Goblins are coming

This week we discussed the story "The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde" which was about an evil princess who captured her suitors and turned them into beautiful beads that she wore on a necklace around her neck.

Our new assignment is to read the poem, "Goblin's Market" by Christina Rossetti, which we will discuss in two weeks.

In honor of Constitution Day, during our meeting, we developed the Constitution of the Black Cat.

We the Cats of the Black Cat Literary Society endeavor:

1. To respect other people's ideas.
2. To not laugh at other people unless it is meant to be humorous.
3. To only meet if everyone has completed the assignment.
4. To be inclusive of all members during all Society activities.
5. To always do our best work.
6. TO HAVE FUN!

Signed,
Bookworm, Thirsty, and Lady Grey

Illustrations for Our Club

Bookworm drew three pictures for our club. Here,

this cat is having a hard time expressing himself.

Bookworm said these people are not angry--they are deep in thought about what they are going to write.

Bookworm's final submission.

Lastly, Thirsty, submitted this drawing.

Enjoy!

Acrostic poem week

Over the last two weeks, contrary to the assignment you saw from last time, we wrote acrostic poems. Here they are:

Bookworm:

Cat

Careful

As quiet as a mouse.

Tarantula spotted!

Thirsty

Daughter

Dearest Daughter,

Astounding,

Unerring,

Good-

Hearted,

Terrifically

Energetic,

Rarest Love.

Lady Grey

Name #1

Lady Grey is an

Awesome pen name.

Don't

You agree?

Girls everywhere are

Responding to it with

Envy and

Yearning.

Name #2

Luscious

And

Dramatic

You

Garner

Reactions

Everywhere,

Yes?

Since Lady Grey and Thirsty went to New York City without Bookworm last week, we decided to postpone the story assigned and instead wrote these acrostic poems. Therefore, this week we will read the story, "The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde" by Mary de Morgan.

Some exciting news:

Lady Grey found out that she will have two technical papers published in the next few months! Very exciting.

Thirsty submitted an article to a local sports magazine about his experience with running and Lyme Disease. Several years ago, after some extremely scary symptoms that occurred off and on for several years, he was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. He was afraid that he would never be able to run again, but luckily he was able to overcome the disease and strengthen his body and affected joints and resume running again. He even completed a full marathon!

Bookworm won second place in a talent competition in her after-school program for reciting a beautiful poem that she wrote about a year ago.

Cheers,

BCLS

Haiku and a reading: last two meetings

Bookworm wrote a haiku for the August 6th meeting.

Masks and spooky cats

Halloween is very fun

Trick or treat, eat up!

The rest of us just found haikus and read them out loud. We were also assigned to read "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin" by Rudyard Kipling for discussion. Our favorite quote is the sloka (which isn't really quite a sloka) that the Parsee man recites:

"Them that takes cakes

Which the Parsee man bakes

Makes dreadful mistakes."

Next time we will discuss "The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde" by Mary de Morgan.

Cheers,

BCLS

Limericks

This week, our assignment was to write limericks.

Lady Grey created two and are as follows:

There was a small boy who would whine.

His sister thought it was a crime.

We sent him to bed

without being fed

and everything turned out just fine.

-and-

Her hair was so fine and so curly.

The ringlets were really quite swirly.

But when she pushed up her sleeves

you would not believe

how here arms were outrageously burly.

Thirsty came up with the following two limericks:

Mine is the windiest street.

It once knocked me off of my feet.

I took my dog out to play,

she blew right away

and landed on an airplane seat.

-and-

There was a cat that lived here.

Where she has gone is unclear.

We hope she's alive.

Since the dog did arrive

she apparently did disappear.

Bookworm came up with the following limerick:

There was an old woman from Paris.

Her husband's name was Charis.

One day he went mad.

What a habit he had,

the crazy old husband named Charis.

In four weeks we will publish some haikus. Stay tuned!

Inaugural Post

The Black Cat Literary Society meets every other Friday in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The purpose of the Black Cat Literary Society is to promote the creation and appreciation of literature.

The club members' works are published on this site. Annually, the best works are published in a print version of the club's proceedings. The publication date is January 15th.