Short Black Dog Poems

cool crisp fall morning
small black dog sits besides boy 
paw upon his lap...

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The grass dry and brown
Black dog panting in the shade
Cool night brings relief...

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Dark black dog
once you are caught with a fog
lay down your egg
my blood brother....

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There's no place like home now or ever for me.
I love being here in my own space, you see.
My collections, colors, and black dog abound.
Walk in and notice everything safe and sound....

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I can't remember a time without you.
You've always been here, following one step behind.
I've always known where our path would go.
It's  time for you to lead, old friend.
I will follow....

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Have I descended into the doldrums
Or are the doldrums
Either side of this tightrope I walk?
It's not the black dog
This could be shaken off
But I'm so used to being on this tightrope I stand still
Maybe I need to read up
On acrobatics...

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darkness again stink of ferments
deserted bottles lonely chairs warm
delirious of the deedings before
dejected flowers plastic unattended
black dog crosses the path
omen of death
zigaru vasti paleroo
hagi venda heseeroo
barsukka neeroo...

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He was very low
And didn’t know
How he would get through
There was no way that it would do

Then a friend returned 
And put out the slow burn
For sometimes that’s all it takes
When hope returns and the black dog quakes.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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A mute cacophony rings between my ears.
The silent dungeonous din of the pelting stone past.

And in that roaring, the hauntings come 
and the black dog, waiting, salivating, silently saunters alongside the 
specters and, heavy, blankets me in darkness....

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Once i got taken to the edge of time and back again
A really unholy tail
With wild beasts in the nightfall
I let out an almight wail
I was led to a den of the darkness
Only to find the light
That beast who took me there
Didnt leave without a fight...

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The black dog is prowling around
Just quietly without a sound
The dog sniffs here and there
Who it gets it doesn’t care

It licks your hand just to say
I am not going to go away
And when you’re feeling low
In it jumps and steals the show.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Memories are memories
Good, bad or indifferent
They don’t care
So you smile at the good ones
Wonder about the indifferent ones
And the black dog comes back
For the bad ones
When you can’t get rid
Of them in your head
One day they’ll have me.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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It’s the ticking, ticking of the clock
I’m alone again unnaturally 
And I hear the black dog
Growling, sneering at me
It doesn’t go away
As I close my eyes
I will still see
The black dog
Growling, sneering at me
Even if it leaves today
It will be back soon anyway.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Sometimes mad, 
the reigns drag  
from clawing hands,
the pounding steed 
of a racing mind 
now overwhelmed 
in clinging sand,
the world an alien land, fearful 
neath the smothering ooze,
crying in the darks oppression, 
muttering confession to demons 
that watch and wait, for 
darker times come late....

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You are a noose 
Not letting me breathe
 
Like a soundproof room
The thoughts locked inside my head

You are a mask of joy
Hiding my fear behind your crooked smile

Like the coming winter, you creep in slowly 
And fill me with a deep-seated chill

Frozen in the cold
I wait for Spring to thaw my bones...

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Still water and a black dog tasting flesh in her mouth 
On a bridge as thin and fragile as a strand of hair 
Passing over transparent flames, she saw her image 
Howling over a dog tasting a gem of ruby 
Ignited, Sophia plunged straight at the black lion 
Anguished now in waves of wails, a white lamb helped her out...

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-lost and can not find 
something too far out of reach 
just need a little 

migraine pains they creep
 black dog images appear 
dry eyes blurred vision 

no motivation
tossing turning twisted sheets 
two dogs that can sleep

 if only I could
 for now I will close my eyes 
 pretending to sleep


9-3-23...

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D-ay seventh of February 
H-as broken in your sight; 
A-iming to warm your heart, 
Y-our soul shares the light. 

D-awn has left the night, 
E-arly in lovely Tuesday; 
G-ray haze has vanished, 
U-nder the blue skyway. 
Z-enith awaits the beacon, 
M-aking your birthday brighter; 
A-llow yourself to stay 
N-ice black dog lover....

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we are fascinated
by the cells and the systems
now here
white dog waggled her 
half cut tail
divine occupance here
for a very short while
wiping the tears
electromagnetic force of
the existence
realising experiencing
and healing miraculously
unconcerned like a comet
about to be delivered
black dog joined the white
peacefully...

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A black dog has
           chewed the string of my heels,
           followed my eyes,
           heavy with dark corners

pushed me over the fence,
           down the path
           broken with stones,
           cruel with gravel

and chased me into
           the shallows
           where I hit the tide
           with the flat of my hand....

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Black Dog

Black dog black dog
Where did you go ?
Your once ebony muzzle
Now white as snow.
Black dog black dog
Where did you go ?
Your once easy gait
Now halted and slow. 
Black dog black dog
Where did you go ? 
Your bright brown eyes 
Are losing  their glow.
Black dog black dog
Where have you gone ?
 I’m here by your  side
Right where I belong....

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What do you write when your brain's in dark fog
You scratch your head and search for some  words in vain
That is when you sink deeper into black dog
How you now howl,whine and whimper with great pain
Until suddenly your  new vision you unclog
To set your fresh  poem alight and in train
Joyfully your poem is live on the page
Creating a bright opus that is all the rage...

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When it rains in your head
both joy and sorrow are your shadow.
You feel those liquid stiletto's, feel
the downpour all day
as you walk smiling in the sunshine.
The rain does not stop
yet the black dog
you call your darkness
turns into a Golden Retriever,
a happy pup playing in-between
Spring raindrops.
Your head clears
and you don't have to smile
or paint your mask anymore....

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the ever helpful angels,
we meet along the way,
ones who will pick you up,
till you are happy, bloody aye,

boot the black dog up the Kyber pass,
and the mongrel whines away,
depression knocked off, on its asss,
when the angel comes your way,

take the world by scruff,
 yer tough enough,
be happy bloody aye,
let the inner spirit shine, plum duff,
is all that johnson says...

Don Johnson...

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Black Dog Blues
To have control of emotion,
mental black dog of the lost,
plunge thoughts deep in icy ocean,
it cant move in permafrost,

depression lives if you let it,
but you are better than that,
remember the part with a happy heart,
where your MOOD control is at,

i could not have put it better mate,
weak Willie pays the cost,
mental IS of the tensile frame,
resolve is never lost...
Don...

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