minou minou
sentient cat burglar
ninja on the prowl
AP: 1st place 2025
Pussycat Pussycat
tap tapping like a boxer
within your imaginary ring
playful and nimble
bouncing on a spring
to the left to the right
dancing on a whim
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Submitted on March 29, 2025 for contest YOUR CHOICE G sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - Honorable Mention
always was agile
equivocate l
found to be fragile
My mother picked chicken
in the middle of our backyard
as the national team goalkeeper...
Thrice better is the cowardly creeper
Than a passionless lion laxing tame,
Who toothless lies as lesser beasts
Plot and paw jungle's sleeker game.
More inspiring than any genius wit
Is the dim-footed guesser ever out
For new surprises both foul and fit,
Taxing dumb Luck's diamond pout.
Let swifter-going synanthrope felines
Feast on cowering polar bears' meal;
And such fast ever-trying wing upset
Any slow-flying eagle's choicest deal.
Of what merit are manes and paws
That hang and whirl lame in the air;
Or agile-dashing limbs and fit claws,
If neither thus proportionately dare?
Uncork average vineity's cellars now,
I'll pardon their middler-vintner's skill;
To mañana-enchanted wantwits vow
Crispier sips that patient palate thrill.
effortless
agility
~ the freedom
posted on July 19, 2019
No mention of benefits your efforts will bring,
No sign of a business case these should be in,
No overall strategy roadmap or plan,
no timeline or gant chart with a product life-span.
No formal test process and no UAT,
With no business input and SME free,
With a host of stakeholders drawn straight out of college,
With very little experience and even less knowledge.
Constantly playing to management vanity,
Creating a model that defines insanity,
Repeatedly following those several flawed steps,
But somehow expecting much better effects?
The lack of a leader and co-ordination,
A media blackout with no communication,
Experience of colleagues continually spurned,
And there’s no documentation and no lessons are learned.
Expectations are raised and the business have hopes,
But they’re soon to be dashed as these things are de-scoped,
And if you should challenge this deployment style,
They’ll just tell you you’re negative and that we’re working ‘agile’.
Shark, the cat, is sitting catty-wampus today. He is a contortionist. His head is to the north,
His tail to the west, paws to the east, crossed in a southwesterly way, except for one which is
Somehow sticking up in the air like a lone feather. He is licking his Neverland region, as I step
Over him. At first when I noticed him on the porch, with all these extensions, I thought he was a
Fat, giant spider. Shark is an older cat, there is no way he should have this kind of agility, but
He does, and I am in awe.
Haggle Over Being Agile and Fragile
What we all had to do was haggle,
Over knowing Athlete is quite agile;
With much tedium,
Find happy medium,
Along with parts that may be fragile.
Jim Horn
Trump Atrocious and Never Agile
Trump Is Atrocious and Never Agile;
Born basket case with brain fragile;
Even got caught,
Being strange lot;
Often at times would try to strangle.
Jim Horn
Shooting for 6,000 poems.
The cat’s left leg is straight up in the air, behind his head.
Leans a bit to the left, and this cat’s extremely well-fed.
I had not realized he could do this magical trick,
It is completely unbelievable and excitingly slick.
Come quickly now
Sense wise endow
Watch for fine glow
Cheer comes to show
In a swift flight
Touch frames delight
Come once again
Primal sculpts plain
Wear a deep ease
Cascade prime peace
Swing agile trace
Move face and space
Time echoes round
Here lost is found
Leon Enriquez
14 March 2017
Singapore
the agile house cat
climbs up tree against cold wind...
bird flurry no snow