Cute Cats and Kitsch Kitties

Social media loves a photo of a cute cat (or, indeed, many photos). On the basis of, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, here are some adorable moggies...

One is mine (or I am his - he thinks of me as his, if he thinks of me at all). One was mine. Others are the owners and adopters of friends and family. All are the queens and emperors of their worlds and rightly so. They are cats and born to rule.

Cats and Other Mythical Creatures

In sleep you adopt the position of a Chinese dragon,

Or cat leaping from high wall without a safety net,

A twist to your tail and your body

As the dragon leaps and dances with the sun.

Who knows whom you are dancing with

In the chase, catch, kill of your dreams.

Little mice, I hope,

Not little humans.

  

©J.S.Watts

Cats and Other Mythical Creatures  was first published in the poetry collection Cats and Other Myths by J.S.Watts (Lapwing Publications, 2011) and has also appeared in Danse Macabre and possibly Pumpkin House Digest (but that’s a little unclear).

Buzzards

Buzzards hold the sky, where I live. They fly boldly into my poems time and time again. And into my photographs. Here are three of them.

Audley End - End of August

I have lived relatively near Audley End for over eighteen years, but only made my first visit at the end of August this year. These are some of the photographs I took during the day at the end of August when I visited the house, grounds and gardens.