A Familiar in a Strange Land
21st Century
Catabolism of its soul's shadows
of its sole caterwaul
on winds that now blow its cabal
Parafeline of penumbra spaces
within prismic lines
Sadly alone under black and dark
places
with the painful blue nights of
the Sadducee
In this cat's home of metabolic
mind
outward thrust from its familiar
to the unknown a symbolic
feline
to us strange comes now, the Familiar.
Copyright 1977 by Frederick J. Mayer. All rights reserved.
DayPoems Poem No. 2360
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2360.html">A Familiar in a Strange Land by Frederick J. Mayer</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
Poets Poems