The Cat

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Tiger danced across the moonlight,
bringing nighttime dreams for naught
He ate the sandman soundly,
for dreams aren't what they're taught

In Tiger's dreamland paradise
where children's minds are sought
for feeding Tiger's memories
with visions tight and taut.

For Tiger lives on innocence
and steals what dreams he can,
and gives back black and evil things,
catastrophic contraband!

Tiger found the village Koriborg
alone within the trees,
and found their dreams of innocence
filled with tasty subtleties.

He listened to the nighttime sounds
that whet his appetite,
until his hunger grew voracious,
and he leapt into the night.

Tiger vaulted through the windows
wherever he would find
a child, waif, somnambulist,
or someone he could blind

with terror stark and predisposed
to jellify a mind.
Tiger hissed his nighttime stories,
to those he thought were kind.

And those who heard the Tiger's Tale
awoke forever changed.
Innocence forever gone,
Their lives were rearranged.

They stumbled out of cobbled huts
rubbing at their eyes
and assaulting neighbors near and dear
with vitriolic lies.

The Village elders saw the change
that was taking all their folk
and decided they must take a stand
before another sleeper woke.

So they went into a graveyard
to retrieve the newly dead,
and dressed them all in night-clothes
then tucked them into bed.

And Tiger, who was up all night
was sleeping all this while.
He finally awoke at dusk
purring with a smile;

"I'll have you all to-night my dears,
your dreams forever mine,
I'll give you sin and recompense
for what you leave behind!"

So to the window he did leap,
to trade his awful screams,
he did not know he dined with death
when he ate the dead man's dreams.

The corpse consumed poor Tiger's will
and danced into the street
where the Elders burned him brightly,
and Tiger died in his defeat.

End

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. Oh, well.

[ruiner4u]

2. christ...

can we have a poetry forum, and for that matter a poll forum so that people can read important things without wasting time on shit like this? jesus... dude, your poetry sucks...post it in the lounge so i don't have to click on it

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Gee, thanks!

There's nothing I love more than an obviously well thought out criticism from an obvious scholar.

Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into reading and critiquing this.

I'm forever in your debt.

[ruiner4u]

7. yeah...

if your so talented then get published, other wise keep your burma-shave prose confined to the lounge..

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. I am (published).

For that matter, one of the pieces posted here is and was. Again, I am agog at your intellectual prowess in debate and literary criticism.

[The Straight Story]

10. The only thing I ever got published was my phone number :) (nt)

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[The Straight Story]

5. I was gonna say something, but decided to hit the trunk monkey button

instead.

[lonestarnot]

8. Aren't you supposed to be in Church fundi?

[karlrschneider]

12. Well, you are an instant expert around here.

How nice for you.

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[lonestarnot]

6. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. He has no taste.

The poem is great Tom!

[ruiner4u]

11. the poem sucks...

all his poems suck and im tierd of then flashed on GD...the poems show zero talent...

[Change has come]

15. LOL

You have the markings of a long remembered "moran"

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[lonestarnot]

22. bwwwwwwwa

:rofl:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

17. LOL!11! That is Hugh!!!!!111!!

OMG, you are posting as a parody of...

Hell, someone else fill in the blank.

[lonestarnot]

24. Turd. Parody of Turd!

:popcorn: :rofl:

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[karlrschneider]

20. Which tier of tierd? And what are the missing words between

"of"...and..."then"?

[lonestarnot]

21. turd?

HI KARL! :hi:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Thanks...

If you've ever tried writing as a profession you get a pretty thick skin. You can't please everyone, so I don't try or expect to.
:toast:

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[Tom Yossarian Joad]

23. I've been grinning since his first post on this thread.

I didn't bother alerting because I was hoping he would grace us with more of his wisdom.

[lonestarnot]

25. I'm enjoying my popcorn. Haven't had any in a while.

:popcorn:

[mvd]

26. Locking

Unfortunately, this thread got derailed.

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