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January 29, 2013 Bernadette

Poem: A Rescue Remembered

Most of my cats, Mimi especially, join me at the big north window otherwise known as “Cat TV” to fill

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September 23, 2012 Bernadette

Daily Photo Reprise: The New, Blue Kitty, 2010

We have a kitty who is new, We have a kitty who is blue, None of us knows what to

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September 9, 2012 Bernadette

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

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September 8, 2012 Bernadette

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

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August 5, 2012 Bernadette

Easy Like Sunday: Pawprints and Raindrops

It is a gently raining morning, and now afternoon, so I share this poem in print and in the recorded

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July 15, 2012 Bernadette

Lucy

Your petite silhouette lingers long, graceful legs tipped with soundless slender paws the waving tendril of a tail curls in

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May 1, 2012 Bernadette

Overheard in a Thrift Shop

Tuesday is Rescue Story Day, but it’s been a while since I’ve posted this poem about rescues and about life,

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March 18, 2012 Bernadette

The Gift of a Morning

My sincerest wish as I remember Cookie is that all of you who read what I write, each of you

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March 4, 2012 Bernadette

Litter-ary Cats: T.S. Eliot

I majored in English in college, and when in my junior year I studied Modern Poetry and encountered the following

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February 21, 2012 Bernadette

Green Sparkle Ball

On the subject of poetry and cats, here is a poem I read at my 2009 poetry reading inspired by

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Remembering the Four Housecats of the Apocalypse

Mewsette July 26, 2007 to June 11, 2023
Jelly Bean July 26, 2007 to July 26, 2023
Giuseppe July 26, 2007 to December 13, 2023
Mr. Sunshine July 26, 2007 to March 1, 2024