Poetry/Haibun/Featherless Angels Copyright Protected, ID 10-1594-005-28 All Rights Reserved, 2023, Constance La France
Written, October 28, 2023 For the International Contest, Featherless Angels Sponsor, Ink Empress, Judged 11/06/2023
First Place
" I will send them without wings so that no one suspects they are angels." God I have had cats since I was six years old and got one for Christmas, she was pure white and fluffy, I called her Snowball. Since then I cannot live without a cat in my life and God always sends me one. I have never purchased a cat. They just come to me as a stray lost soul, or someone cannot keep their cat or in the case of my mother's cat, inherited. And my present cat was because my sister could not keep her, way too fluffy she said. Each one has been my best friend. Each one my sweetest companion. I love their purring sounds, stroking their soft fur, their little kisses in the morning and even those big meows, my cat sings to me like a little bird. I love that so much. I am sure God knows when a person is lonely or sad and he sends a pet angel. These featherless angels fill me with love. My grandma used to say that I was born with an old soul, my mother said I had the saddest eyes, and I seldom smiled. But, with a cat beside me I am filled with happiness. God knows what he is doing but in time he calls them home and my heart is shattered, broken and I grief the loss deeply. Then, magically another cat will come to me, for there is always room in my heart until I kiss them goodbye with tears. held my angel cat until her last gasp of life ... and then held her more
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