Posts tagged dog
Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog sits sits in his home next to a colorful bone looking at the person who loves him most.

I have your collar,
your blanket and velvet bone,
somehow, still have you.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog stands alert on a snowy path through the woods with the person who loves him most.

Stardust to stardust,
velvet February snow,
you’re back on your trail.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog sits happily in the grass looking with soft eyes at a person he loves.

You loved your people,
on a sunny day in spring —
soft-eyed and ears flat.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lays peacefully on the floor in sunshine with a few toys nearby looking at the person who loves him most.

Sun shines on your spots —
every place that you felt safe
your long happy life.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lays peacefully on a couch looking at the person who loves him most.

Your fresh contentment,
walked through each deep forest,
filled up every room.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lays peacefully on a couch looking at the person who loves him most.

You, at the center —
the heartbreaking commonplace
that’s now empty, gone.

C.S. Lewis (“…tiny, heartbreaking commonplace”)

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lays peacefully in the grass in shadows and dappled sun looking at the person who loves him most.

In these cold shadows
I try each day to make sense
of where you are now.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lays solemnly in front of a doorwall in shadow and light sun looking at the person who loves him most.

The door freezing shut
at dawn sounded like footsteps,
I thought it was you.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lays in the grass in a backyard with the person who loves him most.

Your very being,
warm, lying in the cool grass —
Mack, where are you now?

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lays calmly on a counch looking at the person who loves him most.

February gloom —
these days, living with this grief,
it’s its own sad thing.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog happily discovers a patch of wild lily of the valley blooming in the forest with the person who loves him most.

You picked up their scent,
wild lily of the valley,
just out, of the earth.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog happily rolls in the grass with his eyes closed in summer.

Your name in my mouth,
I still say it every day —
you loved being here.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog happily walks through wildflowers in a meadow with the person who loves him most.

In your habitat
among the wild wildflowers
deep in the meadow.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog walks through a jack pine forest  with the person who loves him most.

We found a carved heart
in the bark of a jack pine,
the ground, a loose web.

Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog walks on a deer path through the woods with the person who loves him most.

Made by white-tailed deer,
we walk the long river path,
see the way they see.