Greyhounds, An Acrostic Poem

I am living with a Greyhound, after having had a variety of other breeds of dogs in my life. After having so many different ones, I thought I knew dogs, but Greyhounds are something different, something special, and I suspect I may have Greyhounds for the rest of my life, now, no other breed will meet up to what a Greyhound can give!

This is Lenny, on our sofa, lying down next to me as I’m sitting there, with my laptop on my lap. Writer’s photo

GREYHOUND — An Acrostic Poem
Get off the sofa, don’t steal my spot!
Really settling in for good now he is,
Even a bomb couldn’t wake him.
You try to move him, he growls!
Have I hurt him? No, saying “Back
Off”, like I’m a pack member. OK, I
Understand that, and it’s not scary
Now, but it was at the start! Don’t
Doubt it, they’re different, & special!

Some More About Acrostic Poetry
The acrostic poem may spell out a word in the first letter of every line, as this poem does. It spells out the word GREYHOUND.

Other Acrostic poems may use the initial syllable rather that first letter. Other Acrostic poems may use the first letter in each stanza.

The first letter in each line though, as in the poem above, is the most common form of the…