A Dog's Name
Hi; this is my first Reddit post. About ten years ago, I was designing a website about naming your dog, and it needed some home page content; somehow that led to writing this poem (which did not end up on the site). Apologies to Dr. Seuss.
Big dogs, little dogs, brown dogs, tan dogs,
Black dogs, white dogs, spotted dogs and two-tone dogs,
Fuzzy dogs, smooth dogs, lap dogs and leaping dogs,
Fast dogs, slow dogs, digging dogs and frisbee dogs,
Dogs who like car rides, dogs who sing,
Dogs who watch TV, and most everything
Dogs who sniff trees, dogs who sniff knees,
Dogs whose noses like to take in the breeze
Dogs who kick and bark when they sleep,
Dogs who hardly ever make a peep,
Dogs who dress up on the Fourth of July,
Dogs whose response to clothes is "Not I"
Dogs who are social, dogs who are shy,
Dogs who are straightforward, dogs who are sly
Dogs who lead packs, dogs who stay back,
Dogs who conspire to acquire some snacks
Dogs who showed up one day at your door,
Dogs in the shelter whose eyes you adored,
Dogs who brighten your days and your nights
Dogs who magically make things all right
Each dog's unique, no two are the same,
But every dog deserves a great name.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/9mrv80/dry_cough_haiku/e7vaskp/?context=3
Posted Oct 16, 2018, 2:11 PM UTC · edited