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Dog Days Poems - Poems about Dog Days

Premium Member Dog Days of Summer
Alice Hubbard's home was not ever cluttered, like azure roses, in rows. Full of sun, the panes were never shuttered, typical where love grows. Alice was fondly called, 'Old Mother Hubbard,' by people of the town; And her dog, Bandit, was often spoilt, like diamonds, in night's crown. Alice was a widow, and her children were grown. She still...

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Categories: dog days, color, dog, fantasy, food,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dog Days
Sunlight in a blue sky Dapples in and out of cottony grey clouds Warming then soothing in turn Two retiring humans under a tree Amid a hundred shades of green As a large yellow monarch The king of insects Glides and flutters by With a sense of purpose and delicate grace In perfect juxtapose. (7/30/24) ...

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Categories: dog days, appreciation, butterfly, green, summer,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Dog Days
Don't let what I say go to your head But you're quite an animal in bed He knew his wife had lied It's what wounded his pride So he slept in the doghouse instead...

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Categories: dog days, marriage,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dog Days
By my side is the dog I'm his space to rest and dream safely A gift I give willingly (The dog suggested I sack off counting syllables because I have to get up for work)...

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Categories: dog days, appreciation,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Dog Eat Dog Days
Keeping up with the Jones I still try It's dog eat dog neath a vicious sky All the finer things that you demand This rat race has gotten out of hand I toil and strain just to bridge the gap The weight of life heavy on my lap A token reward to earn my pay The burden tests my will every day Try...

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Categories: dog days, anxiety, work,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Twelve Dog Days of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas my doggie brought to me, pee-pee under my tree On the second day of Christmas my doggie brought to me, two licks of love and pee-pee under my tree On the third day of Christmas my doggie brought to me, three bone ends, two licks of love and pee-pee under...

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Categories: dog days, christmas, dog,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Dog Days
Elm trees are folding their leaves Like umbrellas after a river storm The weeping willow quietly grieves, In summer heat neither conceives That only mid-December relieves This is Dog Day's scorching norm, Elm trees are folding their leaves Like umbrellas after a river storm. Written July 22, 2022...

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Categories: dog days, july, summer, weather,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Dog Days
The sun, now joined in battle, scorches earth; young, bellicose, brash Sirius draws nigh. The rains, diminished, scarce sustain new birth, and so commence the dog days of July. ---------- for The Sky in July Poetry Contest sponsored by Andrea Dietrich written on 07/02/2022 ...

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Categories: dog days, sky, summer,
Form: Quatrain
Dry Dog Days
Daylight is wide-eyed, it glares like an angry samurai. We are pinned down naked to the piecing sun. It's all too exposing - the heat flays and burns. A violent light fries sunscreens, drills through sunhats while we blink under gritty lids. The humidity drains, we slouch, crouch, strain out our words. Its’ a dry dog time where doggedly nothing wags. We dream of cooling winds, of those days when a...

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Categories: dog days, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dog Days
Temperatures are high ...

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Categories: dog days, appreciation, blessing, children, fun,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Dog Days of August
Dog Days of August When my friend has something to say, He lets me know in his own way. He wags his tail and pricks his ears, And barks out loud for me to hear. Sometimes he’ll act ridiculous And gets downright cantankerous. And tongue pants while looking around Disgusted when I don’t respond. And then, for fun, I’ll stare him down, But he doesn’t...

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Categories: dog days, august, childhood, relationship, summer,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dog Days
Smelling of sweet nostalgia and sunscreen, the ghost of summers past comes to my side; her hot breath on my ear, she whispers "I miss you". "I wish you'd stayed longer," I sigh....

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Categories: dog days, memory, nostalgia, summer, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dog Days
Dog Days Dog Days Why? Why? Why 'Dog Days?' Are dogs not good? Are they not loyal? Are they not man's 'bff?' Why? Why? Why? Why 'Dog Days?' My dog's so sad He's gonna cry... Let us wave 'bye-bye' ~ To Dog Days' Why...

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Categories: dog days, dog, goodbye, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Dog Days
Dig roll Dirt hole...

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Categories: dog days, dog,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Dog Days
sun brings out the bones barbecue briquettes ignite dark dog hackles broil...

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Categories: dog days, extended metaphor,
Form: Senryu

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