For the final day of the challenge, we were to write a poem in which the speaker is identified with, or compared to, a character from myth or legend.
I chose a Greco-Roman mythological goddess, Megaera, from the three Furies: Alecto (anger), Megaera (jealousy), and Tisiphone (avenger). I embodied her as a pet cat.
Controlling Feline
I am Megaera the Cat, your jealous Goddess
sent here by Gaea and made from
the blood of the Lord tomcat, Uranus.
My holy task is to punish you for being human.
You may do nothing without my revocable approval.
If I have not approved your every action,
the indignity of Hades awaits within my hairball.
You must be shamed into submission by me.
I will make you fall; I will pee on everything
and everyone else you love until you bow,
honor, and feed me. Pet and feel bitter pain.
Privacy is a sin. Your computer is mine now.
All this furniture is mine and mine alone
to use and abuse as, and when, I see fit.
My water bowl is only half full. Fool!
I am a daughter of Darkness. Do not even look
at another cat, animal, bird, person, or
(may Nyx and Zeus forbid such sin) a dog.
You will pay dearly and experience
the smell of Hell, if you ignore me.
Look both ways, forward into May and back to April.
Mind the gaps as you recover from 30-in-30, all to prompt.
We are saved by the human gift of humor. Empowered by babble.
Our Literary Journey 
Perfection! And not an ounce of fiction in this poem.
I have had my son’s cat at my house for the past almost year (he’s working out of town and Moooooom, pleeeease?)… She had moved out with said son two years ago. Thought I was free from pets.
Fricken Old Bat thinks she’s the boss of me. She is, but I don’t always let her know.
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Thank you, Dale.
Laughing at this. And yes, I saw the pics and she did cross my mind.
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I tell you. She drives me nuts with her constant demands…
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See? A goddess for certain. 🙂
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She is!
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🙂
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Bravo Bill. Every cat is a god or goddess. Well done for lasting the course with great success.
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Thank you, Peter. 🙂
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I have this cat. I actually have thirteen of this cat. My husband is stuck working at home with their constant demands.
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Thirteen gods and goddesses. “El Gatos” 🙂
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This is the way of the cat, exactly as you have written.
Our cat bit me this morning, probably because I wasn’t fast enough getting her food out of the pouch.
Bitch!
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I (we) had a big black rescue (neutered and declawed before he moved in) Had been surviving on the street and my back yard.
The vet said he may have been on the street due to his attitude.
My wife was petting his belly one day when he bit her. He learned that day that cats could fly LOL. I have written several poems about him.
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🤣 🤣
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