Short Cairn Poems

I am sorry but you cannot come the elderly musician said.
He liked the little cairn terrier dog, nicknamed him Friendly Fred.
Friendly Fred kept following over a rickety bridge and well beyond.
He kept him but had to get rid of his wife, of whom he was no longer fond....

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Times spent most unwisely, unkindly
are each marked on this journey of ours
with a cairn of regret; small reminders 
strewn by our souls like rancid breadcrumbs, 
untouched, even by the hungriest of birds 
not to stain the past, but to steer the present
and with hope, to sweeten the future...

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