Short Cheshire Cat Poems

A Cheshire Cat grins
His presence reassuring
Silence keeps the night...

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Frowning
in frustration
Alice cannot conceive
the cat beyond the
grin...

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hop on the back
of the Cheshire cat,
made of devil’s food cake
faint into the void, 
ladling out clusters of
pinkish-blue whipped dreams...

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a bunch
of roses
on one
thigh
a bud
in the
middle

where
do i see
eye to eye
where the
Cheshire Cat
sleeps
now i'm smiling...

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As wily as the Cheshire Cat
Leaving almost nothing behind
A gigolo with ego fat
He was truly one of a kind
Definite cad in everyone’s mind...

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I
A crescent moon,
The smile of Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire cat.

II
Yellow taxis caught in traffic
A row of sunflowers.

March 26, 2023
Fairview, Baguio City...

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she has
tattooed
on the back
of her leg
a Cheshire Cat

i saw it
once 
while walking behind
her looking at
her behind

then it
disappeared
but
by staring
my grin stayed

on...

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Carly Simon

Songstress, big hair, and a huge smile
Cheshire cat teeth you can see across the Nile

You’re So Vain—Just might be about Jagger
Love her—Itsy-Bitsy Spider—and all her swagger...

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night make your move
blue-gray tiger stripes and
whiskey yellow eyes
catch the moon
by surprise and
turn it into a
neon white
Cheshire cat smile
then asking
in your casual
baritone voice
Alice do you know
where you are going
my dear...

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She crushed my feelings into smithereens
Spitting on them and kicking them with a weird joy
Her face distorted into a Cheshire cat grin
I could see her soul loved hurting me
Her mean knife was sticking out of my side
She made a running jump into it...

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what glee
and gleam
i dream
a dream of
the crescent moon
at night
that hang from
starry sky in sight
the neon white smile of
black and purple
stripped cheshire cat
that ask 
who are you
before he 
fades away
with delight
on the
otherside of night...

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Both black and white
Kittens wearing pink
Mittens, sit playfully,
While facing the
Enchanted mirror
To their great surprise,
Those lovely kitten eyes
Witness a paper tiger
Appearing in the mirror
With a great big 
Cheshire cat smile
Then, asking, who
Are you...

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The poem I dreamed last night
this morning has disappeared 
like Alice's Cheshire Cat.
It seemed to vanish line by line
leaving me somewhere between
a Hatter and a Hare,
and they're both mad you know.
We're all mad here~
we must be or we wouldn't have come 
to this Wonderland of Words.
...

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ODE TO KLONOPIN

CALMNESS
RUSHES THROUGH ME
SERENITY FLOWS
REACHING
FEELING ITS WAY
INTO MY BONES
FINTERTIPS
TINGLE
PERMA SMILE
CHESHIRE CAT
WITH BEDROOM EYES
SERENITY GLOWS
IN MY VEINS
WRIGGLES AMD TICKLES
ITS WAY 
TO THE HEART OF ME
SLIDES DOWN
INTO THE DEPTHS
I'M WARM AND FREE.
NUMB...

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I've lost my mojo
Can't think
Can't write
I was better when solo
Can't be depressing
Wow, Fiona Apple isn't even helping
What is wrong with me?
Grinning like a Cheshire cat
Makes me want to smack
Myself
Help!
I'm losing it!
Gotta put Adele on my playlist
Maybe that will help me ignore
The person I'm falling for...

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I walk down the broken road
Carelessly as I march ahead
No clue where I’m at
As invisible as the Cheshire Cat
Wandering through life
Almost using the knife.

I need an anchor, a savior, something to lead me
With a heart the size of a sea
with eyes that shine bright with glee.

A savior for you, and a savior for me....

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Boy I just felt like Julia Roberts 
in the movie Notting Hill

Writing platonically in hope to may 
i be presumptuous a pen poet girl

And she commented back

You enrich me

And I haven't stopped smiling
totally and utterly enriched since

So ever so thanking you for your
kindest of remarks B.F

Your's Sincerely

Cheshire Cat...

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Dance on the floor
Like no one sees us
Feel the stereo beating
Music we could get along

Sing the upbeat songs
With a Cheshire cat smile
Our loud echoes
Will hum at the dark

Let our eyes swirl
With these dancing lights
This crazy crowd
Magically wild!

Two hands up
Feeling the moment
We’re dying to taste
The concert of the night...

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And when hope was lost
Despair took the spotlight
playing to an audience who couldn't look away
And we danced to songs
of the lonely and unseen
I wish I could hold onto you
with hands
chipped by time and toil,
life like a Cheshire cat was
grinning as it faded into remorse
Love was the only thing
worth dying for
but instead was the cause...

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I am singing the wonderland blues said the Cheshire Cat.
Alice does not know what to say, she stares at wild man in the hat.
The cat is nuts, the man says, she figures he is the mad hatter.
She decides to stay out of the pages of this story tale matter.
Jump right in! Says Tweedly Dee and Tweedly Dum.
This world is a place where you can really have fun!...

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Damn, I thought I was past this,
At least on the surface.
Mangled misshapen life.
Back to drag me down.

Drives everyone away,
This ... sickness,
It poisons the corners of my mind.
I retreat into the darkest corner,
To find it waiting.

It grins like a Cheshire cat,
Stalks my movements.
Anticipates,
Lies in wait.
Always waiting for...

... a slip?...

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I had never seen such a marvelous pot.
It made me happy, and this is saying a lot.
I had been in the dumps in this doggy palace.
But here is this beauty including dear Alice.

The rabbit is there, and the Cheshire Cat.
I am starting at this teapot, it is totally phat!
I have to have it, so I fork out my money.
I will never tell how much I spent though, Honey....

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The bat of an eyelash,
easy laughter,
a cheshire cat smile
a moment of holding his eyes
across the room.
Anticipation abounds.

Break his heart
in the same moment by looking away
never to return the glance.
Scornful.

Empty promises 
like the ones
uttered on your liquor-laced breath
have led me to believe that there is no such thing
as true love.

Only I believed you.
Foolish....

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Just in time for Halloween
 a big, black cheshire cat
 tip toes along the tips of the fence.
A balancing act
 executed with expertise and precision
 in every cautious step.
Until
 my dog, the guardian of the yard
 spots and challenges the talented display.
Then
 plunk, slip, plop, scatter, thrash, run.
The cat is gone
 with only the echoing bark
 of the guardian's voice
in failed pursuit....

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It’s such a bother to stop for a chat 
to talk to the naughty Cheshire cat;

He’s so fond of watching this mischief
disappearing eyes attest to that;
His ball of crazy? Beyond belief;

Forward just marches backward in time,
the play thing of a giggling thief;
In your eyes he squeezes sour lime; 

Better to keep a distance then pause;
You could get lost in a bed of rhyme,
fueling a Cheshire cat’s naughty clause....

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