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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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2 Comments
  • jb28745d
    jb28745d
    This can be so true!!
    LikeReply4 months ago
  • magky_in_greece
    magky_in_greece
    I chose this poem because it was not complicated and it was written with plain words that triggered my fantasy and narrated things that were not even mentioned in it.
    LikeReply 15 months ago

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