Cat Longing Poems

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night
In my ramshackle torn straw old bed 
The mice are chewing my toes
And the bedbugs bite...

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Belize was where her father chose to live.
She was his one offspring, and he, a businessman. 
His grocery store/saloon always bustling,
Attention getting womanizer, he pulled...

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If I could write a poem about 
you, what would the subject be?
And would the form be sonnet,
or something far more free?
You are so difficult...

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i'm lying in the grass, looking at a cloud, it seems to be looking at me, intently
does not move, and
suddenly, like an angry man, with...

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud", William Wordsworth 

I wandered lonely as a cat
And grew weary of chasing rats.
I'm not fond of killing lizards,
And squirrels...

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STUCK IN BETWEEN
It's all about your fancy words and egocentric personality.
You long for the high places, the praises that befall your majestic carpet And am...

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For Princess Ann Gilmore
    ~Across the Pond~

I wish I could meet Princess Ann! 
I just know she would like me.
My royal calico...

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You are a blossom in the frosty dew
I was lost until I met you...this is true...
You are a butterfly of red and blue
Purple kisses of...

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I once was a farmer
 I worked the land
I reaped the corn 
With a scythe in my hand

I ploughed my furrow
I sowed my seed 
I...

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I never hold her eyes long enough
Shyness over comes me
I looked away and she slips away into the crowd
Another missed chance at a great love

Am...

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Thrum. Thrum. Thrum.
Out for a morning run.

I pass the open market
and see old man Crockett,
his cheeks work-worn scarlet.

Thrum. Thrum. Thrum.
Out for a morning run.

Max the...

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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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It's the first time that I forgot
to trim Goldie's long claws that
damaged furniture and rugs;
the last time she was scared of clippers
and she hid under...

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Gone are the blissfully quiet days
When I’d have the house to myself
When all was quiet and serene
With no one here to pester me
My only interactions...

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Beneath a moon divine
Yearning hearts will intertwine
Lone avid lovestruck feline
Awaits her friend the porcupine



Submitted on October 31, 2019 for contest GOOD LUCK HALLOWEEN (PHOTO #2)...

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