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lucky
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0 posted 2008-01-08 02:53 AM



my shadow

cast into the woodlands
of an unknown world he
looked around about
attempting to create a
vision he found that
purring in subtle
rhythms out from
under incongruous
murmurs and streams
and tired timbers
of faint delusions
and the blatant
phrases floating
through the barnyard
mazes of space which
had no sense of ever quiet

came grace and love
on blond braided hope
held on to with firm yet
gentle grasp to the
song of a soft white
velvet snow followed
by hard blizzard blast
that left him near
point of wonder
where finally to find
what he had come
to love

somehow
left him in a hovel in
the same white
doorway where he
found me
~

© Copyright 2008 Dale W. Gwaltney - All Rights Reserved
lucky
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1 posted 2008-01-08 03:05 AM


I'm sorry

I didn't take time to get
this out as I normally would
have. Forgive the loose poetry...
I just felt so bad her cat died
most likely due to my inability
to see...

I love you Rosemary...
dale

serenity blaze
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2 posted 2008-01-08 03:11 AM


oh....

how do I hug you both?



sighing

nakdthoughts
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3 posted 2008-01-08 06:15 AM


I feel for the both of you~~


M

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4 posted 2008-01-08 07:45 AM


oh Dale, I am so sorry!
Please give Rosemary a healing
Pips poet-hug.

passing shadows
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5 posted 2008-01-08 09:32 AM


sending hugs too
Sunshine
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6 posted 2008-01-08 10:24 AM


Lucky...give her a hug for me.

to you, too.


Rosemary J. Gwaltney
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7 posted 2008-01-08 01:15 PM


Oh, honey, it wasn't your fault for buying it!  I just saw this, and I'm so sorry you think this!  It was windshield  washer fluid - who would think it was poison?  I didn't think of that either, when I was trying to melt ice.  Neither of us knew he would get it on his paws.  Oh.

Our sweet shadow.  Thank you for writing of him.

Thank YOU, passion friends, for caring!

Margherita
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8 posted 2008-01-08 01:29 PM


This is so heartwrenching, I can imagine how painful it is for you both.
((((Dale and Rosemary))))
He will come to you in dreams and you will feel his closeness and cherish the memories.
Don't feel guilty, he KNOWS your love.
love
Margherita

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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9 posted 2008-01-08 07:28 PM


oh I'm sorry to hear this.. love RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

lucky
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10 posted 2008-01-08 07:37 PM


PIP Friends,

You know..? What's really bad is how city people bring their unwanted pets out here and drop them off near someone's ranch thinking the people will take it in. Many times they do to. (Rosemary always does) But I've got to tell you whether these people know it or not they're condemning these animals to an almost certain death.

Farm cats are so much wiser and needless to say far more feral than any city cat. They know how to survive in the country and for one of them to love you is very rare. There's just to many wild critters in the forest that a domesticated city cat would not know about, just the same as taking a farm cat into the city. It would not know about city streets and cars and would probably end up getting hit by one. I've seen neighbors bring they're cats out here. They get fat on mice and fall pray to: coyotes, mountain lyons, bob cats and raccoons. Most disappear within a year.

I felt so bad about Shadow. He found his way to our barn shortly after our dog died, sometime around December '06. Some of you know that Rosey was feeding him through the snowy times in the barn. It was his place of safety and they became good friends. When he finally got the courage to come into the house, he took over Rosemary's office space. It became their space. I couldn't even get a piece of paper from her desk without getting pawed at, scratched or bitten.

What really hurt so - was that evidently shortly after Shadow had walked through the windshield cleaner and licked it from his feet he knew something was wrong and though he hadn't been in the barn for quite some time somehow his little kitty brain told him it was time to get back to the safety of the barn. He made it to the barns front door where Rosemary found him frozen in the snow.

I was so hurt that he had come so far. He knew what to look out for in the forest unfortunately he never thought it necessary to look out for people. My eyes are getting worse every year. I depend on RJ to read the small print. We buy the non-poisonous antifreeze but I never thought to look at the window cleaner or ask her to. He died only a few feet from where she had found him a year before.

dale gwaltney
jan 8/2008

Margherita
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11 posted 2008-01-09 07:04 PM


Brave little shadow!
More hugs.
Margherita

passing shadows
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12 posted 2008-01-10 09:46 AM


goodness! I can't believe that stuff is so potent and deadly! wow!

they shouldn't make it and sell it if it does that! You'd think with all the technology they have these days they could make things a little safer for our animals and kids

I have been attached to several cats in my day and I know how it feels to lose one...I'm sorry for both of you


Martie
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13 posted 2008-01-10 02:05 PM


Dear Dale and Rosemary

I'm so sorry!  

JamesMichael
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14 posted 2008-01-13 04:06 PM


Nice writing...sorry for your loss...James
Midnitesun
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15 posted 2008-01-13 04:16 PM


It is always more difficult to accept what happens to our pets when we feel we are to blame. Not many know the impact of these commonplace 'toxic' fluids on wild as well as domestic animals.  
You both gave her a year beyond what the previous 'owner' offered when they dumped her. She died knowing where home was where your hearts were.  

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