poppy Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 (edited) For all the cat lovers here The Cat's Song by Marge Piercy Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness.My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, saysthe cat making on your chest his gesture of drawingmilk from his mother's forgotten breasts.Let us walk in the woods, says the cat.I'll teach you to read the tabloid of scents,to fade into shadow, wait like a trap, to hunt.Now I lay this plump warm mouse on your mat.You feed me, I try to feed you, we are friends,says the cat, although I am more equal than you.Can you leap twenty times the height of your body?Can you run up and down trees? Jump between roofs?Let us rub our bodies together and talk of touch.My emotions are pure as salt crystals and as hard.My lusts glow like my eyes. I sing to you in the morningswalking round and round your bed and into your face.Come I will teach you to dance as naturallyas falling asleep and waking and stretching long, long.I speak greed with my paws and fear with my whiskers.Envy lashes my tail. Love speaks me entire, a wordof fur. I will teach you to be still as an eggand to slip like the ghost of wind through the grass. Edited March 16, 2013 by poppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Oh, poppy. Wonderful. Thass a cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Andrea~ Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 (edited) I can definitely relate to this bit lol: I sing to you in the morningswalking round and round your bed and into your face. Great poem Poppy. Thanks for sharing it. Edited March 19, 2013 by ~Andrea~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsmeagain Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Marge Piercy encapsulates it beautifully here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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