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I just got a chance to get back to the site after I posted my poem and story about my precious calico kitty angels. I am deeply touched by all the comments from those who responded. Thanks so much for your care and concern. We are still in the process of spaying and testing and finding homes...

Hi, Everyone-- Pam Jackson of Carocats in Columbia, SC, has been helping me with a feral colony of cats and kittens (some positive, some negative for felv) that I have been caring for and trying to find homes for. At the moment we are slowly testing and spaying them all. I say slowly because...

I'LL NEVER FORGET (c) Laura Stamps that balmy day in August, only an hour after sunrise, when I opened the curtains in the kitchen to watch a cat rolling the black raft of her body in wild grass, and suddenly the skitter of four tiny paws dashed out from beneath the porch, and then...

Me too! Ten years ago my first black cat adopted me, and then my next 3 black cats have been by choice. Nice to meet another "collector" of black cats! They are soooo worth it. Laura

Black kitties are so sweet. Mine are all adopted strays and lap cats. I'll never forget when a friend in cat rescue told me black cats are still the last to be adopted because people think they are evil. Nothing could be further from the truth! I find them to be very affectionate, but they...

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I see you have a black cat. I have 4 and just posted a poem for those who love black cats. Hope you enjoy that one too. By the way, if you are a gardener, here are two fabulous garden forums I have found (http://forums.about.com/ab-gardening/start) and...

BLACK (c) Laura Stamps Mid-November, and the pinewoods shivers with autumn, acorns bouncing their brittle hats upon the grass, as leaf-lovers rejoice in the seasonâ€8482s vivid parade of color. Trees quiver with cloaks of blackbirds migrating to the tropics, thousands of beaks...

DAYBREAK (c) Laura Stamps There is a place behind a catâ€8482s ear as sweet as summer jasmine, as soft as the satin purse of a mink. I rest my cheek there often, listening to the syrup of birdsong twisting its silver threads through the skyâ€8482s orchid hair, as buds of sunrise...

Thanks everyone! I'm glad you are enjoying the poem. It has always been a favorite of mine. And what beautiful cats you all have! My husband says I've never met a cat I didn't want to adopt, but I do seem to have a special addiction to black cats, so all 3 of my housecats are black adopted...

THE SILVER LEAVES OF PRAYER (c) Laura Stamps How can this kitten limp in my arms, his head and quiet breath resting on my shoulder, not be a sweet prayer whispered in love, or an answered prayer wrapped in a black purse of soft fur? Sometimes he is a wiggling line of poetry scribbled...

I'm glad you enjoyed it! It is one of my favorites. I am a professional poet and run a publishing company called Kittyfeather Press. I am the author of more than 25 books of poetry and fiction, and my poems, short stories, and poetry book reviews have appeared in more than 600 magazines...

THURSDAY (c) Laura Stamps After the plumber, who likes cats, fixed the leaky pipe in the kitchen; after my energetic cat sneezed into a pyramid of drywall dust, freckling her kohl face with sandy snowflakes; I stand in the garden, watering lilies and daisies, when a tiny lizard, only...

STARLIGHT (c) Laura Stamps Full moon, an hour before dawn, and the sudden tinkle of someone's cell phone twinkles under the humid canopy of frog-murmur and wing-sputter. May I never be stricken immune to the wonder of this kitten curled in my arms, his soft breath a sleeping...

STARLIGHT (c) Laura Stamps Full moon, an hour before dawn, and the sudden tinkle of someone's cell phone twinkles under the humid canopy of frog-murmur and wing-sputter. May I never be stricken immune to the wonder of this kitten curled in my arms, his soft breath a sleeping...