That Darn Cat!



An early evening walk, the warmth of the day
Almost gone with just a little nip to chase our heels.
At the end of our mind clearing walk-
I notice a cat on the fence.
It looks like it wants to come down.
Meowing and skittling to hold onto the steel frame.
While we try coaxing, cooing, and meowing
For it to come down.
To help the poor thing.
In the end, we back away from the cat.
We scare it from the other side
Of the fence with sticks,
Then it comes down,
But then proceeds to go back up.
I go to see what in the blazes the cat is doing
And you admonish me to back off.
The frenzy hairball darts around
In circles like the Tasmanian devil.
Finally it runs back into the local
 Comedian's house or thereabouts.
"That Darn Cat!"
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Submitted on April 07, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFCEGHIJEKGLMNNOH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 710
Words 146
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21

JasDeep Kaur

Graduate of University of Hawaii, B.A. in English. My hardest class was with a Poetry Professor Faye Kicknosway. She lit a flame underneath me. All I wanted was to get her approval. It worked. more…

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