Yellow Bananas - Sunday's Mini Challenge Poem

Yellow Bananas

To refrigerate or not

People spend their lives

trying to decide
Meantime fruit rots in its bag

Small things like this take our time
Can't make up our minds
Trying to decide
Life should go on, prudent be
Important things take astride
Speckled fruit still good to eat

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Poem copyright © 2015 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

  

 - I am linked with Heaven, a.k.a. Grace,  at the Real Toads, "Sunday's Mini-challenge: Jane Hirshfield" where we were introduced to the poet, Jane Hirshfield.

 - Grace's challenge is to "write a new poem or prose poem inspired by the title, verse or style by Jane Hirshfield. I chose Hirshfield's poem, Green-Striped Melons found in the Real Toad's posting link above.

Four (big) Words -- a 'poem' for "Get Listed for May, 2015"

Blood, house (home),

face, and suburb

Blood on the moon

While you're at home

Fear on your face

Suburb fallout

Blood on his knife

You're home alone

Death on his face

Suburb castle

Blood on the floor

His, in your house

Shot in his face

Suburb is safe

 

Above:  Various houses I've visited.  The one on the lower left is Hemmingway's backyard study in Key West, Florida.  Next on the right is a monastery high up in the hills of Greece. I've been in both of these. 
[You can enlarge any picture by clicking on it.  Most get larger still if you click again.]

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Photos and Poem copyright © 2015 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 

I am linked with grapeling  at the Real Toads, Get Listed for May: Pablo Neruda

 

 - Grapling's instructions were to "please write a new poem for this prompt using at least 3 of the list words (or reasonable variants), post it to your own site, and link to that specific poem (not just your blog)." 

 - His resource for this prompt was "the list from the (translated) poems of Pablo Neruda, specifically, from the bilingual edition Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 1970)."

 - I used this one:  "from "I'm Explaining a Few Things", page 151 (PoemHunter.com again): suburb, face, house, blood."  I took the liberty to use the word Home instead of House where I felt it to be more appropriate for my poem.

 

Dog's life? -- another 55 Flash Plus attempt

Life is but to please my master

His happiness fills my needs

He rewards,
food in my plate,
pat on my head

 

There is a better side of life

Walks in the park,

flushing rabbit for the hunt,

seeing my subject little boy learning to read

 

Me, mere hound dog

Fun therapy dog first class

 

 

Photo and poem copyright © 2006 and 2015 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 

I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor at Real Toads, "FLASH 55 PLUS!" (means exactly 55 words)

Notes:

 - Flash 55 means to write a poem with exactly 55 words.  Including the title, I did that.

 - Plus was to add a little Zen.  Here I tried to add a touch of Zen.  I feel that dogs can have higher needs than to exist.  Maslow in his hierarchy of needs may have felt otherwise (link). 

 - Link to Zen examples:  www.viewonbuddhism.org/resources/zen_poems.html

 - Adi (profile) was my beloved beagle dog, a therapy dog.  We mainly visited with assisted living residents, many afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.  She also was qualified as a reading dog (link).  Adi died in September, 2012.

Little Mouse, did you -- 55 Flash Plus

 

Little Mouse;

did you?

 

Little Mouse, did you do

your good deed for today? 

Did you make some playful

child happy and full today?

 

Little mouse, you can make

soured milk taste so good

Keep your finger out of

the drink, just smile to her

 

Just don't you forget that

you are her favorite cup

 

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Photo and Poem copyright © 2015 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor at Real Toads, "FLASH 55 PLUS!" (means exactly 55 words)

Notes:

Flash 55 means to write a poem with exactly 55 words.  Including the title, I did that.

Plus was to add a little Zen.  After a hard 30 days in April, writing every day, I felt   

 that skipping a day (yesterday) and hitting the 55 target was enough.  Some might add a

 touch of Zen.  Not me. 

Link to Zen examples:  www.viewonbuddhism.org/resources/zen_poems.html