Gardner's Delight -- A Poem for the Month of May

Add Roses Red

 

Roses Red, you have finally come

Pruned somewhat late that's all our fault

Inconvenience we're sorry

Sorry but not disappointed

Your blossoms so bright fair and Red

Welcome bait for any lass' hair

Bring my love a dozen plus two

She'll reward your valiant display

Summer's near, May's departing fast

Rose food desert early for you

And water each day keep you moist

Garden would seem bare with you gone

 

You pretty girls so dear to us

Proper kiss but for prickly stems

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

 - I am answering the prompt of Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/such-were-syllables-that-possessed-may.html

 [click on any picture for larger view
click again for better detail]
[this is our back yard, Roses Red are
against the right wall, sisters are at
left of this picture, cousins in middle]

 [the left corner of the garden, the Louisiana Iris in

the middle here bloomed early, since we did not

have a freeze the orange Hibiscus left in the middle

picture have been blooming since February.]

 

Another Tuesday poem

From "The Chicken Dinner", 2016, 

http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-poem-chickened-out-for-sunday-mini.html

Watch the Chickens

 

I'm standing here in the corner

looking across into the room

Why I'm standing here I don't know

There is no place I want to go

That dear was my plight this morning

Like a chicken just standing there

Three others in the room active

Chicken no place it wants to go

The others are doing their thing

Things to do with places to go

One to school another to work

The helper may end up like me

You could too when nothing to do

When you're through and no place to go

_ _ _

 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2016 and 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-tuesday-platform.html?m=1

Little Bo Peep Looking for Her Sheep



The Dystopian Tarot, The Lovers
Kerry O'Connor
https://kerryoconnorsother.blogspot.com/ 

Little Bo Peep looking,
her sheep hadn't come home

Forehead branded with
an "X" as were her sheep

Peering over the hill
hoping to see her sheep

Scary scene appeared
Eons of years in one frame  

Adam, Eve, mythology, fables,
space travel, no sheep

Where, Adam didn't know
Ogress** bellowed "I've devoured" 

  
"You are next"
_ _ _ 

 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked to Kerry O'Connor  in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/art-flash.html?m=1
 - Kerry has left a piece of her Dystopian art on her blog for you to see.   It is also supposed to be inspiration for our writing.
 - Flash Writing traditionally has 55 Words as does this one not counting the title words. 
  - SQUINT your eyes and in the PICTURE you can see the innocent little girl shining through as being in the background 

**"An ogre (feminine: "ogress") is a legendary monster usually depicted as a large, hideous, man-like being that eats ordinary human beings, especially infants and children. Ogres frequently feature in mythology, folklore, and fiction throughout the world."  (Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre)

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Labels: Artistic Interpretations, Flash Writing, Personal-Challenge-2019, Real Toads