This hybrid poem/illustration may be described, I believe, as mixed media. The seed for the idea was planted with an Ink Well poem prompt, 'invisible'. As I thought about that prompt, I had a bit of fun by perusing posts in Alien Art Hive, where imagination is given free rein.
At some point I meandered over to Freewriters, where spontaneous expression is also encouraged. There I found the prompt, 'lost cats'. This was the moment of synergy. Everything came together and I knew what I wanted to do. Achieving the disappearing cat effect took a few tries, though.
An early attempt for the cat illustration:
I enlisted an application in GIMP, called shift, and was able to make the cats look less substantial.
The Poem
This came out with little effort, because I knew exactly what I wanted to say. Of course, many edits were necessary to get the disappearing effect. The last line was the hardest. The word 'naught' would have been perfect, but I couldn't figure out how to use that word and still have the line size diminish. So the more pedestrian "not' had to serve.
My thanks to Chiplanay on Pixabay for the original cat sketch.
This exercise was fun. I hope readers also find it fun, and perhaps a little interesting.
Thank you for reading
