We celebrate Garfield Day today (yes, Garfield was created this day, and made his first newspaper appearance).
The great orange tabby, lazy as he was, taught us a thing or two.
And he does so in this poem.
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Rat
Scours the
Kitchen floor with
A milk puddle.
The orange cat sees.
Lunges forward to catch.
Then retracts his tabby paw.
He sits before the mess and waits.
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The
Rat stops.
Views the spill.
Extends its tongue.
The orange cats peers.
Brings forward its paw.
The rat pauses and jerks.
It runs into the mouse hole.
The cat withdraws and waits again.
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The
Spilled milk
Is now cleaned.
The hole is closed.
The man pulls a trap.
The rat lies quietly.
He puts it before the cat.
The tabby now puts forth its paw.
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A Huitian poem is a French poem that starts with 1 syllable in the first line and increases till there are 8 lines.
Line 1: 1 Syllable
Line 2: 2
Line 3: 3 syllables until there are 8 lines with 8 syllables in a stanza.
Original story by Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin. AI tags are coincidental.
Mirrors of the Mind by Michelle Liew is a collection of psychological and supernatural short stories that explore the quiet unease beneath ordinary moments. These are not tales of spectacle, but of subtle fracture — where memory distorts, silence speaks, and the self is not always singular. In these stories, what is unseen often carries the greatest weight, and what lingers is not what is shown, but what is felt.
