Winter Thermo Cat

Late in the year as days grow short
As nights grow long and colder
A creeping shadow on my soul
Another year I’ve grown older

November’s gale chills the bone
December’s sky is gray
The summer sun now is spent
Winter comes to play

What heat may bring for remedy
Against the growing gloom
A tiny furry space heater
In a corner of the room

Soaking there in a sunbeam
Solar power technology that
Energizes this heat sink
This thermodynamic cat

The pockets of energy contained within
The fluffy insulation
To store the sun now visiting
Through morning’s short duration

Tuck the nose under a paw
Tidy as you please
For the stingy master of the house
Keeps a chill seventy degrees

And when the sun sinks towards the west
When no more light is found
My faithful feline furnace
Asks to come around

Whereupon my lap he settles
To seek what heat may be
For warmth that we may share
My winter cat and me

Spooky Snoring Cat. A Halloween Tale.

As late one day as the light grew dim
As the sky was gray and somber
The limbs of the trees danced in the breeze
Their shadows grew ever longer

As still was the house as silent was I
As creeping was the gloom
Then a slight vibration in a singular location
From the other side of the room

A sound I heard and then again
Then thrice and four times more
I turned in fright and there the sight
Of my cat and nothing more

’Twas my cat and nothing more

HIs whiskers twitched in a far off dream
Snoring in deep repose
Asleep in his chair completely unaware
Filtering oxygen through his nose

“Awaken!” said I in an urgent cry
Bring your senses now to bear
For spirits haunting and I am wanting
Even now in this darkening lair

Alert Predator

Your sharpened eye your senses true
Your triangular pointed ears
Discern what might with coming night
Be cause of all my fears

Leaves are swirling out my door
Omens on the brink
Ravens gathering squirrels scampering
Dishes piled in the sink

Rise up cat and join the fight
We two must act as one
Defend the light against the night
Lest we be undone

By creeping foes in the darkened corners
Of betrayal and of treason
For you and I the time is nigh
Of this most ominous season

Presently I turned with steely eyes
Back to my cat wherefore
Now at the end my drowsy friend
Was there asleep once more

My cat was asleep once more

Hello you’re supposed to be this great hunter

Attuned to everything

With razor claws an the ends of paws

Ferocious predator king

It’s fine.

Just keep on sleeping it’s fine.

Don’t worry about me you just relax.

Don’t want to wake you.

Don’t… want to wake you.

You hear the can opener just fine.

You’re there for the can opener EVERY time.

Ferocious hunter!

Ferocious predator!

I suppose I’ll do the dishes then...