Cat Love Hurts Poems

Your heart stopped.
For some reason, I hoped it wouldn’t.
Silence.
Then I started up again.
Your eyes don’t look scared.
You never were.
We pause then leave quickly.
As if we...

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   A shaggy dog espied a graceful cat
     She arched her back, he fell flat
   on his...

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I have a crush on you
Infatuated, who knew
Don’t know why, but it’s true
Don’t know why I feel blue
Without you too,
But it’s no big deal

I am...

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The Wrong Leap 
The hardest lesson
Has been to get rid of the tension
That you’re no longer at my mention 

Well thank God, I got that...

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I wish I wasn't so attached to attachment, so I could hold your hand and stay in one piece,

Say somethings gotta give, my God I...

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On
tiptoe,
I slink to
the open door
planning my escape.
Just as I make my sprint
for the outside, I am stopped
and scolded for my brash attempt.
Fates! Why must I...

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When you walked out I snickered.
Thinking you’d be back by lunch time.
I fixed your favorite lunch – meatloaf and mashed potatoes.
By one o’clock I had...

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…is a cat not the totem of love

your physical contact generates feelings
were the neurons release 
the feeling for good vibes
peace, harmony 

by stroking soft gentle...

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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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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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Dark misery
how you wrap my heart 
like a black cat around the leg

waking world thrust back into dream
vaccume un-escapable
i fall backwards
into your dark embace

slowly i...

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Huntress
by Michael R. Burch

after Baudelaire

Lynx-eyed, cat-like and cruel, you creep
across a crevice dropping deep
into a dark and doomed domain.
Your claws are sheathed. You smile, insane.
Rain...

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The plane sets sail across an ocean of stars..
Like a cat in the dark, you appear out of nowhere.
Just when I think she's through with...

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Madame Sierra
if you think you can have another man, on the side;
Then it's off with you, then you and you friend need to go bye-bye-bye-bye;
Don't...

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Anxiety crawls in my mind, 
Shame and guilt combine,
To make internal distress,
Caused by your mess
Mixed with a little alcohol
And then you get the rest.
F*** you...

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