Poem: Dog in Bed (black, cats, ears, dental)

[Gemini1963]

I get Poetry Magazine's "poem of the day" daily, and thought others might like today's poem as much as I did. (Mostly, our dogs sleep in their own crates overnight, but sometimes there's ... leakage ... which I used to condemn, but now love.)

I especially love the line: "Why should your black silk ears feel like happiness." My own dog's black silk ears certainly do.


DOG IN BED, by Joyce Sidman


Nose tucked under tail,

you are a warm, furred planet

centered in my bed.

All night I orbit, tangle-limbed,

in the slim space

allotted to me.



If I accidentally

bump you from sleep,

you shift, groan,

drape your chin on my hip.



O, that languid, movie-star drape!

I can never resist it.

Digging my fingers into your fur,

kneading,

I wonder:

How do you dream?

What do you adore?

Why should your black silk ears

feel like happiness?



This is how it is with love.

Once invited,

it steps in gently,

circles twice,

and takes up as much space

as you will give it.

[hiero2]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[ZSP]

Love this...thanks

[puginabug]

Beautiful and spot on.

[Taz22]

Love the poem, but the two big boys can’t sleep in the bed, there is no room. Change the poem to Cats in Bed, same thing, smaller size.

[Threerun]

Originally Posted by Taz22

Love the poem, but the two big boys can’t sleep in the bed, there is no room. Change the poem to Cats in Bed, same thing, smaller size.

Ain't that the truth, lol. And our two- brother and sister, deciding to fight at 3a.m. Little snarlin' darlins' my wife says..