Gentle Giant (Goobah Loobah)

 

Loading up our luggage, ready

to hit the road,

detouring south

down your driveway.

 

This precious, perfect pup, Dottie,

sat shotgun back

to Dallas. We

welcomed her home.

 

My dear dorky DotDot, ’til the

day we met, I

never knew how

much I’d need you.

 

****A traditional minute poem is composed of 60 syllables split among three stanzas, with each stanza having four lines where the syllabic count is 8/4/4/4. Traditional minute poems are written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of aabb, ccdd, eeff. I couldn’t put a true traditional minute poem together in a day, let alone an hour. So for the sake of saving time as well as what remains of my so-called sanity, I eliminated the constraints of rhyme and meter, devolving into the nontraditional minute format seen above. Our dog, DotDot, was a detour, taking us about two hours out of the way. But she’s brought such joy and love and laughter to our lives, the drive was definitely worth it!****