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Semi Divorced

...She was a less-than-truckload lady
Who’d signed a contract for the long haul
With the interstate driver she married.
But that trucker kept a bogus bill of lading
And a logbook full of lot lizard ...

Categories: bobtail, allegory, divorce,
Form: Lyric

Raining Cats

...It was a normal Tuesday in Kansas until a quarter to two
A Bengal cat came down on my head, it had big eyes of blue. 
A British shorthair came flying by and landed on my knee.
Then a Sphynx and a ...

Categories: bobtail, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

A Feline Fable

...A Feline Fable

Old grandmother cow I think her name was Bessy.
Would often scold the kitty cats for leaving everything so messy.
She’d make sure they drank their milk and checked the barn for mi...

Categories: bobtail, cat, family, farm,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Cat That Never Was

...I am a cat what can I do you ask                 
	oh the stories I could tell you  
        like I  can purr, while sipping a flask         
	and I can fart just like Pepe Le Pew             

...

Categories: bobtail, animal, appreciation,
Form: Pantoum

Thanks To You All

...Thanks to you all
Thanks to those who come to 
poetrysoup.com, practise poems, 
write, read and share poems 
and comment on others

Thanks to those who read my
writings, do comments, follow 
...

Categories: bobtail, how i feel,
Form: Prose Poetry

B,R,A,M,H,

...Bobtail Rabbit and Munchkin Hare.

Bobtail Rabbit and Munchkin Hare ran down to the cabbage patch,
where a cabbage they would share.
Then each have a cabbage before running away this is what
Bob...

Categories: bobtail, animal, children,
Form: Rhyme

B,W,M

...Busy Wee Mouse.

Clean,clean,clean, spruce,spruce, spruce.
That's all I do all day long around my wee house.
I wouldn't mind if its Bobtail Rabbit he'd invited home for tea.
No! He invites Mrs G...

Categories: bobtail, children, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Baseball Trash Can Cats Vs Downtown Stray

...Here we are fans this fine summer day,
to watch Trash Can Cats, versus Downtown Stray.
The field is grand in this deep wooded glen,
pitchers are warming up in the bull pen.

Pitching for the Cat...

Categories: bobtail, baseball, fun, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Mitten the Kitten

...Mitten the kitten was black as the night
Apart from his tail which was perfectly white

All of the cats got together each week
In Mitten’s big garden to play hide-and-seek

The fat ginger Tom c...

Categories: bobtail, children,
Form: Rhyme

Limerick: Once a London Bobby Wore a Bobtail

...Limerick: Once a London Bobby wore a bobtail

Once a London Bobby wore a bobtail
Little girls pulled his leg by the tail
So he cut off his leg
They pulled his other leg
So he cut off his head t...

Categories: bobtail, horror,
Form: Limerick

Candy's Nine Lives

...She gasps in shallow puffs; eyes half – lit
Thick fur once ebon littering the floor
With a belly that dangled like a lump of yarn,
On a vicious night when stars grew still.

Candy used to greet me, w...

Categories: bobtail, pets,
Form: Elegy

The Best of the Night To You, Too, Bala - Part Two

...Part Two

Do you remember your run-up to the crease
      your Lindwall-delivery dragging the clasping flannel round hobbled boots
your anger
                 at the wicket that went on a no-ball

Do...

Categories: bobtail, friendship, night, night,
Form: Free verse

Why the Brits Lost the Revolution!

...The skirmish at Bunker Hill almost became a British scandal,
Since the Yanks gave the Brits almost more than they could handle!
General Howe expected the Yanks to toss their muskets and flee,
But ...

Categories: bobtail, funnywinter, winter,
Form: Rhyme