Blog 2: Poetry

At first when we were given this assignment, I was really at a loss as to what kind of poem to look for as far as subjects go. I made a list of several different things but nothing really appealed to me or popped out. I didn't want to find a poem just for the sake of getting the assignment done; I wanted to find one that I actually liked and understood. I used the search engine google and came across blackcatpoems.com. I found this website appealing because it had a wide range of supernatural poems with a wide variety of poets; I also just liked the little black cat that is on top of the page. After browsing the website for some time I found a poem I really liked. I really enjoyed this poem because I love cats and I have always wondered the same thing that this poem is talking about. The poem is called Window of Time by Patricia Walter. Here is the link: http://www.blackcatpoems.com/w/window_of_time.html


Window of Time
by: Patricia Walter (1944- )


She sits at the window
frozen in time.
What does she really see?
Ghosts from the past
a thousand years old
creatures we don't understand.
Tail twitching, body poised
not moving an inch
mesmerized by the world outside.
A quiet little mouse,
white tailed deer,
or shadows from wind blown trees.
I look, I stare
but I just don't see
the view from cat's eyes so intense.
Hours pass, the cat stande guard,
sky bleeding night black to dawn gray.
Night after night
at the window of time
what stories unfold out of sight?


This poem is talking about one particular cat but I believe that this poem applies to all cats in general. In the poem, it says that the cat is staring through the window staring at something. Could it be a ghost or maybe just a mouse? We cannot tell what the cat can really see no matter how hard we look. Cats can stare at what seems to be absolutely nothing for hours, but is there really nothing there? The cat seems to be so focused on something which we can only see as nothing. Is it possible that a cat see ghosts or spirits? Do they hold that kind of powers?

My favorite line in the poem is "the view from cat's eyes so intense." I like it because it made me feel a sense of power in the cats eyes and how they can focus so well on something that is not there to us. I know that personally my cat will sometimes do the same thing that this poem is describing. Sometimes he will sit about 2 feet away from a wall or a corner in the room and just stare at it. I will walk over to where he is and check for a bug on the wall or something but I just can't figure out what he is looking at. I would really like to know what it is that he is staring at and also if they can really see something which humans cannot.