Cat Muse Poems

                   

I know it’s very early and...

Read More

"Gothic 17"

provided they are 
all story 
and no reflection 

I’m all for heroines
those coiled springs
minds like vampires

the ones 
who 
never sleep

sharp teeth
dripping words 
that bleed

kissing...

Read More

This LeftMind dominant
viral virtue 
of practicing RightBody patience 

Is a coverup 
for feeling deep impatience.  

Feeling impatient is not as hopeful 
as exploring active...

Read More

"Valentino, Romance never dies" 

Witness the hirsute main cat eloquently honey trapped,
the lap dance laps all the cream for what it's worth,
squeezes life out of...

Read More

I’m dry; the muse has packed her bags,
unfriended me and left.
No rhymes have come to mind at all.
Of words I am bereft.

In need of verse,...

Read More

"Dandylion" 

The guy was a 
Dandylion 
there was 
no denying it

full of promises
and making wishes
residing over 
this new world

poetically 
speaking, he
shone like 
the Sun

he sat...

Read More

"The Opponent" 

Something familiar
breezes across
the smile 

you balk 
at the familiarity
for a very short while

the opponent 
opens your windows
stealth like on pause

softly 
sensuously
like a cat

for...

Read More

"That Cat Purrs Like a Whisper" 

that cat 
purrs like a whisper
against an ear that 
softly catches dreams
on sunlit beams 
of light squinting 
through the...

Read More

SLEEPING ON THE EDGE
He's taking a chancesleeping to close to the edgeHe's hedging his bets
Indiana Shaw . . . 

"Mind, this is nothing compared to...

Read More

“Sunshine Superman and the Oriental Nightfish” 

Mellow Yellow
cool for katz, 
is chillin’

with his dream,
Oriental Nightfish,
in her universe 

Wings, 
he thinks
will work, 

his way 
into 
my...

Read More

"Brave Heart"



O what Leonine love
could sway 
iron clad heart
to move closer 

reflection 
watches stealth like
under cover 
kneads softly 

some kind need 
from altered
genuflection
wrong gone right

an...

Read More

How lovely are his cheeks, so soft and plush
like fluffy clouds against a moonlit dream.
Graceful are his whiskers like a paintbrush,
tracing our ankles like a...

Read More

"9 Lives" 

I’m coming back as a cat in my next life, no fleas please

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)





"Macavity" / Cats 
https://youtu.be/rQ-uzCC3hjQ
...

Read More

dawdling 'neath moonlight
her effulgent eyes expand~
fishermen's tide gauge 


6 April 2022


Black Cat Haiku Poetry  Contest (Premiere)
Sponsored by Robert James Liguori
7th Place




Notes:In New England it...

Read More

Trees weep when I write
knowing they pay a price
for each word, each line
each crumpled thought.
They cry as pencils,
worn to nub-like points
are cursed and banished.

Recycle barrels...

Read More