“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” – Ernest Hemingway
BE A CAT
We do not have nine
Only one – allocated
Much shorter than you think
Racing – a comet in the night
Be a cat
Think of the graceful feline
Encountering something new
The nose begins to twitch
Whiskers poised and ready
Be a cat
Curiosity in all things
Absorb all you can
Touch it, feel it,
Make love to it
Be a cat
Take pleasure in your body
It’s keeping you together
Treat it kindly
Any shortcomings are cerebral
Be a cat
Drink this life in
Champagne – tickles, savor it
Take a lesson from felines
Relish it all, retrace pleasure
Head first, into the new
Be a cat
Rejoice in the night
Solitude, darkness, peace
Wondrous world to explore
All, different – alive
Be a cat
Don’t waste it
No feline ever would
Satisfy your urges
Le chat never postpones
Sharing pleasure –
Makes the world go around
Be a cat
Only the feline
Curls up
Relives her pleasures
Then rises to do them
Again, again and again
Be a cat
Bisous,
Léa
poetry, photos and musings oh my! 
Lovely poem and very well observed. I take you have a cat?
Two actually. They have their own blog so keep me busy. https://lesdeuxdivasmavieenrose.wordpress.com/ Thank you for taking the time to stop and comment.
Just taken a quick look at your lovely cats. I have one, recently adopted, a little black neutered female. She’s still training me but we’re getting there.
No doubt you will enjoy each other. Thank you.
I shall add this to purrsday poetry 🙂
Lea, absolutely spot on, love the inspiring lines of how we should be care free and true and honest with ourselves and our lives! Just like a cat! I’ve had many, and they are each so unique!
Linda, thank you. There are at least two other ‘cat’ poems in that blog. In December it will be six years of the poetry blog and the French blog I started that November. You are so right about cats. You know Mark Twain had sixteen! Even Hemingway loved cats.
I did know that they were quite fond of them. I’m allergic to them. So now I am unable to enjoy their amusement and intelligence!
My allergies are not bad enough to keep me from having a cat, it is the asthma that does cause problems. Colette is a short hair and we managed quite well but Simone is shedding so much right now, it is a trial.
I hear ya there!
As you know, life is filled with stories and/or poems. Cats were a part of that rugged journey that started in California and brought me here. Here, I found both home and myself. What more can one ask for?
That’s awesome!
This is a lovely post. Thanks for sharing! We adopted three rescue cats Ziggy (tabby) and his two black sisters Ebony and Nera and they provide us with a lot of comical interludes at home! I have a poetry blog here on WordPress and some of my poems are about cats in case you have time to look? Have a good day, Sam 🙂
Thank you and I shall enjoy checking out your work. Actually my two divas, Colette and Simone have a blog of their own you might like to take a look at? http://lesdeuxdivasmavieenrose.wordpress.com The human, Lea 🙂
Yes I will do Lea 🙂
Merci beaucoup mon ami! 🙂
Merci beaucoup mon ami!