Monday, January 13, 2003

Cats Comments

Rating: 3.3

Cats no less liquid than their shadows
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat through loopholes
Less than themselves; will not be pinned
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Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
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My man 27 January 2018

Good poems ggggggggggggggg

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Kim Barney 14 April 2015

Ha! I love the lines WILL NOT LEARN TO ANSWER TO THEIR NAMES and ARE SELDOM TRULY OWNED TILL SHOT OR SKINNED So true! As I said in my own cats poem, we don't own them; they own us.

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Kenneth Maswabi 14 April 2015

A very intelligent piece of poetry.Thank you

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It feels as a beautiful poem with nice words and rhythm.

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Andrea Field 15 August 2007

It was an absolute joy to re-discover this poem after many years.

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Roger Kibble 13 August 2006

A perfect poem. Such skill, such perception, such metaphor.

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Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

Birkenhead, England
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