The Poetry Marathon

Around the Meatball Planet
Which has a bit of granite

Connections are being made
Amongst many noodly shades

I’m a Pastafarian
Means I’m non-sectarian

Spaghetti Monster Flying
Challenges those a-lying

Pasta, pirates, rum, and Cats
We believe in wearing Hats

We even got a Garu
Living in a cave Guru

Try to be logically
Science-based society

Should you find us wanting
Then go elsewhere haunting

Social media
Positive or negative
It’s how you use it
Always remember
First purpose is cats
Hedgehogs are second
Conspiracies third
No sense of humor?
Create ranting blog
Sell ads, no money
But you’ll be happy
The rest of us too

I see sky and tree
Window view in front of me
Sometimes a small bee

One race
A human race
One people together
Each different but all equal
DNA connects us
Looks may differ
Yet same

(Eintou format)

Our friend-circles surround us
Overlapping each other
Forming endless sub-circles
Until we are vibrating,
Resonating, all things good

Blue-eyed tomcat in silver tabby coat
He simply stood and stared, as if I knew
Not much to really decipher, I guess
A silent, staring cat – wants to be fed?
I always had extra pet food dishes
Almost forgot about Irene’s wafer
I crumble it up into the dry food

Before she left to visit family
Irene gave me a wafer for my guest
“Now this is for the uninvited guest!
Who will come visit you on Christmas Eve.”
Not being Catholic, I took her word
It was getting late, almost Christmas Day
She said nothing about his outer looks

So he’s a cat wearing a tabby coat?
An angel of God, she told me later
Said he would look like us, not like a cat!
How does she know he was not an angel?
My self-image is often a tabby
Besides God loves endless variety
Don’t Catholic priests bless the animals?

I love to rhyme
Most all the time

Rhymes are a song
To sing along

They make a tune
Where one can swoon

A friend has said
Don’t rhyme – instead

Write in Haiku…

I assure you
It can rhyme too

(Cue diabolical laughter)

A cat
Who neighbors knew
Long before I knew him
To name him would be to claim him
Obviously they weren’t
Real cat people
Fur sure

(Eintou format)