The Poetry Sisters’ challenge this month was to write Welsh Byr a Thoddaid Poems. There are a ton of rules, but when you get right down to it, the form consists of lots of syllable-counting and attention to rhymes.
My first cat, Jennyanydots, achieved the status of Truly Old Cat. She passed at the age of 21 and was a tiny thing (maybe 6 pounds in the end) with a mighty voice for wailing when she couldn’t find her “tribe.”
Hemingway is a big guy (14 pounds) and not old yet — only 7-9 (he was a rescue) — so why is he starting the yowling-for-no-reason? Maybe just to give me a poem topic!
Here’s what the rest of the Poetry Sisters came up with this month:
Tricia @ The Miss Rumphius Effect
Tanita @ {fiction, instead of lies}
Sara @ Read Write Believe
Laura @ Laura Purdie Salas
Liz @ Liz Garton Scanlon
Kelly @ Kelly Ramsdell
Andi @ A Wrung Sponge
Next month we are writing acrostic phrase poems. Choose any line from the poem “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou and use each word in the phrase to begin a new line of your poem.
Catherine has this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup at Reading to the Core.
A(nother) Year of Reading 
You worked this puzzle out well with your attention to the details of your cats’ wails.
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Wait, aren’t all cats wails one long Howl poem? Ha! You did well, using the form to tell us a tiny tale with a formidable main character.
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You use such brief, punchy phrases to tell this little story – the form is perfectly rhythmic for that.
Also, how much do I love that the cat is on a leash! It doesn’t seem to mind, so the wails are unrelated to that… sometimes one just needs a barbaric yawp, I guess?
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Don’t all cats lie? I love the photo and your poem made me laugh. I appreciated the compactness of this and your choice of rhyming words.
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Even though there’s a ton of rules…this is smooth. And, any cat named Jennyanydots has to be a winner! Happy summering!
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Hahahaha–I love this! What a fabulous wily, waiting cat. It’s so clever and compact.
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They are tricky as your poem so ‘trickily’ shows, Mary Lee. These poems you & your sisters have written are fantastic. I’m calling them little stories. And, an aside. I love hearing of “Jennyanydots” because one of our cats was “Macavity”. Hope your Saturday is going well!
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Ha ha ha — I love this! How did you do it all in ONE QUATRAIN??? I’m agog.
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You did a great job capturing Hemingway’s personality in this tricky form. I love “does he feign lunacy?” I think that’s something all cats have mastered!
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