Poems on the topic: dog

Poems on the topic “dog” on Poets.by.

ContemplativeDave Bonta

Father to the man

paper ready to be a little boat regular and finely contrived money dead as the house I intend to dwell in making bricks and other poor music and the books like citizens old and upright to a boy things appear greater than to a man now I account it good fortune to follow a dog
SadDave Bonta

Black dog

rain on the almanac which I understand as a doubtful sign wet ink like a rain-drawn dog a dog that did not answer to the name melancholy
CheerfulDave Bonta

Art critic

I am a dog who got hold of art and worried it I dispute the value of pieces rated as great the ridiculous design of work in a committee we who now dissect bodies and call that art a man never yet with child boys desiring a pig
CheerfulDave Bonta

Sea dog

wild eloquence translated into dog a walk by the sea
CheerfulDave Bonta

Family night

My mother’s cursing and swearing take possession of the heads in the hall. The dog and I play at theater, dancing, hungry for want of dinner.
CheerfulDave Bonta

Old dog

Settling pleased me where I was once a petitioner for my master. My wife a fox and I a dog of great families, I knew myself in Latin— the best way to bow.
AnxiousDave Bonta

Oysterous

I took a barrel of oysters and observed how they cry: An Indian sold the moon. Men were hanged for a dog fouling the bed. All night I dream that my wife made me ill.
CheerfulDave Bonta

Bequest

my ugly dog— having no child, I shall leave him all this moon
CheerfulDave Bonta

Retiring admiral

Her little black dog is our navy. I end this year less one lie, the seas striking their flags to us— cast up all winter on public talk.
CheerfulDave Bonta

Divided loyalties

white Christmas the dog desiring both to be out and in
ContemplativeDave Bonta

Harbor

I walk with my old dog to see a seal— no words all our way home
ContemplativeDave Bonta

Better nature

The dog all afternoon is master of the yard. I play with his trust, troubled by love as art.

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