Dog Poetry

In the book "Fifteen Dogs", Prince, the dog with the artistic mind, creates oral poems for dogs. The trick is to have the name of the dog hidden in the poem in order to get the dog interested. Here is the poem about Atticus which is, incidentally, the one where it is easiest to find the dog's name (the others are much more challenging):

In the sunny world, with its small
things moving too fast,
I shy away from light
and in the attic cuss the dark.

Here are 3 short poems that Prince could have written, but the dog's names included are dogs belonging to Whitevale residents. 

• Write a comment on this blog if you find them. The price is a special treat for your dog if you are the first one to respond. 
• You can also, if you are inspired, write a poem with your dog's name hidden and post it in the blog to win a special prize for your dog.

1. In the moonlight, your ears stand up:
    the lonely cry of the loon,

    a capella, like an ancient

    sacred song in the dark.    

2. This forest is my hood, my domain,

    my homestead, even.

   Here I can run free

   and find delight in

   the aromatic pestilence of

   mouldy autumn leaves.

3. The crescent moon lights the path.

    No sound is heard but 

    of the leaves

    the trembling murmur.

    Fear not, little one,

    run with your pack!