Day 20, NaPoWriMo

 

Three random leafy spots;

  three tiny poems

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London leaves grey and hiding

Served the best

Earned their rest

  

 

[link]

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Southern USA leaves still green

Working so hard

Green year around

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My backyard Roses puny and yellow

They're underfed

But watered to much

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2015, 2012 (photos) and 2019 (poems), All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/weekend-mini-challenge-in-april-three.html?m=1
 - and with NaPoWriMo, Day 20, at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-6/

Day 19 ~~ NaPoWriMo ~~ an A,B,C,D,E ... Form Flash Poem

Letting go now 

Always on the go 

But slowed a bit somewhat 

Caring not for much anymore 

Death should not be an option 
 

Earth no longer wanted me 

Flirting with pills and vodka 

Guns not in the picture 

Have no time for remorse 
 

Ice too solid no breaking through 

Justice is no more 

Killing myself goodbye unkind world 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with   Kerry O'Connor  in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/micro-poetry-i-am-my-own-muse.html

 - And also linked with NaPoWriMo http://www.napowrimo.net/day-nineteen-4/

 - This is a Flash Poem with exactly 55 Words sans the title per 's request 

 - It is also an A,B,C,D,E ... Form Poem with the first line starting with the letter "A" and has each following line with its respective alphabet letter per our NaPoWriMo host suggestion. 

 - You might notice that I am a bit down this morning but not as much so as the "Poet" writing was.

Day 18 ~~ NaPoWriMo ~~ Elegy Poem -- To Our Hibiscus

Elegy to our Hibiscus;

queen and pride of our back yard

[salutation]

O Hibiscus our lovely guard

You were the joy of our backyard

We miss you so much since you're gone

We honor you in praise and song

 

[predetermination]

What per chance was your fate to be

We didn't know not clear to me

Fate has made you subject to cold

Gone, dead forever, were so bold

 

[equity]

It isn't fair to us humans

To lose our prime joy of lumens

Forever we thought smile you'd bring

Mother Nature robbed us this spring

 

[destiny (question, conclusion or implication)]

For us you'll live still in two ways

Mulch pile welcomes, your fiber stays

New kid in town your beauties pin

And we still find joy from your kin

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved

 - I'm linked with Susie Clevenger in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/bits-of-inspiration-poems-in-april-bell.html 

 - and I'm linked with NaPoWriMo at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eighteen-5/ 

 - I've never written an elegy before and had to investigate everything that I had time for, including a definition.  Googling helped a lot but then reading has to stop and test out what we've learned.  I liked the topic division [in parentheses for your understanding help and a guide for e while writing] from https://penandthepad.com/format-elegy-poem-8445992.html .

 - Quite a few suggested writing with didactic hexameter and didactic decimeter but I didn't do that.  And https://studybay.com/blog/how-to-write-an-elegy-poem/ was interesting in the use of  "Five Steps to Writing and Elegy" which was similar but different to the first site I mentioned.  Most recommend a quatrain with the rhyme scheme ABAB written in iambic pentameter for pleasant sounds when reading.  

 

[our backyard, Hibiscus on the left]

Day 17 ~~ NaPoWriMo

[Istanbul dog # 1, click picture to enlarge]

 

The Mind Is Its Own Beautiful Prisoner; 

not all thoughts are of humans 

Walking the streets of Istanbul

I was feeling sorrow tugging 

for the many dogs sleeping nearby

Dare I take action there and then

The first was tied a grimy rope

Took him away gave him some food

Biscuits only, he gobbled three

Rest was easy six dogs in all

Unaccustomed to best of care

Became their master in a day

While they ate some pangs I would feel 

Did their former owners await

Waiting for their pets to come home

Guilt, mind prisoner to canine souls

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 - Poem title first used by e.e. cummings, his poem in Sanaa's link below

 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2013 (photos) and 201 (poem), All Rights Reserved

  - I'm linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/poems-in-april-somewhere-in-midst-of.html 

 - also I'm linked with NaPoWriMo, Day 17, at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-seventeen-5/

 - Dogs of Istanbul, all the dogs posted are from my blogs.  Several of the dog pictures were taken from the streets of Istanbul.  A blog search post link.    This post of our 2013 Istanbul visit has reproduced from my copy of Mark Twain's "Letter # 22" found in my book, his "Letters from the Holy Land...". http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-ebay-bargain-six-word-saturday.html  In it he commented of the many dogs he found sleeping on the streets of the then Constantinople.

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[Istanbul dog # 2]

 

[Istanbul dog #'s 3 and 4] 

 

 

[Istanbul dog # 5]

[Istanbul dog # 6]

[Italian dog near Mt. Vesuvius]

 

[Dog at the Dubrovnik, Croatia,  airport]

[Street Dog to be (moving out kid's,) 

outside grocery store, Conroe, Texas]

[Adi, my deceased (2013) Beagle Dog buddy]

 

Day 16 ~~ NaPoWriMo

The Kleptomanic;

story,  fact or fiction?

I have a problem, two problems

I am a Kleptomanic

I've been that way since I was born

Snatched cigarettes before I crawled

Not the worst, I've lost my status

When's the last time you heard that word,

Kleptomanic no one knows

Out of their vocabulary

It's still in the dictionary

Anymore it just isn't used

Kleptomaniacy's no excuse

Had I been Hypochondriac

The moral here is that no one,

really, no one cares for my plight

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Anmol, aka HA, in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-tuesday-platform-you-are-poet-poems.html?m=1
 - and also with NaPoWriMo,  Day 16, at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-6/

 - I'm hoping this post won't offend or be considered in bad taste. I woke up for some reason having Kleptomania on my mind.  Felt that I hadn't heard that word since I can't remember when.  Google says not many are afflicted by it.

Day 15~~ NaPoWriMo

A Snow Tale 

Our semi annual travel to the Midwest was a little tougher that year be cause of snowy conditions.  Our travel party was husband and wife with youthful daughter and a middle age Beagle dog named Adi.

We three humans from the Gulf Coast area of Texas would visit Colorado in wintertime for skiing vacations.  Adi always stayed home then, being boarded with relatives. 

But when we went to visit family north in the winter Adi would get to go, sometimes.  This time we ran into snow in Missouri, quite a little bit for us.  We drove and drove and finally stopped at a rest area for Nature's calls. 

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Adi was first to go

She'd never seen snow before

Learnt of it rear end first

After that she loved the snow

Drifts really tickled her fanny
.

Adi wakes from her nap for a photo op.

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2007 and 2018 respecively, All Riights Reserved
 - I'm linked with tonispencer in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-touch-of-snow.html
 - and linked with NaPoWriMo, Day Fifteen, here, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-5/  Their Challenge is to write 30 poems, one a day, in April each year.

 - Toni's instructions for us, "Write a Haibun of 44 - to 150 words of some event in your life - a love gone wrong, birth of a child, a daily walk, a day out of a vacation...anything will work! Remember: Haibun are based on a true experience in your life; it is NOT flash fiction." My word count is 138, title, prose, and Tanka.  The Tanka is loose on syllable count, 33 vs. the 5-7-5-7-7 purist's count.  And it IS a Tanka instead of the usual Haiku or Senryū.
 - The picture is of our younger daughter.  Adi did come to play in the snow but she was already at her boarding house before this picture was taken.  Herman, Nebraska is a little town about 35 miles north of Omaha.  I was born and raised in a farm house up in the hills west of Herman.
 - The Farm
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Day 14 ~~ NaPoWriMo

]The neighborhood park just off Abbey Road]

Bumming around St. John's Wood;

a district in the City of Westminster, London (link) 

 

Walking down the streets of St. John's Wood

We'll take High Street first if we're hungry

Gelato shop is always welcome

A blackberry cone or use a spoon

 

Start or stop at the Library end

Drop off a book pick one up or read

Walk through city park and past the old church

We're bound for Regent's Park feed the ducks

 

Trapeze scholars may be out, practice

Take pictures of the bridges and folk 

Smell the flowers pick if we dare

Smile for mothers wave to the babies

 

Coming back we will exit the park**

and walk Kings Road to get back

Past the Cricket Field and then turn right

At Paul McCartney's house photo time

 

Left then right at the corner pass our flat

At the corner next Abbey Lane, wave

Wave to the camera***, to the home folk 

Cross with tourists, savor the aura  

 

**(or go right and visit Primrose Park

     View downtown London there from the hill)

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Margaret in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-streets-of-brooklyn.html where she has some beautiful pictures of her walk in Brooklyn, NYC USA
   and
 - I'm also linked with the NaPoWriMo group at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-fourteen-6/
 
 - I plan to post some pictures in the afternoon, have to find what I have.  For five years we would visit London a couple of times a year and stay with our daughter and her family for looong visits.

 - *** Camera Link, https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk

 

[house on the left should be Paul McCartney's]

 

[on Circus Road, Abbey Road will be at

the corner, turn right Kids's flat is here,

the next year they moved to Abbey Road]

 

 

[This is a St. John's Wood park outside

the playground.  St. John's church also has one]

 

[The gelato store is about a 1/2 mile walk]

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