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Sojourn
Sojourn
I am not going to come down
Get into your lap,
Smile or play,
I won’t be a good cat today.
No, I don’t want to eat
From the bowl,
Or sip the milk
You’ve kept ready for me, ‘Silk’.
You thought I always loved you
When I purred,
Or licked your feet-
Oh! no, that’d be mere weak.
I so wanted to break free
From the leash,
Yes, always
And deceived you with pleas.
Today, I will hunt my own food
With paws,
And wait, till
I find a partner to mate.
I have high hopes to flee
Yes, I have to
If not today, in
One of the nine lives to live.
Yes, I know it isn’t the day
Today you’ll get me,
I’ve to come down
Today is mere a sojourn.
This was written for a poetry contest in March’12 from Writing Raw! and I won the contest.
I am linking this poem to dversepoets – FormForAll – Sprung Rhythm .
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HAHAHAHHA! Amazing little poem there. AWESOME creativity.
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Nikhil, Thanks for your kind words. I am glad you liked this piece. I will definitely drop by in your blog.
Thank you Nikhil. I am glad that you love it.
Well written:)
Rahul, thanks. I am glad that you like it.
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nice…congrats on winning the contest…and the time for the cat will come to live her own life and hunt her own food..or maybe she will think it over again and decide to stay..smiles
cmschoenfeld Thank Claudia, I was very happy to win the contest too. It is a very short piece and I wanted to portray the contrast out there. Tell me something, does this poem qualify for sprung rhythm? You need forgive my lack of understanding here. I was not a literature student at all and I feel I have a lot to learn.
nice…congrats on the contest….and hard to keep a wild cat on a leash you know…she will eventually break free…they will come back home when ready
bmiller007 Thanks Brian. Yes, I love the contrast bit too. I am glad that you like it.
Good capture of our undomesticated “domestic” cats. In this form you could have extended the lines for more opportunity to use the stresses; but nevertheless a noble write well executed.
have you ever read “Save The Cat” by Blake Snyder? bottom line, every movie needs a save the cat scene. in Fantastic Four, Ben saves a cat…cuz you HAVE to…
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