Verse index

This page has the links to my poetry and songs, most of which concern dogs.

I am starting to add music via MIDI files to those verses that are based on songs. MIDI files will play on most computers. If you are using Internet Explorer, you will probably have to install or activate "ActiveX" in order to play MIDI or to view movies.

• verse about dogs (listed alphabetically)

 

• Basenji limericks
• "Bingo's Song" (humorous song about coprophagia)
• Bite the Bad Guys, Bouvier ! (song about protection sports)
• Boatswain's monument verse. This is a longer and less well known memorial verse by Byron to his Newfoundland "Boatswain."
• Bones' Epitaph, a Cyranoesque epitaph in French and English
• Bouviers are Bearish (song)
• A Bouvie is a Girl's Best Friend (song) ; music track added. Verses for Diamond, a rescued Bouvier with allergies added.
• The Bouv is my Shepherd (psalm)
• The Bouvier of my Boudoir (song about my beloved Chelsea and precious Bones)
• The Bouv Pretender (song about a not-quite-Bouv facing death at the Pound)
• Bouvier Requiem (a love song about euthanasia)
• Ceremony for Dying , by Ursula LeGuin , ceremonial verse for euthanasia.
• Chelsea's Epitaph
• The Dirty Bouvier Song (song)
• The Dirty Bouvier at the Working Trial (song)
• The Dogs Mourn a Rescuer , verse I wrote a few years back, has been used at a local rescue person's memorial services.
• Fass Fiercely , Bouvie ! (a fight song for Schutzhund)
• Fifty Ways to Run a Dog Trial (song)
• Gathering (a herding song)
• Haiku on Toys , verse about dogs and stuffed toys.
• Hark, the Schutzhund Bouvie's Revier !
• The Heart asks Pleasure first, by Emily Dickenson , which speaks eloquently about end of life issues ; hihly rrelevant to euthanasia.
• He Loves Ewes, Baa, Baa, Baa (song about herding sheep)
• He Told Me This, by T Yamamoto. a poem about herding dogs and a trainer's learning of humility.
• "The House Dog's Grave" by Robinson Jeffers
• "How to Handel a TDX" (photo and verse )
• I am the Owner of a Bouvier (bragging about one's dog)
• If I were Ruler of the A.K.C. (how the AKC ought to regulate dog breeding if they really cared about "the usefulness of the purebred dog to man")
• I Found a Bouvier (a rescue / adoption song)
• The New York City Rat Song (a modest suggestion for solving New York city's plague of fifty million rats)
• Oh What A Fine Tracking Morning ! (song about TDX Tracking tests)
• Old Mother Midge (nursery rhyme for dog people)
• A Prayer for My Dog (hymn to a terminally ill dog)
• Princess's epitaph and prayer for the dying.
• Rebuttal to Kipling (The Power of a Dog) (poem)
• Return of the Bouvie (a Star Wars song)
• Shaggy Dog of Flanders (song about the Bouvier's origens)
• Some Enchanted Morning (verse about puppy rearing)
• Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening (verse about a dog who won't come when called and the passerby who tries to rescue him).
• Super Decoy (song about the dangers and difficulties of being an agitator in French Ring Sport) with MIDI track and link to MP3 of Super Skier.
• Still Miss You After All These Years (song to a beloved deceased dog)
• There is Nothing Like a Bouv ! song about breed character
• They Asked Me Could I Prove (this pound dog was a Bouv), song about challenges of breed identification at the pound. this song is not yet finished, but I don't know when I will complete it. with a MIDI track.
• "Three Ancient Bouvier Are We"
• A Verse Well Donne (canine mysteries)
• We (dog lovers) Will All Go Together When We Go (song about Total Nuclear Annihilation. WARNING : may offend most people's sensibilities)
• When Earth's Last Dog Trial is Over (verse, inspired by Kipling)
• When I'm Eighty-Four (song about aging with dogs)
• When It Was Earthquake Time (song about Search and Rescue. WARNING : may offend some people's sensibilities)
 

• verse about everything else

 

• America the Once-Beautiful (song about pollution and overpopulation)
• The Ballad of Mac and DOS (a computer verse)
• to the Belle of Amhurst
• Dr Robertson, a song for Dr Jyothi Vinnakota Robertson DVM, graduate of the residency program in Shelter Medicine at U C Davis. with MIDI track.
• Let It Rain, Let It Rain, Let It Rain (a California Christmass song)
• Poor Jobs is Dead, a heroic dirge and epitaph for Steve Jobs (2/24/1955 - 10/10/2011) and his identification with Apple and the Macintosh.
• Macintosh / Photoshop
• Make It Right (an inspirational song)
• For Mom, Between Worlds, written by my brother Mark as our mother was peacefully dying.
• On Profanity (why I hardly ever use it)
• Overdue Baby Lullabye (song for the last weeks of pregnancy, human version)
• Pegasus (song ; the fabled winged stallion as Buddy Holley would have written it)
• She'll Always Be My Nominee, a song for Hillary.
• Sister Sarah Updated (updated folk song for women ) with MIDI added
• A Spider , Yellow, fat, and Round (non-dog, poem)
• Tyger, Tyger short verse
• The Web Weaver's Song (reversal on a folk song) with MIDI added