Cats
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(belated) Memorial Day Weekend: Brothers, Buc-Ees and Car Trouble
We saw the first billboard about 130 miles out. Buc-Ee’s is coming, Buc-Ee’s is coming or something like that with maybe some exclamation points (I don’t remember) and a logo of a Beaver. I said to nephew Matt “Hey, isn’t that the place you were telling me of, the one you and Nick stopped at… Continue reading
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The Cat and Percy the Rat that Fell from the Flat … Earth (song)
(so do you have 3 and a half minutes? sure ya do) A week or so ago my pal Rick, a bestest of mine going on 40 years now, back to our WVU days, posted this to the Facebook: FB JUST INVITED ME TO JOIN NOT MY 1ST OR 2ND BUT 4TH FLAT EARTH… Continue reading
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Cricket and the Bird Window (Zuihitsu poem)
A new prompt at dVerse Poets is of a poetry called Zuihitsu. The Prompt is here and explains with a number of fantastic examples. Now whether I’m on the right track with the style of this I’m not really sure, I could be completely off base, but it seems to me that this one does… Continue reading
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Bella Dreams in Catscope? (poem)
We had Laura, at the end of the week at dVerse Poets, with a prompt: MTB: Two and a Half Rhyme where she asks for us to write a 12 line (at least) poem consisting of couplets. And so, for today’s MTB prompt we are writing in two lines stanzas as rhyming couplets thus: Poetry Rules:… Continue reading
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A Boy And His Cat In A Cone Plastic Hat – (poem re-visit with audio read)
Ok, so a re-post in the Attic here for a dVerse Poets open link night, where you can contribute/link any poem of yours that you would like or you can choose to write something new to whatever that week’s open link prompt may be. Now, I’ve never written anything new in response to that night’s… Continue reading
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2026 is here and a post revisit – The Snow Was 17 Feet
Well, we’re all good for another holiday season, we’ve celebrated surviving 2025 (definitely considered “survival” of a year that will not be remembered well in the annals of history, actual history – hopefully we’ve been charitable and compassionate and thoughtful and truthful and dare I say, human, to counteract that … so far) we’ve added… Continue reading
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Patrick (traditional Catmis Song)
In a recent Facebook post of a bit of good news on my front and amid a number of replies I got one from an old friend, Linda, who, after commenting on said post, added that her husband has been singing “one of my greatest hits” recently and I immediately realized that, shit, I’m a… Continue reading
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Shared (poem)
New Quadrille prompt at dVerse Poets this week, and one more for the year, this one from Mish and the word here is “Hibernate” ////////////////////////////////////////// Shared Cricket the Cat can trouble sleep too with me not sure which causes the other if at all possibly blind antsy cat angst or my equal dreading closed… Continue reading
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Cricket The Cat Poet – From Beyond the Lap (poem)
CRICKET’S CAT CONDO A Cricket Blog Blog Header: Hi and welcome to the Condo, I’m Cricket of said blog title and I write of just my everyday cat here, sometimes funny, sometimes scratchfelt, sometimes angry where I meowl to the cat heavens like I’m at a cat funeral, thoughts on getting older and sometimes stuff… Continue reading
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Summer’s End (simple post)
Man, it was such a nice afternoon drive on my way home Friday, especially with a boss guy emailed “go home early, you’re appreciated” most welcome missive, that weather that you wish would just stay year round, an almost perfect perfect where I had my windows and sunroof open wide, the slow fade of another… Continue reading
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