Cat Love Poems

Dinner out ...
A cozy booth at our favorite Japanese steak house
We had finished all but our apertifs
I took her hand, held it palm-up

Tracing soft circles...

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My cat’s my best friend
Furrily loyal til the end!
She protects me from attacks
By our oldest dog Max,
And from other loving pets
Running to avoid the vet’s!
But...

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Two cats
wanting to be Number One;
each cat jealous
of the other one--
they lived with
two elderly people,
in a warm and
cozy flat--
a complete set of hands
for each cat-intervention
and...

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Branches extend
with the curl 
of their fingertips
holding their palms
to the sky

its 23 moons 
since you crossed 
at the bridge 
where the rainbow
glows

and i'm missing you
(even...

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Where does my kitty cat go every day?
When I'm heading to school, is he getting away?
Or forgetting he musn't let strays in to play?
Where does...

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In loving memory of my favorite aunt: Aunt Joanne                ...

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HELLO AND GOODBYE COCO	

I wanted a brown Labrador, blonde and black ,
I love them all
But I had made up my mind, anxiously I sat waiting...

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The Cat That Left...

My inner being went away,
When you suddenly died that 
Saturday.

You magnificent Tortie, made of God's colors,
Left me, your cat Mother,
to be with your brothers.

You...

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It’s been so long that we have been together
Though many years have passed I’m yours forever
I can’t stop thinking `bout the fun we’ve had
Our life...

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Zoomorphism is alive and well here.
Fish, cat, lamb, rog, and unruly reindeer
Dwell in my home, smiling from walls that are peeling.
If we could figure out...

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She was an itsy-bitsy girl and had a teeny kitten.
One night Daddy came in, knowing his daughter was
smitten.
He was most angry with the kitten!
The father...

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Would you mind very much if I loved you?
Would you mind if I came to your home?
I'd like to find a place to rest
so I...

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The cat was purring
And she stroked 
Its soft fur.

Another lonely Valentine’s
Day with only
The grey cat.

The green eyes
Seemed to glow
Like oblong lights.

If only she
Could attract someone
Who...

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They say you will never know
until you are forced to choose;
The smell of smoke chased by heat; 
With no time what do you save?
I see...

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‘Listen. The shed door’s banging in the wind.’
‘I heard it. I was just going down to fix it.’
‘You were not.’
‘I was. I was just thinking...

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She's slept on my steps
for 2l seasons, through the
ice storms of winter, and
and the swelter of summer

I've reached out my hand
to her, but the palm...

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There is a Sully* thing, called, ‘love’
Among ordinary men,
That bears there, oft, much talking of
Though the ‘how’ is beyond our ken!

Love is the Glue that...

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Spending the Night in a Temple

The ice rains hard upon the temple walls
As the fires within keep the visitors warm
The 2 brothers deep in a...

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If a cat
caught my tongue
it must have been after that
frog
in my throat
that was after those 
butterflies 
in my stomach

Was it vertigo
or did the earth move

I...

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soft
warm
loving
Katy Cat
such pure loyalty
I had never known from humans
as years pass, I see I may never find it again
unless I overcome the emptiness I felt...

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