Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness.
My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says
the cat making on your chest his gesture of drawing
milk from his mother’s forgotten breasts.
Let us walk in the woods, says the cat.
I’ll teach you to read the tabloid of scents,
to fade into shadow, wait like a trap, to hunt.
Now I lay this plump warm mouse on your mat.
You feed me, I try to feed you, we are friends,
says the cat, although I am more equal than you.
Can you leap twenty times the height of your body?
Can you run up and down trees? Jump between roofs?
Let us rub our bodies together and talk of touch.
My emotions are pure as salt crystals and as hard.
My lusts glow like my eyes. I sing to you in the mornings
walking round and round your bed and into your face.
Come I will teach you to dance as naturally
as falling asleep and waking and stretching long, long.
I speak greed with my paws and fear with my whiskers.
Envy lashes my tail. Love speaks me entire, a word
of fur. I will teach you to be still as an egg
and to slip like the ghost of wind through the grass.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Upper Lambourne poem – John Betjeman poems
- National Trust by Tony Harrison
- Above The Oxbow by Sylvia Plath
- Ash-Boughs poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Омар Хайям – Чистый дух, заключенный в нечистый сосуд
- We Miss You So Much by Ronald G. Auguste
- Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- Hymn To Light
- Владимир Высоцкий – В Средней Азии безобразие
- Владимир Степанов – Осы
- It is the Muses by Sappho
- Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Владимир Маяковский – Послание пролетарским поэтам
- Омар Хайям – О, кумир, Дружбу ты почему прервала
- The Song of Death by Robert Burns
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
