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JLR
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since 2001-02-04

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0 posted 2001-03-14 10:06 PM

Talking to the Dog

I asked the cats if they remember you
I asked the dog
Asked the walls, the sofa, too
They just sit there
Along with the clock and stove
Pretending they don’t hear me
That really pisses me off
Because I know they do.
I pay their rent, buy their paint and food
The least they could do
Is humor me
When I need to talk about
Such irrelevancies
As memories of you.

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2001-03-14 10:09 PM

Oh, I like this very much. No use to talk to the cats. They only are about themselves. But I think the dog is sympathetic, just look into his eyes and see the love. I like your take on thi9s. Joyce

Lone Wolf
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since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

2 posted 2001-03-14 10:44 PM

What ungrateful animals!! I know what you mean here. Some days, you just want to be heard and acknowledged. Well said!!

Lone Wolf

Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

3 posted 2001-03-14 10:54 PM

Not quite honest with yourself there at the end.....even though you really are...well written ...I could visualize you there alone with the dog....love those word pictures!

The poet is like a cocoon; in him the caterpillar of the past finds rest, and from him the butterfly of the future emerges.

Packratmike
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since 2001-02-25

Posts 632
California, USA

4 posted 2001-03-14 11:49 PM

What would you have done if they had answered???

Nice visual read.

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2001-03-15 05:18 AM

Good way to express your frustration...James

Just A Woman
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since 2001-03-10

Posts 507

6 posted 2001-03-15 08:51 AM

Your personality just shines through your writing. I just love it! I applaud!

After years of searching, I have found I am nothing more, nothing less...I am in truth Just A Woman after all.

JLR
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since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

7 posted 2001-03-15 09:55 AM

Thank you, thank you, thank you all...for reading and responding.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

8 posted 2001-03-15 10:19 AM

JLR....wow!

VAS
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since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

9 posted 2001-03-15 10:25 AM

What an absolutely simplistic, yet highly vivid picture of loss. Well done, JLR! Superb!!!

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

10 posted 2001-03-15 10:31 AM

I love this, I understand it so well....excellent writing....this goes to my library

SEA

walker
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since 2001-02-11

Posts 2240
Florida

11 posted 2001-03-15 06:37 PM

I really enjoyed this, those ingrates

I'm glad you enjoy my poems, thank you.

Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

12 posted 2001-03-16 01:50 AM

LOL sugar...when all else fails ya got me ya know? At least I wont lick your face...this is very very good

JLR
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since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

13 posted 2001-03-16 01:28 PM

Sunshine, VAS, SEA, walker, Paula---Thanks for reading and replying.

Paula---But I like it when you lick my face! Ha!

Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

14 posted 2001-03-17 12:37 PM

LMAO OMG you are terrible HAHAHAHAHA

ATelamon
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since 2001-02-06

Posts 328
Purgatory, Last Staircase, Up

15 posted 2001-03-17 03:00 AM

How dare they fill the eyes
this acheingly haunting every
day things like towels cast aside
and tea bags whose secnt inspires

as we enter TimeItself for a slight
instant knowing there all the whys we
always cried to search for they are not ever
dismembered but within us an ease of touching

knowing all of us
the I within the eye
center of the maelstrom
the only place there exists

an answer
to the haunting
the emotive unrelenting poltergiest
the far too simple why

Pause if you will
to wonder at that
While I whip up yet
another batch from crayon land

"Be your own hero. Save your interior landscape. As in all mythos the blight can be defeated and the land turned back to freedom and fertility.

[This message has been edited by ATelamon (edited 03-17-2001).]

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

16 posted 2001-03-17 07:57 PM

personally. . .I would just teach them to talk!!

wonderful. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Mabel A. Dilley
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since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

17 posted 2001-03-17 08:35 PM

What a clever poem! Kudos.

"I am not now that which I have been."

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

18 posted 2001-03-17 08:44 PM

Cats always remember! This was just a great poem and I have sure been there! Get yourself a bird, they never shut up!

Voiceless
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since 2001-02-19

Posts 686
Under the stars upon the wind

19 posted 2001-03-17 10:44 PM

This is so neat i loved reading it.

~*Peachy Be*~

Katherine Chandler
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since 2001-03-07

Posts 280
Florida, USA

20 posted 2001-03-17 10:58 PM

I talk to my cat Star all the time. It's nice to know I'm not alone in this somewhat insane mode of communication. Great read dear, thanks, I really enjoyed this.

Be blessed!

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T S Eliot

ParisGrl
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since 2000-06-01

Posts 610

21 posted 2001-03-21 11:05 AM

r.j.

but its good that animals can't talk. LOL the things i would get busted for doing....OMG. LOL

take care,
~me~

Nate Dogg
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since 1999-11-15

Posts 1658
Georgia, Fulton

22 posted 2001-03-21 11:38 PM

Ha, ha, this piece brought a smile to my face JLR...a wonderful write!

Nathan

jellybeans
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since 2000-10-13

Posts 2298

23 posted 2001-03-22 09:44 AM

wonderful...clever...all of the above...loved this...great writing

Tennessee Angel
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since 2000-06-03

Posts 661
Tennessee

24 posted 2001-03-22 10:04 PM

How cute! Boy, can I relate to this one...In fact I think I had a very similar conversation with my dog last night.

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

25 posted 2001-03-23 05:09 PM

This is very sweet!

corinne

redwriter1
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since 1999-07-22

Posts 480
Franklin, TN

26 posted 2001-03-24 03:08 PM

You have a dog that paints???? wow.!!!

(smile)

Dogs don't talk.. they have nothing to say except.. feed me, love me... want me.

Same as humans (smile)

Kay-lynn
**A dream is a wish your heart makes :)

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

27 posted 2001-03-24 03:12 PM

Now that cracked me up! Thanks all for...still...reading. Must be the dog.

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