I Alone … and Cricket the Cat (poem)

by Stephen J Frankenberry

New Quadrille prompt, a dVerse poem of just 44 words with a word to include . This time around, in the prompt from Lisa, the word is “with”. And the 44 word count does not include the title by the way.

Well, I thought to one of my cats and my well practiced solitude.

I Alone … and Cricket the Cat

I alone

mostly

with intent

No sympathies fished

.

Alone  

with company

only of a blind/deaf cat for dinner

and unknowing muse

of word’s dessert

.

Alone  

I embrace Cricket’s solitude

as my own

with only laps and words

Needed for us to feel

in tandem

11 thoughts on “I Alone … and Cricket the Cat (poem)”

    1. In a catlike way possibly indeed!! Tell ya the truth I am not really sure how old Cricket is. She was one of my landlady’s (Celie’s) cats in my recent place before coming upstairs with me and before I ended up moving to Schenectady. She’s been with me going on 7 years now and Celie and I talked and that she might have been 6 or 7 or a little more at the time? So around the same age as yours and the possible selective cat hearing. 🙂

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