At peep of morning I hear
the soft pad of a poem
on the bedroom floor.
A darker shadow sharpens
in the gloom of my room
and jade gems burn amber
in strengthening beams of light.
Verbs of velvet paws,
sharp nouns and adjectives of claws
swipe and glint at dust motes
forming into stanzas.
Black lines emphasise silver fur
as my feline poem springs
onto my bed with a satisfied purr.
Kim M. Russell, 2017
Mojo – almost 10 months old!
I have written this poem for Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Weekend Mini Challenge: Thought Animals, which I am hosting this week.
It’s inspired by Ted Hughes’ poem ‘The Thought Fox’, from his first collection The Hawk in the Rain: a poem about writing a poem. I have provided a link to the poem on the Toads post, together with a video clip from YouTube.
‘The soft pad of a poem’ – brilliant. Love your Mojo 😉
I’ve got two white cat here.
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Thank you, Candy! It’s wonderful to know so many cat lovers. 🙂
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We’re a three cat family, no whites. Lovely line about the poem.
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Thank you! A house without a cat isn’t a home for me.
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What a lovely poem, metaphor and reality
Happy Saturday
much love…
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Thank you, Gillena! It’s Sunday here now, so Happy Sunday and much love back to you!
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I really love the start of this.. and what a wonderful feline to paw your poetry… the prompt was difficult but I did my best…
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Thanks Bjorn. I’ve just got up and will be reading in a couple of minutes! Can’t wait to see which animal you’ve chosen!
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Love the idea of “Verbs of velvet paws”, active and gentle at the same time. It does read like a cat… and a poem. Brilliant.
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Thank you, Magaly. I’ve just got up and am about to read more ‘though animal’ poetry!
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just brilliant!
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So pleased you enjoyed it, Maureen!
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Absolute purr-fection!
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Thank you, Sherry!
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Ooh! What a delightful write! The verbs of velvet paws are the most appealing to me.
A well understanding and execution of the prompt indeed. 🙂
-HA
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Thank you, HA! 😊
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I love the verbs of velvet paws! What a pretty kitty.
🙂
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Thank you, Kerry!
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Excellent!
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🙂
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It looks like we both like to write in the morning and that our muse is a cat. Love this….
“Verbs of velvet paws,
sharp nouns and adjectives of claws
swipe and glint at dust motes
forming into stanzas.”
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Thank you! Best time to write and best companion, Debi!
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A beautiful poem, I really enjoyed reading this and Mojo is such a little cutie. We have just rescued three kitties. Very scared at the moment but eating at least so small steps. I have a poetry blog here on WordPress and today’s poem is about cats in case you have time to look? Have a nice evening, Sam 🙂
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Thank you for reading and commenting, Sam! I’ll be over to read a little later.
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Thank you! Have a good evening!
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