barklove

Last week 2 weeks ago, at the thrift store I found a wonderful thing. A magnetic poetry kit — never used and only #0.88. Score! The kit’s theme — “Dog Lover.”

At home, I opened the box, dumped its contents onto my desk, and let serendipity do her thing.

One intriguing or funny little phrase after another emerged, as I turned the sets of still joined tiles over — phrases like “pack happy,” “sleep girl” (that’d be me most mornings) and “there ball stay.”

The best phrases were the ones which I didn’t have to sift out from amongst the larger groupings, — but which seemed to have self-segregated and were complete on their own. These were phrases like “morning beautiful” and “companion intelligent.”

Of all the prephrased bits, this one amused me the most:

I suppose you can use it as an imperative — “Bark ‘LOVE’!” — or as a noun, — “It’s all about the ‘barklove’!” Either way I looked at it, the response I felt was a gleeful “Yep!” The more I thought about it and played with it, the more “barklove” made me grin.

As I played with “barklove,” I started to think about all the dog-bloggers (and cat-bloggers!) who have left comments for The Aged Cat and me, and again I thought, “yep!” That fits. There are some truly “barklovely” folks out there.

So as a treat, I thought I’d post “barklove” and the silly phrases I made out of it. If any of them amuse you, please feel free to copy and make use of them. Not an award, exactly. More of a treat and a thank you.

(This next one, … I really wanted it to say “barklove give some get some.” Alas! no “get” materialized, so I left it at this:)

Which imperative, I herewith obey.

BARKLOVE

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The Aged Cat’s Assistant.