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AN OLD MAN’S PRAYER FOR HIS CATby George Ware
So many years ago she came to me, a trusting Tiny ball of fluff that climbed my leg to play And sleep upon my lap. For all those years, and still, we shared our joys and Love but now are both grown old and soon […]
REQUIEM FOR TIGERby Joan Hills
Almighty God please may I have a cat To share your vast eternity with me? To keep me company throughout the day And spend the evenings curled upon my knee. A cat to share my night-time and my bed. To ride upon my shoulder up the stairs As once […]
IN MEMORYby Melody Collier
Little cat, in a distant sky Where mice are friends and bluebirds fly, Where pain is forgotten and you can pass With leaping grace over green, green grass; Little cat, will you catch a star And wonder, a moment, where you are?
Little cat, in a distant land Where […]
PAW-PRINTSby S L Smith
Paw-prints in the sands of time, Tracks along an empty beach, Towards a fate which is not mine, A destiny out of my reach. You’ve gone where I will some day follow, But for now you’re out of sight, Your years with me was time just borrowed, Before you returned […]
ONE DAYby Janice R. Hardy
One day I knew you would have to leave us as I watched you growing old, But swept the thought from my mind like autumn leaves upon the path. Now, as l look at your photograph, your body cold as the frame, my heart is full, Sad, yet calm, […]
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