Wednesday, July 18, 2007

! Dogged By Comparisons Comments

Rating: 3.2

Behind the gym on the non-stop route out of town
and the housing estate and the light industrial
awaiting a so-called ‘developer’
there’s this park – correction, Dogshit Central;
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Michael Shepherd
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Alison Cassidy 28 July 2007

Love the philosophical turn about in the last stanza (the last couplet really bites) . And the playful dogs and their glorious dogginess. As a 'responsible' dog owner, I am regularly appalled by the hideous misbehaviour of dog owners who bought their charges unwisely and treat them without care. Long live all dogs! ! ! love, Allie and Ella (my beautiful dachshund) xxxx

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Oh, this sort of makes me sigh and smile.... and ultimately think indeed, packed last stanza and all. t x

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Scarlett Treat 18 July 2007

There was one sentence - celebrating their dogness! - which describes the whole poem for me. How very true...

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