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Bark

Emily T Wright

October 23 
Free verse
Your dog almost bit me
the first time we met
and today as I sat
on your couch and you came
up the walk
he barked at you
until I told him it was you,
until he heard your voice,
and he finally recognized you.
Maybe you’re the one who’s changed.

About this poem

This poem is about being with a partner for a long time, and feeling as though the partner had changed. Surely, we had both changed, but this is a moment that stuck out to me. This partner's dog actually barked at them as they came in, while I was dog-sitting. The moment has stuck with me for some reason.

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Written on 2017

Submitted by ilovewrighting on October 02, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFFGFH
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 246
Words 54
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
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