For today's Poetry Friday, we're sharing a poem about dogs. Because who doesn't love dogs, especially on a sunny warm mid-March day.
Maybe We Should Be Like Dogs
By Dianne Sefcik
maybe we should be like dogs
claw
at the door
that barricades love
whimper
yelp
howl
hurl ourselves
relentlessly
squandering pain
exhausting
every action
every prayer
every hope
until tears
weep themselves
from the fissures
of our shattered heart
and love steps in
for just a moment
from a different door
surprising us
teaching us
it is always there
By Dianne Sefcik © 2017 All Rights Reserved.
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More about Dianne Sefcik
Dianne Sefcik is a poet and writer living in upstate New York. She often writes about our connection to the land and to each other.
Dianne is a member of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild, the Evergreen Poets Workshop (as is Ellen White Rook, a poet we featured a couple weeks ago), and the Rensselaerville Library Poetry Group.
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