Sleepless night
Haggard I awoke
With a cold –
Vacation
Started off like the big bang
Chaos in the dark ….
Cat yowled on a tree limb …
“Scat!” I shouted with all my might
Full moon made him grim
Soulful he howled with no respite
Threw I, a lead-lined shoe
Mew-mew went the wretched stray –
Fancy-free he began all a-new
Banshee cat howled into the day …
© G.s.k. ‘15
Well … this little piece was written for B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond where we are invited to use the “Lento” and to inspire ourselves with VACATION … I mixed forms to create this little story to a painting sent to me by Paloma last week entitled “Cat in the moonlight” by: Theophile A. Steinlen, 1900
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wow, I love your shadorma and lento ❤
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Thanks LadyLee! I’m happy it pleased you! ❤ 2u2!
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That banshee cat! LOL
Nothing worse than starting a vacation with a cold, though. 😛
Great response — and I’m so glad you could use the painting! 🙂
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I was able to get two with two with one stone … I wanted to be the first to post as I’d not done an example of my own in the feature .. and that cat really came in handy! 😀
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🙂
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A lovely flow to our form. Enjoyed this but hope your cold dies not stick around too long. This is allergy season for me do I stay inside a lot.
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Ach .. the cold came on because I was silly … went to the beach and sat around in a wet costume when the cold wind came up from the lake … it finally got so cold that I changed, but I woke up the next morning with a head cold … it’s been now about four days …
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Bah humbug. Je t’envoie des gris câlins !
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Merci ma petit cher!
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Love the play between forms to make it your own 🙂 Really liked the line “Threw, I, a leaden shoe” lol
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Thanks dear lady … glad you liked the line … hard to work that one in and I wasn’t sure if it’d come out well.
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Perfect pairing of words and picture.
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Thanks very much Candy 🙂
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Good use of the forms, No throwing shoes at the Italian kitty cats:)
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Yeah … your right of course (she said hanging her head in shame) 😀
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Love the way you interspersed the shadorma and the lento….feels so natural. And that painting is really beautiful 🙂
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I agree … it is really a cool painting, when I saw it I thought it was something done by a more recent artist. Thanks C.C. for the great compliment. 🙂
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I would have thought so too!
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🙂
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