Death Cat Poems

Weighed down by it’s skin
Pelt heavy, it sat.
Loneliness whittled it thin
T’was called the spotted cat

A mistake from long ago
Left it wounded and hurt
Now lives life...

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Poe was always revising his prose between publications. Here are the longest extended versions of sentences he shortened for their final publication in his lifetime:

"We...

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Faded away—
and all that is left
is the shape of it—
 
the memory. 

Brown leaves lightly disturbed
in their cold deathbeds by 
your black paws—
ears lifted—slanted forward.
Your...

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Summer Abounds Within The Midst Of Winter.
.
As purging winter exhales it’s icy biting breath
Be it the season of decay and smothering shroud of death
Of sprinkled...

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Laughing Buddha with a tabby on your head,
You will be the death of me, the fern willow said.
All you do is extend ridiculous mirth and...

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Shark is an outdoor cat, haughty, wears a killer crown.
He has a kill room around the corner, under a bunch of bushes.
In the summer a...

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Nine lives my rear
Just one too short 
Never again we say
Then a kitten appears

So tiny and playful
Lively lovely soft
Easy to deny the end
Again over again

We...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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"Purrrfect"



purrrfectly 
catnipped

kidnapped 
purrrfectly

catnapped
kidnapped

catnapped
dreaming 
dreams
of cool
cats

caught

purrrfectly
perfect

catnipped
kidnapped

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)








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“To die, to sleep 
– to sleep,
perchance to dream– 
ay, there's the rub, 
for in this sleep of death...

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Before the night is done;
Out before the setting sun,
Children good and mean, one by one
In Halloween costumes run
Through the neighborhood
Yelling, Trick or Treat. Feeling good,
Gleaning...

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My Halloween Kitty (written 10/11/2020) free verse

I had a familiar named Callie
She was born on Halloween.

Feral siblings abandoned at my door.
I took the whole litter...

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Slinking silently through the night
on tiny tipped toes, claws withdrawn.
He mustn’t sleep until daylight’s dawn,
prudently prowls, avoiding light.

Clever, cunning crones craft a spell
to purloin his...

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The black panther is a cutie
The way he struts is a thing of beauty
That sleek black fur makes him hard to see
He can camouflage himself...

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Late one night walking in rain-hit New York,
Full moon kept watch as I measured my way,
shops shut, such silence unknown to city,
world in grip of...

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When grapes ripen and flow down barrels,
drunk ancient Greeks abandon morals,
roar accosts their ears from distant cave,
ushers season of feasting and rave!

With every roar spreads...

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