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Here you'll find poems around  emotional expression -  I trust you will find them useful for your personal reflections.

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You can find more on my newly created Facebook page My Poetic Past

Top of our Stairs

There is a fluffy grey cocoon

At the top of our stairs

Where your blanket now

Resides undisturbed

You used to sleep there

Snug and warm in your bed

When you weren’t sneaking

Into mine at 2am to play instead

Now its empty because you’ve gone

To live this side of rainbow bridge

So don’t need it any more

I hope your wings are working well

So you can spend time running

Chasing  birds and mice symbolically

Now of course in those green meadows

At the foot of hills, have lots of friends

To keep you company with the sun

Warming your backs, happy and content

You spent your time enjoying

That pastime when with us

You’d fetch one or two as gifts

I don’t miss that part at all but

We understood each other

I used to say you were

An English-speaking cat

But Adam said not, our little joke

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Makes me smile today recalling

Your face looking up at us as we talked

About you, to you, our favourite hello

My favourite relaxing time hearing

Your purring on my lap in the evenings

All the times we had together

I miss you dearly, I have no regrets

We had your essence for eighteen

Wonderful, glorious years after all

The tears escaping down my cheek

Is because, you’re not  here  with us

Your bed however will forever stay

At the top of our stairs, because

I’ve caught your spirit once or twice

Well more than I can remember

Trotting sedately up our stairs

Over the past two years

Visiting your old homestead

You’ve gone from our sights but

You left your purring presence deeply

Firmly in our hearts and minds

Until we meet again along side

That  colorful bridge and our eyes

Meet once again my heart will sing

What a joyous reunion this will be.

And we’ll be forever home together

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