Here are some Haikus I wrote for Boris the feral cat who lives with us. Well, he lives outside and we provide shelter, food and lots of snuggles.

The photographs that go with the Haikus are stylistic. I wanted them to look like pastel drawings so I used a slow shutter speed to create the blur and sense of movement in his play.

From out of the blue

Whiskers and claws, swipe at the

Mouse unused to play

Feral leaves, feral

Cat, both fall and tumble in

Autumn’s blustering

Beyond the greyness

Red. A slash of hue amidst

The colourless day

They become circle

For one brief moment and then

Split like a seedpod