For today’s prompt, write a message poem. Messages can be delivered in a variety of ways: postcard, e-mail, text message, letter in a bottle, smoke signals, secret codes, jumbotron proposals, etc. Also, messages themselves can be simple, complicated, nice, mean, happy, sad, and so on. Get at it!
Pearls before Swine
He pees on the tree
after intent sniffing
around the trunk.
Could there be content
in a dog’s marking beyond
“I was here” ?
(Is the content of my poems
really any different?)
Could he be composing
symphonies of scent,
odes of odor,
masterpieces of poop?
I do not rush him along,
as I wish not to be rushed
in a well-lit art museum.
Let me savor the brush strokes
and delicate composition
of the great masters.
But I must admit,
no Renoir or Van Gogh
ever gave me as much joy
as a puppy rolling
in something stinky.
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 