Cat Ekphrasis Poems

it's easy to imagine the moon fell out of the sky
but no, it's still up there, where it's always been
    I look...

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DREAMING LAND
By
Kyile Jacquin Carter

Salt rice pot dog cat logs
Hope scotch rum, apples wheat drum
Bees sticky sweet, flowers smell nice allergies
Eggs beans protein, hens lay chickens
Toast...

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I leave the auction sick, my mettle frayed
A ghost, I fear, in oil clutched near my side
No doubt, a ghost for which I've dearly paid!
How...

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The Lion and the Gypsy

For some, life is simple in raw assertiveness,
With no disarmament of conscience, alertness.
Beneath a moonlit sky, a heartbeat from closed eyes,
The...

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The sparks fall like stars from a grey slate board sky
As ashes like teardrops drift into my hair.
I cover my eyes from the crackling glare
While...

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The orchid moon and I look in kind
at the dimpled ocean's
aubergine plain, meandering thought's
violet caves.  I've lost my way
in the lavender vortex 
of a...

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EMBRACED - Embraced 

Her eyes and lips captivating, 
her large nostrils and paws supping at the wind. 
Trying to flee, her lustful charisma embraced ...

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This poem is from the Ten Pictures, Ten Poems, Ten Poets, Ten Days
challenge by Debbie Guzzi.

Painting #3
The Blue Cat, by Pamela Colman Smith 1907

Broken 

what...

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Her feline grace reclined, 
triumph ruled in Her eyes -
Many sought the blue flamed tryst 
in shaded groves they court with lies.

These men fell power...

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Magical Mountain Where Blue Cat Resides

This Majestic mount made of magic stone; 
I climbed every night as a lonely child. 
Tall and regal, it stood...

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Emily of three years
Leukemia eating her soul
Her bald head, made her smile wider
Please mummy do not cry
I will hug you even after I die

Tommy of...

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close your eyes now for a bit - 
you in the back too, I'll wait -
and keep 'em closed too

now think back to the first...

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without a rocking-chair in sight
ol' Tam or Tom rules the roost
guarding henhouse since the fox lit out
and the door fell off its hinges

'n' all the...

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As twilight now comes, we view a fair maiden,
flushed by the fire, in the hush of the room
after spending her day, where the heather was...

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