Is Poetry Going to the Dogs?

First it was the cats. Now, it’s the dogs.

Dogs are writing poetry. I am not making this up.

Don’t believe me? Try “Another Bag:”

Love

True, unbridled love

Is looking at what I just did

On the sidewalk

Then picking it up in a bag

I can only imagine as a treasured keepsake

Wow, the collection you must have by now.

Only a dog could have written that. I know that for a fact. We had a dog, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, for 14 years. We used 16,000 plastic sandwich bags in assembling our collection from the sidewalk. He also considered it an honor for us to pick it up.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Photograph by X Posid via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.