A Saturday Flash Poem



Eli Edward Evangelidis (2018)
Used with Permission

Into the Garden

Descendant of Eve

Inhabits the Garden

But only at night

In she sneaks picks the lock

God's lock sealing tight

Until this lass did match

With God's wild friends play

Play till Morning rouses

God's perfect Garden

His rule breached one more time

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - Picture is of an engraving titled 'Beauty Forgotten in Survival's Eyes'  by a contemporary artist, Eli Edward Evangelidis of Australia.  Permission has been given to those who write to post with our work.  You can see this and others of Eli by using the following link: https://www.instagram.com/eliedwardart/
 - I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/06/art-flash-55.html?m=1
 - Kerry's suggestion was to write as inspired by the engraving.  We could also write a Flash (short) poem of 55 words.  My poem purposely has 55 syllables not counting the title [also has 43 words without the title].

A Color Me Thursday Poem



Sherwin Williams

 The Bakery Shop;

 colorful business management**

Flirty Fuscia

Worked in her kitchen all day long

Kept the pastries warm, "freshly baked"

When it's time to go home, alone

Owners don't mingle with the help

Girl Rapture Blue

Waited tables all day long, ask?

What's a nice girl like you doing,

The answer's "here", clear. Mind the floors,

at night.  Make ends meet, second job

Ranunculus
and her dog,
Scarlet Maple

The lady, her dog, come at night

Customer delight, buys half price

No one knows for sure after there

They sleep all day and do at night

Their donut start
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Heaven Sent

Triple Berries,

Rain at Night
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 - **Note: at the college I taught an Entrepreneurship class in addition to my regular Business Law classes.  It essentially was a "How to Start and Manage a Small Business." 

 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Margaret in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/artistic-interpretations-with-margaret.html?m=1..
 - Photo was Margaret furnished, it is of a color chart photo she posted at the link above and suggested that we use the names of at least five colors found in her post in our writing for today.  I used them as the four characters, dog included, and three more for my Senryū  ending.
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A Tuesday Thinking Poem

It's Gone Away

What would it take
to reclaim a dollar misspent

Gone forever
Dollar for folly gone astray

It's on my mind
can't get it off how hard I try

Haunts me at night
in the dark it keeps me from sleep

And in the day
thoughts of that buck haunt me at work

Errant money
I'd rather have thrown it away

Than now to know
out there somewhere wasting away

Seed desert sown
will never take root sprouts will dry

Like a lost pup
Puppy do you thirst do you eat

Never come back
wishing for new love hold you tight

Wolves devour
they could care less fill their bellies

Dollar astray
never to come back not forgot

Do you hunger
do you miss me like I miss you

Always thinking
always wonder where are you now
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- Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
- I am linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-tuesday-platform_28.html?m=1
 - Sanaa found us a poem where the writer is lamenting the fate of a lost kiss, this will be my answer, [To Find A Kiss Of Yours] by Federico García Lorca - 1898-1936
 - What are your thoughts?