NaPoWriMo 2017, Day 22 -- Poem - Open Door

 

Open doors;
  Happy lily ponds

 

Open doors and lily ponds 

They'll greet me fine today

On my way to work, herons

and grackles smile on me

 

Sun is shining, birds fishing

Little boys with sling shots

Those boys will be out that door

Moms, dads, my customers

 

It's going to be my day 

Nice for me and for sales

Doors will open for my knock

First sale my pots and pans

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  - Photos and Poem Copyright © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 

 - Notes: 

 - - 1) The photo was taken while I was doing a morning walk at one of the trails in our neighborhood, over by  the mailboxes.

 - - 2) Many of my poems are purely hypothetical if they relate to me or to my feelings, others a mixture of being true or untrue.  This one is more fiction than truth as I definitely am not a door-to-door sales person, I am a retired college prof.  (Though one short time, I did try to sell pots and pans door-to-door while I was in the Army.  I only sold one set and tried to talk that couple out of finishing the sale.  They bought anyway.)

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 - I'm linked with Susie Clevenger at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, “Bits Of Inspiration ~ Mi Young Lee ”, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/04/bits-of-inspiration-mi-young-lee.html 

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 - also to Day Twenty-two of NaPoWriMo, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-two-3/
    

 - The instructions from Susie: " ... write an original poem inspired by this Mi Young Lee painting. It can be in any style you choose ... "  Susie had met the artist at an exhibition and she gave Susie this lovely print.  In it I saw among other things,  ponds, the heron waiting at the stream for a fish to go by, little boys about to harass the heron, and many opening doors on all the houses in the picture.  It sort of matched my photo.