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The poem “Ode to the Dogs” by Shari Jo Lekane read by the poet herself at the Society of Classical Poets online Poetry Symposium on June 28, 2025:
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Video created by Andrew Benson Brown.
Patrick, thank you so much for your thoughtful words. I’m really glad the deeper layers came through for you —…
Russel, I always enjoy your poems!
James, I know you know the story of Jonah and the whale and the gourd plant (or whatever kind of…
The first two lines pretty much sum up the single truest idea about our universe, in my opinion, and I…
This is a good poem with excellent rhymes and solid metrics. It is a rhetorical apostrophe to an absent person.…
Very sweet – and I like the 4 rhyme per stanza structure which is difficult to do. Well done. Great video too – very appropriate as ABB has – appropriately – reined in his ‘wild’ side to match the tone of the poem! The only problem I have is one I think I have mentioned before on these pages: namely, I am just not a dog person! Tell me about your cat – love cats!!!
This is such a sweet and heartfelt poem, Shari. As a lifelong dog enthusiast I find this poem to be so very moving. You truly captured the relationship.
And Andrew, this is such a beautiful video to accompany the reading. It is one of your more subdued videos, but it is exactly right for the subject. The tone is perfect. This woud be a good video to share with animal rescue sites, many of which struggle to get attention.