Her bow leans a bit
in the park she saw a mouse
tears a wound and rolls
(For today’s prompt, write poem using at least three of the following six words: Bow, Lean, Park, Saw, Tear, Wound.)
(Pictures of Janizona’s Spirit of the Ceiba taken eighteen years ago when she was just a puppy visiting cemeteries with me. I miss her.)
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Bartholomew Barker is one of the organizers of Living Poetry, a collection of poets and poetry lovers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he makes money as a computer programmer to fund his poetry habit.
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 
The mighty Shi-Tzu!
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I can see how you’d think she was a Shi-Tzu since you can’t tell how tiny she was. She was Havanese.
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All dogs, even the pampered princesses like the smelly stuff. That’s quite a moniker for a tiny dog.
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Yeah, you can put a bow on a dog but you can’t keep the stink off their fur.
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Very fine
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Thank you, Mom!
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🙏🏾💙 That sweet baby. She was gorgeous!
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That she was!
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🙏🏾💙
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She was beautiful! 🙌
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And even when she wasn’t all groomed and bowed, she was still pretty cute.
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Yes 👍
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Warrior with a bow. My favorite kind.
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A warrior who weighed eight pounds, soaking wet.
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