Cat Death Poems

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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My garden of stones 
Under the blanket of darkness,
I've come to visit once again 
The air feels denser. 
A mist builds near 
The angels still...

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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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• rainfall - the blue summer sky making up her mind/you riding your bike from your university to your dorm/wind in your hair, you smile...

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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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Hey!
I wanted to talk to you,
for a while now,
I can't,
I can't keep doing this,
we can't keep fighting, 
I can't keep fighting anymore,
I can't live...
anymore, 
I'm...

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Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent...

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I found her in the morning. Was she dead?
In her secret place, darn it was hard to see;
My tears were falling and I was...

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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on tiny tipped toes, claws withdrawn.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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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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LOVE
Afternoon windows glittered gold.
Shadowed,
by a black and white meow. 

T-R-I-X-I-E! 
Our calls to no avail. And nobody had seen 
a missing cat. She wailed to...

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Why did the cat leave home,                   ...

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One night after I drank all the red wine,

The label I hide on the wine bottle.

They told me of the psycho cat’s demise,

I thought it...

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