’ve had my pug now almost 13 years,
and we both adore each other,
but I clearly have the advantage
because I’ve been...

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Dogs
antics delightful
feasting midst chicken bones
waiting to be caressed

Cats
cheerful meows
satisfied with dinner
toward sweet dreams

Love birds
couple crooning
disturbed with greetings
to fly freely they wish

Monkeys
monkeyrium in room
cuddly apes and...

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Dogs, cats, children, mates, heck, even strangers 
sometimes find themselves drawn close
in proximity to something 
they feel but may not
even know how to articulate.

Such is...

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slow moving reptile
lives inside leathery shell
     good pet for a child...

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in frosty winter I visited my son in sunny California! 
              ...

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She prowls regally like feline queen of nine lives, 
the fat lady Lucy calls her Merlin, the magic cat,
as white as the first snow or...

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Me Pretty Parrot

 
                     ...

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A black cat with long hairy curved tail,
an old lady brought me to her home,
not a long time ago though, instantly
overwhelmed me by her love...

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Jewels

You are the one that I love to tease.
I lay on my back and stretch out my paws
I give you that look, come pet me...

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I
Last week, funeral
You heard Nature reviled here
But Neem Tree gave life

II
This week, two new pets
Chicken Little, who comes in nights --
Angel, power-lady dog, outside...

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I've never ever in my life liked any cats,
I preferred to live, rather, amidst grain-field-rats;
And black cats, all the more, have remained omens, bad,
To see...

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I
 What immortal hand or eye
Could frame mysteries in the sky!

II
When the world is too much with us
 He sends visions, Ramanujans, Christ

III
 Shakespeare had...

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It fell from the masters table.
Pets would snaffle it if able.
"Why!,' yelled the master,  'are you dumb?
You grapple over one mere crumb!
You both have...

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