Genghis Makes His Mark
...My little guy to my happy surprise
is with me still and very spry
His heart pills keep him ticking on
personality of his still is strong
He loves to growl and bark all day
for him it is the way ...
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Categories:
sniffs, dog, humor, love, pets,
Form: Rhyme
MY BRAIN DOG
...I have a brain.
But not just any brain — I have a brain dog.
It doesn’t sit. It doesn’t stay.
It runs. Fast. Far. Wild.
It sniffs every thought ever thought.
Dreams in 4D. Overthinks lunch pla...
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Categories:
sniffs, anxiety, art, atheist, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Along the Broken Avenue
...The town, ripped up like a carpet—flung to the side like a broken leg. In its scar the soldiers marched. Chanted for a ruler who ate in his highchair while he penned in their death warrants. Overhead...
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Categories:
sniffs, loss, murder, sky, war,
Form: Prose
REMIX OF MY TOBACCO
...REMIX OF MY TOBÀCCO
In the time of leech to the time of leash, came I from the sojourn of papyrus writing the pain on the wall of my heart with a golden exudate from my galls that embittered all. ...
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Categories:
sniffs, allusion, care, christian, city,
Form: Free verse
Bud Treedom
...Bud is loyal to the end
Bud loves me. I’m her friend
Bud licks my face
And sniffs my butt
Wags her tail
Yah, she’s a mut
Just like me, you see
I just may have some Native in me yet
Wi...
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Categories:
sniffs, dog, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Feast
...## The Feast
They gather in the shadowed corners of my mind,
A ravenous horde, their forms undefined.
Not flesh and bone, but whispers sharp and cold,
They gnaw at peace, and stories left untol...
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Categories:
sniffs, anger, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
BETTY AND THE DOCTOR
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We are pet sitting our neighbor’s cat and dog…which means we’re wearing two hats
one for Betty (she’s the dog) and one for Doctor (he’s the cat).
Dogs and cats are different…we know this to be ...
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Categories:
sniffs, cat, dog,
Form: Rhyme
If I Were
...If I were a kente kite
I’d hang u by your toes
And we’d delight in flight
Of poetic purple prose
We would drop lines
So electric and so divine
Emerald eclectic electric shine
Lighting up th...
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Categories:
sniffs, appreciation, blue, imagination, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Daily Routine
...It all sparks off
With the mention of the park
Her white tail twirling
Relishing the renewal
Of her communion with nature
Her contact with her ancestral past
Then off to the park in the car
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Categories:
sniffs, dog, dream, freedom, joy,
Form: Free verse
MY CLASSMATES
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My classmates
Theresa Trot had a snot
Hanging from her nose
She sniffs and snorts and swallows
But Theresa never blows.
Now it’s run down past her lips
And settled on ...
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Categories:
sniffs, 2nd grade, childhood, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
MONSTERS
...MONSTERS
Legends myths and old wives tales
From T.V film and book,
Are monsters real or fantasy
Let’s take a closer look.
Bram Stokers Dracula
The original vampire name,
Meant a simple walk ...
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Categories:
sniffs, evil, fantasy, halloween, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Conosur
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Each day is a sampling of liquids at play.
Nye sniffs the water bowl,
Not to her taste.
She will agree, "It's not for me!"
Halo samples the rainwater on top of the dock box.
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Categories:
sniffs, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Acts of Horror Gets Horror
...Eyeless it manifested from the depths of the abyssal darkness of the woods.
Hide reflective more muscle almost fleshless ribbon peeled back skull necklace.
Limbs contort and pop grotesque as it mov...
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Categories:
sniffs, dark, death, dog, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Shake A Leg
...Before Duke shakes a leg, he sniffs around
Some doggies chase squirrels like Harry the hound
Sparky crying mutt
Says he’ll bust his gut
Begs for more pee-trees in the park playground
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Categories:
sniffs, humor,
Form: Limerick
The White Jasmine Lord
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I
first flowers open, seasons begin ! :
bloom before doom
as always
Rajasthani breeze sweet and scentful
fanning out to the sunset :
a caress ! across the ripeness of ap...
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Categories:
sniffs, allegory, beauty,
Form: Free verse
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