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
- Forgotten Promises by Rixa White
- The Choice of Trees by P.J.Reed
- National Trust by Tony Harrison
- Smiling Buddha by Satish Verma
- Алексей Плещеев – Она и он
- Untitled #11 by Nijole Miliauskaite
- CLAUDIAN’S OLD MAN OF VERONA by Abraham Cowley
- At the Galleria Shopping Mall by Tony Hoagland
- Юнна Мориц – Цветок
- He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
- Hero-Worship poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- antediluvian_kural_on_twitter.html
- Lemmebesomethin’ by Shel Silverstein
- Autumn Song by Sarojini Naidu
- The Return by Sara Teasdale
Some external links:
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).
