Cats go

Cats come, Its where they feel safe, Or warm, Secure in love, This morning Boots watched Chester and Molly embrassed in my arms wrapped in my bear blanket, That’s what Boots wanted, He hesitated his way near to me, The kittens rose and departed, Boots is no longer shivering, Wrapped in the warm blanket below

You teach with love

Three thoughts, Humans and animals come to you first, Then they learn, Gentling down first step, Cats,horses you pay them no mind, They desire to be in your space, Then they look at you all the time, They hunger for your attention, You teach not with a rod, Only with love, But kindness and love,

Pretty Bird and Miss Sadie

Pretty is a bird, Sadie all grey calico, Sadie is an inside cat, Only saw cats through window, Now Pretty Martin, Or the bird now lives with us, The Heike’s She sits and watches Pretty, He is a male bird named Pretty, In the human world his names Sue, Other kitties area interested sitting on

Two months from sixty-five,

Still love Greek Vanilla yogurt, Animal crackers, Graham crackers, Tomato soap and either scramble egg sandwiches or grilled cheese, Mom’s John Mazzetti casserole, I haven’t a casserole dish or a cake pan, Red velvet cake, Women in sexy shoes, Calves of women, Charlene Harris, Victoria Laurie, Janet Evonovitch, Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, Karen Blackwell,

Unknown

Thoughts you hear and at an age to come you keep your thoughts or you foolishly share them, Sometimes thoughts shared feel good even when not welcome, Its the sharing the poet me feels, Thoughts, Words, Strung together are for our spirits, Our thoughts are not meant to make others hurt, Our being , Our

Best sleeping drug

Cat in my arms, If your seeking an elaborate poem, My pretty ones, This is but a to the point, Elegant and distinct, I hold a kitty, Can fall asleep ready, Tomorrow after the food bank, A lady who found an orange kitten, Has decided the kitten isn’t a keeper, I think all life is,

Stand up

Walk tall, Don’t slouch, Be your best you, Star Spangle Banner, We’re all in our places with bright Sunny faces, I recall of of that, But if someone said to me Val whose face do you think of if I said to you June/ 2022/Walmart- I’d say that”s easy Penny Polk Martin, Blonde oozing with

Five seventeen

Nearly dark, Still in Oelwein, At a laundry Mat, Washing clothes, No chairs with arms, I’m in my car, Penny’s off for her first of seven in a row, I’m near the aptaduct she says the meth heads come out of to use the bathroom at the laundry mat, I wanted to be home with

When I was fifty-six

Standing on the threshold of forty-seven, My entire world was like Jenga, You know the game like giant pixie sticks pull out the wrong one and you are doomed, Mom and I were watching TV, I on the floor at moms feet with Patches, Patches was an orange cat, Patches arrived at my cat hostel

Purrfect Amusement!

Temp’s falling, Saint Paul recovering from ten inches of newly fallen white stuff, My sister is forced to stay with her son Eric another day, Eric’s having a snow day, They shall have, A gay ole time, I just was in raising the curtain on Mr Bird Martin, My first family have never ever viewed