three AM

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three AM

again, cat's on the quilt

light is breaking fast

early morning glow fill's sky's firmament

another day beginning

another sleepless night over

today's list:

call lawyer

call VA

write this poem

eat something

ride bicycle

dripping summer sweat

in black hours rain didn't come --

just as well

full enough is river

independent creatures are cats

unlike dogs who want constant

attention

cats will come round

to say hello -- get their back scratched,

move along to cat's mysterious agenda

quiet this time of day

quiet -- lovely

turned on soon -- daily toys will be

volume control, another day I wish for

on the quilt cat has left some dander

and a few aloof hairs.

vcp

15 July 2010

— Victorclaude, Jul 15, 2010

About This Poem

About the Author

Country/Region: USA

Favorite Poets: Wallace Stevens, D. H. Lawrence, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Pablo Neruda, Joni Mitchell, William Shakespeare, Basho, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kelly Marie Hayner, Susan Wydville. D. Phillip Caron, Elizabeth Bishop.

Critiques

Candlewitch

15 years 10 months ago

Hello Again

The lines I liked most are: independent creatures are cats unlike dogs who want constant attention cats will come round to say hello — get their back scratched, move along to cat’s mysterious agenda Always, Cat

Seren

15 years 10 months ago

Dear Victor

I have five Cats at the moment but that varies lol ... loved your poem could do with a few lines smoothing out nothing major love and big hugs JayCee x x (“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quote)