Way back in 2013 when I was first beginning to blog, a poet friend wrote a verse which was not quite a sonnet, not quite a kyrielle and not quite a villanelle … I tried to write a villanelle at the time and not having understood how to write one made a bit of a mess of the whole thing. This is the edited version (a true villanelle) which I wrote this morning … the original is HERE and Shainbirds’s poem is HERE.
Two Cats
Two cats sat in the yard at dawn,
Companionable as is rarely seen;
Lovely was their friendship to look upon …
I stood there and our eyes were drawn
And we know how a cat’s sight is keen;
Two cats sat in the yard at dawn…
I grabbed some paper and black crayon
Quickly, so to catch that special scene;
Lovely was their friendship to look upon …
I was too late the scene had been redrawn
I guess it should have been foreseen –
Two cats sat in the yard at dawn …
There was just one cat upon the lawn
Where two had so recently been
Lovely was their friendship to look upon ….
A portrait of two cats could not be drawn
So a poem I wrote as you have seen …
Two cats sat in the yard at dawn
Lovely was their friendship to look upon .
© G.s.k. ‘15