This is totally impossible to do. Well, not quite because I just did it but not very well..er badly. I asked myself, “what could I write about on Christmas Day when I woke up?”. It had to be a bit of fun and it had to be bright and white. Ah, I’ll write a poem….
Five minutes later….Oh no, I won’t write a poem I’ll do something else. As you probably know, writing a poem, even a bad one, is not easy.
I set myself a maximum of about 15 lines to limit the amount pain I had to endure in writing it 😉
She looked lazily out of the frosty window
It was a beautiful, crisp and even scene
She looked for a glimmer of bird activity
That would brighten up her moody mien
“Alaska” was a chubby white purebred mix
She was proud to be a rescue cat
Who was the best at doing tremendous tricks
“She’s like a dog” her humans kept saying
“No, I’m not” Alaska thought
As she lay quietly on her warmed up mat
I’m just a cat, a very good cat
Who likes the snow at Christmas time
Who likes to play when the weather is fine
To be out, to mess up that crisply even scene
My human will take a picture; well, he might
I look great in the snow. It’s white on white
In good old England, this morning, as I wrote the poem, there was thunder and lighting. It has been raining most of the night. Not a glimmer of a hope for even a single flake of the white stuff….Happy Christmas.
Thanks for the link Dan. I’ll have a look at that and see if I can do something. Merry Christmas to you and family.
Merry Christmas to all, both human and none. Not bad for a few minutes work, Michael. It took me that long to come up with a second verse to the Soft Kitty song they sing on ‘The Big Bang Theory’ tv show here in the states. It was some promotion of some sort I found.
Did you all hear about this: Feline Genetics DNA testing. For $120 US, you can determine if your pure breed truly is a pure bred. Here is a link to the article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/feline-genetics-laboratory-genome-test-cats_n_2340769.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
And here is a link to the lab that does it:
http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/
Two things (a) I envy your weather. It is horrendous here. No surprise. Thunder and lighting etc. Damp and so on..(b) I’m and old enough not to care about making a fool of myself 😉
We have 18 degrees and sun, it’s very strange indeed. Merry Christmas. Great poem by the way Michael. Some parts are excellent even. You are alot braver than I will ever be!
I envy you 😉 Happy Christmas. We have thunder and lightning here and plenty of bloody British rain! Total misery….
MERRY CHRISTMAS MICHAEL. Is the Weather chill in London? As for me , had an excellent Christmas eve In Mumbai and, spending the afternoon sipping “Smirnoff” with my cats Matahari and Matata lazying in the house and parakeet “Mittoo’ shrieking at times.Is this living the ultimate Cat life.?Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.