A Cat's Tale - Cat Walks

Paw prints

in soft snow

tentative, careful

but ready to run

only hampered

by human hand and a leash.

“In the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, 

a cat walks with confidence.”

~ Roseanne Amberson

Back to Basics ~ 2

I don’t like this.

this blankness

this gray-white silence

like a low thick fog

settled in my mind

letting go 

of daily episodes

storied fictional lives 

necessarily set aside

has left a void, a vacuum

Beginning again

to find the other

stories, lives and loves

gently pushes me 

back to basics.

“Check your heart and make sure your 

intention steers you in the right direction.”

~ Norhafsah Hamid, Back to Basics

Evening Magic

When the evening sky glows gold and the air is crispy cool,

a cookie cutter sickle moon

awaits Peter Pan and 

Tinker Bell twinkles the evening Star.

“Wait for me somewhere between reality and all we’ve ever dreamed.”

~ J.M.Barrie, Peter Pan

Frosting

 

When there are 

vast frosted spaces

between words

and ideas

it feels empty

until stillness

fills me up.

“Frost kills the flowers that bloom out of season….”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo

Sketches

 

Dusted by snow

in early morning

this lace of a winter sky

swept stark and bare

by cold afternoon winds 

sketches beauty 

after golden leaves are gone.

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

~ Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

By a Bird Sanctuary

 

On a walk one day

when the water was calm

the wind settled and still

cattails stood guard

along a broad shore

where birds nestle to rest.

“…the long tapers of cattails

are bursting and floating away 

over the blue shoulders of the ponds….”

~ Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems, Volume One

Snow Drift

 

Like dandruff

snow flakes float and drift,

brushed away by the wind

leaving grasses clean, 

brown and dry.

“Silently, like thoughts that come and go, 

the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.”

~ William Hamilton Gibson