Poetry A Day Challenge 9: Love Poetry

  Good evening, felinity assembled!

Elvira Mistress of Felinity, here.

Welcome to Day 9 of the Poetry A Day Challenge by Robert Lee Brewer, of the wonderful Poetic Asides Blog, at Writer's Digest.

As he explains in his post...

"Pick one prompt or use both…your choice!

1. 1. Write a love poem.
   2. Write an anti-love poem...or not!
2. 
   Remember: These prompts are just springboards; you have the freedom to jump in any direction you want."
   

(The Day 1 poem, by Sneakers, is here)

I want to share a poem I wrote back in 2014.

In the aftermath of a kitten rescue we made I was inspired by the poetry of Edward Lear.

 

Feline Resignation or “Rutting Season” by Elvira Mistress of Felinity

I really hate to mention it,
But, I want to make it plain -
Very soon, you need to know,
It will be rutting season again! -
Tom after tom, they will pleasure me -
Siamese - Maine Coon - plain black -
Three times a year, you see,
I get this urge to hop into the sack!

They tempt me so, with looks so fair.
Their yowling so attracts me! -
Young - middle-aged - old - who cares! -
I welcome all comers with glee! -
It’s true this love is fleeting,
I brush each one off, after, like dust -
While there is no other meeting,
Raise our 3 offspring I must.

I bat my eyes, saying a sexy "meow",
And let them have their way! -
They say they love me so,
And this, too, I let them know -
For my part, I’m so very sick
Of acting the tart with all this lust -
To find a fix, that’s the trick!
Otherwise 9 kitten births a year I must.

For more about my inspiration and a link to the rescue story, go here.

Stay tuned for #10!