1.
thirteen barking dogs
in a quiet neighborhood
safe sound and secure
2.
one barks they all bark
intent on a job well done
satisfied they rest
3.
green field wide open
ready to run, jump and play
collarless and free
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oh my gosh, there are more than enough dogs in my neighborhood… love animals, especially dogs as i have one of my own and she is a barker.. but some days, some days….
totally optional prompts: 3 dog poems;
photo: Something to Bark About, Blazingstar, flickr
Piece of Pie ala Mode 
in my neighborhood it seems to be cats that we have too many of. oh boy, can i tell you during mating season it downright raises the hair on your arms! they screech so! they make my 3 indoor cats all nutty.
I have no animals. Between the neighbors’ barking dogs and the off loaded feral cats which cruise my yard at night, I sometimes forget I have no animals. 🙂
The last one was great. I don’t have any pets myself. I suppose it’s because I travelled arond so much.
Why is it the quietest neighbourhoods always seem to have the noisiest dogs?
That is a cool doggy triplet of poems. I liked ‘intent on a job well done’ that is very doglike. Woof!
I recognise the neighbourhood dogs barking, your words made me smile…
haha, this was neat. makes me smile, how true. this is so true of my neighborhood. i think my dog barks with dogs in other neighborhoods; every now and then i just don’t have the faintest idea where her hollar is directed lol.
animals are a great thing to write about; most everyone loves them
It is so true of dogs, when one barks they all bark. When my dog was a puppy, we took him to puppy preschool. I knew he was going to be a big dog and I wanted to have some control over him. The teacher said that if we could teach him to bark on command, we could make him not bark on command. A ‘if you can turn it on, you can turn it off’ type of thing. Well, being the clever dog owner, I trained my dog to bark on command but alas and alack, there is no way I can turn him off when I don’t want him to bark, except maybe yell at him. Hehehe.
I wrote three poems for the TOP prompt: Dogs of War, Two Pets and My Dog Tom
-Bev
“one barks they all bark
intent on a job well done”
hehe –
nice, restrained,
sheds fresh light on a scene we can all recognise.
Very nicely done my friend. Just loved it. You are sooooo
good. I myself am still lacking and need to rest but enjoy reading my friends wonderful work. Keep it coming.
love-Melanie-bd
This is wonderful! I agree, love all animals but sometimes they can be a handful (or earful!!!!) Lovely photo too.
Hugs,G
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