We can learn a lot from our dogs ย – how to live in the moment, how to relax, how to have fun, how to accept ourselves, how to feel satisfied with what we have, how to be loyal, how to be dependable and how to love unconditionally.
If we were more like dogs, we would be better human beings.
Here is a poem I wrote about a dog I met on holiday in Ireland recently:
Ode to a corgi met in Ballyrisode
Sausage roll dog,
fluff ball of caramel pastry,
stumpy squat legs,
stub of tail,
bottom wag,
sat on the pebbly shore
staring from us to sea.
Do you want us to
throw a ball in the
still ocean, so
splashing and dripping you
retrieve it?
Do you want us to
launch a boat on the
wide water, so
dashing and yipping you
sail away?
Eager eyes, patient
panting friend,
sadly, I feel we have
disappointed you.
That’s such a nice dog and a wonderful poem
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Thank you. I was lucky to meet such a wonderful little dog. ๐
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You’re welcome
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Well written! ๐ Dogs are great! ๐
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Thank you. They are pretty special ๐
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I love this celebration of dogs, it made me smile at all of the things that dog could have been thinking – and don’t we always feel we disappoint our dogs just a little ๐
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If only we could read their minds and understand them better. ๐
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What a beautiful dog, and a beautiful piece ๐๐
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Thank you ๐
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