What is the loss of one? Poetry?

I love my cats and to lose one is emotionaly hard. they become like children to you, and the babies are so precious to watch play. people dont act like animals animals act more sensible than humans do most of the time. i spend money to keep my cats well and fed. i know some dont believe in it. but i do. and i have fed so many strays including racoons and possums and skunks who has never sprayed. armedillos along with the others humming and wild birds. i like your poem .

life is poetry, you are describing life

though not a cat person I'm a life person

and the loss of life is sad.

my only comment on S3 is simply this

if you are not a native american then you

are illegal,the sense that just because we

left one continent and came to another already

inhabited and then stole all the land doesn't make

it ours, we do hold it by force, still today,

but this is an argument for another day

today I morn the loss of your cat and its not

even the cat it's the loss of life, the final breath

the helpless feeling, sympathy for the moment

we've all had pets die and understand the moment

pets give love without conditions so the loss is always

more profound, like family...it's what makes us human

it is a poem

Cactus was a poem, So was Shaz

the three abandoned kittens were and their tiny graves in Kellys side yard attest to it

the bond they created between neighbors and children

life is funny

ya know? it slaps us around and we cry sometimes

and sometimes the tears are warranted, and sometimes they are necessary

and sometimes it is about the kittens

sometimes it is about the fleas

sometimes it is just about

the whole damn mess

and sometimes

we need to reach out

and know we have a friend.

I am so sorry about the cat!

"?" at the end of 1st stanza?

The political reference was vague enough for me to take either way; don't know if that was intentional.

I want to believe you are saying that people are not animals and to compare their lives with animals is verging on ridiculous. That's not to say that spending money to save their lives is wrong, not at all.

I have always had animals in my life. Losing one is part of the trade-off for having their basic and unassuming companionship.

Yes, it's poetry. Good poetry.

I had not read this when I posted my poem about my cat's demise. He actually died quite sometime ago, but I was thinking about him and decided to write about his defiance, which I could not have done at the time. Now I know why you are so upset. Your grief is raw and I know how that feels. Animals are part of the family. Don't be so hard on yourself, sometimes things happen. What is the loss of one? It is deep Adeline. It is deep.

(((hugs))) Adeline. I lost my dog last year and I'm still missing him.

Please don't beat yourself up with "might have been's." You are a good and caring person.

I also remember a wonderful little kitten owned by a housemate when I was doing my studies. We think she died from eating some poison. I still remember and it's both a happy and sad feeling.

I'm not sure I can comment on the poem since I feel so strongly for your feelings on the loss of your pet.

I am sorry for your loss. I thought my cat was psychotic because it was pulling all its fur out (I was treating it for fleas but insufficiently) and the vet fixed him right up.

I also had another cat die in December. The old fellow just lay down and passed away.

I feel for you in your pain and guilt. I am sure you did the best you could.

No No No

I am so sorry for your loss and I know your heart breaks. Mine too.

Great poem and obviously difficult to write. Dangit.

Nemesis

Crystalline reverberations-

palpitating unknown softness.

How close is ONE?

Murrey colored pebbles cast-

pieces falling from a heart-

How separate are two?

I dont know Adeline.

We humans are too artificially healthy

forgetting that all things have a purpose -

all things including death and disease

I guess that it was Cinammon's time

that is all...and it was nobody's fault.