I awoke to find

My cat has strewn

Yarn through four rooms

Reminding me why I did not

Put up a tree this year

I go back a few years in my mind

Colorful sparkling ornaments are strewn

Glue used to fuse glitter across the room

Colorful images of tangles and knots

And a kitten in the middle of the tree

Looking at me with not an ounce of fear

Anger melted and laughter I did find

As I gathered ornaments from across the room

Disengaging a kitten from several tangled knots

The tree looked almost as good as new

Broken ornaments I found very few

The kitten got toys new

To help distract it from the view

Of the pretty tree

As much for the kitten as the tree

Eleven years later he is still with me

Playing with a ball of yarn to tease me

That is so cute!

Mine have climbed the Christmas tree a few times too

My cats play with the ornaments, and sometimes lay under the tree (they can't now since there are presents ). Good poem.

That was cute Mary...but still no reason not to get a tree...just string up the cat and save time.