Feline and Fancy-Free
Prompt: If you were a cat, what would you do with those nine lives?
Oh, to be a worshiped Sphinx
deft hands gifting warmth
to my velvet skin
pink and delicate
🐈🐆🐈⬛🐈🐆🐈⬛
I would settle for waking up
a Scottish Fold-ear
giving precious eyes
until you came to the
corner where I await
sweeping me up in cradling arms
cooing to calm me
🐈🐆🐈⬛🐈🐆🐈⬛
I would thrill to appear
a rugged Maine Coon
a mass of muscle and
luxurious hair
strutting and exploring our
wooded fairy glade
playing the games you
create and more
🐈🐆🐈⬛🐈🐆🐈⬛
I would prance about
the perfect Persian
pillow princess
basking at your every
beck and whistled call
🐈🐆🐈⬛🐈🐆🐈⬛
I would stealthily stalk
as a slinky Siamese
stealing your bread and
nightly yowling at
your bedroom door
🐈🐆🐈⬛🐈🐆🐈⬛
I would perfect the art of
untamability as a
shining-eyed Lynx
treading upon the
deep snow of life
searching you out
keeping my distance
taking crossing paths over
jagged rock and unseen ground
🐈🐆🐈⬛🐈🐆🐈⬛
I would plummet down
mountain ravines
as a perceptive Puma
flinging myself recklessly
to reach your remote heart
crying into the night
at my first sighting of
your wary inspiration
🐈🐆🐈⬛🐈🐆🐈⬛
I would hunt you
a fat leaping gazelle
one with graceful arcing horns
dragging it back
bearing fangs dripping crimson
if I were a fierce Lioness
roaming the open savanna
searching out gifts
to buy your fickle love
🐈🐆🐈⬛🐈🐆🐈⬛
Yet, I'm just a stray
making the best of
my last try
I bring only what I carry
a song in my heart
divot in my scapula
Somehow I manage
to stretch out lazily
taking a nap in the sun daily
I’ll be here when you arrive
on your ninth life
relaxed enough to settle
reclining in the gleaming patch
next to mine
K.B. Silver
About the Creator
K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
Enjoyed the story? Support the Creator.
Subscribe for free to receive all their stories in your feed. You could also become a paid subscriber, letting them know you appreciate their work.
Comments
There are no comments for this story
Be the first to respond and start the conversation.