‘daisies’ 

daisies
white  yellow
mingling  floating  eddying
on summer sheets  a bed of
flowers

george
svelte  slippery
darting  leaping  sprawling
soft paws  sometimes claws
feline

lambert
milky silky
beaming  bouncing beguiling
moony eyes and lifted paw
love

freddie
curly tubby
calculating challenging charming
wins hearts with his good boy ‘sit’
french

sugar
crystalline powdery
glittering enticing delicious
stirred in or sprinkled on
sweetness

bones
strong lightweight
skipping dancing hiking
they bear us but sometimes
break

ghosts
mute covetous
flouncing jostling trembling
at the edge of my eyes always
vanishing

bill
leggy nosy
scrambling  blundering  gatecrashing
fear of missing out or just missing
maidie

barnaby
broad-browed  dignified
lounging  loping  sprinting
muscular and powerful
protector

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