Dog Daze

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090830

SIMPLE GIFTS

Why rite daily pomes for you?
I got nuthin’ better to do.


SUM SICUT SUM

I think
(or am thought)
therefore I am:
I am as I am.


OBSERVATION

Work. Wealth. Weekends.

These mean nothing
to some people;
everything to others.


A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE

Up at four, I’m writing.
Done, at five, I sit.
Then I think of crickets:
how’d they know to quit?


POVERTY

Nay! Nay!
No. Nay. Nix!
Money isn’t the problem.
Money isn’t the fix.


090829

COMMENCEMENT

Speak and I will write,
no matter what you say.

For now, I know the way
is to clear the way.


090828

RESISTING GRACE

No! We do not want this.
No! It isn’t right.
Why must this affront us?
Get out of our sight!


090827

ESCORT

Death—it comes
as a friend.
Early. Late.
Again. Again.


090826

OPEN WINDOW

Moisture laden breezes,
starlit balmy nights,
slowly dawning mornings—
summer-end delights.


090825

LOOK AGAIN

The world is as it ever was.
The only change is you;
your insights and your attitudes,
your ever-changing view.


090824

NO DENYING IT!

At two,
he could not have a puppy.
He settled for a guppy.

At four,
he could not have a dog.
He settled for a frog.

Now, at six, it's settled:
by pleas or pouts or kicks,
he WILL have that puppy dog!


090823

PET CHOICE

Why have a dog instead of a cat?

There are two sides to this question:
the side that makes the dog choice
versus the side that makes the cat.

And neither would choose the other;
they'd rather choose a rat.


090822

DOGS

Some of the best people
are not people at all.


090821

A DOG'S WORLD

When a dog waits
till the just-right moment
before coming close...

When, at the next right-moment,
it sets its chin on your knee
or arm, or other just-right part...

And when it raises a brow,
drawing your glance
(and then your full attention)
with its upturned
deep, friendly-sad eyes...

When that happens,
the whole world feels just-right.


090820

THINKING ON DOGS

Another name for a dog
is a cur, but I've never
heard one called one.
Not once. No sir.

Dogs are noble.
Dogs have heart.

When it comes to dogs,
I've not always been smart.
(But usually the dogs were.)


090819

OVERPOPULATION

People have taken up
all the room: now dogs
are not allowed to roam
or cause a cat to scoot.

In fact, there is so little room
that cats have made
themselves at home,
and given dogs the boot.


090818

DOGS HAVE
GONE TO THE DOGS

In bygone days
dogs were large;
even as a pup.
They fed on game
and buried bones,
which later they dug up

Nowadays,
dogs eat pellets
and fit inside a cup.


090817

MADE FOR EACH OTHER

Child brings home puppy, all agog:
"Mother, may I, please?"

This statement's true,
not lame or wild:

Every child should have a dog,
and every dog should have a child.


090816

CEREAL THRILLER

From crows to finches,
has the bird been born
that doesn’t have
a taste for corn?


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