Taillight Kitty [Haiku]

two little kittens
crawl the undercarriage
of a dump-truck.

Combative Kittens [Senryū]

three lil kittens
rotate through one-on-one
combat — tag-team style.

Missing Kittens [Tanka]

a momma cat
  mews many times to its 
   missing kittens.
 with each unanswered call,
 momma grows more insistent.

Cat Wrangling [Haiku]

a mother cat
 turns to consider whether
  to wrangle kittens

POEM: Kittens Can’t Get Their Legs

Little kittens can’t get their legs.

Feet slide as legs sprawl wide.

Writhing amid a pile of siblings.

Wrangled and nudged by mama.

Tiny screams for leeway ungranted.

Bellies bulge with mama’s milk.

They don’t yet look like miniature cats.

They have neither the proportions nor the ears.

They could as well be puppies or opossums.

From any distance mama sanctions.


[National Poetry Month: Poem #19]

DAILY PHOTO: Neighborhood Cat Family Portrait

Taken on October 25, 2016 in Bangalore.

Taken on October 25, 2016 in Bangalore.

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