The Dream Chaser
This is the original ‘Sleeping Cat’ poem I wrote in 1999. These nine lines were the seed that would lead me to begin my cat painting journey two years later.
The poem was originally titled ‘Sleeping Cats’ but I renamed it to ‘The Dream Chaser’ four years later when I revisited the text and expanded it with more verses. The extra verses became a second poem called Catching the Stars
The Dream Chaser was the name of my very first cat painting, featuring my uniquely styled cat face, created in 2002.
Sleeping cat,
Dreaming of stars,
Content in the silence,
Under the moon,
On a warm summers night.
Sleeping cat,
Chases the stars,
In the moonlight,
Before the morning.
- TET 1999
Melissa Park
This is so appealing, such a vision.