{"id":3487,"date":"2015-02-14T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2015-04-09T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T17:45:01","slug":"a-pet-of-your-own-a-poem-by-robin-ouzman-hislop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/a-pet-of-your-own-a-poem-by-robin-ouzman-hislop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pet of your Own. A Poem by Robin Ouzman Hislop"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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\nStray dog on the straw wind –
\nHeaven & earth are ruthless, <\/em>
\n 
\nYelp, yelp –
\nWhere’s your tag, tab & chip!
\nYou’re not even an exile,
\nYou’re banned,
\nPerhaps you’ll get rabies & infect us.
\n 
\nThis is my seat, my place, my corner,
\nI’m here, I’ve got my coat & bag
\nNext, see, when you get on,
\nI’m next to the window.
\n 
\nGet back to your kennel, with a number on.
\nRunning loose. So we know where you are.
\nMaybe someone will leash you in.
\nLeash you from the lash.
\nGoing to make it to the hill!
\nBorders are patrolled here.
\n 
\nA few chickens in the backyards
\nOn the way. No way.
\nOur helicopter’s sniper
\nWill take you out & kill, kill, kill.
\n 
\nPoor thing, looks about all in,
\nWhat a shame, that beggar
\nDown the road looks as if he’d eat it.
\nI wouldn’t be surprised,
\nPoor thing.
\n 
\nWhat, sit here?
\nThe bus is full?
\nReally, Oh well, if you must,
\nYou must.
\nMutter, utter,
\n(My Space:) ((so small)).
\n 
\nHere we are, at least, aren’t we.
\nPets, but a stray’s a stray.
\nIt’s raining cats & dogs.
\n 
\nStraw dog on the stray wind.
\n& treats the myriad creatures as straw dogs.<\/em>
\n 
\n(Lao Tzu)<\/strong>
\n 
\n\"OLYMPUS<\/a>
\n 
\n 
\nRobin Ouzman Hislop Editor of the 12 year running on line monthly poetry journal Poetry Life and Times<\/strong>. (See its Wikipedia<\/em> entry at Poetry Life and Times<\/a>). He has made many appearances over the last years in the quarterly journals Canadian Zen Haiku<\/em>, including In the Spotlight Winter 2010<\/em> & Sonnetto Poesia<\/em>. Previously published in international magazines, his recent publications include Voices without Borders Volume 1<\/em> (USA), Cold Mountain Review<\/em>, Appalachian University N Carolina, Post Hoc<\/em> installed at Bank Street Arts Centre, Sheffield (UK), Uroborus Journal<\/em>, 2011-2012 (Sheffield, UK), The Poetic Bond II & 111<\/em>, available at The Poetic Bond and Phoenix Rising from the Ashes<\/em> a recently published Anthology of Sonnets: Phoenix Rising from the Ashes<\/a>. He has recently completed a volume of poetry, The World at Large, for future publication. He is currently resident in Spain engaged in poetry translation projects.<\/strong>
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\nrobin@artvilla.com<\/a>
\nPoetryLifeTimes<\/a>
\nPoetry Life & Times<\/a><\/strong>
\neditor@artvilla.com<\/a>
\nwww.artvilla.com<\/a>
\nArtvilla.com<\/a><\/strong>
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    Stray dog on the straw wind – Heaven & earth are ruthless,   Yelp, yelp – Where’s your tag, tab & chip! You’re not even an exile, You’re banned, Perhaps you’ll get rabies & infect us.   This is my seat, my place, my corner, I’m here, I’ve got my coat & bag … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,52],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}