Four original cat memorial poems — Frameow
Personal cards, displays and keepsakes: use or adapt without attribution.
These are original poems, not traditional verse.

The Window
You knew the hour of every patch of light.
We learned to leave your favorite corner free.
The window fills with morning as it did;
I pause there now, and think of you with me.

The Small Things
Not only in the photographs,
not only when we say your name,
but in the pause beside the chair,
the way we leave a little space,
you stay among the small things
that made this house our place.

A Place Beside Me
I need no perfect words today,
no tidy ending to our days.
I keep the stories as they come:
your lifted paw, your searching gaze.
The love was real in little things.
It still belongs here, where it stays.

For Your Name
Your name,
a small sound,
held a whole familiar world.
I say it softly
and remember
who came when I called.