Gemma's Golden Haiku Collection

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For Will:

Tears won't stop falling...
That one so made for loving
Could suffer such hate.

Sometimes I wonder
How the word "humane" relates
To the human race.

For my Furbabies:

Your eyes -- dark, warm pools --
How you have stolen my heart,
Windows on my soul.

For my House:

Snow falls inside house,
Dogs cavort in cotton flakes,
Woobie spirits dance.

For Noreen:

Weeks without smoking
Earns our respect and new name:
Alice B. Tokeless

-Suzy Miller
 Enumclaw, WA

Phoebe


Chase


Maggie

Gemma, who cares more about this stick 
than she does her poor 'ol mum...
 Gemma Can't You See Haiku

Gemma can't you see
Your mommy thinks you hate her
Please give her a kiss.

-Karyn Davis 
 Leesburg, VA

Haiku by Jean Farny
 

Pillow all shredded.
Such fun! Couldn't stop myself.
See my pink belly.

Let go of my tail.
You hold with puppy sharp teeth.
How can I retrieve?

Puppy Pizza chases Newton

Pizza, Spenser, and Newton Farny
Philadelphia, PA
"This one describes Pizza's first swim. 
We were out for a walk, and she was
chasing Newton around, 
when he bounded into the creek."

Splashing across the creek.
Suddenly only water.
Pup paddles to shore.


Gemma and her dogdad Arsey
doing a shared bumper retrieve!
"This haiku is the result of our trip to the neighborhood park last night. We haven't had much snow this year, and both 
Newton and Pizza were freaked out 
by the additions to the landscape."

Fierce barks of warning
At a cold, pale form looming.
Snowman doesn't run.

"Spenser, Newton, Pizza and I 
were walking in the fields 
behind my mother's house when 
we came upon a large frozen puddle."

Shiny cold surface.
Scrambling and getting nowhere.
Puppy crosses ice.
Farewell  to a Comforter

Goose down falls like snow,
Liberated feathers whirl
like glistening flakes

Prelude to a BARF meal

Thawing chicken wings
beckon from the countertop
an-ti-ci-pa-tion

-Lynda Bryson
 
"...we're losing our Champ to a sudden, insidious infection. Without  a miracle, 
he won't last the week...."

Champ's Haiku

A fork in the road
Beloved Champ leaving us
Killing me softly

-Julie & David Oslund
 March 8, 1999
Pittsfield, MA
 


 
Only stop this for Will
Will law, an eye for an eye
Will show humans, sit-stay

-Laura Buxton Check

Tory saw the Vet
Tory's eyes have cataracts
     Doggies get old too.

-Jerri Martin

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