The final day of Poetry Writing Month. I have thirty-two poems down for this April, most have been sparked by the prompt, even if they went a bit tangential. I quelled at the diplodic verse and the ghazal, didn’t really get the clerihew or noctourne, but fell as much in love with the elevenie as I am with haiku. The final prompt for NaPoWriMo2017 is to write about something that is repetitive. Which is a good topic to return to again and again (!)
Ingress
Cat’s paw patting
At the windowpane
Hovering on the sill
Neither in nor out
Let me in!
Again and again
Prove to me
My liberty
Admit nothing
Not appetite, nor love
Plush pelt,
Purr or head bump
Stretch seductively
As an Ingres’
Odalisque
With her slave
Always to hand
To come hither
Again and again
To open
Admit
Enter the point where
Stars and planets
Will not collide
They revolve
As thresholds can
In sleep
In dreams
Watch how they
Admit you
Enter, then freefall
Elegantly onto cat’s paws
Sojourning Smith 