Someone wrote in [personal profile] aphanon_meme 2014-06-08 09:40 pm (UTC)

Re: poetry thread

I really like Robert Frost's poems!

I don't really have a favorite poem, but I am partial to long epics that tell stories.

Here's a random poem I just picked out of a book:

The Prayer of the Cat

Lord,
I am the cat.
It is not, exactly, that I have something to ask of You!
No-
I ask nothing of anyone-
but,
if You have by some chance, in some celestial barn,
a little white mouse,
or a saucer of milk,
I know someone who would relish them.
Wouldn't You like someday
to put a curse on the whole race of dogs?
If so I should say,
Amen

Carmen Bernos de Gasztold

She has a few more "prayers of the ____" poems in this book, but meme likes cats, so.

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