Showing posts with label instinct. Show all posts
Showing posts with label instinct. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Cats Vs. Dogs


In the morning, after first stretch
The not-yet-awaken snarl in contempt

Playfully in the afternoon they jump about,
Hopping from chair to chair, from room to room,

At suppertime, they calmly wait
For leftovers and scraps to fill their plates,

Vying for dominance, they stand their ground,
Assertiveness of appetite, here, friends square against
Brother and kin, all for that natural, necessary inhibition

Yet when time for sleep comes for all,
To Switzerland they do flee, and revel in
The comfort of a bedding of neutrality

A quick one I've been working on.  Not sure it's completely finished yet, but thought it read well enough to share, any comments will be welcome.  Would you think this needs a bit more trimming, or perhaps an additional stanza or so to really hammer the overriding metaphor down?  

It's Tuesday, and we all know what that means. Yep, it's time for another Open Link Night over at D'verse.  At 3pm the pub doors will open up, and the ultra-talented community of poets will begin to flow through the doors.  Stop on by for some incredible pints of poetry and while you're there, why not share a poem of your own.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

The Wombat and the Wolverine

As the Wombat licks clean the leaves
From a perch amongst the spacious trees
A wolverine in search of food
Observes a Caribou through
An undistributed rocky ledge
To which it drools a puddle
Of hunger and desire,
Engage it does,
Expedient and free,
Only to get snared
In a web so wide and deep,
Thrashing, claws provoked
Each limb further wrapped
With each thrust and movement
The spider who designed this trap
Toggles the fringes in passive wait
Until the wolverine’s will disintegrates
Giving the Wombat a most unexpected show




Reposted for Poetry Picnic 34: Plants, Creatures and the Cosmos.