Old tom cat caught my sharp eye
he sits watching lady cats from high perch in tree.
He pounces on hips of lady cat with nice tail in air.
Old tom cat is sometimes like me.
Swinging tail of lady cat and soft meow
purrs as she walk close to old tom cat.
Fur brush fur and nice meow from old tom cat.
Old tom cat sit smiling on perch in tree.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixèd mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
    If this be error and upon me proved,
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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I had been hungry, all the Years—
My Noon had Come—to dine—
I trembling drew the Table near—
And touched the Curious Wine—

’Twas this on Tables I had seen—
When turning, hungry, Home
I looked in Windows, for the Wealth
I could not hope—for Mine—

I did not know the ample Bread—
’Twas so unlike the Crumb
The Birds and I, had often shared
In Nature’s—Dining Room—

The Plenty hurt me—’twas so new—
Myself felt ill—and odd—
As Berry—of a Mountain Bush—
Transplanted—to a Road—

Nor was I hungry—so I found
That Hunger—was a way
Of Persons outside Windows—
The Entering—takes away—

don't care if you think my poems ****
don't care if you read them because
you think they might not be good enough
for nobody but me to read. I am learning
and trying to write good poems and
i think some of the ones **** but i
learned i might be wrong in saying
poems **** other than mine.

Read your words of hello on this site when I logged in.
Kept thinking was she posting the words just for this cowboy?
Few weeks ago heard you singing up a storm and so liked it.
Gal I loved what I heard cause you lady are a true songbird.
You beautiful gal sing like a fined tuned sparrow, you got to know it.  
Don't take my blue eyes looking into your pretty brown ones to see you something special.
Keep on singing baby doll you got golden pipes and you my kind of woman.
Now I'll be loving me some Ms. Betty Ponder's singing for a long time.
Thank you so kindly my dear for the warm words you wrote to all on this site.

You showed me that to be an honest person with loyal friends is
better in the long run and you're right being lied to sickened me.
I had your trust and was deceived by invisible net personas role playing.
You showed me that faith in ones you grow to love isn't lost forever if
you right what lying outside forces wrong and don't wait too long.
Forgive? I was wrong about who someone was and pray you will.
Remember you were deceived by the same role playing net personas.
Learned my lesson and done with being that patsy who was gullible.

I don't think it's possible to be too pretty.
When you're pretty you don't get ignored.
You go to the front of lines and get freebies.
You get the best guys and the best of life.
There's no such thing as being too pretty.

Men who I wont date are better off asking other people out.
"You're a real looker!" That's what I'm told and I like that.
Long brown wavy hair falling down my back as I walk.
I get guys who come up to me wanting to touch my hair and
get a very close look to see if my face is that pretty and real.  
It's nice to be asked out by guys I like and ones I wont date.
When I'm shopping and I'm checking out clothes in size zero
I get guys coming up to me asking me if they can buy for me.
What's not to like about that being the girl who is picked first?
At dances I never sit one out I have guys falling over themselves
just because I'm a very pretty girl and there's nothing wrong in that.
Big question is if I was a plain Jane would I get guys who want to
buy me sports cars, Bahamas trips or be their sweet little sugar baby?

I could call you the queen of hearts but what would that mean?
Does being queen of hearts mean all men fall for you? Maybe
Honored I know you sweet lady who I came to admire years ago
and know you to be brilliant and a lovely person inside and out.
You came into my life out of the blue like a beautiful storm
bowling me over(loved it) and me not knowing what hit me.
So glad we met and hope to make it for keeps or what you want
even if it continues to be a deep, honest and caring friendship.
Betty Ponder you are a lovely, one of a kind and special lady.