Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Barry W Smith 1963 (Laon)



One foot in front of the other
With a leash upon my head
This woman that now leads me
Apparently wants me dead

I haven't had such anguish
Since I was just a pup
So if she's going to kill me
I'd had rather not got up

Has this woman never heard
In told wisdom by and by
That in your need to exercise
Let sleeping dogs lie

About this poem

I wrote this after watch a lady walk her seemingly uninterested overweight dog in tow behind her. This is what I imagined was going through the dogs mind.

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Written on April 08, 2023

Submitted by baways on April 08, 2023

Modified by baways on April 08, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABA XCBC XDXD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 323
Words 72
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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I'm a Christian, husband, father and Bepa to one granddaughter. I live in the panhandle of Texas. more…

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