Just One More

One more round of poems and photos

Dog Love

Sunless soaked day finds me at home

(where I belong) one day early

prisoner released for good behavior

remanded to the custody of my two dogs

whose unkempt curly faces shower me

with love I may not deserve. But wait,

hold on there, I take that back. No matter

what or who, we all deserve the particular

love of dogs.

Finding Out

Still and dark with only crickets for conversation

a pink pocket of light appears above the trees.

So something is happening after all.

Now comes another pink ribbon drawn

through the blue dress of sky followed by

another and another and the lightening.

Lovely dawn making its slow, inimitable way

into the town and across my windows.

Comes another day. Holding what?

Holding what for us in its open palms?

We shall leave this room, my dogs and I,

and find out.

Dog People

He stopped short of saying he likes dogs better than people

as if any of us standing there in the midst

of that pile of dogs would take offense

as if anyone was taking note keeping track

totting up points for or against rather than

remaining ever so busy in our minds’ eyes

comparing our own dogs favorably

against all the others.

Patience

Dogs lie patiently

watching me for signs that say

Now we will go out.

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Thanks for listening,
Kay

P.S. MerryThoughts is the name of my first book, out of print at the moment. The word is a British one, referring both to a wishbone and to the ritual of breaking the wishbone with the intention of either having a wish granted or being the one who marries first, thus the "merry thoughts."