The Creative Cat: art~photography~writing~poetry 

Facebook Twitter Gplus Pinterest LinkedIn YouTube E-mail RSS
Home Archive for category "poetry"

Poem for Sunday: Overheard in a Thrift Shop

This was a conversation between two people which I overheard, secretly taking notes, as I was browsing the overcrowded racks of a local thrift shop after dropping off some dishes for donation. The rhythm of a conversation between two people who know each other well and working in tandem, in

Read More…

320 total views, 4 views today

 
6 Comments  comments 

Poem for Sunday: Mewsette Ponders Green

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

Read More…

135 total views, no views today

 
9 Comments  comments 

Poetry Inspired in My Backyard

This morning I looked out on a tentative sun shining upon a light overnight snowfall, the delicate beauty of light and shadow and the cold air full of sparkling snowflakes. Of course I took a few photographs and then I grabbed my pastels and sketched that even before I sketched

Read More…

192 total views, 1 views today

 
4 Comments  comments 

Things I Found in the Woods, Poetry and Memories

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 poem,

Read More…

99 total views, 1 views today

 
2 Comments  comments 

Poem: A Rescue Remembered

Most of my cats, Mimi especially, join me at the big north window otherwise known as “Cat TV” to fill the bird feeders which provide our entertainment. The window is nearly a story above the ground, and a twiggy lilac stands just outside; below the window is a rough wooden

Read More…

50 total views, no views today

 
No Comments  comments 

Poem for Christmas Eve: Solstice Moon

A satin silent night, A silver path through my window, And silken paws paused to stay On the pillow next to me. Aside from class assignments here and there through school, this was my first poem. Its inspiration and subject? I was actually home for Christmas, in my old room,

Read More…

64 total views, no views today

 
7 Comments  comments 

Remembering, One Week Later: “Let Our Hearts Fly”

Published on December 21, 2012 in poetry

My heart is still in Newtown today, one week later. May we remember the innocent children, the adults who tried to protect them, and the families they leave behind. Let Our Hearts Fly     A cardinal             flashing red in the bare winter landscape                                  innocent of my intent I

Read More…

39 total views, 1 views today

 
3 Comments  comments 

Let Our Hearts Fly

Published on December 14, 2012 in poetry

My heart is heavy with the news of the school shooting today. I’ve used my creative efforts in a poem and image. May we remember the innocent children, the adults who tried to protect them, and the families they leave behind. Let Our Hearts Fly     A cardinal             flashing

Read More…

81 total views, no views today

 
12 Comments  comments 

Poetry: For Pet Memorial Sunday

I’ll be speaking a little later today about “The Joy of Pets”, adopting again after a loss, and especially remembering my own two losses this year, Cookie and Kelly, along with all the other cats who came to shape my life and left me a better person. Just as my

Read More…

128 total views, no views today

 
8 Comments  comments 

Poetry: Green Sparkle Ball

On the subject of poetry and cats—no one was talking about poetry and cats? Well now I am—here is a poem I read at my 2009 poetry reading inspired by Giuseppe and all cats at play, and how that relates to my own creative thought and that of all humans.

Read More…

72 total views, no views today

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
 
6 Comments  comments 
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox

Join other followers