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Monday, April 1, 2019

Dog Days- #1/30

"It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it?  John Grogan

Olive, Corgi, 8 weeks old, came home to live with my friend Val this weekend. 
I've been trying for several weeks to decide whether I was going to participate in April Poetry Month. I finally decided I am going to give it a try. My theme, I think, for this month, is "Dog Days." I'm going to try to write thirty-ish days of dog-related poems. Today's poem is a tanka (5 lines, 5 7 5 7 7).

"On Walking Through the Front Door"
those days when I scale 
the highest peaks, your tail wags
and those days when I have 
failed miserably and more
than once, your tail wags 

(C) Carol Wilcox, 2019

5 comments:

  1. Olive is precious! I've never had a dog, but I love reading about them and the people who love them. It will be fun to read your dog poems this month.

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  2. Thirty “Dog Days” sounds wonderful. Here you capture the comfort of coming home to this most loving of friends. There’s nothing else like it.❤️

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  3. I stopped by yesterday, wondering if you would be posting poetry, but I must have been a bit early. I'm so glad you're going to continue your writing streak into poetry month.

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  4. This makes me very happy! I had the thought of writing 31 cat poems. Not sure yet if I'm really going to do that. Poetry is hard for me already and adding a limitation like that makes me very nervous. This is a strong opening poem, Carol, that captures so simply and beautifully the dog's constant joy.

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  5. I WANT A CORGI!!! Olive is so darn CUTE! A month of dog poems...heaven! That all-accepting tail wag...heaven!

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