Who is she? We wondered as she pranced around foraging for carrion.
She is a blue-eyed witch I think.
The BEW turns and stares at me; she looks like a wild muskrat cat faerie.
I am terrified, for I have never met such a creature.
She appears to be royalty.
I stop eating my mouse and offer it to her.
She gobbles it up and then stares.
She is a beauty, but a tyrant.
I run, hoping she is not chasing me.
Cats like this break your back and start with your head.
Wind within their fur
In jungles, Savannah’s, nowhere mediocre
Lazy they are not, for sure
Dragons of their own right
Cats crave the WildThing fight
At night these angels hardly sleep
Tread during day, the feline will creep
Such is the WildCat a’neat.
Bengal Tigers are listed as, endangered
and are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar
Their habitat is, tropical and dry forests, mangroves and grasslands
but this wildcat has historical assists, of their ancestral homelands
Bengal Tigers are the National Animal of India, a cultural symbol
but the hunting of them for trophies, and to use in Chinese medicine
and unethical habitat destruction, is an act, of a detrimental criminal
as we are becoming a species, that doesn’t have, humane discipline
Scottish Wildcats are listed as, critically endangered
Once found throughout Britain, now only found in northwest Scotland
living in wooded areas, near the edges of forests and shrublands
and the Scottish Wildcat is a subspecies, of the European Wildcat
Domestic cats pose a great threat, for these Scottish Wildcats
as there are very few genetically pure populations left, of this Wildcat
and deforestation has left them confined, to the Scottish Highlands
and snares and traps are have accounted for many of their deaths
Wildcat
wanders about
among the wildflowers
searching for a tasty rabbit
hungry
2-12-2020
Modern OR Traditional Cinquain Poetry Contest
William Kekaula
Shadow-Cat = Cat Afraid oF the Dark needs Teddy-Bear-Cat
Polecat = a pole dancer Cat-House
Copycat = looks like you do Carbon Copy House-Cat
Bobcat = Bob - Tailed - Cat
Wildcat = Wild.,.Child.,.Spirit.,.Cat
Allie-cat = Loose Trampy Cat Did ( I ) Loose
my Train oF Thought it came with a Caboose
and who Goose the Moose
By Antlers in the Tree Tops Chocolate-Moose
Tomcat = sometimes a Big Cat Thumpper other Times a Tom Thumb Cat
and a Cat in the Hat = a BATTY Cat Flying Rat Fat-Cat That's That.,.
P.S. EYE AM DYSLEXIC so I use CAP.s for Punctuation Style called SHOUTING
John Lenin used it when he wrote music now days young Rapper use it when they write music the Newest Form oF Poetry making my poetry unique a NEW ART FORM or a New Form oF ART Poetry
Sweet dreams...
But don't try masking the seasons
in gold.
You never needed to,
but thought so
because what we call love cuts us
like a crashing chandelier,
stinging all the more for how pretty
it used to be...
And to know
what it feels like
watching years accumulate that itchy mold
is harder still. Because we never knew
what we were looking for,
even after we pick ourselves up
from our dusty rooms
to walk the same lines.
At least we're braver than we know,
but doomed to fail
if we play by rules we're urged to swallow-
A cosmic joke.
Now let me tell you how to win..
Choose the lion on the carousel,
steal him away while you run out laughing.
Kiss your lovers,
hold your friends to their words.
Don't fear your reflection
when you've let those hands
leave their mark,
and don't know why you're aching.
We're all a part of the circus,
start a new act.
Don't give in to the darkness
all for show-
Light a candle and roar.
Wildcat
Stems of tubing
Stacked by threes,
Will bring our Mother
To her knees.
The wildcat tries
To feed her young.
Her search for energy
Never done.
In forests green
And oceans deep,
The wildcat rig
Will never sleep.
We thirst,
We hunger,
For what she looks for
Deep down under.
Boxes speed
On rubber round.
To Earth’s crude blood
Mankind is bound.
Stems of tubing
Stacked by threes,
Will bring our Mother
To her knees.
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