dVerse Poets Pub, a wonderfully supportive website for online poets, has a poetics prompt today about writing in the voice of the other (hosted by Mark Kerstetter). I have one very serious poem written from a very different perspective (the poem’s called Honor Killing.) But the world is such a somber place these days, I wanted to focus on something lighter, i.e. a dog! And cheese!
So here’s the poem. And below is a little fledgling animation I did some time ago which does not exactly illustrate the poem, but is close enough. (Have a great and light Saturday!)
Sniff Becomes Him
Sniff cheese sniff cheese sniff cheese above,
Sniff that pungent sniff I love.
Sniff high faint clouds of that so dear–
Sniff cheese so far and yet so near.
Sniff bowl, oh holy hallowed
Bowl, sniff (howl howl) bowl, so hollowed
Now. Oh please Oh please
Oh please, Oh please!
Oh wherefore art thou
Phantom cheese?
Sniff time not passing,
(Swiss, Cheddar, Brie?)
Sniff hours harassing,
(Oh my! Oh me!)
A Treat! (for Pete’s sake!)
For him who’ll wait
By door and bedside
Early, late.
Oh whimper/whine, I’ll beg no more,
If you’ll just drop some on the floor.
Egads! Yum Yum! My thanks for this,
Sweet morsel of a moment’s bliss.
(Repeat till satisfied.)
ManicDDaily 
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