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Talking to the Dog
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Talking to the Dog |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
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. |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
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 |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
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 |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
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. |
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Packratmike Senior Member
since 2001-02-25
Posts 632California, USA |
What would you have done if they had answered??? Nice visual read. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Good way to express your frustration...James |
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Just A Woman Senior Member
since 2001-03-10
Posts 507 |
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. |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
Thank you, thank you, thank you all...for reading and responding. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
JLR....wow! |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
What an absolutely simplistic, yet highly vivid picture of loss. Well done, JLR! Superb!!! |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
I love this, I understand it so well....excellent writing....this goes to my library SEA |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
I really enjoyed this, those ingrates  I'm glad you enjoy my poems, thank you. |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
LOL sugar...when all else fails ya got me ya know? At least I wont lick your face...this is very very good |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
Sunshine, VAS, SEA, walker, Paula---Thanks for reading and replying. Paula---But I like it when you lick my face! Ha! |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
LMAO OMG you are terrible HAHAHAHAHA |
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ATelamon Member
since 2001-02-06
Posts 328Purgatory, Last Staircase, Up |
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).] |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
personally. . .I would just teach them to talk!! wonderful. . . --------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Mabel A. Dilley Senior Member
since 2001-03-17
Posts 859Seattle, WA, USA |
What a clever poem! Kudos.  "I am not now that which I have been." |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
 Cats always remember! This was just a great poem and I have sure been there! Get yourself a bird, they never shut up! |
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Voiceless Senior Member
since 2001-02-19
Posts 686Under the stars upon the wind |
This is so neat i loved reading it.
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Katherine Chandler Member
since 2001-03-07
Posts 280Florida, USA |
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. |
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ParisGrl Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 610 |
r.j. but its good that animals can't talk. LOL the things i would get busted for doing....OMG. LOL take care, ~me~ |
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Nate Dogg Senior Member
since 1999-11-15
Posts 1658Georgia, Fulton |
Ha, ha, this piece brought a smile to my face JLR...a wonderful write! Nathan |
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jellybeans Member Elite
since 2000-10-13
Posts 2298 |
wonderful...clever...all of the above...loved this...great writing |
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Tennessee Angel Senior Member
since 2000-06-03
Posts 661Tennessee |
How cute! Boy, can I relate to this one...In fact I think I had a very similar conversation with my dog last night. |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
This is very sweet! corinne |
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redwriter1 Member
since 1999-07-22
Posts 480Franklin, TN |
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 |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
Now that cracked me up! Thanks all for...still...reading. Must be the dog. |
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