Cat Poems | Poems About Cats

Sen McCartney - senmccartney@sbcglobal.net

"BIG BEN "

Flying through the air with the greatest of ease,
My brother catapulted his bowl of peas.
looking like meteors, round and green,
I watched them bounce off the window screen.
Then splatting on the counter, or jumping to the floor,
the survivors started heading for the door.
"Oh,no!", I said with a sense of doom,
"If Mom sees this, we'll get the broom"!
As if he heard, here came the cat.
Ben was his name , all big and fat.
He ate every pea, and cleaned the bowl too.
Best part of it is that Mom never knew!
Now every time we have food that we spite,
we simply don't eat it; we put it in flight!
Accross the room, again and again.
Then when we're done we give it to Ben.

Mario d'Offizi of Cape Town, South Africa

"ODE TO OUR CATS"

We have fed our kittens
on the mother’s milk of love
from their tiniest, new-found beings
to their bigger days of adventure
and life-lust

now they stalk the trees, the rooftops, the foliage,
the green lush living grasses
and the bright flowers
in their search to snatch and play some prey
(so cool; so cruel)

they come stealthily to our laps and to our beds and to our backs
purring at our pillows as we sleep, slumber, rest
their soft breathing scented with curiosity
to turn us over to face and feel their presence
their nature
their feline fixations

to awaken our senses to their hunger, their thirst, their playfulness
their want for the mother’s milk of love
they have grown to cats
with nine loves
and more
than we could ever know

they do not leave us untouched