oh the skein of raggle-taggle village dogs: trickly
tails, stubbly legs, tough teeth fletching at the fence
yours is the street, the dust on an asphalt hem
yours the resonant night in the dormant valley
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Many congratulations for this brilliant poem being featured as Poem of the Day! Top score!
so crying wolf you survey the cosmos of this depression dominating every route, every stranger, and me: yours is my scent trail, my brave steps yours are my calves finally out of the village- beautiful poem. lovely. tony
Very nice poem. Interesting to read. Enjoyed. Thanks and congrats.
Finest poem- yours is my scent trail, my brave steps yours are my calves finally out of the village .....dog and the life of village to urban on the path; loyal to the rules of the earth and spending time with the dignity sometimes make the life very difficult but the brave steps make the easy path to go ahead. the poet very acutely articulated the fact of life by delineating the the skein of raggle-taggle village dogs
Beautiful poem, deftly portraying a village-scene with vivid word-play! Congratulations on the poem being chosen!
So touchingly delineated. Beautiful poem by Uljana Wolf is amazingly shared here.
Excellent narration of the dogs at kreisau and their domination over the area. Well deserved modern poem of the day.
How well the subject, though commonplace, has been treated. Thanks.
...every echo is yours, the shivering repercussion of sound from the hills, hierarchic growling... Fantastic blending of disliking and poetic manipulation. Thanks to the translator also. +++
the many vivid and fresh phrases in this poem—asphalt hem, resonant night in the dormant valley, shivering repercussion, hierarchic growling—make it a small treasure chest. -gk
yours is my scent trail, my brave steps yours are my calves finally out of the village.a very good poem. tony
Heart goes out to those souls we often call them our friends as dogs......so beautifully scripted 10+++