Short Canine Poems

Sundowner
canine senility
she has it...

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The dog 
Brown yet fluffy 
Barking and drooling
Friendly
Canine...

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Hoots and Howls at night,
Canine and avian too
After the same prey....

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canine ears perked
march winds
howling



posted on March 4, 2021...

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In the future, dogs
will buy their own food using
Kibbles 'n Bit coins....

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DOG   

	nose and paws twitching
	while running free in dreams…
	dogs greet dawn happy...

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dogs in hats and coats
tormented by the squirrels
chattering critiques

John G. Lawless
©11/4/2018...

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raging april storm
canine ears perked
on high alert



AP: 3rd place 2021

Posted on June 4, 2018...

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canine squats... tail wags

   duty's done... toothy grin... Bye...

      Hey!... you poop... you scoop......

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Drive by barking dogs
Raven joins night aria
Canine opera








For contest "Calling all pet poems"...

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The thing I like about flowers
Is they stay wide open for hours
Some of them smell
But what the hell
They're subject to canine showers!...

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Is it sorrow in canine disguise?  
Is it pity empathic and wise?
Or is it not either 
Nor sympathy neither
But hunger we see in its eyes?...

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He looks at me
A deepness in his eyes
Questioning
“who’s ball is this?”
“and why do I keep bringing it back?”

John G. Lawless
©3/25/2022...

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Never pull a dog by its ears
  Doing so arouses fears
    that it may bite you very hard ...

  Nah! Trust me
    ~ 'Tis just a canine canard...

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from a distance, eyes --
feline, canine, rodent and
fowl -- on me aflame.
no matter which they are, all --
faceless -- gleam hungry and strange....

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I walked my dog down by the junction
When he had a canine malfunction
He jumped on a snake
A bite he did take
And now he has reptile dysfunction....

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When Lady Gaga's French bulldogs
Stoked half-a-million squealing hogs
The canine corps
Knocked on her door
With countless tails like pollywogs . . . ....

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A fellow got into a
fix
Trying to teach his
dog some new tricks
His canine named
Rover
Refused to roll over
And seemed totally
blind to thrown
sticks...

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Some dog taught me this,
your head sinks and your butt floats.
It’s called cat paddling!


For “Primal Instinct” contest.    And the dog says’ “Oops, My Bad!”...

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the wolf she was big
fifty pounds more than great danes
goddess of the wilds

running stuff in style
not seen in the canine world
definition free


stan sand...

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A large group of dogs, alone and free

Saw from the forest a single tree

So they queued up in line

And then every canine

Patiently waited to take a pee. 
...

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I’m a doggie full of love divine 
Searching for a darling Valentine 
I’d be yours truly 
If you would love me
And accept this canine heart of mine....

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Bonded by basic needs, so to speak,
Canine cliques congregate for a leak; 
Not hard to foresee -
Neighbour’s only tree -
Scoop by scoop will turn into s..t’s creek.
...

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The alpha canine stood under the tree
Such doggy wisdom does not come for free
“If you bury your bone
please remember the zone
Now form an orderly queue while I pee”
...

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Is that you,
O! Round one,
you slip,
and run,
making it tough,
for my paws,
it there was a way,
to stop you from contant sway,
I would,
and give you deep deep brood....

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