Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit lovely Linda at A Word Edgewise for Roundup.
Isn't May full of all the things?! I'm away from my desk today, with my mom at an outdoor arts and crafts event. If we're lucky, we may even pop into a yard sale or two.
For today's ArtSpeak: FOLK ART poem, I've got a cat for you! It's not my first cat poem here at Live Your Poem...
I followed a little cat one dayWhat a Cat Needs
Three Black Cats
In the Company of Kittens
old cat wakes (haiku)
Cat's Life
cat on windowsill (haiku)
Cat Bath
Cat and Bird
Cat Bath
Cat and Bird
But it is my first SPACE cat! Thanks so much for reading.
Space Cat
Have you ever seen
a cat like that?
Two surprised eyes
and whiskers wide
as starships,
her oversize ears
must hear the heart-
beat of the galaxy,
the patter of all
paws and claws
as she leaps from
one life to another.
- Irene Latham
Have a fun time with your mother! Love the ending, Irene, of course the Spacecat can "leap from/one life to another"!
ReplyDeleteThat patter of paws and claws is so fun! Happy Mother's Day weekend to you. A craft show with Mum sounds wonderful. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI am fascinated by your right-justified and line-breaks, Irene. Would love to hear more about how this poem formed and evolved.
ReplyDeleteYou make such wonderful connections, Irene. I love that you can look at that picture and think “Space Cat.” It would have never occurred to me, but now that you have named it and so lyrically explained, it makes perfect sense. I can see it no other way!
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I especially love "whiskers wide as starships"! This feels like it could be part of a book. Glad you were out having fun with your mom! :)
ReplyDeleteNow I have!
ReplyDeleteLove imagining "the heartbeat of the galaxy" and all the lovely internal rhyme.
ReplyDeleteOh "the heartbeat of the galaxy!" Yes! And that art is so intriguing!
ReplyDeleteI love the Folk Art piece and this line: "whiskers wide
ReplyDeleteas starships," I hope you have had a wonderful time with your mom.
Irene, I love your space cat. "oversize ears must hear the heart-
ReplyDeletebeat of the galaxy" and the "leaps from one life to another" as she goes through all nine, perhaps, are my favorite lines. So rich, and the image was a great inspiration.
I like thinking of Space Cat leaping from one life to another. :) Hope you had fun with your mom! My daughters and I went to Junkstock this weekend and had a great time.
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