There Is No Better Mentor than a Cat

February 3, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is friendship.

Today’s poem is a number and friendship poem comparing our need for friendship to that of a pet cat.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There is no better mentor than a cat,

Here for little else than giving love,

Intended as a playmate and a friend,

Roles that all should play if in the end

They would know joy they could be certain of.

Yet some look down their noses at all that.

No one need one’s deepest need defend.

If one’s alive, then one will needy prove.

Nor need one hold one’s need at one remove,

Enduring needlessly an empty lap.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/ther39.html. For more friendship poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/friendshippoems.html .

This week’s theme: Friendship

January 30: Friends Are Prisoners of Expectation

January 31: Twenty-Seven

February 1: Thirty-Seven

February 2: Ainsley

February 3: There Is No Better Mentor than a Cat