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A Cat Named Longing
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A Cat Named Longing |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass 
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A Cat Named Longing It sat there looking up with those big soft kitten eyes, and I knew it wanted me to help somehow. I didn’t know what to do for it but at least I thought of food, and once inside it let me know the rest with mews and nuzzles: It would stay, and I'd care for it for as long as we both lived. After a while I thought of a name that seemed to fit, though it never came on call or stayed when I asked it to. Its name was: Longing To Write Poetry. I fed it the best I had, cleaned up after the little messes it made and quietly disposed of hairballs. I even tried to walk it once or twice, but it wasn’t a prose dog you could tether and make it go where you wanted. Once I tried to make it go away, locked it out. You know how that went. Back it came, and for a while I thought it must be pregnant, it ate so much. But I was destined to have just one Longing To Write Poetry, and of course one of those is always enough. It’s a big, luxuriant cat now and it owns me, heart and hearth. It’s never caught its own food but I have plenty, and it warms me when the days turn cold and dark. Warms me on the inside, where it lives. I can’t say more, because there just isn’t more to say. If you have a Longing To Write Poetry living inside you, you already know. If you don’t, you can’t know. |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Yep, I know. Great metaphor...well, I'm a cat fancier.  Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
wow...I love this! |
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garysgirl 
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
I can’t say more, because there just isn’t more to say. If you have a Longing To Write Poetry living inside you, you already know. If you don’t, you can’t know. Yes, I know, too!! Very good writing, my friend.  Hugs  Ethel |
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Sadelite Member Elite
since 2003-10-11
Posts 2519 |
Ratleader, They're not alone. I like it a bunch, too. It sounds like you and I are of similar thought this week--I have a post of page 2 about poetry and the arts, entitled Just a ship off the old dock. If you haven't read it, you might try it. I really enjoyed this. Sadelte |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
just wonderful Ed...every line *s M |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
If there was ever a cat (and I love cats) that belonged in my lap, this one is it. Library. |
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Toerag Member Ascendant
since 1999-07-29
Posts 5622Ala bam a |
I have that "longing" ..but I always seem to come up with hair balls?.....I had a dog named damn-it....I knew a guy who had a dog named "sit"......he was really smart..but kept getting confused....his owner would say here "sit"...the dog would take one step then sit....good write Rat... |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Ratleader, An excellent write and brought thoughts of my cat back. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
*smiling at you* your muse is purring  very very cool poem Ed... so clever-- you are Meeeeeeeeow...  When I'm with you my eyes are so wide ... |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Ed~ 'I can’t say more, because there just isn’t more to say. If you have a Longing To Write Poetry living inside you, you already know. If you don’t, you can’t know.' This write warms my heart~ *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Wonderfuly expressed Ed...as always. Eric |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
But I was destined to have just one Longing To Write Poetry, and of course one of those is always enough. It’s a big, luxuriant cat now and it owns me, heart and hearth. Yes... it would. *S* I think most of us are so owned. *S* This is magnificent, my friend... this cat lover thinks you've chosen the perfect metaphor... Both cat and longing can be aloof and inattentive... then demand our undivided attention without concern for our other needs. *S* This wasn't what I expected from the title. *S* But I love it more with every reading. *S* |
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Bonnie j Senior Member
since 2003-06-27
Posts 1588Ohio |
Love the poem RL. I have a little kitty cat her name is Bright Eyes.She's like a warm hot water bottle that is singing a beautiful melody in your lap. See Ya Love Bon-Bon  |
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Bonnie j Senior Member
since 2003-06-27
Posts 1588Ohio |
HeeHee It's me again. I reread my last line I think it should read in my lap, not your lap or maybe.....it could be our lap. Dahhhhh......Whatever. See Ya Bon |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Aww, shucks, I was having some really warming thoughts about that..... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Greeneyes
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
nicely done sir... Lauren~ I had a dream last night |
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steavenr Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058 |
Neat and clever metaphor. |
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A Romantic Heart Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-03
Posts 5496Forever In Your Heart |
I love cats, especially poor little, lonely strays... Me--ow. purr, purr....My name is longing..LOL! enjoyed the way you described this! so intelligent! ~ARH |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ed...I thought that was my cat! Loved this poem of yours. |
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