Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board Special Poems for Stoopid Cat and Jinx, for Xmas & Birthdays

Poems from the Sufi poet Rumi:

For Stoopid Cat:

"When have mice ever marched to the attack?
They have no collectedness in their souls.
Outer collectedness is futile:
listen, beg from the Creator collectedness of spirit.
Collectedness doesn't result from just gathering bodies
know that the body, like fame, is empty as air."

For Jinx:

"Violence is not the means of avoiding calamity:
the means is good will, tolerance, and kindness.
The Prophet said, "Alms is means of averting calamity:
cure your diseased ones by giving alms, O youth.""

For My Little Sister, FC

Roses are red
Violets is Purple
You're just as sweet
As Maple Suryple

OR

Roses are red
Carnations is Pink
I better keep my day job
Cause at poetry I stink

"Ev'rybody Wants to Be A Cat," from The Aristocats...

Everybody wants to be a cat,
because a cat's the only cat
who knows where it's at.
Everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat,
'cause everything else is obsolete.

Now a square with a horn,
can make you wish you weren't born,
ever'time he plays;
and with a square in the act,
he can set music back
to the caveman days.

I've heard some corny birds who tried to sing,
but a cat's the only cat
who knows how to swing.
Who wants to dig
a long-haired gig
or stuff like that?
When everybody wants to be a cat...

Happy birthday to you
You live in a zoo
You act like a cat
And you look like one too.

Happy Birthday Jinx, wherever you may be!

Jinx has been unceremoniously replaced by Titters!

*purrrrrrr*

I was unaware before today that my one-time ghostwriter went to work for Sam Pureheart, after I was forced to cut the former loose-- about five economic downturns ago.