Cat and mouse throughout my dreams
At play, we
I don’t win
Pedigreed, you chose, not me — then you began again
The poor girl of your youth
I am
Too much proof of your roots
Together nevermore, old friend — how urban lights pollute
Tag Archives: Cat
For the Birds: A Haiku
We sit, as a cat
In this window, affected
Uncontrollably
No Gown
Are we okay with being alone
With no other soul to hold the ladder
To stand by us, tasting, in the test-kitchen that is life
Allowing, for once, after all the illusion
Reality
When we release our grasp and find no one but ourselves
Need we ask why
What mythical stealth robbed us here
Who climbed into this tower, cat-like, to gleefully take
What will we make of it
This secondhand plan that has nothing to do with the tales we were told
A finer legacy, perhaps
My Cat’s Eye: A Haiku
There’s something so right
in how my pieces remain
intact, claws and all.
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All that I need do
now then, is take my own hand
to feel contentment.
Night Crazies
I’ve seen the future
It’s waking up alone
10:42pm
A smart screen left-untouched
Too long
Stream now gone dark
You forsook that post-dusk walk
Too alone
But for that cat
Third one, now
Avoiding you politely
Crazy like the others
Stand-alone: A Haiku
Define the word “with”
Look it up and write it down
You were never that
From Not To Am: A Haiku
I don’t discount them
Those Days were important days
When I hoped with Hope
The Laughing Dance
Screens
Shades
And curtains
Never served me for certain
So I’ve torn them all down with glee
With one sole, honest purpose
To risk
Birds
Bugs
And butterflies
Too, a stray cat
Who’ll mingle with me
Cat Call
I dreamed last night a calico cat
Scampered up to me
And my big, drooling, happy dog
Of a life!
Was it you?
If so, I badly want to say your name,
But won’t,
So, cat…
Why your lame leg
Why’d you pay no mind
To the hindered, big, back foot of you
What do you wish I’d leave behind
And pay no mind to, too?
Words for DiamondsÂ
I’ll dare tell you how it feels
Feet kicked up
The late-afternoon sun coming at me
And all is silent since some tree somewhere took down a power line
I couldn’t be more pleased
If there’ll be no hot water for my tea tonight
Candlelight and the hope of tomorrow morning’s sun
Dampens any fear I have
Philosophically speaking
An alert cat and my stupid sense of hope
Along with a spirit-sister’s charge
Finds me feeling
Phenomenal
