Rhymes come easily to Barbara

Barbara Stone has written poetry and short stories from an early age (8yrs) She loves to write pastoral poetry, but also writes poetry of a humorous nature, about people and animals, many poems are taken from real-life.

She has also written stories and poems about the pinewoods near to where she lives in Harrogate, and has had some published. She has recently published her book 'Yorkshire Cats' which is a humorous take on cats she has known, and others which live in her fertile imagination.



FELINE

Dead creatures in the hall,
food splattered up the wall,
claws in my knee.
Knocked-over canisters,
fur between banisters,
shredded settee.

Mice slaughtered on the stair,
black paw-prints everywhere,
whiskers in tea;
voles concealed under mat,
who'd keep a rotten cat
What about ME?

PURRPLEXITY

A cat, very rotund from birth,
but whose neck remains frightfully thin,
has added so much to his girth,
that his figure juts out and caves in,
to such an extent that it's taken
a jug-shape, or could be mistaken
for a bottle such as one might see
in an old-fashioned-type pharmacy.
Whilst a vase that we own, small and fat,
could so easily pose as this cat.

LAMENT
The inventor of cat-flaps for doors,
can't have had much regard for clean floors,
as it gives cats great pleasure
to stroll through, at leisure,
dispersing wet earth with their paws.