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GBride
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0 posted 2009-07-18 08:27 AM



Whenever Alex Cats came to  town
We all wanted good advice, from him.
He was a cat from brow on down
Clean, happy, funny, and trim.

He was always pleasantly displayed
In a race he either won or placed
He was at the head of every parade.
Every test he took he aced

To all of us he was a king.
He always had a smiling face.
The merry-go-round always gave him the ring
He never bragged, he knew his place.

To his reputation he tightly clung
But he had demons below inside
We thought his worries he quickly flung
But the demons he could not abide.

So one pleasant summer day
At lunch he lightly fed.
And then he through his life away.
And put a rope around his head.

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Earth Angel
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1 posted 2009-07-18 08:43 AM


How tragic...
~ Like the proverbial smiling, happy clown who is crying on the inside. So sad.

Hi, GBride! Welcome to piptalk!

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Earth Angel

Robert E. Jordan
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2 posted 2009-07-18 09:51 AM


Yo GBride,

This is a good take-off of Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy".  I like it.

You put some humor, and a cat in it, and that's a very good thing.

Keep up the good work.

Bobby

[This message has been edited by Robert E. Jordan (07-18-2009 10:30 AM).]

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3 posted 2009-07-18 12:51 PM


Welcome to Passions In Poetry!  This was a character study that is all too familiar to some, but the ending hopefully is different for most.  There is always a solution, always hope.  



2islander2
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4 posted 2009-07-18 02:21 PM


welcome to the site...haunting poem because dark thoughts can be everywhere and we have to face it sometimes, we have to fight and battle to overcome ourselves....Thanks you for the poem.

yann

ThisDiamond
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5 posted 2009-07-18 02:42 PM


Welcome to Passions.  I enjoyed your first post, unique humor and interesting fare for the muse!
Margherita
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6 posted 2009-07-19 03:09 PM


To be always the winner can give some kind of "addiction" to be always the first and when things change, the forever winner can't cope. It's sad, but often true.

Welcome to Pip. Captivating and thought provoking first entry.

Love,
Margherita

Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
7 posted 2009-07-19 04:15 PM


This can be read so many ways...
and truthfully, at the first, I saw
a carnival and its' rides
in action and stride...

Of course, it has a lot to do with
wording, grammar and spelling....

but you made me think, and to read
thrice...

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D.Lester Young
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8 posted 2009-07-19 06:16 PM


Goods thoughts about begin on a pedestal, while inside the demon wraith.
miscellanea
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9 posted 2009-07-19 06:59 PM


Wow!  Your captivating poem really took me for a loop.  I pictured an easy-going character, and then... I guess there's a part of us and of others that is masked and nearly impossible to read.  (I hope such tragedy has not occurred...)    

BTW, welcome to Piptalk, a great place to be.

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