Pets Quatrain Poems

A Balliol rhyme is a doggerel verse form with a distinctive meter. A quatrain, with a pair of couplets (rhyme scheme AABB), with four beats...

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He’s a sad Bunny
With floppy ears
Sadly button eyes
they can’t shed tears

Bottom of the pile
New toys on top
He needed Beth’s help
To hippity hop

With imagination 
she brought...

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There are many "cures" for depression, some of them are drugs from a pharmacist, and others are creations by a loving God.

Surmounting feelings of depression-caused...

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Genie, my dog: 

She was mixed part Pomeranian part Shih Tzu 
a female genius with excellent sight  
wise beyond her years she always knew...

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Pomeranians bark a lot.
This I know from the one I've got.
As to why this should be so
I must confess I do not know....

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Time, like a river, flows over rocks and hills
until the moment it finally stills...poet

Goodbye is probably the saddest word,
no one is ever able to escape.
It's...

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Sweet musical meow
Brings magical wow
Pleasing dogs and mice
Amidst blessings’ spice.

       Purring meows of joy
     ...

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They sit and sit; they don’t get fat
like you or me if we did that!
Two kitties which are cute and fit.
They don’t get fat; they...

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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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A billion dollar industry
With focus groups intent to see
Just what it is our pets might eat,
What tastes the best for meal and treats

What dogs might...

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Strolling along a country road in March
I saw a little kitten, bedraggled, all alone
It hesitated to come to me, back in an arch,
I took from...

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My squirrels are foraging in the backyard
After days of the snow-covered ground,
They are finding the peanuts I strewed
Jumping and chasing, always they astound.

One, a red...

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Compared with us, the kids today
Too little play and too much weigh.
Alone indoors they snack and sit
And buttons hit, while we stayed fit.

We'd quickly chores...

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In God’s ministry
where love does prevail
her life-impact shines
since grace does not fail.

Though she’s senior now
still she’s young at heart
vibrant and active 
to fulfill her part.

With...

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Sometimes folks get notions,
'Bout certain people, places, things,
And get the wrong impression,
From the feelings that they bring.

Without finding out for certain,
The impression that they got,
Was...

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