AWARD WINNING: MCA Best Picture Book
Cougar Cub Tales: Lost and Alone
Written and Illustrated by:
Sharon Cramer
Copyright 2009 Sharon Jean Cramer
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Published by Sharon Cramer at Smashwords 2010
Cougar Cub Tales: Lost and Alone
Written and Illustrated by:
Sharon Cramer
The cougar cub kittens were sister and brother.
They lived in their den, just one and the other,
For in a terrible snow ... long ago ...
They had lost their dear mother.
They played hide and seek,
Leapfrog and tag,
Catch-a-cat-can
And ziggety-zag.
They scampered and scompered
This way and the other,
And frequently trompered
Upon one another.
Together the cougar cubs happily raced,
For lizards and rabbits they hunted and chased,
They pounced, bounced and flounced after wild wooly bears,
Till tired they dragged fuzzy tails without cares.
Then one day for some reason neither are sure,
They growled and they hissed,
And they spat cougar Grrrrrrs!!!
Til neither would speak, not him and not her,
And separate they went ...
With scarcely a purrrr...
“Oh how big the world is!
I never realized!”
The girl cougar noticed,
With big widened eyes.
“I never saw such a big forest as this ...
It never did seem quite so lonely with sis ...”
Till finally each cougar paused in their paws,
And lonely recalled their own cougar flaws,
And realized the saddest moment that day,
Was when each the other had wandered away.
And as the sun set, and darkness did fall,
Each cougar cub felt so lonely and small.
And not just because night had darkenly come,
But because they were separate, ...
Not together at home...
Then each cub abounding returned to the den,
But girl cougar made it more quickly than him.
And seeing that brother was nowhere around,
Set out determined that he should be found.
And he likewise found the den empty and cold,
And just as his sister did,
Set out abold ...
October did turn and what once was aglow,
Did suddenly frost, and then snow, and then blow!
Till where cougar cub had once hunted for lizard,
There blew down upon them ...
An icy cold blizzard!
But somehow a cougar cub angel was watching.
She led the cubs path to a rocky outcropping.
And even though frizzen and shivren in snow,
The cubs hugged each other,
Their hearts all aglow,
For nothing is warmer than cub love you know!
Beneath the outcropping they huddled together,
And bravely as lions, they weathered the weather,
And when the storm lifted and dawn slowly brightened,
They stared out in awe at their world all awhitened.
Then springing forth burst through the dander deep snow,
And scampered and scompered together as though,
They had never been parted away from their den,
And sure as there’s angels,
Never would be again ...
The End ...