I have sat on your keyboard and erased the message which you had spent twenty minutes writing Forgive me the keyboard felt so warm on my cold paws. ************ I woke you at four a.m. with piteous cries and yowls when you were planning to sleep until seven Forgive me it was so dark and my belly was so empty. ************* I knocked over the flowers that were in the vase which you had placed so carefully on the table Forgive me they looked much prettier on their sides. ************* I scratched your cheek in the dark when you did not want to wake up or bleed Forgive me the blankets are so heavy and I prefer when you lift them
Notes: I wanted to experiment with a false apology poem and decided it would be much more fun to write from the perspective of a cat. And I was right. Here is a photo of Zorro trying to eat tulips (which are toxic to cats, but apparently he doesn’t know that. Never fear: they were removed before he could actually bite them).
the dirigible plum 
9 responses to “This Is Just to Say: Notes From a Cat #NaPoWriMo18 #NPM2018”
Haha! That photo is priceless. I love the poems. Yes, cat point of view enriches them. If Hero were writing, she’d say, “I am sorry I drank the water you just poured. It tastes better than the toilet water, and I know you have given me fresh water and I can drink the water in the dog bowl that feeds from the fridge, but I prefer watching you go get a new glass after I’ve lapped from yours.”
I had a partial draft of one about the water glass too–we have the same issue here. We have two who are convinced that human water glasses contain much more delicious water than cat or dog water bowls. I took four or five photos of him with the flowers and he is blurry in every one because he is darting around and trying to snatch a bite before he gets removed!
These are hilarious and so true! My cat loves to try to eat the flowers. Roses are her favorite. She also wakes me up when the sun comes out even if it’s Saturday.
Luckily we have snugglers who are fine to stay in bed forever–but they do have to be under the covers, and the human has to lift the covers so they can have easy access.
I just chuckled all the way through these. My cat Hera would (not) apologize for constantly begging for food (I followed you around yowling for food even though you just fed me – forgive me, food bowls are meant to be filled). Tippy would not even bother to fake apologize. Her poem would say, “I knocked over everything on the kitchen counter, and the table. And I scratched the couch again. And I tried to sleep on your head.” And then it would just end. Or maybe she would add, “You deserved it.” OMG now I’m laughing again – I think you need to create a cat false apology anthology. Heeheehee.
I could have written these forever. Really. It’s sad how much I loved writing from my cat’s perspective. When I see people write from their pet’s perspective, I always just think hmmm, I don’t know if I’d enjoy that, but then I tried it and it’s fun! I love the idea of the cat apology poem that ends before the apology. That is so very cat!
I love these! So clever written from the cat’s point of view!!!! My fourth graders loved, loved, loved writing false apology poems!
So fun to read these apology poems from your cat! My favorite is the message erase.
Oh, so smart! The perspective of a cat! My cat growing up was SO much like this. How I miss having a cat in our house!