Cat Smarts

Cat Smarts

Intelligence should never die

When it's in a cat.

Whatever made the universe

At least should spare us that.

Loving paws that kneed and prod,

Little eyes that dart

After things that quickly move,

Cats are very smart.

Hearts that love are very eager

To be loved the same.

They learn, they sleep. And Freddy comes

When I say his name.

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People on a forum

People on a forum

(Bringers of the light)

Only go to forums

Because they want to fight.

Anyone who's decent

And hasn't lost his grip

Hurries from the forum

Like a rat abandons ship.

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Music

European music is fair.

I've heard it all before.

There's nothing to listen to anywhere.

Summer time, winter time,

I declare,

Genius is rare.

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A Truism

A poem that is rich

In language only pleases

The country it was made in.

But poetry of thought -

The only human language,

Like music - lasts for aye.

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Memorial

There is no immortality -

Not even for a clock.

The sun and sea will pulverize

In time the biggest rock.

The halls of Man – in bushy caves,

Ere that arboreal -

Departed like an ocean dry,

And immemorial.

So goes time. And little Man

Whose gods are very grand

Thinks six thousand years of earth

Were not at all unplanned.

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A Genius

Every sixth or ninth

Or seventh century

Nature makes a genius

Come walking from the sea.

It wasn't Keats or Mozart.

It isn't you or me.

His art will be received

Enthusiastically.

He'll have a temporary

Immortality.

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Immortality

Civilizations in Asia

Thousands of years ago

Had their cultures and poets

I shall never know.

Shakespeare is only Europe,

Five hundred years or so.

Where is the rush to achieve

Some immortality?

Even the cosmos is mortal,

And on earth, the sea.

Grandiose and empty,

And only death for me.

And finite poetry.

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