Short Hound Poems

Short Hound Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Hound by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Hound by length and keyword.


The Basset Hound

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?
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Our Love Is Like a Hound

It all started in reverent passion,
When truth could not be sold.
Our lover beneath us, darkness above;
Lords and tenants;
Kisses and thugs.

The Afghan Hound

The Afghan’s a dog groomer’s joy 
The definitive Lord Fauntleroy 
But with all that coiffure
One is never quite sure 
If the “she” is a girl or a boy
Form: Limerick

Premium Member hound dog

my dog use to listen to bach

while running around on the dock

till a gal pug he spied

with a collar tie dyed

so now he just listens to rock.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Basset Hound Mayor

The most corrupt official around
was replaced by a young basset hound
Now mayor of Butte
he's tough and he's cute
barking decisions both honest and sound
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Skateboarding Hound

An uncommonly spry basset hound
was annoyed when his ears swept the ground
But his spirits soared
when he got a skateboard
Now he’d Doggie Olympics bound

6/8/22
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Chow Bowl and the Hound

Chow bowl and the hound are at odds. So sick of the corn and pea pods. Begs make a mistake. Bumps table for steak. The hound takes no time for applause. 1/12/2022
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Hound Dog

Elvis, a phenomenon back in the fifties Shakin' his hips after Sinatra and Der Bingle First of his kind Girlies went blind A trance-like fever grabbed 'em, made 'em tingle
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Demon Hound

He donned a stalker hat
and went hot on the prowl.
thick fog in contrast
The Demon Hound howled.
His wit is too vast
There was no way out.
Those tracks on the mire
Meant Stapleton had drowned.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Our Own Dog

The mutt 

Followed me home

Determined, unafraid

Wants to fit into our family

Loves us complete and immediately

Lives with us until his old age

Determined, unafraid

Kept forever

Our Dog

no yen 4 honey

My 
fourteen heft-
y hound

friends were
far from be-

ing either done 
with OR (for
that matter) in-

different to the
hidden fund (one hun-

dred fifty-nine)
units) of
smell-defined innu-

endo sur-
rounding them.

Premium Member Oh Sweet Hound

(Moonshadow in the North Cascades, 1981)

Oh Sweet Hound

The world turns
Full of bright hopes
And dark fears
Love lost and found
And as it spins
Ever faster
There is just one
Source of joy
That never fades
And it wears your face
Oh sweet hound.

(3/27/24)

Premium Member Someone Stole Our Best Hound

Someone stole our best hound, he told me.
He is eight, and angry about it in a curious way.
Maybe he ran away, I suggested. Maybe no one stole him.
They did too! He argues.
How do you know?
He came home dragging the dog house they chained him to.
He might be on to something after all.
dog

Premium Member Ignis Fatuus

The friar’s light, a deceiving light,
my nightmares deluding my mind
crossing the misty moors at night.
The friar’s light, a deceiving light.
Howling hounds affright – bite! They bite!
My eyes wide open but I’m blind!
The friar’s light, a deceiving light,
my nightmares deluding my mind.
Form: Triolet

Premium Member Basset Hound Mayor

The most corrupt official around
                      was replaced by a young basset hound
                                  Now mayor of Butte
                               he's tough and he's cute
                      barking decisions both honest and sound

                                            1/28/22
Form: Limerick

Texting Hound

Silence comes from her lips,
Not a word,
Nor a sound, nothing,
But a tapping noise, 
As her fingers move quickly,
Along her keyboard,
She doesnt look at the screen,
But instead, watches tv,
Her fingers pause for a moment, 
Letting the messages go through, 
Then she smiles, and starts again,
The texting hound, 
A non-stop machine.
© Ruth Toole  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Bailey the Whining Basset Hound

A dog named Bailey
Is a basset hound
She would eat all day
If it could be done

She always wants food
Her stomach is never full
At night when tired 
Her bed is made up

In the laundry room
a gate to block the door
the whines to what seems
Like hours on end

Whines so loudly
That seems like hours
Only ten minutes
Until it all ends

Premium Member Channel Surfing Hound

A discerningly keen basset hound

                     Watches              TV              when no one’s around
                                        He surfs the remote
                                        without taking a vote

                           until     The Dog Planet   can be found

            1/13/22
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Janice's Basset Hound

Janice's Basset Hound
This dog is so quiet
Bella never barkseats
With her big brown 
    eyes
She will stare at you
If you say a treat
She gets excited
Then eats it quickly
When she wants to 
     sit
Upon the love seat
She will stare at you
Till you notice her
Taping the cushion
She will quickly jump
Settle down -then nap
She is so content
Form: Verse

Premium Member The Blind Hound

I know that if I ever do lose it,
It will be your fault.
I have acid stirring in my belly.
I'm a blind hound,
Running from the hitting stick.
Then there's you, the prosaic flower.
Your unimaginable summits.
Award winning expectations.
Higher than clouds.
I aspire to win your admiration,
Greedy for your grace.
I'm talking about popcorn, of course.

A Hound Dog Case of the Flu

My wife’s amazed
when I station myself 
at the computer 

writing this or that 
despite a hound dog  
case of the flu.

So I tell her something 
she’s probably known
about me for years.

I write for the same reason 
a mutt barks endlessly  
in the city pound--

It’s something worth doing 
for as long as possible 
until we’re swept away.


Donal Mahoney

The Moth Hound

Of a coon hound,
you have heard,
there's plenty around.

I have found
a very strange dog,
who's nothing but a moth hound.

When ever you see,
he sees a moth near by,
the moth trys to flee,

it isn't any match,
as my dog goes after the moth,
and makes a wonderful catch.

He eats it all the way,
and chews and swallows,
he looks at me, now he wants to play.

wrote 6-14-90 about my dog Brandon who in the summer of 1990 ate hundreds of moths.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Playing for the Hound

It was a winters night when his wagon came to a stop
He was so bitterly cold, that he warmed up with hops.
He would have played his clarinet, but no one was around.
I would love to hear you! Said a mangy looking grizzly hound.

So the old man took out his instrument and played his heart away.
He and the hound became forever friends that day.
He took him to the next town, and the rest of them after that.
They both agreed on one thing- they would never get a cat.
dog
Form: Rhyme

From Rabbit To Hound

I walk with a swagger most don't have,
I talk with the sincerity some wish to have.
My words are honest and to the point,
My expectations are great and yet don't disappoint.

Life has molded me from nothing,
And yet from it expect everything.
My voice demands attention,
My eyes see through any deception.

My mind is a riddle none can solve,
My spirit something that will never dissolve.
The world is but my playground,
From being the rabbit I have become the hound.
Form:

The Black Hound of Destiny (English Sonnet In Tetrameter)

As darkness takes our souls to hell
what has become of pleasant dreams
when death has tolled its final bell
no one remains to hear the screams.

Gwyllgi calls, the end is near
as demons dance across the land
their laughter chills a heart with fear
for fate has shown her evil hand.

Awash with blood to purify
the world of Man's eternal rage
no longer can our words deny
Gwyllgi's here to close our page.

And no demons shall rape and kill
for evil comes from Man's own will.
Form: Sonnet

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