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The Prince-Poet-Cat of Gatineau, Quebec
For Pushkin, of Happy Memory
And His House Pets Abbie and Alexander
In an ice-cream summer in the long ago
I met a marvelous cat in Gatineau
Pushkin by name, a fastidious Russian
His shiny fur coat never needed brushin’
He purred in an elegant iambic tetrameter
Precisely in its orderly parameter
A cat, of course, needn’t meter his speech
For a cat is a poem whose motions teach:
Running
Leaping
Sleeping
Purring
pouncing
Growling
Yowling
Howling
Twitching
Lurking
Sneaking
Posing
Dreaming
Snuggling
While in all things giving his children delight
In an ice-cream summer in the long ago
I met a marvelous cat in Gatineau
Aug 24, 2022
Aug 24, 2022 at 8:52 AM UTC
Lawrence Hall
[email protected]
https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
The Prince-Poet-Cat of Gatineau, Quebec
For Pushkin, of Happy Memory
And His House Pets Abbie and Alexander
In an ice-cream summer in the long ago
I met a marvelous cat in Gatineau
Pushkin by name, a fastidious Russian
His shiny fur coat never needed brushin’
He purred in an elegant iambic tetrameter
Precisely in its orderly parameter
A cat, of course, needn’t meter his speech
For a cat is a poem whose motions teach:
Running
Leaping
Sleeping
Purring
pouncing
Growling
Yowling
Howling
Twitching
Lurking
Sneaking
Posing
Dreaming
Snuggling
While in all things giving his children delight
In an ice-cream summer in the long ago
I met a marvelous cat in Gatineau