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If you hate poetry — and who doesn’t? — relax, you won’t find a trace of it here. This
Mr. Cheese, I don’t understand your comment.
Nice shot of your dog. Black dogs and cats are hard to shoot. They need to be flooded with light or manipulated.
Who was luckier, you when you met Bob or Bob when he met you? No one’s ever written a poem about me – I mean a doggerel- maybe that’s a good thing…….PS – that sleeping pose should be on the cover of CNN to show what he thinks of Fake News………
We do get along, Ms. Cat.
I would write a poem about you if you could learn to sleep at the end of my bed without getting in the way of my legs.
You get points for rhyming doggerel and mongrel. Unfortunately, there is also the rest of it.
Retic, thanks for appreciating that one rhyme. I cheated on that one. I elided a syllable on “doggerel” to make it fit.
You’ve hurt my feelings, however, for dissing the rest. What about “tree” and “bouquet of pee”? Com’on, man, I’m old and a therefore a victim. That means I get a break whenever I do anything.
You get extra points for this rhyme.
Deservedly so, Richard.
Retic, though, passed right over like it was a nothing-burger — or like I was rhyming, oh, “love” and “turtledove.” Retic has no respect for really old people.
Well, OK. The rhymes are all good.
Did you build all the wooden furniture in that photo? That’s good, too.
Also, your title was clever.
It’s too late, Retic, to make amends. But thanks for trying.
Yes, I did make both pieces of furniture, the display cabinet and the long side table (used to be called a groaning table) in the dining room. I’m done with all that, but I enjoy having the pieces around. I made most of the furniture in our house.
The barber shop my dad would take me to (early 60’s) had the dogs playing poker prints on the wall, which I found endlessly fascinating.
Your question was “who is a good doggerel” , my answer is not me nor Jack, it’s Sunday. It’s against my religion to doggerel on Sunday . Jack is never good at it any day of the week. Understand now?
Darn, I thought I was probably the first to think of that joke above. It’s even funnier in a cartoon.
You ask a lot of your readers, Mr. Cheese.
Jack does the asking on Sundays.
I (heart) Bob! Also liked your doggerel, Kent.
Thanks, Buckeye. You wouldn’t believe how much time I spent on those rhymes. I’m not used to writing couplets. I discovered it’s hard, at least for me, to rhyme and make sense at the same time.
That rhymes too…..you’re getting better.
See how bad I am. I don’t even know when I’m rhyming. Ms. Cat, why don’t you challenge yourself by writing your next post in rhyming couplets?
Well …Thanks for the Bob photos; made my day!
You do like your dogs, Jim. Do you have a dog yourself?
Stripey dog, stripey dog,
Lying on the couch.
When I walk by, you wag your tail
It whips my knee, ouch!
Good one, Jose, though that “ouch” looks a little forced. (Now that I’ve written one poem, I’ve become an expert in all things poetic.) BTW, what kind of dog is that? He looks mean, like a guard dog.
A brindled hound.
I didn’t know you wanted good doggerel. I shoulda read the title.
She’s an Italian Mastiff or Cane Corso. She weighs 85 pounds, has a mouth as big as a baseball mitt and is sweet and gentle as a lamb (but has a vicious tail).
Hahahahaha! Great post.
Also here is my dog Pepper Ann, RIP. She died a few months ago at age 18.
Who’s a very good doggerel? Roll your own or share a bit of verse you like or dislike as part of our July Group Writing theme: “The Doggerel Days of Summer.”
Interested in Group Writing topics that came before? See the handy compendium of monthly themes. Check out links in the Group Writing Group. You can also join the group to get a notification when a new monthly theme is posted.
I found a birthday card years ago which had a picture of a dog on the front. The inside was a dog poem:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sometimes I like
To drink from the toilet
and this may be my favorite Far Side ever. Because that’s exactly how a dog would mow the lawn.
I like Bob. No dogs now, I live in a retirement community, and think dogs and apartments shouldn’t go together.