A Poem for Saturday -- two Senyru and a Tanka

Sure, it's not "Fake News"; 
  but "unreliable narrators"

Read it on Google 
Nasty comet is coming 
Oops I meant comment 

From the jockey's mouth 
Pick my Jersey Lass to win 
Odds are one to ten 

Fox or CNN 
(Reader fill in this line)
We tried to contact 
And when there is no response 
Be assured it's not Fake News 
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 - Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Bjorn in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-unreliable-narrator.html?showComment=1567273446213&m=1#c8881643280002019738

 - Bjorn asked for tales told by unreliable narrators and yet they be tripped up. His final instruction words were, "A poem is not a novel, so I am very curious how you will meet this challenge in a fairly short poem." I have a short 51 words, three short poems in one.

A Weekend Micro Poem

Like I am;
  with empty parts

Make it better is the cry I hear
Always ever people want to fix
You alone can fill my empty parts

I'm not real perfect in many ways
Looks flawed  browned bruised scratched and missing parts

Listen, my words scratchy voice.  Feel, bumps
over my body them you don't see

Use a Cane, spas pills cream do no good
Ugly mess, you love me like I am
There's no fixing me My hurts you soothe
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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/2019/08/micro-poetry-fill-empty-parts.html?m=1
 - One of Kerry's request was to write a poem using the phrase, with empty parts.  She also asked for no more than ten lines.  I have ten lines and 75 words plus six in the title.
 - I have some of the above situations but not all.  I do have the cane, I am hoping that this impediment to my getting around will only be temporary.  Seems I lose my crutches quite easily, so far I've lost one.

A Tuesday Poem -- Reminiscing

They Read, You Read  

Who all my readers are 
I'll never know
Where my former student are 
I'll not know
But some I do know, 
tidbits, others a lot more

Basketball players, 
now professional.  
Big name team, 
they've  become 
big time players 

BS degree graduates, 
they call me down 
in supermarkets 
AA degree grads we 
might meet at an 
auto dealer repair 

Attorneys, 
from inspiration and ideas 
started in my classes, 
graduated from prestigious 
law schools 

Beauty pagent winners, 
one Miss USA

Friends and relatives - if and when each other we see
FaceBook friends and readers -- almost every time we meet

I'm proud of them, every one
They are pretty loyal folk, 
those who never leave a mark 
when they're here 

Then when by chance 
or by design, we visit 
it's a happy meeting 
for old time sake and 
catching up 

And if they don't read 
that's alright 
I remember anyway 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Sanaa  Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-tuesday-platform_27.html?showComment=1566884106803&m=1#c7355932696641967926

 - After 17 years of Aerospace Engineering work, mostly at NASA Houston, I changed careers.  I was a Business Professor and taught mostly Business Law and Entrepreneurship classes for 22 years.

from The Enchanted Portal

Missing Man

Today their mission was to be
peaceful remembrance sad event
When best in spectator view
Highlight of the show would begin

They'd practiced over and over
So that today's would be perfect
In formation at chosen spot
From first file flying lower left

the plane, rather the bird, peeled left
Were it not for show it would have 
spiraled down probably in flames
Pilot and crew meet their Maker

Show will go on another town
Pilot and crew will die for them 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved 
 - Photo copied from the link below 
 - I am linked with Sherry Blue Sky at the Poetry Pantry, Poets United, http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/08/poetry-pantry-491.html?m=1