What’s it like living in a multi-cat household? Sometimes it’s interspecies war. Sometimes it models the UN.

T’was a week before Christmas, When all through the home, I wasn’t sleeping, Because all of the cats did roam; The garlands were hung on the ceiling fans with care, In hopes that the cats couldn’t jump up there; I was surrounded by nine cats in my bed, While visions of chewed presents stomped in [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2008 under Cat Poems, Christmas 2008.
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Whisper It, Some Friendly Cat What creatures are these, Which so amiably salute my view? They are the redolence of freedom; An incense to Adam’s soul. How delightful is its whisper! Neither so strong, I am soon cloyed at an impressive scene; Nor so lenient, As to forget them. Their delight never loses Its delectation, [...]
Posted: May 8th, 2008 under Cat Poems.
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Old Mother Carolyn Old Mother Carolyn went to the cupboard To serve her cats some catnip, But when she got there, the cupboard was bare So she went on a long guilt trip. As I’ve mentioned before, I have no children. However, I know what a pair of soft, fully-dilated eyes, besieging claws slowly and [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2007 under Cat Poems.
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Purring, Purring, Little Cat Purring, purring, Little cat! How I wonder What you’re at. Up atop The bookcase high, Like a bird About to fly. When the Master’s dog is gone, When the hearth you light upon, Then you show your pure delight, Purring, purring, all the night. Then the Mistress in the dark, Thanks [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2007 under Cat Poems.
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