Buster Brown
...My brother and I sang the Buster Brown song
When we FaceTimed today; we both knew
Every word about Buster and Tige,* who belong,
As the jingle explains, in a shoe.
Certain memories stick and re...
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Categories:
tige, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Charlies Boarder
...I was working up Loch Valley logging for a local mill;
camping in a make-shift hut I built half way up a struggling hill.
I worked till lunchtime every Friday, then came in from the scrub,
spendin...
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Categories:
tige, animal,
Form: Rhyme
A Poem That You Take Away Without Knowing It
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It was a love that spoke for itself,
as natural as a poem
which grows in a flower
at the end of its rod.
without ever having confessed it,
I have never conjugated the verb to love.
Life go...
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Categories:
tige, death, flower, french, grave,
Form: Free verse
Old Tige My Dog
...Army service done, I was heading home
My Ma and friends I'd missed and Tige my dog
Served my three years never again I'd roam
I got off the bus, there was a dense fog.
And lying there was Tige ...
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Categories:
tige, best friend, dog, home,
Form: Sonnet
Tige
...(Circa 1910)
Grandpa had a bulldog whose name was Tige.
They were close – as close as honey and bees.
If Grandpa felt a cold comin’ on –
Well Ol’ Tige was the one who would sneeze
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Categories:
tige, dog, heart, love, me,
Form: Rhyme