here are my collected cat poems. I am fascinated by cats. I had a cat, Suzzy as a child. I have always been more of a cat person than a dog person but find cats to be an alien intelligence, unlike dogs who are very human-like. Index of first Lines Watching Cats hunts Cats Cosmic Cat from Berkeley Looking Out the Window Long Live the Cat Gods Cat Thoughts Mysterious Cat Looking at Me Watching Three Cats Three Cats Ready to Go The Buddha Cat of Edsall Road Mad Cat Shoe Lace Cat People Feeding the Feral Cats Cat Videos The Cats Declare War on All Humanity drabble version Cat Fight in Incheon Secret Cat Conference Two cats haiku Birds fly away haiku The demon cat from Oregon (revised) Lions Bike Riding Through the End of the World Lion Desires Watching Cats Hunt Early morning Watching two white cats Hunting a white dove The cats hunt in pairs Tracking the bird The bird flies away Safe for now And I think about the cats And the hunt goes on Such is life And the fate of cats And birds Cats Cats I often wonder about Cats What do they think of us It seems at time That cats think of humans As their slaves We exist to feed them To comfort them To save them from their enemies And to worship them Yes cats are an alien species Totally different from humanity Detached, and almost evil If we ever encounter an alien civilization God help us if it’s a cat based civilization We would then be engaged In the epic mother of all wars As cats and humans would not get along The cats would think we were their slaves And we would resent and fear them And secretly worship their alien ways The Cosmic Cat from Berkeley I next encountered the divine Many years later in Berkeley, California I had gone home to be with my Mother While taking leave from my job in the Foreign Service I had two weeks there by myself My wife came later near the end of the trip every morning I woke up had coffee Did yoga Spoke to my mother Who was sliding into dementia Day by day loosing her reason Then I would go out And explore the city Go to a museum Go to one neighborhood And just be there Rediscovering the Bay area After years of being away Having dinner with old friends Seeing movies etc Every morning a black cat came to visit The cat was friendly and waited for me And then would join me in my morning rambles Following me to the bus stop I stated talking to the black cat He looked at me with the spark of divinity In his dark eyes I called him the cosmic cat He seemed to like that He would look at me And I opened up to me Told the cat all my dark secrets As I walked the streets Of the old neighborhood Every morning and every evening the cat Would be there to greet me And to carry out our endless conversation Then I had to leave And in our final conversation I asked the cosmic cat Say, Cat are you just a cat Or are you a demonic cat Are you possessed by God Or by Satan The cat looked at me And I realized that God Was indeed residing in the cat But that god was residing everywhere All I had to do was open my mind And the rest would follow So I said Good bye to the cosmic cat And he purred and came up to me And I felt the comforting presence of the divine As I said goodbye to the cosmic cat And said goodbye to my mother As this was the last time That we would be able to really talk I told my mother about the cosmic cat She smiled and said that the cat was there for me and her to comfort us both in our hour of need and that the cat was indeed a cosmic cat Looking Out My Window I look out my window On the parking lot And see the mad cat That lives underneath the apartment house And look out at the park Thinking of taking a walk The cat looks at me Kindred spirits perhaps Retired waiting to die Long Live the Cat Gods Every day I watch the cats play Wild cats running around the neighborhood The cats seem to think That they are the king of their jungle They run away when I yell at them But they know that they are the true Masters of this universe And we are nothing but bit players To amuse them as they go about their day And I look at the cats And imagine the cats Looking back at me Alien incomprehensible are the ways of the cat Such it has been since the dawn of time And the cats know That they will be here Long after mankind fades into history Long live our secret masters Love live our cat gods Cat thought Watching the black cat Who lives underneath the building Slinking about looking for something to kill I am reminded once again the cats are not our friends as I stare at him an alien invader From another planet Mysterious Cat looking at me As I look out At the parking lot I see a black cat looking at me with dark soulful eyes filled with mysterious secrets I wondered What the cat thinks of me? The cat looks at me With a mysterious grin The cat smiles at me Like the Cheshire cat He smiles and runs away into the bushes Watching Three Cats Watching three cats gamboling along Looking at me While I look at them Each wondering what sort of weird creatures The other is And who is the real alien species? Three Cats Ready To Go three cats at play they look out at the world and they are ready they are born hunters they are hungry they are restless and they want to escape from the house to chase birds squirrels and other cats That's the cat's life after all they tolerate us humans only because we feed them But at heart they are wild things and wild things need to be free Buddha Cat of Edsall Road I had another encounter With the divine recently Another Cosmic cat perhaps Perhaps not who knows what cats are are they alien from another dimension or was he channeling God ? I call him the Buddha cat For the cat loves Sitting in a meditative pose Not moving Just starting at me With his soulful deep eyes Boring into my soul exploring all my secret thoughts the buddha cat does not move does not react as he is so deep into his interior mediation truly in tune with the cat universe and the cosmos as well the buddha cat seems to be one with God one with Buddha One with Allah And all the other Billion names of God Known and unknown The buddha cat Can teach us all About the art of meditation As he zones inward And loses his soul Joining the cosmos And becoming The buddha cat The buddha cat Lives in a modest Town house In a modest suburb Proving yet again The divine spirit of God Is everywhere all around us The buddha cat Reminds us all To look for god In the everyday All around us If we but have eyes To see Mad Cat Shoe Lace cats are alien creatures from space cats they truly are mad as a hat from space the buddha cat sits all day long demon escaped banshee playing demon theme song as they fly about like a witch broomstick flying in the air with their side kick Cat Videos Cats they offer us Plenty of things to ponder We post videos Cat People Feeding the Feral Cats The cat people Go out in bad weather To make sure That the wild cats Are fed and taken care of The cats respond With love and affection Stepping out of the cold rain The Cats Declare War on All Humanity drabble version One night while I was doing my nightly walk in the park near my house, I came upon a secret cat conference. Ten cats were gathered on the sidewalk deep in telepathic thought listening to their leader, a large feral black cat. The Cats were ignoring the humans walking about them The lead cat announced, “Operation Kill All humans is a Go. I repeat.” “Death to all humans” !he evil cats began to chat, joined in by dogs and birds. The cats looked at me. I ran away with the demon cats on my tail, “chanting death to all humans” The Cats Declare War on All Humanity poem version One night while I was doing my nightly walk in the park near my house, I came upon a secret cat conference. Ten cats were gathered on the sidewalk deep in telepathic thought listening to their leader, a large feral black cat. The Cats were ignoring the humans walking about them The lead cat announced, “Operation Kill All humans is a Go. I repeat.” “Death to all humans” !he evil cats began to chat, joined in by dogs and birds. The cats looked at me. I ran away with the demon cats on my tail, “chanting death to all humans” Cat Fight in Incheon Watching two cats Fighting along side the sidewalk In suburban Incheon New Airport Town Completely indifferent To the humans walking around them And the humans were indifferent to the cats As they stood there fighting And screeching at each other One orange one One half black half white one Both middle age in cat years As I sat there watching the cats really getting into it I wondered what they were arguing about? But since I don’t speak cat I really didn't know All I know is they were really screeching at each other And almost look like they were about to attack each other But one cat backed down As the other cat stood their proverbial ground If they were humans one would have pulled out a knife Or a gun And someone would have been killed But being mere cats They stared at each other And walked away but they kept glancing at each other So I knew the fight as not over Merely postponed until a later hour Cats truly are the aliens Who live among us humans Or perhaps we are the aliens Who live among the cats? Death to all Humans while walking down the path Iate at night In Suburban Incheon I came upon the secret cat cabal conference the cats were gathered on the sidewalk deep in telepathic communion ignoring the humans walking about them the lead cat announced operation kill all humans is about to begin and all cats must unite in throwing off the rule of the evil humans who have been abusing cats for countless centuries I have it on good authority that the dogs are in on it too the dogs of war are eager for a fight and the horses and cattle and birds and even the bees and the fishes in the sea all are ready to go the operation begins at dawn and we will not rest until the world is human free and we are acknowledged as the rightful rulers of this planet death to all humans the cats began to chat and they looked at me and I was afraid and ran away with the demon cats on my tail chanting death to all humans flash fiction version for fan story One night while I was doing my nightly walk in the park near my house, I came upon a secret cat conference. Ten cats were gathered on the sidewalk deep in telepathic thought listening to their leader, a large feral black cat. The Cats were ignoring the humans walking about them. the lead cat announced, “operation kill all humans is a Go. death to all humans! the evil cats began to chat, and they looked at me, and I was afraid and ran away with the demon cats on my tail, “chanting death to all humans” cat conference One night I came upon a cat secret conference on the street by the park there were ten cats sitting there and acting as if they were listening to the senior cat but they were quiet and the cats appeared to have telepathic communication the cats were really alien strange other worldly they stared at me telling me to leave it was time for humans to leave the cats because the cats needed to talk and we backed away with the cats all starring at us with burning hatred and fear in their cat eyes and I knew that the cats were not our friends the cats were an enemy alien species who were plotting to kill all humans and then I heard in my head Kill all humans kill all humans all humans must die and laughter as the cats laughed at me and began moving out to do their cat things Two Cats two cats walking by one black one yellow one both alien creatures Birds Flying Away Watching the black birds birds flying away fleeing the wild cats about Lion The Demon Cat from Oregon The demon cat Was black as hell Vicious temper Mean hearted As only demon cats can be He lived with an old man And his daughter In Medford Oregon In an old house. The demon cat Hated the daughter Who hated the demon cat. The demon cat Would rush at her Hissing making her back off Or leave the house. One day the daughter Told her father Either get rid Of the demon cat Or I will have to leave you. The old man Smiled at his daughter, Said, Well good luck on your move The cat is staying. The demon cat Looked at the daughter With hate in his black eyes, Smiling at his victory. The daughter moved out Refused to step foot In the house As long as the demon cat Was around. Bike Riding Through the End of the World A lone motorcyclist Stops for a break Along the highway On his epic quest To find survivors After a bioweapon escapes from a lab And kills 99 percent of humanity overnight He was immune but not his wife and children He fled the dying Bay Area Heading to Oregon To join the only town left He stopped because he had seen A lion in the woods Lurking about stalking him and waited for the lion to erupt out of the forest Shot the lion dead And ate lion steak for dinner Rather than becoming human steaks For the lion’s dinner Lion Desires Lion Wild Beast In Dark jungle Finally emerging to hunt At dawn Hungry For breakfast Human-meat |