Mini Challenge Portraiture Poem

Those Hippie Days

It's been a long time ago now

Way back early seventies

Looking the part, a hippie queen

Pert, smart and smiles pretty too

Knew her before we met, her type

Rode a bike she traveled light

At the foot of the stairs to wait

Parked her bike and yellow dog

Barefoot, cutoff jeans, straggly hair

Looked the part this Hippie queen

I don't remember who sat first

Empty seat between, back row

Differential Equations class

Back there she read History

I learned my Calculus so so

Smart girl she got A's in both

We chummed now and then pleasant girl

Our end at semester's end

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - Photo from the Real Toads, Sunday Feature featuring Lisa Graham
 - I'm linked with Kim Russell in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/weekend-mini-challenge-portraiture.html?m=1
 - 105 words, nine couplets, 135 syllables - kinda mini

New Year's end, a bad day for some

Summer's End; 
the Big Chill 

"... And New Year's Eve ... bound to leave you cryin'"**

It's a tough world out there real sad at times

I'd like to have been there to sooth your fear

For most peace starts new when they ring the chimes 
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"... And New Year's Eve ... bound to leave you cryin'" 

 The longer you cry the longer it will

Will take for that new start I feel you want

With Sumer's end we went apart-Big Chill 
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"... And New Year's Eve ... bound to leave you cryin'"

But I loved you then I do now please know 

And I hope you might feel the same towards me

Now don't you cry those hot tears melt the snow 
.
I loved you then love you still please come back

We'll give Year's Eve a glorious comeback 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserve the Big Chill d

 - I am linked with Marian in the Imaginary Garden

 at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/summers-end.html 

 - Marian's words, five of them are, "ENJOY--BE INSPIRED--WRITE--SHARE"

 - **Note:  the first line of the four line stanza write is from John Prine's song, "Summer's End" which is also the name of my poem AND the name of his song. 

Read the lyrics here: https://genius.com/John-prine-summers-end-lyrics

  

WeekEND worries -- a Poem for Tuesday

Did the Earth Just Shake?

If I would make a wish

That never will come true

My life could end minutes

After screaming world's end

Watch and enjoy the sights

BTW, never have I

Ever fallen off my horse

Preakness jockey did today

Might the world come to its end

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
- I'm linked with Anmol (HA)  in the Imaginary Garden
at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-tuesday-platform-in-lieu-of-poem.html
- I'm also linked with Magaly Guerrero in the Imaginary Garden
at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/weekend-mini-challenge-oh-poetic-irony.html?m=1