A Writer's Blog » sadness http://awritersblog.com Those Are Just A Few Of My Favorite Things - L. Kupfer Sun, 13 May 2012 15:19:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 For Oreo http://awritersblog.com/poetry/for-oreo http://awritersblog.com/poetry/for-oreo#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:28:47 +0000 L. Kupfer http://awritersblog.com/?p=190 For Oreo

It’s been three months now
Since the heartbreaking decision
To bid you farewell
Yet not a day goes by
Where we don’t think of you

The cool tuxedo dude
We affectionately called you
Echoes of your distinctive meow
Linger here in our house
We still smile at the memory
Of your lopsided Groucho Marx moustache

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We were so abundantly blessed
With your presence and your love
Our lives enriched
By your playful and mischievous nature
During the time we fostered you
How could anyone not want the same?

Our anger still lingers
That you were ultimately deemed disposable
By those who renegaded on the adoption contract
All too easily abdicating their responsibility
All they had to do was make one phone call
One simple phone call
And we would have gladly welcomed you back
With no question or reservation

You and all those we foster
Deserve to live for many years
In comfort and happiness
Loved as a member of the household
We will forever live with the regret
For our error in judgement
That made your furever home false
You should not have had to travel
Over the Rainbow Bridge so soon

Precious Oreo
Cool tuxedo dude
We miss you

05/31/09
© L. Kupfer
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Born only four weeks ago
Solid black with tiny paws
Orphaned by misfortune
Found and rescued
Valiantly he tried
Clinging to this second chance
Valiantly we tried
Nursing and encouraging
This one tiny life
But the separation
From mother and littermates
Left him too vulnerable
Alone just a little too long
But long enough to get sick
Far too young and defenseless
Without his mother’s milk
To sustain and protect him
His littermates’ warmth
To sustain and comfort him
One tiny life
Born only four weeks ago
Breathed his last
Cradled in my gentle embrace
Gone to the Rainbow Bridge
Taking with him
Our tears
Knowing
Our unconditional love
One tiny life
He knew he was not alone
He left his tiny pawprints
Forever imprinted
In our hearts

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for little Mozart
05/30/09

 ©Lynn Kupfer
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