Rhyming Rabbits & Rodents & More - Part II
my feet to stay,
At morning stare with eyes blue.
to Morris, an orange tabby who loves chasing a piece of cloth on a string:
Prowl, bengal, prowl!
sneak, slide, pounce,
Onto your prey bounce!
What did you bring?
Cloth on a string?
Is it any wonder
He's a big game hunter!
and to Shadow, a very friendly, playful gray long-hair:
Shadow is fluffy.
Shadow can scurry
And make like a toughie.
Napping all day
By the window he'll stay.
But when I sleep
Awake he does keep
Running and running
onto me jumping.
So tired am I
At work by and by.
But I cat I will keep--
'Cause who really needs sleep?
Brandi Thompson wrote the following poem for her "15 pounds of bounce and feistiness", Mr. Kitty:
He takes a leap
To what he sees move
Which is of course my feet!
When he is tired of amusing me,
He lays beside me and purrs aloud,
In a hastened tone.
I love my cat
Of black and white.
His personality is so unique.
Just when I think he is being sweet,
He turns again and attacks my feet!
BUNNY VERSES
Minxy D. Rabbit submitted this charming little rhyme in honor of his great friend, Penelope (see photo):
She's soft, she's round, she's also blonde,
Her eyes are brown...like me!
She's strong, she's neat, she's awful sweet,
She's my Penelope.
But apparently not everybunny was totally charmed by Minxy's verses. This entry, modestly described as "The Greatest Poem Ever", was submitted by Her Highness Miss Sable D. Bunny, as dictated to her loyal secretary Kayne D. Bunny:
Shall I compare me to a Penelope?
I am more lovely and more intelligent.
Rough words do shock the darling wife of Minx,
And loppy ears hath all too short a length.
Sometime too much she takes of my slave's time,
And often is her gold complexion shed;
And it's fair to say she ought to be gouged,
By Mistress Sable's growing nails untrimm'd;
But my eternal beauty shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that grudge I owest;
Nor shall Minx threat'n when I wander his land,
Where, eternal slave to you, he growl-est:
So long as I can poop and you can pee,
So long lives this war between you and me.
Leaving nothing to chance, Kayne added this brief note - "Um, Pwease can Sable win your poetry contest? She vewy big and tough" - along with a photo (poet Sable on left) as proof.
On a less threatening note, Phoebe Peoples, Rabbit extraordinaire, celebrates the joyful experience of finding a happy home:
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