These Dog Poems
It’s always fun to throw an unanswered question or two into a poem.
What Not to Name Your Dog
A PHP (place holder poem) that is so true!
What I Hope Will Never Happen
If you’re my agent,
you tell me my writing stinks
and not to call you
or email
or send you a box of chocolates
or take you to see another Broadway show
ever again.
Hello, I’m Buster and I’m a Chase-a-holic. Poetry Friday!
No matter how busy the street is,
how fast the squirrel is,
or how loudly my person screams,
once I started, I couldn’t stop.
There Once Was a Dog in an Encounter Group
Sometimes you just have to take what spills on the page. I call these PHPs or Place Holder Poems.
Says the Tree in the Dog Park
I’m just a small tree
trying to be
healthy and green and alive.
Grief
A poem with a rhyme pattern of AAB, CCD, EEB, FFD.
Black / White
After talking with my friend who was snowed-in back east, I met a brilliantly white Akita at the dog park.
O the Wind Blows
A mask poem from the point of view of something that cannot speak.
God, Dog and Teddy
God came by early this morning on his rounds,
carrying his latte.
He saw you sleeping on your blanket.