Rain Pets Poems

I.
Among twenty different brightly colored toys,
The only moving thing
Was the beak of a noisy parrot.

II.
I was of three family members,
Like a family tree 
In which...

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His incendiary comments
Ignited a conflagration
Concerning the dangers
Of “smokeless” tobacco

It’s the same look
Like the one the dogs get
When they hear the leash rattle
The eyes focus and...

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The sex had been amazing.  The women mysteries.  The alarm a mood breaker.  He awoke!  Stared at the ceiling, counted the...

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Cape Mendocino	

The westernmost tip of California
hard to reach
except by Google earth
the usual method of exploration
these days.

The Point Arena Library
where I hung my words upon
the Poet...

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I had named my verbose parrot Sunny, as he filled my world with sunshine;
For when someone truly touches the heart, you often must give some...

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Is there space for me in your mind? A spare space for me, for my love. For my existence. How many things need to be...

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Oh, to be maying this cool sun-snapped day,
Temperately faultless and fair.
Oh, to be roaming, this rare day in May ~
Oh, how I wish you were...

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Prediction

                A perfect weather system heading our way  
...

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It's cold and damp outside tonight.
A cold rain drizzles down;
And now it's just the four of us,
Who walk the streets of town.

I miss the others...

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Leave me alone, I yelled to the kitten
The almost adult one that stood on my head
It’s four in the morning and where is it written
That...

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A slobbering smile
A loving stare
A sofa, bed and floor
Covered in hair

A morning stroll
A paw in the air
Waiting for a tummy rub
A bear with a tear

Jumping...

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Dog:		You came to us from the local pound 
Cat:		An opened door and in you bound 

Crow:	We rescued you during a freezing rain 
Canary:	You sang to...

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I‘d been staying with pa - my folks got a divorce
and pa took me to the local greyhound course 
Pa’s greyhound was running, he runs...

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Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even...

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For years I’d begged my parents for a puppy
Sam was a surprise gift for my ninth birthday 
With his huge dark brown eyes and long...

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