Today's prompt from the NaPoWriMo blog was to write a greeting
poem (as opposed to a valediction which was asked of us back here). When I thought of greetings I couldn't think of a more generous one than I receive from my dogs.
Loyalty
Left at the gate
with dejected
tails drooping
but ears still
pricked for
a change-of-mind
and “C’mon, get
in,”
I drive away.
Hours later,
days
I return to
hopeful
wagging
by the time I am
out of the car
they’re back at
the gate
where I left them
but I could see
on my approach up
the long driveway
they weren’t
ever-waiting, there all along
but lying in the
sunny spot,
worn smooth by
their prone bodies,
beneath the
bedroom
window
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