Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Trippin’ Kittens” by: rob kistner © 4/23/24
I’m a smitten kitten
all toked and trippin’
stayin’ stone cool
as reality’s slippin’
this cheshire kitten
is my good friend
and yes we’ve both
gone round the bend
my name is flower
this fella’s named ziggy
we’re locked down tight
and gettin’ jiggy
we just got back
from wonderland
a spontaneous trip
really quite unplanned
our strutten’s righteous
we purrrrr like silk
we’re high as midnight
and cravin’ milk
we’re lush and lazy
ain’t nobody’s fools
we’re bad-ass felines
precious as jewels
we’re tie-dye n’leather
n’high as a kite
if ya bum us out
it’ll be dude — goodnight!
so sit back — shut up
don’t be rude
don’t ‘cha be harshin’
our mellow mood
‘cause we’re chill’n smooth
as Federico Fellini…
…his name is ziggy
they call me queenie
*
rob kistner © 2024
Poetry at: dVerse
Poetry at: NaPoWriMo 2024 — Day 23
OMG!I just did a whole “rap” to your extraordinary poem!!i Try it yourself ….. totally works.
🙂 Cool huh! I was inspired by the Cheshire cat. So in a wonderland spirit, I wrote this with a metronome quietly playing so I could get a rhythm to the rhyme. Glad you dug it Helen. If you haven’t listened to it yet, listen to KAYE sing and dance “Cheshire Kitten”, the first tune I posted below “Trippin’ Kittens”.
Rob, you got jiggy with it and I love the groove from the whiskers to the tails of these two cool cats.
🙂 thank you my friend… 🙂
I love your cat poem, Rob. Looks like those kitties have gotten into the magic shrooms!
Thank you Dwight… 🙂
This is an amazing cat poem, Rob! I especially love “we purrrrr like silk
we’re high as midnight
and cravin’ milk”
Thanks for writing to the prompt!??????
Thank you Melissa, it was a blast to write. I approached it the way I used to write lyrics when I was in bands over the years. Actually did the final comp using a metronome for a tight cohesive rhythm — great fun… 🙂
Oh, yes there is that chesire cat there… high as a kite.
Yes sir 🙂 ((((SMILING BROADLY))))
A smiling cheshire….I think that’s another side of you! Would love to hear you rap this!!!
I am a bit of the Cheshire, Lil, but I try to be a nice guy as well — Maybe I will rap it at the next OLN Live? 🙂
Dude!!! 🙂 🙂
🙂
Rap on, Rob!
🙂 Thank you Sara, I certainly will — long as I can… 😉