NaPoWriMo 2010 Day 18

NAPOWRIMO 2010 DAY 18

MEOW!

“I’m cursed. I’m a tiger,” says Read Write Poem member Irene. She’s talking about the Year of the Tiger, and it’s the inspiration for her NaPoWriMo prompt:
The tiger is a creature known to create wildness and tumult. In Chinese superstition, it is not a year to marry or have children. The tiger is too aggressive. It stalks and preys.
Write a poem featuring the cat family, whether big or small.
There are many cat poems that may inspire you. The first poem that comes to mind, William Blake’s “The Tyger,” wonders why such a creature is created in the first place. Did such a creation come from the Devil himself? God will only create a lamb, right?
Ted Hughes wrote about the jaguar, a not-so-distant cousin. I think a jaguar looks even more fearsome. There’s a playful feline quality about the tiger. Not so with a jaguar! It is like black rage. I’ve seen a jaguar in a zoo, pacing endlessly in its cage. Here’s how Hughes wrote it, in “The Jaguar,” “He spins from the bars, but there’s no cage to him” and “his stride is wildernesses of freedom.”
Then there’s the pussy cat. In “Esther’s Tomcat,” also by Hughes, the cat becomes, in a figurative sense, the protagonist, the beleaguered husband. Hughes describes him as “an old rough mat” and reveals, “Continual wars and wives are what/ Have tattered his ears and battered his head.”
Is that enough to go on? Roar! Purr! (You choose.)

HERE'S MINE:

EH EYE OH MEOW

Katz dangle marmalade

doorsteps from upstairs

windows on fishing wire.

The backyard bees don’t

give a buzz, but the Kool

Katz still catch the odd wasp.

The city fox is sly, but the

alley cat is king of the cobbles.

18042+10

Y

Y

Y

WHY

Y

charcoal grey

lava clad sky

snow black peppery

that’s why

birds don’t fly

 bees are busy

wasps get dizzy

sneezey cheesey

that’s why

they buzz by

fix wing no fly

flap wing no fly

rotary helicopter okay

that’s why

they buzz by

shivery day

grey soupy sky

from geezer country

that’s why
birds don’t fly

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