Poems About Malamutes And Puppies: A Rhyme For Griffin The Alaskan Malamute

I often marvel at you folks who are so good at poetry and when I read what others write, I never have been able to see myself ever possibly writing a poem.

That said, I woke up this morning early before the alarm went off and while I was laying there thinking of the day ahead, 4 lines literally 'came' to me and I had to jump out of bed and race to the computer to get them down before they went into the caverns of my old lady mind.

For some odd reason, the lines kept coming to me all through my day.  At any rate, here is my poem for my adorable and delightful Griffin the malamute!

Griffin puppy, little man

Try your best to understand

I want for you a happy life

Filled with joy and no strife

To be a puppy is such hard work

We try and try to fix each quirk

Life is hard; there must be rules

To learn them though you need the tools

Look to me so you will know

What is the way that you must go

Life is short but don’t be afraid

Will do my best no mistakes are made

So many things, so much to learn

'Pay attention, Griff' – I sound so stern

What good is ‘sit, stay, heel and down’

When all you want is to be a clown

Teaching you to obey commands

Lets you know yes, life has demands

Griffin puppy, you are my gift

Without you I would be adrift

Let me teach you all I can

So you will grow to be a 'man'

The road is long, the reward tremendous

Griffin my lad, you will be stupendous

As I sit and read, I shake my head

Is that YOU with my loaf of bread?

No Griffin - Griffin, for pity's sake

I did not ask for you to shake

Next I know, you're curled in a chair

A puppy worn out from fresh air

Hard it may seem but life's a ride

I look at you lovingly with such pride

We pause together in this moment of time

A blessing to have you past my prime

Some days you seem too big for your britches

Most often though you leave me in stitches

Learning life lessons day by day

Watching you change along the way

Thank you for trusting me from the start

For lovingly finding a place in my heart

Watching you grow brings me such pleasure

You will always be my little treasure

Griffin puppy, little man

Think it through as best you can

You and I shall never part

Your forever place is here in my heart

Let's see what today has in store

No one could truly love you more

FAMOUS DOG QUOTES

A dog's best friend is his illiteracy.
- Ogden Nash

Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
- Josh Billings

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
- Samuel Butler

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
- Clarence Day

A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself.
- Josh Billings

Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails instead of their tongues.
- Unknown

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.
- Konrad Z. Lorenz

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
- Agnes Repplier

Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you like an equal.
- Winston Churchill

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
- Henry Ward Beecher

If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.
- Karel Caprek

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. - Aldous Huxley

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
- Holbrook Jackson

The more I see of the representatives of the people the more I admire my dogs.
- Alphonse de Lamartine

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, foremost to defend.
- Lord Byron

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
- August Strindberg

Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

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