Donal Mahoney Poet Free verse

Cats At Their Bowls Lapping

Cats At Their Bowls Lapping


This time there’s a postscript:
“If ever I cook dinner for you,
it will be Coquilles St. Jacques
and Jefferson Davis Pie.”

Imagine Angela,
after all these years, 
rising and gliding
to check on my pie,

wouldn’t that be something?
Angela, come to Chicago,
and bring all of your cats.
I’ll watch those cats

in your lap napping,
you in my lap napping,
the cats at their bowls lapping,
and I in my chair laughing.

Angela, bring all of your cats
and come to Chicago
to make Coquilles St. Jacques
and Jefferson Davis Pie.


Donal Mahoney

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Carol Sunshine Brown April 9, 2010 at 8:29 AM Hello Donal, nice to meet you and your poetry. To answer your question about limiting your poem posting to 3-5 per day. It is not in PoetrySoup rules but as you will see we are like a big family here at the Soup and we try to be considerate of each other and our poetry. It is a win-win situation as your poems get read by more people and other poets are read by more people also. I hope you enjoy it here and continue to share your poetry with us. Love, Carol