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Living With Royalty
Tetractys
All day Emily
gazes on the world—
like the poet,
her purring,
a soft
song
Haiku
demure, she watches
from her black velvet cushion
a fly buzzes by
Fibonacci
Poem
On Command
With
steps
regal,
befitting
the realm’s Crown Princess,
she announces her need for food
with a wag from her tail and a nudge on my left foot
as if to say, “Your attention
please, I’m hungry Now!
Remember—
I am
the
Queen”.
Cinquain
A
Functionary
Employed
as a royal
footman to her Highness—
I tend the door when she commands
egress.
Triolet
A Different
Drummer
She sits all day in the sunny
window;
Unperturbed, she watches the world pass by.
Sometimes she stirs and chases her shadow.
She sits all day in the sunny window—
Does she dream of mousing in the meadow?
Or feasting on pigeon and kidney pie?
She sits all day in the sunny window;
Unperturbed, she watches the world pass by.
Tanka
Sequence
Knight With
Ensign High
in the boudoir
my lady sleeps soundly
on a satin bed
in her dream the ocean waves
are filled with shrimp and salmon
she stalks a bee
on the summer garden blooms
then chases Mr. toad—
with proud dignity she lays
his bloody corpse at my feet
I say to you—
there is no better friend
than this feline—
she curls on my pillow
softly singing in my ear
when I am away
I often think of her,
patient, alone—
I know she will greet me
at the door when I return
Oh, lady fair
you are my precious queen—
let me protect you
from unworthy roués
who would stain your dignity
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