Do Dogs Go to Heaven?
May 7, 2008 at 8:52 am | In Self, animals, eternal life, poems, spirituality | Leave a CommentTags: dogs, eternity
No “happy hunting grounds”
for my dog!
All the dogs of my life
are part of me,
as I am part of God.
Someday we will understand
each other exquisitely!
BACKDOORCAT
April 30, 2008 at 7:04 am | In animals, poems | Leave a CommentTags: cats, free verse, personification
Marmalade is a lynx, a leopard,
a lion, remembering the wild.
She sits at the screen door,
yearning to go; to forage,
to hunt and collect the smells
of the alley.
She’s been there – she knows !
But there’s traffic and rainstorms,
dogs and mean boys. It’s not safe for her.
No one to feed her – no one
to purr for.
But she’s addicted.
Greyhound
April 24, 2008 at 8:55 am | In animals, poems, spirituality | Leave a CommentTags: animals, faith, love, Sonnet
This graceful creature, long-limbed as a deer,
who loves me with his eyes, can’t understand
that this five-digit thing is called a hand
that finds that special place behind his ear;
nor can he know that I can see and fear
the dangers in his world; or how I’ve planned
to make sure he has food. He’ll only stand
and nuzzle at the god he knows is here.
So must I love what I can never name,
and only with my faulty vision see.
The world, proof of the Creator’s art,
must for the moment be enough. The same
unquestioning, adoring stance must be
my own till I can step beyond my heart.
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