Ode to Toby
By George Thurlow
©️3/12/2005
Little red dog
With “Tootsie Pop” eyes
My badger hound
So clever and sly.
Stubby wee legs
Seal flipper paws
Ear splitting yaps
Long snout and jaws.
Sausage like body
Sharpened like a tube
Yet swift as lightning
This pup can move.
Ears soft as velvet
A coat smooth like silk
A mischievous grin
To make your heart melt.
God’s sense of humor
Revealed in a hound
What a gift, what a friend
My canine clown.
Found another poem in my poetry notebook files I had written about my late, great dachshund, Toby. Going to place it in my blog. “Ode to Toby”
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