Sad Irony

I was sitting weeping on my verandah
As the sun went down over the blue, blue sea.
I thought: what is the point of clinging to life
When there's nothing worth anything for me?

And then I saw a little kitten, ill and weak,
And I heard its pathetic little cries for food;
I bent down to give it a tasty piece of fish
And it sunk its fangs into my hand real good.

About This Poem

Style/Type: Structured: Western

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

Comments

c lynn brooks

5 years 5 months ago

EDNA

A cat will do that until it is used to you.
The point found in this poem is that you had sown compassion to this kitty

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 5 months ago

The point was...

..that even showing kindnesss to a kitten went wrong. It was just not the author's day.
Just as well I didn't mention the dead horse I spotted in the garden.
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Gracy

5 years 5 months ago

Good poem, Edna. But yes,

Good poem, Edna. But yes, cats bite when they are scared, it's happened to me and I had to have rabies shots, because it was a stray that fell into our small pool. I was trying to rescue it!
Best to leave food for strays on a plate or the ground. Nice topic, I have a lovely cat. No nits from me.

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 5 months ago

I don't think he was scared...

...just very aggressive.
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Geezer

5 years 5 months ago

Sometimes...

a bad hair day just gets worse! But nothing to say that tomorrow won't be better. There is always room for improvement. I like this, because it shows that you were hurt more by the notion that you were repaid your kindness by a bite than just being bitten. Yeah, sometimes it happens that way. I don't let that stop me from doing it again; but with just a bit more caution. Nothing to criticize here, although I would call this free verse, not structured western. ~ Geezer.
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