Best Tortoiseshell Poems

fur of winter snow

with burnt autumnal hues

a bundle of love...

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Mottled feline lush smooth fur
Golden eyes and soothing purr
Your fine bushy tail and padding
Gait, you're a living tapestry so
The Colours state' black in circles
Spots of...

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A cacophony of cats in my life.
Not one or two, but fifteen!
Each,who along with joy,
brought sadness and strife!
All shapes and sizes with grand
and most loving...

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Comes silently
on sorrel moccasins

roosted on tortoiseshell
of root cellar

singing, stumbling
in numb imaginings

lit with half-light
vegetables
squeezed in jars
of russet and avocado

above
a cornice of sky
split with laughter
searching
for broken arrowheads
gold...

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Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch 

A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!

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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch...

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mallards... a pair
koi carp can't compete... duck feet
strang orange shapes
~
sunshine... summertime
fickle spring... climate changing
muted cuckoos
~
Jenny wren... begging
let summer have its way
seasons confound spring
~
first orange tip
fluttered...

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A large pile of elephant excrement is neither resembling a tortoiseshell coat or a brown handbag but playing dodge ball on a busy motorway could...

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I have just been confounded by nature on so many counts. I have been commenting on bumblebees not being seen in any quantity over most...

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ABOUT A CAT
 
 They found you at the bus stop in the bin.
  scraggy mog with unmatched staring eyes.
  The soaking fur...

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Tortoiseshell tulips often grow at left angles to the moon and are otherwise adjusted to a sealed lip of ground. But a curled canopy of...

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I see the image
in a mirror on the wall  
light reflecting eyes 
gleaming a greenish yellow
from my large tortoiseshell cat.

bougainvillea
covered in bright pink flowers
picture...

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The laugh like cry of the April woodpecker happy in the early spring,
And the dry harsh note of the Jay, awaken the forests and everything,
The...

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Autumn’s tortoiseshell sky
reclined across mountain’s chaise longue,
content to linger
while night stirred and rose.

A tangled weave of broken limbs
lay like nest for dragon’s sleep,
and they came,...

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Just a stray
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Dedicatedt
to
Maureen McGreavy

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butterflies, the best time to see,
the time to, time to, time to see.
summer gardens, yes, come with me.
summer in my garden.

did I say I...

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