I love cats, you know I do,
They’re smart. And entertaining, too,
Sometimes, they just don’t think things through,
Or fail when trying to construe,
But give you something fun to view…
To drapes and screens, they stick like glue,
Have inconvenient timing, true,
Mess up the portrait you just drew,
Or bid your brand new rug adieu,
Your hugs and kisses they eschew,
Until the times when they want to,
Beneath your window, half-past two,
Loving, fighting right on cue,
Until you’d like to throw a shoe,
And think you’d rather have a gnu,
But I think you would be so blue,
If you didn’t have your ‘baby boo’,
You’d have to find a nice way to
Be entertained by something new,
So, here’s to cats, I’ve known a few,
I love their ways and their miscues,
Love watching antics on ‘YouTube’,
But one more thing and then I’m through…
Love most that they belong to you!
P.S....
An edict from King Richard 2,
Forbade the eating of your Mew,
So when your setting down to chew...
Don't add 'puddy tat' to your stew!
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| Photo Credit: Karen of bakinginatornado.com |
With poetry, we all besought
To try to make the week begin
With gentle thoughts,
Perhaps a grin?
So Karen, Charlotte, Mimi, me
Have crafted poems for you to see.
And now you’ve read what we have wrought…
Did we help?
Or did we not?
Topics for the next few weeks (with a huge thank-you to Mimi, who comes up with so many of them!)...
Respect Your Cat Day (March 28) (Richard II's 1384 edict forbidding eating them.) Today!
Imperfection (April 4)
Pets (April 11)
Juggling (April 18)
Brothers (April 25)
Babies (May 2)
Music (May 9)
Purple for Peace (May 16)
Turtles (May 23)
Memorial Day (May 30)
Yo-yo (June 6)
Roller Coaster (June 13)
World Refugee Day (June 20)
The Happy Birthday song (June 27)
Thank you for this humour-filled approach to not eating 'puddy'.
ReplyDeleteI love it :)
ReplyDeleteI think that cat has good taste. I just named my new car Kitty Kitty...it purrs.
ReplyDeleteThis is my Monday fix and it gets me through the whole week!
ReplyDeleteLove this. And I never knew about that edict. I don't keep cats, as much as I like them, for a somewhat similar reason.
ReplyDeleteSo love this! One of my favorites of yours and that's saying something.
ReplyDeleteWonderfully well done! We certainly should eschew the kitty stew.
ReplyDeleteA few possible topics going into June (and please don't ever feel obligated to use them, especially if they've been used before or just aren't right for you):
June 6 is the birth anniversary of Donald F. Duncan, Sr., who introduced the Duncan yoyo. We could do yoyos, those on strings or the yoyos in our lives.
June 13 is the anniversary of the opening, in 1884, of the very first working roller coaster at Coney Island. Roller coasters or life as a roller coaster could inspire us.
June 20 is International Surfing Day as well as World Refugee Day. You could choose to go lighthearted or serious on this day.
June 27 is the anniversary of the composition of the tune Happy Birthday to You. Love it or loathe it, the tune is here to stay.