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The Cat
Truth is stranger than fiction according to many people who have seen what happens around me and to them, on many occasions. Sometimes I have had others affect me in the same way. This is part of the story told in my article The Man who Loved Jail.
The Cat:
the cat meowed and moved slowly out of his way
he knew it wanted something
but it didn't come to his outstretched hand
so he meowed
she winked
he felt
they parted friends
perhaps never to meet again
the Earth was pliant under foot
the trees engulfed his heart
and took his mind to the tree tops
so his soul could feel, forever
the timeless beauty and purpose of life
~ the relative unimportance of his human fears
and frailty
she stood next to him
in a place far away from the cat and the trees
in a town where spirituality is raised to a new low
he felt the cat's friendship and wisdom
he knew how unimportant his worries were, and the roots
of the tree...
seemed to tie their feet
entwined; lovingly
with certainty and timelessness
he awaits the mountain top with excited anticipation
still fearful, he might fall
~yet fully confident
in its rightness
Author and activist for Ecumenicism and egalitarian creative potential.
San Jose Mercury News, USA - 5 hours ago
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Canada.com, Canada - 22 hours ago
Blodgett, a prolific poet with 18 books of poetry under his belt as of this fall, didn't want to write "just a series of nice little nature poems. ...
Scotsman, United Kingdom - Sep 4, 2008
AN Edinburgh schoolgirl has beat off competition from thousands of entrants to take top place in a national poetry competition. Kirsty Shinton, 15, from the ...
SINDH TODAY, Pakistan - 1 hour ago
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New York Times, United States - Sep 3, 2008
The $100000 prize recognizes “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.” Brigit Pegeen Kelly was named recipient of the Academy Fellowship, ...
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Scene Dunedin, New Zealand - 12 hours ago
Richard Reeve, who is editor of the Otago University Press, has been involved in organising performance poetry evenings in Dunedin since 1995. ...
Arizona State University, Tempe - 14 hours ago
She earned an MA in poetry from Hollins University and MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Trethewey will be on the faculty of the 2009 ...
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