A New Highway

A cat dashed the expanse of a new highway
with speed without a pause,
struck down by a speeding coach
smashed and flattened his form crushed .
Vehicles rolling,one after another
over the corpse his remains began to leave,
erased all traces of the brief life,
dissolved like a forgotten dream.

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Date: 1/12/2025 9:49:00 PM
This is magical and a Fav. No wonder you’re talking about because sadly I have seen it. Bathroom is quite real perhaps people forgot here October 7, 2003. It’s just a little reminder.. Cats to run out right into traffic. I don’t blame the cat. I blame all the people who won’t take a cat in as a pet or a dog.. well if we don’t take the animals in, they will get smashed. And I think you got bad point across loud and clear.. It’s not meant to be funny or humorous. Pangie and
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Date: 12/24/2024 7:39:00 PM
It was getting a little 'dicey' there, and then you rescued it so sweetly. ~ Me-ow
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Akham Nilabirdhwaja Singh
Date: 1/10/2025 5:26:00 AM
Thank uou
Date: 12/23/2024 6:16:00 AM
Many times I have seen this same sad scene. Your poem reminds me that our, humans', lives are also so brief. Janice
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Akham Nilabirdhwaja Singh
Date: 1/10/2025 5:25:00 AM
Thank you
Date: 12/23/2024 3:08:00 AM
It is sad to see any animal killed in or beside a road even a vulture. Thanks for sharing this one with us. Sara K
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Panagiota Romios
Date: 1/12/2025 10:06:00 PM
Animals you know do not have to live by 10 Commandments at all whether in the air or on the ground or under the sea.. It’s people like you and I and everybody else here who God gave the Commandments to. Even bugs destroy one another they don’t have a 10 Commandments do they?. But human beings as you know you read the news I know it you know how vicious we are to one another we can even do it on this site. And nobody will correct us. Pangie
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Akham Nilabirdhwaja Singh
Date: 1/10/2025 5:25:00 AM
Thank you
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