Cat Narrative Poems

It was back in nineteen-nineteen
when Timlin Rivers checked his traps,
by one he found just a weasel skin,
did not know what to make of that.

Why would...

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She fell unconscious in her car, they think it is her heart.
She is young, but un-doctored, too busy taking care of others
To worry about any...

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Rassaphrass’s husband LeRoy went out for garlic bread on a Tuesday.  She ate all the spaghetti and meatballs before he returned, to teach him...

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The excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With...

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A long, long time ago (it seemed anyway) Rose
and her cat Twinkle Toes were     dreaming
it was a wonderful fairy tale dream...

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I was walking on the heath near Rocky Road with Mike and Ike, we’d been pals since our college days and called ourselves The Three...

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THEY SAY THE EYES ARE THE MIRROR OF THE SOUL, I MUST AGREE THATS RIGHT .
HAVE YOU EVER SEARCHED THE EYES OF A PET ...

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Who do you think you are?
I said it so many times to my old friend
too many times
until I said it loudly one last time
and that...

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My God I thought Christ had just returned...I was in a dead sleep when one of the cats jumped up on this 300 button multi...

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She pants in low moans,
Meandering through dense brush,
Shrouded by evening sky above a forest.

With damp and matted fur,
An amber-eyed predator sees no prey;
Her hunger grows.

While...

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My husband and I are well-loved and visited by night creatures. There were once seventeen raccoons on our deck, fighting over six boxes of stale...

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The little pussycat

I’m just a little pussycat 
I stretch and yawn and purr
I laze around the fireside
And groom my silky fur
I sit upon my mistress...

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Beneath a hazy blue sky
I walked down a grassy bank
My little dog trotted beside me
Across from us bush land dotted with
Gum trees, Banksia, Wattyl and...

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Part Two
San Francisco, California
Melodee’s apartment with a view of the bay

“It’s the month of May. The 29th no less. The number of sorrow for me.”
“Cassaro,...

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The forest had enjoyed a magical transformation.
Dusk had ushered in the firefly brigade.
They lit up the pond area like tiny LED lights.
I could see they...

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When I was just a little boy
we picnicked under alpine skies,
one time a mule deer strolled out
and fed in the meadow nearby.
Tall, curving antlers rising...

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We're locked in system

Bound in chains,

By a system that doesn't want us free again,

Caught in a society that barely cares

Inundated by advertisers selling their wares,

While...

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I have been reluctant to pen this verse 
Because I don't understand what it was all about
I have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I...

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I have spent my entire life searching for answers
for questions that have no answers it seems
like, where is my place
in this existence (I have been...

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You Know You’re Getting Older When…©

The scroll bar for an online application 
takes forever to get to your year of birth

The creaks you hear are...

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