While stroking a cat in the light
it's easy to sense
when one more stroke will mean strike.
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as requested (ordered? !) i shall look at this poem....now. i enjoyed the juxtaposition of stroke and strike; i don't think i EVER used that word before in my life....juxtaposition. i looked it up and it might fit in that sentence, but if it doesn't, i ain't changing it anyway(s) . i had a bit of trouble analyzing (how DO you spell that word? ? oh, now i got it.) the last stanza. i guess you are better at interpreting a cat's eyes than i am. and you won't catch me stroking a cat in the dark! ever! ! ! thanks for sharing. :) p.s. cats say the darndest things! * *copied and pasted from internet, of course: darned·est or darnd·est (därndst) n. The most possible: I did my darnedest to finish on time. .......this is not exactly the meaning i learned from hearing the word used when i was growing up. i think there may have been a segment of a popular tv show (the art linkletter show) which was called kids say the darndest/darnedest things. i loved that segment.
i'm also not sure of the meaning of the title. :) bri