Cat Death Poems

Follow your camels to the desert
Take a right turn at the next stop sign
Eat vanilla yogurt with strawberries
Get your digestive system right...now!
Count your blessings except...

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                 A Haiku Trilogy

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White Tiger

Giant beast, 
un-caged power of destruction, 
taking apart my life one day at a time. 
Ever-growing and living off, 
the suffering of my apparent...

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Divorce Decree
The Last Word...
	
You and me, 
we are free...
from each other.

You should be happy, 
I no longer have the right;
to make your dinner, 
clean your...

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Not a Rat

If I had a cat, 
but I don't and won't, 
but I might still. 

If I had a cat...
I might, take flight, 
from...

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Empty Glass 
Stained

The house is empty. 
The dogs...
are barking again. 
This happens, 
and.

It is left hanging there, 
for a reason. 
The word...
Says little and less,...

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Your Words

He…, 
put me on the ground. 
He yelled.
He screamed. 
Sometimes…
he was obscene. 

I walked on. 
I wanted to live, 
the perfect life. 
The picket...

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To say today has been a strange day would be an understatement. It started off this morning when I went into the den where our...

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The Cat or the Mouse

Oh no…
Where’s the …? 
The kids are here, 
unexpectedly. 

Why don’t they call?
Give us a little warning. 
We can not party...

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“Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs,”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge


‘Twas the night before Death.
All sleeping…who will breathe their final breath?
Cryptic creatures climb throughout the homes,
searching...

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It was a weekend and I was in a mood
To reach my home as early as I can
I urged the wheels to start a friendly...

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The Yellow House

On the corner of first and no where, 
is a place that serves biscuits and gravy. 
They have grits and liver with onions....

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Oh My

Politics.
Bad subject. 
I don’t even like to talk about it. 
I don’t like to vote. 
I don’t want to be involved. 

All those commercials...

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EPITAPH TO A CAT

Here lies our cat,
At peace no doubt.
Survived eight times,
Then his luck ran out

4th November 2019
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Sponsor - Maureen McGreavy
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Ready

A camera, the battery, charger and film…(what is that?)
A flashlight, lighter, matches and something to burn. 
A bag, a flag, a blanket, and comfort to...

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Billions of blood hearts soar through my castle heart
Billowing clouds of my brain, send rainbow rain
Through my ballet body which desires our midnight dances
Last call...

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The slow throb of desire
My thighs covered in particles of fire
Your mouth its curved grace 
Sickening spark bad liar

I dreamed a funeral pyre
The flames come...

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The Fashion Zebra

I am a flake. 
That is the term for people that do not follow through. 
It may not be fair. I have spent...

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The New Preacher, 
“Hear My Words”

Are you listening. 
I am saying things very clearly. 
You need to keep trying. 
Are you talking to me?
Am I...

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The Garden at Grandma’s

The house is quiet, the chores are all done. 
We have gathered in the place out back. 
There is pit for a...

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