Morning Chorus
It is the hymn of morning, the cat yowling for food.
Until I rise and feed her, she’ll sit here and she’ll brood.
It happens every Thursday and each day of the week.
She tells me the same story, “It’s nourishment I seek!”
It does no good to lie here and pretend I’m unaware.
She augments her protests, accompanied by that stare!
As I give up on sleeping, every cat and dog
joins in on her chorus. I cannot start my blog
until the whole menagerie has been duly fed
so they can cease their yammering and return to bed.
Then their silence forms a contrast— a peaceful interlude—
that leaves a space for words to fill, and that improves my mood!
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The prompt words today are Thursday, hymn, information and contrast. Here are the links:
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/rdp-thursday-unaware/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/hymn/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/your-daily-word-prompt-information-November-29-2018/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/11/29/fowc-with-fandango-contrast/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
You get yowling. I get barking. THREE of them. I get up, get something to drink because by then I’m pretty dry, give them a biscuit and go back to bed for a while. But less than an hour later, I hear them, though I tend to go to the door and tell them to shut up and let me sleep. Oddly enough, they don’t listen.
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The dogs never ever bark until I am awake, and even then, never do unless I think, “I wonder if the dogs want to be fed.” The minute I think of them, they start barking. It is eerie. If I don’t think of them, they wait until they can see me feeding the cats and then they come to the sliding glass door of the dining room to peek through to the kitchen door where I’m feeding the cats. This never varies. If I slept until 2 and Annie the old cat didn’t bother me, the dogs never would.
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I enjoyed this poem and always appreciate your cat pictures. It’s nice that you can write a poem about how their noise interrupts your writing.
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Tell me about it. 🙂
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Aha.. You have a similar morning routine?
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Sure do. And now have a dog with special dietary requirements. The preparation involved!
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Well done. 🙂
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I get squeaking, rather than yowling or even meowing. This little kitty girl regresses to babyhood when she is hungry.
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I well understand now how nature gives the gift of the most annoying sound possible to infants to assure they get what they want, but this is a 17-year-old infant!!
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LOL They all regress to childhood. In cat years, my Pyshka is a pre-teen, and normally she has a high, but very melodious Meow, yet in the morning, her hunger sound is a baby squeak.
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