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[title] => A Beautiful Cat
[time] => 2005-07-26 17:34:18
[hometext] => -feel free to comment on my work and I'll comment on yours in return...-
[bodytext] => Flash, the sunlight beckons you awake
Crash, as you tumble and shake
A bowl of milk into an open lake
What is this grey bundle of love?
A beautiful cat has awoken in the fuzz
Paws stretching towards light’s touch
Her rough tongue greets the swirling breeze
She is so gentle to all that she meets
She traverses fences and leaps steel gates
To lye on a red brick roof as the day disintegrates
Turns, she’s wrapped in laden dreams
Learns, all isn’t all it seems…
If life is a sea, then she is just a stream
Once upon a time a handsome kitten died
Saving his sister from the roadside
You can’t buy time… but I will always try
To make her a ripple, in the wave of life
A sacrifice, to blunt time’s brutal knife
For, I want her to be the beam in sunlight
Even though, I know, I can’t stay to watch her survive
Blink, as the sun tiptoes into her eyes
Wink, whilst dreaming of mice filled skies
The beauty that is within us all never truly dies
It just lies, like me, by time’s roadside…
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A Beautiful Cat
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overstated
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Tuesday, 26th July 2005 @ 05:34:18 PM in AEST
Topic:
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Flash, the sunlight beckons you awake
Crash, as you tumble and shake
A bowl of milk into an open lake
What is this grey bundle of love?
A beautiful cat has awoken in the fuzz
Paws stretching towards light’s touch
Her rough tongue greets the swirling breeze
She is so gentle to all that she meets
She traverses fences and leaps steel gates
To lye on a red brick roof as the day disintegrates
Turns, she’s wrapped in laden dreams
Learns, all isn’t all it seems…
If life is a sea, then she is just a stream
Once upon a time a handsome kitten died
Saving his sister from the roadside
You can’t buy time… but I will always try
To make her a ripple, in the wave of life
A sacrifice, to blunt time’s brutal knife
For, I want her to be the beam in sunlight
Even though, I know, I can’t stay to watch her survive
Blink, as the sun tiptoes into her eyes
Wink, whilst dreaming of mice filled skies
The beauty that is within us all never truly dies
It just lies, like me, by time’s roadside…
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overstated
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by vibes2go on
Tuesday, 26th July 2005 @ 09:50:49 PM AEST
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| aww I loved this .. sad . but filled with beauty. |
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by Man_On_High on
Tuesday, 26th July 2005 @ 10:15:12 PM AEST
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I probably would've enjoyed this more.. lest the italic font..
It is though, a most genuine write to your feline..
(just a little cumbersome to read)
Great write just the same.
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by Former_Member on
Tuesday, 26th July 2005 @ 11:54:33 PM AEST
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I loved this I love cats and think this is well written and beautiful although a little sad
Hugs Leia36 |
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by mylady on
Wednesday, 27th July 2005 @ 04:02:46 AM AEST
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| Nice poem for a cat .. I love cat too . |
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by venkat on
Wednesday, 27th July 2005 @ 07:41:15 AM AEST
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"If life is a sea, then she is just a stream"
"I want her to be the beam in sunlight"
"The beauty that is within us all never truly dies..It just lies, like me, by time’s roadside.."
..those lines are enough to state that your poetry is beautiful and sublime ..
This an excellent work...venkat
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by Overstated on
Monday, 8th August 2005 @ 05:05:45 PM AEST
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AUTHORS NOTE:
This poem is written through the perspective of the cats’ dead brother... read it a few times and it becomes clearer…
The poem is roughly based on a real life relationship between a couple of cats via listening to a friend's account of their antics/adventures. The cats were called Tilley and Beeba and were close siblings. :)
It’s also based on my current neighbours’ cat whom I almost run over in July 2005 and scared the life out of me to see a diving black cat somersaulting out of the way of my screeching brakes at 8am… I said sorry to it and we’ve made up now lol
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by Former_Member on
Tuesday, 9th August 2005 @ 03:47:46 PM AEST
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I don't think I have ever read a poem from such a perspective. I didn't mind the italics (psst, how did you do that ?) And I thought the rhyme pattern was very creative. I like it.
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by outlaw_mutiny on
Friday, 2nd December 2005 @ 08:46:34 PM AEST
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nice work i like the analogy with the sea and the stream
please read and critique my work also
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by Former_Member on
Sunday, 2nd April 2006 @ 10:38:00 PM AEST
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| This is so... sweet.. and sad.. and such a great write! |
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by Former_Member on
Thursday, 26th October 2006 @ 08:11:12 PM AEST
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| This is a really beautiful poem. good job! |
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by randumbchit on
Thursday, 21st December 2006 @ 10:00:26 AM AEST
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| A very touching piece you can tell it came from the heart |
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by needledancing on
Saturday, 17th February 2007 @ 03:04:08 PM AEST
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| I love cats...this is a lovely tribute to those loving creatures. |
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Re: A Beautiful Cat
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by texasw97 on
Wednesday, 25th June 2008 @ 10:07:22 PM AEST
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| This was nice. Did you consider yourself at one time to be that dead cat on the roadside? |
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