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Cat Poems | Examples of Cat Poetry

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Cool Alchemist Tender Candid Abbot Tabby Calm Aboveboard Talent Capacious Able Terrific < Therapeutic Nostalgia Swift...

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Categories: cat,
Form: Acrostic
Hiku: a gift of nature
my f i e l ...

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Categories: beauty, cat, flower, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Daily Dip
Resident warblers, different species share dedicated lookout, for the cat beware -- they frolic about, sally as children wings splashing refreshing Birder’s bath~ enters Lucifer, the neighbor’s cuddly clawing wrath --...

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Categories: allegory, bird, cat, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rum n Raisin 19 - The Big Cheese
“What is it?” said Raisin. Rum said, “I don’t know, Let’s find us a hill and watch that thing go.” Walnut said, “Hold up; I’ve seen one of these, It looks like a wheel, but it is, in fact, cheese.” “It’s normally cut into portions to sell Whoever mislaid it will be mad as hell.” Rum said, “Are you saying this...

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Categories: cat, dog, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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Cantankerous All knowing Tyrannical Ruler...

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Categories: cat,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Rum n Raisin 18 - One Rainy Day
“I’m so very bored,” Raisin said with a frown “Me too,” said Rum, “but with rain pouring down, It’s not like we get to go out for some fun.” Raisin said, “Will this rain ever be done?” Sat on the window sill, tail swinging slow Rum said, “Dear sister, I really don’t know.” Raisin leapt up to sit next to her...

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Categories: cat, dog, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member tuxedo cat
tuxedo cat all dressed up nowhere to go AP: Honorable Mention 2025...

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Categories: cat, fun, silly, word
Form: Haiku
a land of dying sonnet
in snail-pace schizoid Land of the Dying they sometimes bake schnapps biscuits then throw them to black cat eyeing angels appear asking “what about fiscus ?” they reply “we care not, passings near roof leaks, grass not so glitter green new shoots will bloom, Shangri-La we hear!” “all acts account to day of goodbyes, clean fix broken...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, cat, change,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dogs and Cats
some fight each other some learn to play together others co-exist ...

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Categories: animal, cat, dog, friendship,
Form: Senryu
Fantasy Of A Cat
Sitting in the sunshine streaming through the window my catnap's long overdue it's way past time I drifted off to the land of milk (and honey) ah Shangri-La a return to déjà vu and my reverie it's no hallucination merely visualisation of a fertile imagination and when all is said and done no I'm not the one (but, 'Wish I were,' hear me purr) the cat who ate the...

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Categories: animal, bird, cat, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cat
I see hands reaching My muscles tensed I sharpen my claw...

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Categories: cat, children,
Form: Free verse
To the Cat Who Ran Away
To the Cat Who Ran Away You left so quietly one day, We didn’t hear your little feet. You slipped away and gone , While we were all busy with work. You were never meant to stay in, You loved to chase and roam. But now the house feels strange and sad, Without you here at home. We call your name, we check the...

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Categories: cat, home, i miss
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Cat, My Pet
My cat is everybody’s darling pet. from all, she Yearns a gentle pat. none Can hate her, I shall bet. At night, she wanders like a bat. by nature, she is quite cool, but don’t Take her to be a fool. My love she Yearns, has a Pair of gleaming Eyes, they are of The shade of blue skies. at night, everywhere...

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Categories: cat, 3rd grade, animal, appreciation,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Happy Cat
Tiger stripes, big belly he likes to guard the porch, ready to protect his kingdom regal stretch with belly up followed by a hard nap while curled in a ball Summertime is a great time to be a cat...

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Categories: cat,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member homeless
a hooligan cat homeless& t a t t e r e d hungry&lurking on my porch quite b a t t e r e d a bitten ear&one closed eye the other so blue that it made me- sigh ! I brought him in& soon my home was s h a t t e r...

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Categories: cat, love,
Form: Rhyme

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