Friday Haiku: This is My Floor

Years I polished floors

Started with linoleum

It was a dream job


My career took off

I advanced into hardwoods

Could start a franchise


Then it all ended

Because they got a Roomba

Job went belly up


Elizabeth H., says she has tons of photos of Nikki lounging in his favorite position!

87 comments … read them below or add one

  1. Theresa says:

    Does he ever get into a different position? Do they just drag him around the floor? 8O

  2. Theresa says:

    I mean does he bend anywhere?

  3. 260Oakley says:

    Boneless cat fillet
    Worship my haunches you fool
    You know you want to

  4. Saffron says:

    I strayche all the time
    Much better than Stretch Armstrong
    Extend-o-cat rules!

  5. elishab. says:

    AWWWWWW, the best of the week!!!!

    I’m not creative, so no Haiku here. Loves the kitty!

  6. mindadale says:

    I love the socks so,
    The belleh also to rub.
    Kitten cuddles I.

  7. Kitty Splayage RULZ
    Belly Up or Belly Down
    makes the cute peeps DROOLZ

  8. Contemplate the Spring
    Geometrically Bisect
    View Life upside down.

  9. Do i dare make another one?

  10. Teresa says:

    Elizabeth H., I bet you were snorgling Nikki’s belly after that last picture :D Where do you live so I can come and snorgle Nikki’s belly as well :D

  11. skippymom says:

    lazy kitty cat
    lies around the house all day
    wish I had his life

  12. T.U.M. says:

    Tinee tabbee cat
    With white boots and mittens
    Has no skeleton

  13. T.U.M. says:

    If kitteh was a fishbone tabbee instead of a swirly tabbee, he’d be the twin of my dear departed Steve.

    • Fird Birfle says:

      He IZ the twin of MY dear departed Salinger (RIP). If he haz green eyez, he might as well BE Salinger.

      *nostalgic sigh*

  14. Stunbunny says:

    One day you WILL trip!
    And this house and everything
    in it will be MINE!

    • skippymom says:

      very nicely done

    • debg says:

      Ssssh! Don’t tell my cats–I’ve got one who keeps tripping me accidentally on purpose.

      • skippymom says:

        Cats consider it part of their job to stand right in front of your feet when you’re trying to cross a room. Particularly if you are carrying a big armload of laundry.

        • Stunbunny says:

          It’s an international conspiracy. CaTerrorists are our biggest security threat.

  15. Sprock says:

    I attack the dust
    Cobwebs are suddenly gone
    Just call me Swiffer

  16. dub1 says:

    Yoga masters, quail!
    Behold, outwards kitteh straitch
    Trumps your downward dawg.

  17. Starfish says:

    Kitteh on the floor
    Tiles and hardwood squeaky clean.
    Can you say “sock mop”?

  18. Gigi says:

    It is not a haiku but…

    Long kitty
    Flat kitty
    Little rug of fur
    Happy kitty
    Sleepy kitty
    Pur Pur Pur

  19. pyrit says:

    All kitty bellies
    Should be gainfully employed
    Put them to work now!

  20. Mary (the first) says:

    I’m stretching all out
    To show off all my beauty.
    Well? Is it working?

  21. Miriam says:

    Is it weird that I instinctively want to reach into the second photo and spin the kitty around the hardwood floor?

  22. sunnylessmum says:

    That third pic is just plain and simple belleh snorgle temptation.

  23. Noelegy says:

    The essence of Zen
    Is contained within one
    Horizontal cat

  24. Cambridge Rat Mom says:

    Pyrit, one awesome multi-haiku posting.

  25. Have I told you all, enough times, that I Loff you Peeps. I am totally in aww of all these Haikus!

  26. Cleosmom says:

    That’s the trouble with some cats …. no backbone. A spineless little sock mop…

  27. wuyizidi says:

    Demurest of the tabby kind,
    The pensive Nikki reclined,
    Gazing at the world outside.

  28. Sasha's Mum says:

    Upside-down kitteh
    May be all cute & tabbeh
    But he steals my soul.

  29. blair says:

    extended cat calls
    look at me! please look at me!
    i swallowed your wand

  30. Lorel J says:

    Elizabeth H–
    Surrender Nikki right now
    And no one gets hurt.

  31. Tabby swirls at rest
    Full extension lover boy
    playfully calling

  32. I am SO LINKING to this as a Haiku Challenge Friday, is that ok? LOVE.

  33. kodalai says:

    Cool tile
    Under my belly
    Perfect bliss.

    (I’m more of a proponent of the 3-5-3 school when doing haiku in English.)

  34. Elizabeth Harrington says:

    Bravo!! Commentors
    and Cuteoverload, thank you
    You have made my day!!!

    I’m a terrible Haiku’est but Jeez, all of you…so AWESOME!!

    Elizabeth Harrington

  35. marie sierra says:

    i absolutely LOVE the pics of this lil cat..he is just chillin away!

  36. Carolyn says:

    SO ADORABLE!!! :)

  37. EowynIsMyHomegirl says:

    My friends’ cat does this aaaaall the time, they call it “flat cat”.

  38. hello rabbit says:

    My cat does this too
    Outstretched, belly up or down
    Snorgled either way
    :)