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Poetry: Barking dogs

PRACTICALLY FURNITURE

Our sweet retriever, we concur,
Is practically furniture.
In rays of sun,
She comes undone,
And ever sleeps without a stir.

Her golden tumbleweeds roll by,
Beneath the sofa multiply,
Without a care,
She lounges there,
Until a shadow makes her cry.

At such, she jumps to full alert,
And barks her head off, as if hurt,
If wind should blow
Or folks tiptoe,
For now her hearing does desert.

A wary watchdog, she is not.
Protective skills she has forgot.
But she can yelp
And cry for help,
And raise a ruckus all for naught.

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Poetry: Barking dogs

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    by Linda Ann Nickerson

    PRACTICALLY FURNITURE

    Our sweet retriever, we concur,
    Is practically furniture.
    In rays of sun,
    She comes undone,
    And ever sleeps

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    by Adam Smith

    Walking through the silent night

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    It is a bark not so menacing in

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    My neighbor owns a lovely beast
    it's golden brown and likes to feast
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    by Nol K. Martin-tungpalan

    The night was ominously still
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    Sent ripples through the sky
    I wondered what it meant
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