The Creative Cat - poetry Archive

Poem for Spring: To Come Again in Spring

Published on April 20, 2014 in backyard, backyard wildlife habitat, daily photo, poetry

As the spring unfolds with longer days and milder temperatures, we remember what has passed. Because it feels like such a day of renewal, and also remembrance, I thought I’d share a poem that’s not feline-centric for this holiday and this time of year. Of course, though, it includes my

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Poetry for Sunday: Rumi, This Great Love

Published on April 13, 2014 in cats, poetry

I am so small I can barely be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things. ~Rumi Really, how can such great love be inside such a small thing as a tiny kitten? And yet the potential

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Poem for Spring: Mewsette Ponders Green

Published on March 20, 2014 in black cats, cat photographs, daily photo, mewsette, poetry

The world alight in green shades more than I have brilliant life given giving and glows in spring showers on all I love. A little abstract ode to spring to accompany a little sort of abstract photo of Mewsette pondering the green plate, showers on her nose, and it does

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Once

Published on March 16, 2014 in black cats, cat photographs, cat poetry, cats, essay, mimi, poetry

Once Once A late snow And I with early kittens in my belly Hungry, thirsty, cold, Crouched, focused, Raced across this yard in the dusk, Chased that startled rabbit Nearly as big as myself, Filled a need beyond my control; Later, chipmunks scurrying In leaves and mud For my kittens

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Things I Found in the Woods, Poetry and Memories

Published on February 23, 2014 in cookie, Emeraude, essay, foster cats, kelly, moses, my household of felines, pet loss, poetry, recorded poem, spring, stanley, youtube video

A delicate fern frond reaches for the sun from last year's dried stems.

Every year the winter opens up to a few days of warm intoxicating sun and mud in January or February, and I’ve run outside to celebrate the day. In 2012 it was February 5, two days after Cookie died, and as I enjoyed the warm day and remembered this

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Tags: cat photographs, cat photography, cat photos, cats, feline photographs, nature photography, pet loss, pet photography, pets, photography, resilience of life, spring thaw

Poem: A Rescue Remembered

Published on January 5, 2014 in animal artwork, animal rescue, cat artwork, cat poetry, mimi, poetry, rescue stories

I love winter and snow, bare trees and angled sunlight. Visiting my little back yard daily in all weather reminds me of the cycles, and when winter slush starts to seem old or the long nights start to seem longer instead of shorter I know that I only need to

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Poem for Christmas: Solstice Moon

Published on December 25, 2013 in animal artwork, bootsie, cat artwork, my household of felines, original artwork, pastel, pastel painting, pet loss, poetry

"Solstice Moon", poem and illustration © B.E. Kazmarski

Solstice Moon A satin silent night, A silver path through my window, And silken paws paused to stay On the pillow next to me. “Solstice Moon” © 1981 Bernadette E. Kazmarski . . . . . . . Aside from class assignments here and there through school, this was my

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Vintage Photo: An Old Memory

Published on December 22, 2013 in black cats, cat photographs, cats, christmas, photographs, poetry, vintage photo, winter

I took the photo in 1983, just a few months after I got my first camera and I was only shooting black and white so I could learn how to use the camera. Even though it was black and white film, it was processed in a one-hour development machine intended

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Poem for Sunday: Green Sparkle Ball

Published on October 13, 2013 in black cats, cat behavior, cat poetry, giuseppe, my household of felines, photographs, poetry, recorded poem, youtube video

posterized image of black cat with green ball

GIUSEPPE HAS BEEN CHASING his green sparkle ball all over the house lately, and so, I hear, does his lady love Mademoiselle. Purrrhaps there is some connection between the two currently enjoying the same toys—alright, Mlle.’s fur brother Theo has been too, and between the two there are dozens up

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Poetry: For Pet Memorial Sunday

Published on September 8, 2013 in cat artwork, cat poetry, cats, cookie, kelly, pet loss, pet memorial sunday, poetry, recorded poem, youtube video

I’ll be speaking a little later today about “Loving Again After Loss, Why We Adopt Pets” at the Pet Memorial Sunday Ceremony by Chartiers Custom Pet Cremation and remembering again all the cats who came to shape my life and left me a better person. Just as my cats have

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