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Barefeet


"Barefeet"



Let sleeping cats lie
velvet dreams licking
skeleton keys

passed on kisses
passed on fire tongues

sketchy
scratchy

curled around
warm blanketed whispers

laughter tickled
by whiskers

tales twisted
paws softly scratching

skin forgotten, 
dormant 

covered safely
under blanket

out of life
out of tune

in over-heated 
lonely poet-hung rooms

barefeet in benediction
crouched naked waiting

ready
in position

on knees 
elbows follow, genuflection

cats, black hearts
all feral

stalking futures passive
inside pheromones all growling

aggressive wants
demanding latent love

A Prayer 
for the wild at heart

dancing naked
seeking some kind of love 

souls on
hot tin roofs

very forward
purring darkly 

come

(Ladylabyrinth / 2020)

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Robert Lindley

Date: 9/12/2020 6:36:00 AM

Love it-- it is like Poe and Byron melded together to write. Especially love the video and that song. I love both cats and dogs. Your -- Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof, poem referenced is new to me but a wonderful choice.. Fantastic new creation, so wonderfully presented my friend. A fav. God bless..

Robert Lindley
Date: 9/14/2020 2:33:00 AM

My referencing those two poets was the feel I got upon reading your wonderful new creation. I do not get those with every poem I read but when I DO, I know that poet tuned into what poetry truly is-- as a gift, a blessing, an art and a true love gotten and giving. Cats are for ladies , dogs are for men, or so always said my grandfather that so deeply loved dogs. Dogs relate better and cats are more aloof-- some cats are so cool. Its a joy to watch how the act.. Thanks to Justin adopting Bob- I get to see that again after my having forgotten it long ago. Life is precious, and Time never seems to be enough. God bless..

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/12/2020 7:11:00 PM

I don't know about Poe and Byron, Lindley. :) Tennessee Williams was an extremely interesting character. I am not in any of those esteemed writer's leagues. I was trying for a Greyhound to begin with, they go well in apartments I was advised...no I thought, I'll get a cat that will be much easier and all those lovely cuddles and purrs...as is the course of my life, I ended up with a FERAL....that doesn't purr...I am in the process of cat whispering...I shall let her be herself, but in the end, she will come to me. It is amazing how different muses, incite all kinds of thoughts in my puzzle maze of a brain. x

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 9/11/2020 6:50:00 AM

;0)

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/11/2020 2:37:00 PM

;) I was reading somewhere a few nights ago... a belated Happy Birthday to you...it would seem.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 9/10/2020 2:52:00 PM

https://youtu.be/OylJq6L-Wd0

Joe Dimino

Date: 9/10/2020 2:34:00 PM

Magnificent creatures! I have several...rather, they have me. Very little difference in the soul though different species. No meaningful life without freedom. At least, the illusion. Excellent presentation!

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 9/10/2020 2:42:00 PM

I must be some sort of Crazy to take on a Bengal in an apartment. ex-breeder, no one wanted her anymore, she'd produced the babies and the $$$, over and done with.... so I took her in.I must be a real soft touch. Confirmed. totally Crazy.