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Tiny Paws Poetry: The Red Dot Collection

🐾 This collection is part of the Uncatchable Things series 🐾 Haiku by Tyson the Cat The HuntRed glows on the rug.Paws ready, heart in midair—Gone. Just like my pride. Existential PounceChase without catching.Is this joy? Is this madness?Tail flick. Try again. Ever Just Out of ReachFlicker, dart, and spin.I leap! It vanishes fast—Mocking paws and…

Paws for Poetry: Reflecting on The Tyger by William Blake

Hello, furriends! Today, I’ve got a real treat for your whiskers and your whisker-adjacent brains: a poem that’s as mysterious and majestic as a particularly well-lit sunbeam. Now, don’t let the spelling throw you off—“tyger” is just a fancy, old-timey way of saying “tiger,” and if you ask me, tigers are basically cats that took “go…

Tiny Paws Poetry: The Inside-Out Ear Collection

🐾 This collection is part of the Injured Dignity series 🐾 Haiku by Tyson the Cat Distress SignalFolded like a leaf.No one notices but me.And yet—I suffer. Why Must It Happen?One wrong roll and poof.My ear becomes origami.This is not noble. Attempted GroomingI lick. It flops back.I lick harder. Still it mocks.Fur is betrayal. You’re…

Tiny Paws Poetry: The Cold Toe Beans Collection

🐾 This collection is part of the Elemental Purrspective series 🐾 Haiku by Tyson the Cat Betrayal Falls SoftThe sky dropped silence.White hush, cold as broken trust.I stepped. I regretted. Onset of RegretOne paw in the fluff.Instant chill through noble pads.Exit strategy? Hop of DespairSnow beneath my feet.I launch like a spooked rabbit.Where is the dry…

Welcome to Tiny Paws Poetry

Short poems. Big feelings. Soft toe beans. Poetry, like a nap, doesn’t have to be long to be perfect. Tiny Paws Poetry is my collection of haiku—short poems inspired by the daily dramas, quiet revelations, and occasional indignities of feline life. These poems are arranged into series, because while I may be small, my emotions…

Paws for Poetry: Reflecting on The Cat and the Moon by W.B. Yeats

Hello, furriends. Tyson here—your whiskered wanderer and humble student of poetry. Today, I’m padding quietly into the dreamier side of the poetic world, following the soft shimmer of the full moon. We’ll be exploring The Cat and the Moon by W.B. Yeats—a poem that captures the quiet magic linking cats and the night sky. Settle…

Paws for Poetry: Reflecting on Creation According to the Cat by Lera Auerbach

Hello, dear furriends. Tyson here, slipping through the half-open door between thought and wonder. Today, I’m curling up with a prose poem called “Creation According to the Cat” by Lera Auerbach — and it feels, quite honestly, like reading a piece of my own heart. Before I share my reflections, here is the full poem…