Categorizing Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Categorizing



While stroking a cat in the light
it's easy to sense
when one more stroke will mean strike.

That's harder to sense in the night.

If you can, when you turn on the light
you'll hear a 'you're good' in her eye
and 'down the street there's a cat
that's equally swell
gets me there with the sense of smell'.

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Bri Edwards 26 November 2013

i'm also not sure of the meaning of the title. :) bri

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Bri Edwards 26 November 2013

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.

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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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