Tree Pets Poems

Get in line man, there's no need to bark.
Have some patience, you'll soon make your mark.
You think this is bad, Spot?
Just be glad you don't...

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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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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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Kids believe in the Tooth Fairy
     then 'graduate' to the 'Money Tree'
  that grows deep roots in your back yard

...

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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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They are airy light and crispy feel and look like cork, a yummy treat
Buffalo lungs my three dogs love to eat
A midday snack they gobble...

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My black cat Samson 
Was my kind of guy
When you hear more
You may wonder why

Happiness was measured 
Without any trouble
By the speed and size
Of his...

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The backyard area by the door for grass it always needed more
to much shade from the mulberry tree and hungry rabbits like to feed
When it...

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I have a mischievous cat named coco,
Once you meet him you’ll like him too.
Or maybe you would think he is loco,
But I’m certain you’d no...

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The Bichon Frise

The Bichon in chiffon looks so frou 
That the crowd duly wowed has to coo 
‘Til the dog starts to droop
And its owner...

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she ...

my joy -
always slept there ...
rescues, you see,
she and her half-sister came just
before Christmas,
and the tree -
its lights,
Its protection,
its warmth and refuge -
was their...

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Merlin, the magic cat, was treading lightly
For some of his pranks had turned out unsightly
Like taking the scissors to our dog’s fluffy tail,
After knocking over...

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My best guess is that I must
have been 6 or 7. Back then,
long before boys like me turned
into men, I had a friend named Jack.

Anyway,...

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My two pet rats so cheeky and bright,
  one brown and one black and white,
who live only a short age
  rattlin’ around in...

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