Short Placemats Poems

Cats, cats do the catnip dance
Watch as they scuttle, and prance
And arch their backs
Cats, cats in their hypnotic trance
Pass out near their placemats
They need more before they play
With their rats...

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In Spring

In spring water troughs 
fart all the 
musical notes, butterflies go to 
Collage school, four-leaf clovers babysit 
bulldogs, placemats collect bits of 
string to 
make balls, lichen await letters from 
royalty all over 
the world, sticks go for 
runs, not to 
lose weight, but just for 
fun.
...

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All those times she took out her tablecloth and spread it
'O so gently'
kept me coming back.
It was her soup I'd see;
the celery bits I'd act.

A broth to be tapped
of oil not strewn.
As thick as the sun
but thin to the spoon.

With bowls like skirts
defending their space.
On modest placemats
marked for grace.

Down splendored chairs
of darkened walnut
My eyes remember
the meal; the moment.

And on her face
her smile and grace
Remind me of
a better place....

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