One Single Impression: Blowing the Curve

The characters: .....

Karen, our daughter.
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Blowing the Curve;
....what is a Dad to say

Got this text message
from our daughter.
"KP and I are stuck
on the elevator at BP's school.
The Fire Marshall is coming."

Baby KP asleep in elevator

So what is a Dad to say?
"I fed KP a bottle
and we are staying calm.
I hear them
(Fire Marshall?)."

Momma said
"This is terrible, poor baby."
So what is a Dad to Say?

Dad, the retired professor
spoke in some riddles.
About blowing the curve
and how many have been stuck
there before.

BP practicing for her performance

What is a Dad to say?
About being the norm or to excel
and extolling about our BP,
grandchild who is so smart,
waiting at bottom of the stair.

This doesn't fit the model
of book learning I've been taught.
I am afraid the curve has broken,
what is a Dad to say?

Momma Karen and KP .

"We are out!" and Momma said
"Praise the Lord!"
What is a Dad to say?
Momma said it best.

Poem and photos
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"Blowing the Curve" as prompt was
suggested by Mojo at Why? What Have You Heard?

Note: This elevator ordeal lasted 36 minutes today. Karen was calm all the time. So was KP after having her bottle. The firemen had to pry the doors open and lift KP and her stroller out. Then they helped Karen up and out.

Uncanny ~ Haiku Bones

Uncanny Saturday

offer through Sunday
1/31/2010
hours 9-5
open Monday through Friday
uncanny not two last days

Poem and Photos
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Thanks to Joseph Harker
at naming constelations
for the prompt word, uncanny.

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Peace ~ Haiku Bones

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is the peace we love
and hold so dear to our breasts
a fool's wistful dream

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Thanks to Nancy Bea Miller

for the prompt word, peace.

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War machines are located at Les Baux de Provence which is near St. Remy, France, where we spent a week in Spring, 2006. (link) The dog was sleeping by the souvenir shop.

One Single Impression: Sunny Days

Walking Wishes

Strolling briskly through snowy streets

O come bright April sunny days
wishing for a path nature made
hiking out in the windy wild

April sun will dry my wet streets
and harden now soft hiking ways
I'll find a friend to walk with me
to hike out in the windy wild

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"Sunny Days" as prompt was
suggested by Jeeves at
Silence Is Poetic

One Single Impression: Chaos

Chaos

Chaos reigns they say
they must have seen my garage
not a car in sight
boxes here junk over there
Hodge Podge lives in my garage

A very clean garage we parked in on our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday;
I backed down this long alley to reach it because
it was located in the first floor of our hotel.
It was back in or back out,
no turning around.

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"Chaos" as prompt was
suggested by The Dark Lord of the Dark at The Dark Lord's Blog

Incandescent ~ Haiku Bones

40 Watt:
Incandescent

dimly lit she sits
would sew a stitch or knit a bit
needs fluorescent

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Thanks to Nancy Bea Miller at Haiku Bones
for the prompt word, incandescent.

Acrostic: Voices

VOICES

Visiting the bank
Other day's friend
I married her
Counting her money
Every day there
Singing love alimony

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Written for Acrostics Only January, 2010, prompt 6, Acrostic Poem on

Humor: Growing Old (Requirement: 3 words per line)

One Single Impression: Indurated

Indurated
trees hardened as stone
once were supple and green
holding birds in their bows
this rock I now hold
earlier was
one
makes
me wonder
of all the processes it went through


O that
I could stand those pressures
of stresses from everyday living and fires
raising family loving spouse feeding us all
I'd surely falter along life's way
be burned
and
turned
into
stone myself
this all reminds me of Lot's poor wife*

Poem Copyright © 2010 Jimmiehov
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"Wings" as prompt was
suggested by Kuyerjudd at My Heart Up Close

* Notes:

1. Lot's wife, looking back on Sodom, was turned into a pillar of salt.(link)

2. Indurated definition Online Dictionary ]
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Indurating.]
[1913 Webster]

1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some
fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
[1913 Webster]

2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render
obdurate.
[1913 Webster]

Indurated \In"du*ra`ted\, a.

Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart.
--Goldsmith.
[1913 Webster]

indurated - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "indurated":
Philistine, backed, brazen, calcified, callous, calloused,
case-hardened, conscienceless, crusted, crusty, crystallized,
flinty, fossilized, granulated, hard, hardened, hardhearted,
heartless, hornified, impervious, incrusted, indurate, insensitive,
inured, lapidified, lost to shame, obdurate, ossified,
pachydermatous, petrified, proof against, reinforced, rigidified,
sclerotic, seared, set, shameless, solidified, steeled,
steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, strengthened,
thick-skinned, toughened, unblushing, vitrified

Trembling ~ Haiku Bones

Trembling Quartet
.. three haiku one senryū

facing fox yet still
mother quail covered her chicks
trembling all the while


hungry small kitten
bold hungry begging tourists
trembling all the while


viper coiled to spring
poor small frog very quiet
trembling all the while

girl on a scooter
hoping he will ride with her
trembling all the while

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Thanks to Nancy and Bruce at Haiku Bones
for the prompt word, trembling.

Acrostic: Growing Old

GROWING OLD

Groaning grappling facing
Reality that's what
Old people do
When daily facing
Insidious incessant pain
Neck shoulders legs
Groin belly feet

Old before your
Life is ready
Do or die

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Written for Acrostics Only January, 2010, prompt 10, Acrostic Poem on

Senior Living: Growing Old (Requirement: 3 words per line)

One Single Impression: Wings

I Would ...

if I had the wings of hades
I would pester people to death
making life look so very bad
aberrant be the very best

if I wore horned red devil skin
young sex alluring be such fun
love makes it right I'd tell the youth
protection needed not this once

if I were knight of Lucifer
all sin and bad appealing be
numb their souls every way I knew
saying knowledge will make you free

if I were the devil no way
ever I'd hang my head in shame
I'd flap those wings in boastful pride
end matters most deceit's my game

the devil runs to and fro flee from him

Poem Copyright © 2010 Jimmiehov
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"Wings" as prompt was
suggested by Sherri at Sweetest in the Gale

Electrifying ~ Haiku Bones

das ende

.

gray-brown killer eel
electrifying no more
was short circuited

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Thanks to Nancy and Bruce at Haiku Bones
for the prompt word, electrifying.

Happy New Year! -- Happy Birthday, Mrs. Jim!

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Isn't that a good looking family, taken just on the spur of the moment. Karen came to get KP who had been here almost a week and obliged for a 'blog picture' of us. Left to right you see KP, Mrs. Jim, Adi, Katrin, and me (Jim). Some more new Baby Kp pictures are here.

That was taken yesterday, today is Mrs. Jim's birthday. Yes, she was a New Year's Day Baby. On that day her preacher, Dr. Herschel Hobbs*, came to bless her, pray for her, and help Mema** commit her to the Lord. Sounds like Samuel.

Happy New Year to everyone who reads this. I would love to know how many do but there isn't any way. I think there are as many relative, friends, and interested persons who read this as there are those who leave comments. I say there are 40 for this blog and 50 for the Little Blog (link). If I thought 100 I might want to brag so these are my numbers for 90.

NOW FOR A MONEY SAVING HINT


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The old 1999 calendar you have laying around can be recycled this year. It matches the one for 2010 perfectly. I save mine for just to reuse them. When I find my 1999 NAPA car calendar I will post a picture, for February I hope, of that. In the meantime this other planner 1999 calendar will do just fine. And of course my 2010 free car calendars which I aways get a few of each year.***

Notes:
* Dr. Herschel Hobbs (1907-1995) was a Baptist preacher who preached in Louisiana before he came to Oklahoma to spend the most of his career. Dr. Hobbs wrote a Sunday school lesson commentary which was very useful to me. Once when he came to Houston I was honored to shake his hand and talk briefly with him. (link)
** Mema, now deceased, Mrs. Jim's mother. (link, another of my blogs, please scroll down just a bit on this blog)
*** I collect NAPA Auto Parts calendars. I missed the very first one and then sat out a bit in the early 2000's. (link, Jim's Little Blog)