Splish, splash, splosh. Sludging,

Slipping, slopping up the path;

Head down, cowled against the rain,

Concentrating - man,

What a floody pain.

Splish, splash, splosh - Dollis

Whoshing, wagging through the wet;

Tail up, loving every drop.

Carefree, full of beans,

Shakes her shaggy mop.

Don't - you - dare, doggie,

Running, charging, straight at me!

Woah! Glistening, hairy bomb;

Unloads cold cargo,

Delivered with aplomb.

Great big drop, swelling,

Filling, forming, mud infused;

Hanging from my nose.

Hold breath, gonna sneeze!

Tickling as it goes.

Wet, wet, wet - water,

Inside, outside, every side!

Dreaming of a bath,

A dram! More wet, yet:

Warming aftermath.

Do dogs dream Dollis?

Crashing, bashing, gallumping.

Too busy to talk,

Smells a plenty here,

Focused on your walk.

Then, now, yet - listen

Up humans, doggie wisdom:

Be alive in the now;

Fretting this and that,

Makes a worried brow.

Splish, splash, splosh, Dollis.

Yelping, spinning, all about;

Canine pleasure zone;

Tiring very fast;

Home, food, laid out prone!