“I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.” ~ Vincent van Gogh
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Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Cat Haiku

~ and one American sentence ~


wakeful playful

morning cat pauses

for a good wash


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from her sweet face

long loud yowling —

she wants me NOW


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Spring night 

my cat wants play

not sleep


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So as to settle purring to sleep she insists on my stroking hands.


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my cat curls asleep

wrapped in folds of red blanket

as if in a rose





















Linked to Friday Writings #6 The shorter the sweeter? at Poets and Storytellers United. (We could share up to 12 micropoems.)

 

 




33 comments:

  1. It sounds like kitty is the boss, Rosemary!

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  2. A nice kitty page, my kitty
    She has claimed your red blanket as being her own. I'm not real fond of the American sentence poem, I hope it will be a fad and go away.
    Thank you for prompting.
    BTW, I explained my situation of ending up off prompt.
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    1. Oh no, that red blanket is one of hers! It is in a bed on top of her very posh scratching post.

      It’s fine to go off prompt when the prompt is optional. As they all are now.

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  3. These are such sweet little snippets about your kitty and of course how devoted you are to her.

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  4. Love the rose poem, so sweet and made me smile.

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  5. Perhaps the cat IS the rose...

    Love all your teeny tributes to kittyhood!

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  6. Lovely poems all
    Happy Friday

    Much💜love

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  7. Ahh... so sweet! I love the NOW, because it's how cats do, and it looks and sounds like a demanding MEOW! Which I heard this morning (like most) from my fat cat Benny in the hall.

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  8. Not much of a cat guy, but I'm now definitely a catku fan. Good stuff, even if it is full of felinity!

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  9. Lovely snippets of life in the day of your cat. It seems she is pretty bossy, but there is lots of love around. :)

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    1. Well she tries to be bossy. Luckily there is enough love around that she is philosophical on occasions when I ignore being bossed … and I always make it up to her later.

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  10. Rosemary,
    You truly know the personality and habits of your cat.
    There's a mutual bond between the two of you, it seems..

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  11. No catastrophes or caterwaulin at your house, Rosemary, just an occasional catnap and perhaps occasional catnip? At any rate, it all sounds like the cat's meow!

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  12. You showed us the life of your cat purrrfectly I think.

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  13. Oh, I love your kitty. My favorite, wrapped up in the red blanket like a rose. How perfect!

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  14. I love reading all your cat's adventures. Did I ever tell you that reading about your cats, in your poetry, was one of the inspirations behind my not-quite-journaling? Well, it was. It was nice to read poetry that sounded like glimpses of current living, and I wanted to do some of the same.

    My favorite is the last one. The red blooming calls to me. So beautiful.

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    1. No, you never told me that before. What a truly delightful thing to learn!

      Many years ago (before computers!) I showed a boyfriend my private book of scribbled verses, and he said after reading it, 'It's like a sort of diary in poetry.' I guess I'm still doing that, lol.

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