Poetry of the Night

Written on the spur of the moment for tonight's Pen and Paper writing workshop:

Resumés

The wording all-important
The filter software all-powerful
The difference
between food and none.

Cake

The reach of one’s words
all out of proportion to that
motivated by a cake
within one’s line of sight.

Cats and Cameras
Inspired by a CBC Report

Saw a story today
from a town in Alberta
that feels like it ought
to be remembered.

Did I visit at some point?

Not sure.

But at least one cat
of great ambition
calls it home.

As a cameraman
and his reporter found
in Bonnyville’s streets
doing a look-live
for the Mothercorp.

Climbed the cameraman
like he was a mountain.
Amused the reporter
to her laughter.

Then topped that
with further ambition:
the camera itself
the goal of the cat.

Alas, though his ambition
took him to new heights,
he could not keep them.

Great was his scowl,
immortalized for the web
by Mothercorp.

The cat still has no name
but we will remember him
for ambition alone.