Pet Poem Generator
Write a poem about a pet, living or lost, that takes the attachment seriously. Free, private, and every line yours to edit.
No fixed meter or rhyme
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Writing a for a pet poem
People are often slightly embarrassed about how much a pet's death affects them, which is why so many pet poems reach for a jokey register they do not mean. The attachment is real. The poem is allowed to be.
Three things that make it work
The specific animal, not the species
Not dogs being loyal. This dog, who was afraid of the bin lorry and nothing else in the world.
Habit is the whole poem
Pets are made of routine, which is why the house feels wrong afterwards. Write the routine and the absence writes itself.
You may take it seriously
No apologising in the poem for caring this much. Undercutting it with a joke is the one thing that will make it fall flat.
What to avoid
Rainbow bridges. Widely used, and for most readers it deflects the feeling rather than holding it.
An example
Sixteen years of claws on the hall floor at six, announcing a day that had not asked to begin. I have slept through this morning and the last one. I would give a great deal to be woken.