The 2013 Progressive Poem by 30 Poets of the Kidlitosphere
This Progressive Poem has been moving from blog to blog, growing poet by poet, for 29 days until it’s come here for one final line.
These Dog Poems
It’s always fun to throw an unanswered question or two into a poem.
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.
Says the Tree in the Dog Park
I’m just a small tree
trying to be
healthy and green and alive.
O the Wind Blows
A mask poem from the point of view of something that cannot speak.
DETECTIVE DOG
Write a poem based on a selected noun.
If Our House Were on Fire, What Would I Take?
I would take you
just you …
Try a Trimeric Poem!
Walk the perimeter, the trainer says.
You’re the leader, the one to watch.
Eli will look up every now and then
to find you.
Dog Thoughts on a Saturday Night
A mask poem–in which the poet becomes an animal or object and speaks from that perspective.
Dog Unto Others
This idea made me smile when I was driving … the idea of a dog trying to practice the Golden Rule.