If you loved Catnip, Toilet Paper, and Lasers, this new collection of cat poems will tickle your whiskers and your funny bone.
Title: Catnip, Plushie Balls, and Q-Tips: Cat Poetry: The Art of Being Feline
Author: M.G. Rorai
Publication Date: September 30, 2023
Pages: 178
Genre: Poetry/Cats
Ever wonder why there are “mews” in “amewzing”? This collection of cat poems will tickle your whiskers and your funny bone. They’re the purr-fect way to brighten your day and celebrate the furry friends in your life. Prepare to laugh out loud as you read about cat adventures with magnets, candles, strawberry milkshakes, and plush balls—but don’t let me ruin the surprise, you’ll have to read to find out! Get ready to laugh your tail off!
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Book Excerpt
The magnets are so cute
that I must knock them off
but get yelled at for this,
so the new approach is soft.
I sit by the fridge
staring at those squares
and when Human isn’t looking
I lick with tongue hairs.
All was going good
until one was quite sticky
leaving a bad taste,
and I’m not so picky.
I bite at the air
to get rid of the taste
then knock down that magnet;
good riddance, post-haste.**
The Inspiration Behind Catnip,
Plushie Balls, and Q-Tips
Kitty Elsa
perches on a chair to slurp water droplets during shower time. If my husband or
I don’t let her into the bathroom she cries at the door. When we do let her in,
she drinks from our fingers until she gets bored, then abandons the shower to
go slouch in a basket. Ah, the life of a Queen.
As you can tell, I think cats are adorable creatures, and as such I’m part of many cat groups on social media to get my daily fix of funny cat things. One day I was reading a thread of real-life funny stories, and I thought how fun it would be to turn them into silly poems. At the time I had been re-exploring my poetry, something I used to write unpublished about ten years ago, and posted in the group if anyone would be interested in reading such a book. The response was overwhelmingly positive.
I received
permission to use those stories, and that’s how the first book in the series
Cat Poetry: The Art of Being Feline came about. It’s called Catnip, Toilet
Paper, and Lasers. Of course, my kitties Elsa and her brother Socks
contributed and became the theme of the book.
But I wasn’t
done. I started on the Catnip, Plushie Balls, and Q-Tips sequel with
inspired cat stories and continued on with the antics theme of my own cats,
along with writing other books. But then burnout hit, plus job issues needed to
be addressed (as I wasn’t writing full-time) and everything took a backseat. I
didn’t get back to the feline sequel until two years later. By then the world
had righted itself, I had recovered from burnout through lots of rest and
pursuing other activities, and I felt it was time to complete Q-Tips, which I
think is better than the first poem collection.
When I first
started this series, I was exclusively on Amazon. But with Catnip, Plushie
Balls, and Q-Tips I’ve decided to expand my reach and publish at other
places, such as Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo, libraries,
and others. I want to share my laughs with many who appreciate the love of
cats. And now part I, Toilet Paper and Lasers, is wide as well.
But it’s more
than cats too. These books are also about sitting down and having a good moment
when good times might be hard to come by. What better way to find distraction
than amewzing cat poems? A cat’s companionship can help tremendously on a bad
day, and I wanted to capture some of that for anyone needing a silly
moment.
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