From our resident poet. Tricia, a contribution to the Dog Poetry Challenge:


What Rhymes with Flu?

Oh, to live up to your designation,
Resident poet,
Embedding my dogs’ names in gleaming verse
just so I could show it.

But despite my best efforts
(the fistfuls of hair yanked),
The handles Maggie and Douglas
Will not bend to such pranks.

I’ve racked my brain,
(think I’m coming down with a bug),
There’s no friggin’ word in the English language
That ends with the syllable Doug!

So I offer here instead,
My thanks for a great game,
Other entrants, I assure you,
Will be nowhere near as lame.

And just for the record,
My next dogs’ names I’ve already got,
Would it be so wrong to call Westies
Sal and Spot?

- Tricia McCallum