Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

 

Cats no less liquid than their shadows
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat through loopholes
Less than themselves; will not be pinned

To rules or routes for journeys; counter
Attack with non-resistance; twist
Enticing through the curving fingers
And leave an angered empty fist.

They wait obsequious as darkness
Quick to retire, quick to return;
Admit no aim or ethics; flatter
With reservations; will not learn

To answer to their names; are seldom
Truly owned till shot or skinned.
Cats no less liquid than their shadows
Offer no angles to the wind.

Other  works by A. S. J. Tessimond:

• Wet City Night
• Unlyric Love Song
• Tube Station
• To Be Blind
• The Man In The Bowler Hat
• the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
• The British
• symphony_in_red.html
• seaport.html
• sea.html
• quickstep.html
• polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
• one_almost_might.html
• nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
• not_love_perhaps.html
• night_piece.html
• never.html
• music.html
• meeting.html
• last_word_to_childhood.html
• june_sick_room.html
• houses.html
• flight_of_stairs.html
• epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
• epitaph_for_our_children.html
• cats.html
• Attack On The Ad-Man
• polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
• one_almost_might.html
• nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
• Not Love Perhaps
• night_piece.html
• never.html
• music.html
• meeting.html
• last_word_to_childhood.html
• june_sick_room.html
• houses.html
• flight_of_stairs.html
• epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
• Epitaph for Our Children
• empty_room.html
• earthfast.html
• don_juan.html
• discovery.html
• day_dream.html
• cocoon_for_a_skeleton.html
• cinema_screen.html
• chaplin.html
• Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

Some works by other modernist authors

• The Song poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• The Parabolic Ballad poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• Self-Portrait poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• The AntiWorlds poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• Russian-American Romance poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• Rubber Souls poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• Modern Nature poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• My Friend’s Light poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• Her Story poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• Fate poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• Abuses and Awards poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
• 永遠
• Forever
• 歐盟
• Storm poem – André Rostant poems
• Limbo Under the Westway poem – André Rostant poems
• A Rainy Night poem – André Rostant poems
• “European Union” by the (Roman/German) Eagles
• Less Time poem – Andre Breton poems
• Freedom of Love poem | L’Union Libre (Ma Femme)  – Andre Breton poems
• Le Verbe Etre poem – Andre Breton poems
• Five Ways To Kill A Man poem – Andre Breton poems
• Always for the first time
• I have a dream
• Putin, Our Savior and Dear Friend
• Shame
• A Poem about Lemonade
• Winter Seascape poem – John Betjeman poems
• Winter Landscape poem – John Betjeman poems
• Westgate-On-Sea poem – John Betjeman poems
• Verses Turned… poem – John Betjeman poems
• Upper Lambourne poem – John Betjeman poems
• Trebetherick poem – John Betjeman poems
• The Plantster’s Vision poem – John Betjeman poems
• The Olympic Girl poem – John Betjeman poems
• The Licorice Fields at Pontefract poem – John Betjeman poems
• The Last Laugh poem – John Betjeman poems
• The Irish Unionist’s farewell to Greta Hellastrom in 1922 poem – John Betjeman poems
• The Hon. Sec. poem – John Betjeman poems
• The Cottage Hospital poem – John Betjeman poems
• Sun and Fun poem – John Betjeman poems
• South London Sketch poem – John Betjeman poems
• Slough poem – John Betjeman poems
• Senex poem – John Betjeman poems
• Seaside Golf poem – John Betjeman poems
• On a Portrait of a Deaf Man poem – John Betjeman poems
• Myfanwy poem – John Betjeman poems
• Mortality poem – John Betjeman poems
• Middlesex poem – John Betjeman poems