Feline Foibles
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I have a cat
(or a cat has me),
a furry cat, a very purry cat
when on my lap it's sat,
independent it is
(egotistical too),
yet demands attention
(self-centred ...
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Categories:
purry, animal, cat, fish, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Cobbled Street
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Cobbled street is lowly lit with shadows all around.
Street lights flicker in the wind and now the rain is falling down.
Glistening cobbles under feet as the street winds on further down.
Curtai...
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Categories:
purry, appreciation, beautiful, cat, happy,
Form: Free verse
Old Man From Missouri
...There was an old man from Missouri.
Biting his nails, he tended to worry.
Taping his fingers to stop the bad habit,
he switched to candy wherever he could grab it,
and once he was full, he alway...
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Categories:
purry, giggle, humor, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: Limerick
All Mixed Up Wit- Word Play
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"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary
tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”
Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
__________...
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Categories:
purry, fun, word play,
Form: Free verse
Superstitious Kitty
...For There Is A Brighter Side Contest
Picture #2
Superstition can be fun
Since the day it has begun
Seeing others try to shake
Unlucky feelings as they wake
Ladders you can not walk under
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Categories:
purry, animal, cat, cute, love,
Form: Rhyme
Tales of Tiddles
...Tiddles didn’t really like the new cat food
Fussy
Pussy
The result of the new cat food
Tiddles
Piddles
BUT THEN ….
Squitty
Kitty
Tiddles ret...
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Categories:
purry, cat, humorous,
Form: Footle
Feline Fine Footles
...Tiddles didn’t like his new tinned tea
Fussy
Pussy
Angry Animal
Shows claws
From paws
Self catering cat
Catch mice
Tastes nice
Caught in the rain...
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Categories:
purry, cat, humorous,
Form: Footle
Ode To a Misguided Mouser
...There was a young feline named Jackson,
Who wanted a piece of the action.
While hunting for rats, Jack
Got into a spat, with a strange little
Creature known to us as a bat.
This then is the f...
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Categories:
purry, animal, cat, humorous, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
I Want a Cat
...Ever since I moved from my old house
Though not burdened with bird or mouse
Though no pests, no moles nor rat
I have found myself REALLY wanting a cat
Without a feline residing with me
I find myself ...
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Categories:
purry, animals, love,
Form: Rhyme
We'Ll All Feel Fine
...Don’t go walking in the forest where the trees have fingers
And the lions go aprowling and the moon hangs low
Don’t go skipping through the alleyways of strange dark shadows
Don’t you dawdle where...
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Categories:
purry, childhood, family, children, upliftingfire,
Form: Rhyme