Poetry on LoBD
Portrait of an Old Dog
This poem has received an "Excellent Poem" award.Written by: Cure (View all entries)
Date: Jun 16, 2009 04:36 am
Category: Uncategorized
Cure's notes about this work:
This was a quickly-written poem, written shortly after the death of my dog. There no clever wordplay, no deeper meaning, these are just the most memorable aspects of her- her portrait.
She was completely deaf
You couldn't click to call her
Yelling wouldn't work either
I knew my hands would smell
Like carcass
Or god knows what else
But I'd pet her regardless
And wash my hands later
She was black
Black as night
The day she wandered up to the house
But by the time we buried her
In the back yard
Grey had encircled her eyes
And coated her muzzle
Once she would play chase
On the lawn
Once she would limp
To her dry dog food
But even that last day
She'd wag her tail
When I scratched behind her ears
You couldn't click to call her
Yelling wouldn't work either
I knew my hands would smell
Like carcass
Or god knows what else
But I'd pet her regardless
And wash my hands later
She was black
Black as night
The day she wandered up to the house
But by the time we buried her
In the back yard
Grey had encircled her eyes
And coated her muzzle
Once she would play chase
On the lawn
Once she would limp
To her dry dog food
But even that last day
She'd wag her tail
When I scratched behind her ears
Comments on "Portrait of an Old Dog"
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great poem. makes me miss my dogs.
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