Short Caterwauling Poems

CAT CALLS


The caterwauling cacophony of a cadre of cats copulating in a can.



12/10/2015

submitted to – One liners five – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Silent One...

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The THUNDERING HERD 
of beach goers,
like bison of the hunt.
Echoes of Doppler 
caterwauling down the two lane.
Each one,
dodging, weaving, 
horns blowing,
vie to be first. 

For the Sounds of Summer contest
© Apr 14 2010...

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A breathy caterwauling doesn’t evoke feelings glowing hardily
Impacting justification.  Kindness leaves meaningful nuances 
off-putting quiet responses,
surging toward unified victorious wins
 ‘xasperating your zaniest assemblies....

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I caterwauled with the best of them.
I caterwauled with the worst.
I put myself in a side pocket
And I walked beside my purse

My moans had seen some better days
My woes had seen some worse.
The caterwauls you hear today
Are coming from my purse...

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Please stop caterwauling. 
Your friend is dead.
Nothing we can do will ever bring her back.
She's in another plane of time.
We cannot reach her from this side.

Once I felt a black slender tail.
It wrapped around my lower leg.
When I looked down there was nothing there.
Maybe it was the last breath... of my dying cat prayer?...

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Jimmy wished he was a cat
Not a kitten, but a full-grown caterwauling tom
He prayed about it every night for ten years
One morning he saw catlike qualities in the mirror
I look like a cat! He said.
I have whiskers like a cat!
I need a litter box.
So he made himself one out of a long dishpan
His mother kicked him out shortly afterwards...

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Jon Stewart, sometimes host of The Daily Show ridicules Trump,
then dares jump to the other side and does the same to Biden.
His viewers won't buy that second one, all caterwauling,
You didn't warn me/them/us/they/he/she/vis or the xemeself
That you had intention to go rogue and do that tit for tat!
Go ahead and demean the Don, he's earned every bit of it,
But leave old Joe alone, he deserves our love and loyalty!

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To hover within
The atmosphere
With no end in sight

Searching for shelter to
Silence my own caterwauling
Echoes that frighten me 

Immortality
Granted without my consent
For seeking eternal love

My flesh scattered
By savages of greed
Only to thirst for more

Yet, my heart
Has no scent
And sits untouched

I replenish
A world of thirsty mortals
With my salted tears

Only to see them
Vomit my memories
One by one...

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Mere silence is all it took
to put an end to her soul's cries
Her heart, caterwauling in disharmony
has been waiting for the storm to abate

It has finally happened
Her heart no longer goes to war
as its deed has been narrowed down to one
- to fulfil its role as a diligent pump
in burning quest of keeping her body alive

With the power of her revived heart
and the courage of her liberated soul
The mountains she once feared
are finally beginning to move...

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The koala's spiritual beliefs
Are difficult to assess.
He attends no mosque or synagogue
And never does confess.
He's not a cannibal and so
Communion is appalling,
And as for gospel singing,
It's just so much caterwauling.
I suppose he's an agnostic,
Yet he often stops and ponders
The reason for this universe
And all its many wonders.
And so we must be satisfied
With this insight that's been slipped us,
While he goes back to being cute
And munching eucalyptus....

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  Something eats away at him
     buries the past, blurs the future
  grabs the soul and won’t let go  

  But what is it, pray tell 
     clinging to the bottom 
        of his being…

  Caterwauling through dark alleys 
     gunshots pierce hazy air
  madmen in rags sprawl on
     stoops of wear and tear… 

  A confession crosses his parted lips
     the truth being – Does he even care
  to stop and smell what’s there
     or pause to pluck a red rose rare
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