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How Edna's Pussy Does The Moonlight Frog Dance

Sitting by the frog pond
In the cool moonlight
Of a summer's eve,
Listening to the nocturnal croaks
From the bullrushes,
I wait for my prey,
Silently.

A movement spied, and I leap and
The slimy creature is in my grasp.
See! With an elegant paw-flick,
It sails through the air
To land where my waiting claws
Are ready for fun and games.
For me, anyway.

I settle down to hours of pleasure,
Teasing and tapping and jabbing,
Watching forlorn attempts
To escape from hapless doom,
Dancing for me under the moon,
Growing weaker by the minute.
Such joy.

I become bored by the game -l
How many dance steps does a frog know?
It's time for the long-awaited
Coup de grace, a sharp savage nip
To the neck and thus swift anuran death,
And I take a souvenir home for Mummy.
She seems to prefer them
With the head on.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: If my pussy (cat) could write poetry he would have written this.

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Direction: What did you think of my title?
How does this theme appeal to you?

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

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Comments

Geezer

Geezer

5 years 9 months ago

I laughed...

all the way through this! I don't think that it was supposed to be THAT funny, but in light of most of your work...
it was a real surprise to find that indeed; it was about a cat! Good one on me! I'm still laughing! Frogs have necks?
~ Geezer.
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Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 9 months ago

From a cat's p.o.v....

...a frog has a neck since the neck is where you give the "death bite". I'm no expert on anuran physiology, but frogs have a head and they have a body so ipso facto the bit in between is surely some sort of neck. Or maybe a neck-substitute. Anyway, if my cat thinks they have a neck. who are we to argue with him?

PS Thanks for your comment. I am pleased you enjoyed my Pussy's tale.

lonlyhrtsclub13

lonlyhrtsclub13

5 years 9 months ago

Very good

I enjoyed the humor, totally expecting something different based on the title. Good job.

Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 9 months ago

I should...

...be interested to know what you expected, "based on the title" ----> DO elucidate!
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lonlyhrtsclub13

lonlyhrtsclub13

5 years 9 months ago

I was

Expecting something more provocative in nature and was pleasantly surprised by the cat/mouse tale.

Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 9 months ago

You mean...

...the sort of pussy your internationally highly respected president likes to grope because he thinks he can, Epstein-style?
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