Hi LinnAnn -book writer
I carefully read your poem, here is my review.
Please remember, I'm a writer just like you and these are only my impressions. My ultimate goal is to be helpful and supportive. Thanks for sharing your work.

TITLE: "Waiting on the Shore" is a great title for this poem.

Narrative & Dialogue: The author gives her narrative on an owner dying and leaving his pet behind. The dog, so use to his one owner as the one who use to play catch with him, is missing his master.

Form & Flow: The rhyming pattern is aba. The flow stays smooth and beautifully done throughout the poem with its fifteen lines and three 3-line stanzas.

Imagery & Emotion: The imagery of the dog waiting along the shoreline for his master to play Frisbee with him is so vivid in my mind as I read this poem. The emotion is felt as you read the lines.

Suggestions & Typos: I cannot offer any suggestions and I found no typos.

Overall Thoughts & Rating: Some of these pets are really one owner and are really lost without the master he knows and loves. It's sad! No matter on how hard you try to get through to them, they are missing this special someone that's been with them since a puppy. That's a hard relationship to break through. Thanks for sharing this item! I only review things that I enjoy reading and I truly did enjoy this piece.

FAVORITE LINE: These lines hold the dog's wishes so clearly.
Another playful pet,
Another loving master.
Mine's not home yet.

Yes, pets are our dearest friends that never let you down. In those lines above, I can see the dog loping along and sees another dog playing with his master. These words are what he would be saying if he could, "Mines' not home yet."



Take care now, keep on writing, I’ll keep on reading,
Jeannie