About Alexandra Heep:

Alexandra Heep is a longtime writer, chronic over-thinker, and recovering content mill survivor. Her work has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and online platforms where words are still respected. She writes children’s books, health reflections, and the occasional blog post laced with humor and hard-won honesty. After years of illness, detours, and navigating the noise of modern wellness, she returned to writing with the firm belief that stories—like people—don’t have to be perfect to matter. She publishes under multiple pen names and drinks more goat milk than you’d expect.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Cat Poetry for NaPoWriMo Day 14


Today's prompt on the NaPoWriMo Facebook site was to write a love poem about the first "thing" I saw when looking up from the computer. Well, that was Princess Gracie, my cat. In addition to the new poem, I am sharing one that I wrote about Princess Gracie a few years back. It is called A Stretch and a Purr and it appears in the Write to Meow 2014 Anthology (Grey Wolfe Publishing).

Expressive green eyes
light up my day
soft marbled fur
soothes my worries away.

Her comforting purr
never leaves my side
my days are much easier
just because of her.

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A Stretch and a Purr


Green-eyed beauty up on the window sill
A portrait behind her of life, not still
Blue sky painted with shades of ivory
Autumn's breeze captures her feline fancy

Calico colors reflected in glass
Perched high above concrete, people, and grass
A comforting shape, she's contentedly
Steadied by a tail curved elegantly.

Slowly shifts after a stretch and a purr
Just to bring to me … sunshine in her fur.






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