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 …