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my cat poems for your pleasure

updated to reflect recent publication of The Cosmic Cat from Berkeley, and the  Buddha Cat from Edsal road – both published in the Universe Journal, Bangalore, India September 30, 2019, also recorded those two poems as well.

April 2018 Poems
2017 April Poems
April 2019 Poems

 

Cat thought

thoughts about Cats – the true alien life form living amongst us humans.

Cats Fighting In Incheon

Watching two cats
Fighting alongside the sidewalk
In suburban Incheon New Airport Town

Completely indifferent
To the humans walking around them

And the humans were indifferent to the cats

As they stood there fighting
And screeching at each other

One orange one
One half black half white one
Both middle age in cat years

As I sat there watching the cats
really getting into it
I wondered what they were arguing about?

But since I don’t speak cat
I really didn’t know

All I know is they were really screeching at each other
And almost look like they were about to attack each other

But one cat backed down
As the other cat stood their proverbial ground

If they were humans one would have pulled out a knife
Or a gun
And someone would have been killed

But being mere cats
They stared at each other
And walked away

but they kept glancing at each other
So, I knew the fight as not over
Merely postponed until a later hour

Cats truly are the aliens
Who live among us humans

Or perhaps we are the aliens
Who live among the cats?

Watching the black cat

Watching the black cat
Slinking about

I am reminded once again the cats
are not our friends
as I stare at him

an alien invader
From another planet

Mysterious Black Cat Looking at Me

As I look out
At the parking lot

I see a black cat
looking at me with dark soulful eyes
filled with mysterious secrets

I wondered
What the cat
thinks of me?

The cat looks at me
With a mysterious grin

The cat smiles at me
Like the Cheshire cat

He smiles
and runs away into the bushes

Watching three cats

watching three cats

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looking at me

while i look at them

Each wondering what sort of weird creatures
The other is

And who is the real alien species?

three cats ready to go

three cats
at play

they look out at the world
and they are ready

they are born hunters
they are hungry
they are restless

and they want
to escape
from the house

to chase birds
squirrels

and other cats
to do their cat thing

That’s the cat’s life after all
they tolerate us humans
only because we feed them

But at heart
they are wild things

and wild things
Need to be free

Looking Out My Window

I look out my window
On the parking lot
In my suburban Incheon neighborhood

And see the black mad cat
That lives underneath
the apartment house

And look out at the park
Thinking of taking a walk

The cat looks at me
Kindred spirits perhaps
Retired waiting to die

Watching Cats Hunt

Early morning

Watching two white cats
Hunting a white dove

The cats hunt in pairs
Tracking the bird

The bird flies away
Safe for now

And I think about the cats
And the hunt goes on

Such is life
And the fate of cats
And birds

Cats

I often wonder about Cats
What do they think of us

It seems at time
That cats think of humans
As their slaves

We exist to feed them
To comfort them

To save them from their enemies
And to worship them

Yes cats are an alien species
Totally different from humanity
Detached, and almost evil

If we ever encounter an alien civilization
God help us if it’s a cat based civilization

We would then be engaged
In the epic mother of all wars

As cats and humans would not get along
The cats would think we were their slaves

And we would resent and fear them
And secretly worship their alien ways

The Cosmic Cat from Berkeley

I next encountered the divine many years later in Berkeley, California. I had gone home to be with my Mother while taking leave from my job in the Foreign Service. I had two weeks there by myself. My wife came later near the end of the trip. Every morning I woke up, had coffee, did yoga, read the paper, and spoke to my mother. She was sliding into dementia, day by day losing her reason. Then I would go out and explore the city, go to a museum, go to one neighborhood, see a movie matinee, have dinner with old friends, and just be there and re-discovering the Bay Area of my youth, after years of being away.

Every morning a black cat came to visit me. He was out in front when I got up staring at me, and waiting for to go out the door. The cat was friendly and waited for me and then would join me in my morning rambles following me to the bus stop or to the downtown BART stop if I walked as I frequently did. It was a 40-minute 2-mile stroll. And it was summer and the weather was delightful.

I started talking to the black cat, he looked at me with the spark of divinity in his dark soulful eyes. I called him the cosmic cat. He seemed to like that. He would look at me and I opened to me. I told the cat all my dark secrets as I walked the streets of the old neighborhood. Every morning and every evening the cat would be there to greet me and to carry out our endless conversation.

Then I had to leave and in our final conversation
I asked the cosmic cat

“Say, Cosmic Cat are you just a cat or are you a demonic cat

Are you possessed by God or by Satan? Are you a familiar of some dark witch?”

The cat looked at me and I realized that God was indeed residing in the cat but that God was residing everywhere, all around me. All I had to do was open my mind, and the rest would follow

So, I said goodbye to the cosmic cat and he purred and came up to me and I felt the comforting presence of the divine

As I said goodbye to the cosmic cat. And said goodbye to my demented mother. It turned out that was the last time that we would be able to really talk. The next time I met her was when I came out to put her in an assisted living facility. I never talked to her again as I had during those two weeks when I hung out with the Cosmic Cat.

I told my mother about the cosmic cat. She smiled and said that the cat was there for me and her to comfort us both in our hour of need. And that the cat was indeed
a cosmic cat.

“The Cosmic Cat from Berkeley”

I next encountered the divine
Many years later in Berkeley, California
I had gone home to be with my Mother
While taking leave from my job
in the Foreign Service

I had two weeks there by myself
My wife came later
near the end of the trip

every morning I woke up
had coffee
Did yoga

Spoke to my mother
Who was sliding into dementia
Day by day loosing her reason

Then I would go out
And explore the city
Go to a museum
Go to one neighborhood

And just be there
Rediscovering the Bay area
After years of being away
Having dinner with old friends
Seeing movies etc

Every morning a black cat came to visit
The cat was friendly and waited for me
And then would join me in my morning rambles

Following me to the bus stop
I stated talking to the black cat
He looked at me with the spark of divinity
In his dark eyes

I called him the cosmic cat
He seemed to like that
He would look at me

And I opened up to me
Told the cat all my dark secrets

As I walked the streets
Of the old neighborhood

Every morning and every evening the cat
Would be there to greet me
And to carry out our endless conversation

Then I had to leave
And in our final conversation
I asked the cosmic cat

Say, Cat are you just a cat
Or are you a demonic cat
Are you possessed by God
Or by Satan

The cat looked at me
And I realized that God
Was indeed residing in the cat

But that god was residing everywhere
All I had to do was open my mind

And the rest would follow
So I said Good bye to the cosmic cat
And he purred and came up to me
And I felt the comforting presence of the divine

As I said goodbye to the cosmic cat
And said goodbye to my mother
As this was the last time
That we would be able to really talk

I told my mother about the cosmic cat
She smiled and said that the cat
was there for me and her
to comfort us both in our hour of need

and that the cosmic cat
was indeed a cosmic cat

published in the Universe Journal in Bangalore India September 30, 2019

the universe journal

the Buddha Cat From Edsal Road

I had another encounter
With the divine recently
Another Cosmic cat perhaps
Perhaps not

who knows what cats are
are they alien from another dimension
or was he channeling God ?

I call him the Buddha cat
For the cat loves

Sitting in a meditative pose
Not moving

Just starting at me
With his soulful deep eyes

Boring into my soul
exploring all my secret thoughts

the buddha cat
does not move

does not react
as he is so deep
into his interior mediation

truly in tune
with the cat universe
and the cosmos as well

the buddha cat
seems to be
one with God
one with Buddha
One with Allah
And all the other
Billion names of God
Known and unknown

The buddha cat
Can teach us all

About the art of meditation
As he zones inward
And loses his soul

Joining the cosmos
And becoming
The buddha cat

The buddha cat
Lives in a modest
Town house

In a modest suburb
Proving yet again

The divine spirit of God
Is everywhere all around us

The buddha cat
Reminds us all
To look for god
In the everyday

All around us
If we but have eyes
To see

published in the universe journal Bangalore India September 30, 2019

the universe journal

 

Oregon Demon Cat

The demon cat
Lived in Medford Oregon

The demon cat was a big black cat
His eyes were filled with demonic energy
He stared at you

Looking into your very soul
Filled with anger, and hatred
For the entire human race

He seemed at times
To be not from this planet
Perhaps an alien species
Studying the human race

Or perhaps he came
Form hell itself

The demon cat loved to torment visitors
For some reason he hated the man’s daughter

The cat would stare at her from his perch
Down the hall from the old man

Then he would run at her
Screaming like an escaped banshee
Straight out of hell

She told her dad
Either the cat goes
Or I go

He said
See you later

The demon cat smiled
At the small victory

And she left the house
With the demon cat
Screeching goodbye

Mad Cat Shoe Lace

cats are alien creatures from space
cats
they truly are mad as a hat
from space
the buddha cat sits all day long
demon
escaped banshee playing demon
theme song
as they fly about like a witch
broomstick
flying in the air with their side kick

the End