Blue Cat by Aldemir Martins
Oh my baby, no never please never return
when you left, I was lost, but I’ve found me again
now I walk on these streets and I’m cold from the burns
your deceit left inside when you left me in pain.
Oh my baby, no never please never return
stay away from my streets, Still a cat for my hat
I have pride, I can cope and your lessons I’ve learned
Cause you left me this blues, I’m alone, I can scat.
Oh no baby, no never please never return
I can walk, I can dance and I’m mending my burns.
Marion has a combines prompt of dr Seuss and Taj Mahal at toads, and I thought I combine them by writing a blues song in anapestic tetrameter (I hope). I wonder if this is what it would have looked like if dr Seuss ever wrote a blues song. 🙂
Björn Rudbergs writings 
This is brilliant (!!!) and it’s like your picked thoughts right from my heart and spilled them here.
I loved this.
Thank you 🙂
Very, very well done!
Thank you 🙂 I enjoyed this.
A Seussical Bluessical sounds wonderful to me!
Thank you.. it was fun to do 🙂
Amazing. 🙂
“and I’m mending my burns”…..I love that, and the cat with a hat and some pride. Cool!
Enjoyed the music in these lines kind of sounds like a cool rap song 😀
Well penned..! 🙂
Seuss sings the blues! This is great!
“I’m mending my burns” — this sticks. Love the cat, and the scat.
I think that cat really made this a lot cooler 🙂
looks like you managed to fit in your dverse prompt in this “cold from these burns”. I think that Dr.Seuss would be proud of you for this…and the blues theme is timely as B.B.King passed away just yesterday.
I think this is how Dr. Seuss would sound if BB King wrote it….great feeling in this. I’ve read it twice and now on the third time, I think I have the tune so I can sing it.
I like the ‘baby’s &the scat:) that old cat in the hat.
Well, I think the most important thing is to have found oneself!
Wowza, you ever astound me!!!
Nice thoughts here, Bjorn. How did it sing?
“Oh no baby, no never please never return.”
That sentiment probably runs both ways.
I was happy when my ex moved hundreds of miles away, to West Texas. But not nearly as happy as I was when she married a fellow she could stay with. (Oops, that’s my poem, a part of it.)
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Marty Robin’s “Devil Woman”
Oh, devil woman, devil woman, let go of me
Devil woman, let me be
And leave me alone
I want to go home
Read more: Marty Robbins – Devil Woman Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Undoubtedly a master’s work!! Great write 🙂
Hi Bjorn. I’m playing at the amateur sleuth here from the almost bottom end of Africa; but with the imagination in a town called Soddenham, Norfold, England. They have a real, modern day mystery going on and you may be able to help: kindly look at the following link and if you’re able to help, Please Do! Only now back on the ‘net after a month of no internet connection. Re the poem, thinking of doing a cat book myself and this is sheer inspiration. Sorry, can’t chat, got to see what’s next in Soddenham.
Nicely done! It is much better to live the cards one is dealt after a ‘hurt” than to await the reclaiming of a life that was probably never there!
Yeah, terrific! That painting, wow. Your poem DOES read just like that… I wonder if Dr. Seuss ever did write songs? I must find out.
You kiss your mom with that mouth..lol…anapestic tetrameter…Holy crap. Mixing the two subjects of the theme and putting it into meter…you have balls my friend and you know what? It turned out sooooo good.
Wow! Talk about exploring fresh frontiers. I think you may have just come up with a new poetic genre.