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Poetry/Concrete
Copyright Protected, ID 05-1731-109-12
All Rights Reserved, 2025, Constance La France
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Re-Posted, May 12, 2025 (from 08/2018)
For the International Contest, Your Choice F
Sponsor, Brian Strand, Judged 05/14/2025

Third Place

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O I am so sad now that she left for up above. Twenty years is a long time to love a cat, this sweet. A kitten came that fit my hand all fluffy and purring, she loved to cuddle all the long nights. I held her in my arms till her body was stone. And now I go to the place where I buried my beauty. I told my friends- no, no, more cats for this here girl. They say just give it time! Oh, oh my- days are empty, sometimes, I hear her soft meow call, calling for me, and that breaks my heart. Tears, now fall fall fall like rain on my new wee cat.

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/14/2025 7:51:00 PM

I know how much you loved her and the ones before her. You did so well creating a cat shape with your emotive poem. Big congrats

CayCay Jennings

Date: 5/14/2025 11:50:00 AM

Oh, my, I'm not crying, I'm sobbing. I have empathy for your grief & know the pain of hearing them, seeing them though they aren't there, longing to feel them cuddled between your legs at night. How sad thoughts of their fur, feel, purr, (blown nose 3 x) is, seeing food bowl, toys, even the litter box, the bond, the love - it all hurts. This took me to the pain I still have for Mitsu who died in 1973. You aren't ready for another, you are grieving, but in time you will be. I feel you, CayCay

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 5/14/2025 10:57:00 AM

Aww…wonderful shape and poignant. Congrats!

Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 5/13/2025 11:10:00 AM

Hello Constance, You now have a cat to cuddle to. Yor cat that was sick will always be in your heart. Friendship & Love, /Darlene/

Sand Blown

Date: 5/12/2025 5:19:00 PM

vunderbarrr....excellente'.....wowza....... keep up zee goodt vork!......len