Dog and Master metaphor
What if the whole story is a metaphor?
Violin/Bird metaphor
This is the first time I understood the power of metaphor.
Tissue metaphor
An invasion…my body’s been taken over by the enemy!
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.
Dog Explorer Uses His Nose
Sniff, o, sniff—what glorious fumes
coats the world beyond these rooms?
If Our House Were on Fire, What Would I Take?
I would take you
just you …