A Poem for the Weekend Mini Challenge

Maladroit

Maladroit, a fairly big word

for messed up or being clumsy

or the like--you can look it up

Maladroit, a word barely in

my working vocabulary

But it fits my direction goes

You see I hardly know left, right

My sister's that way too she says

that comes with "half dyslexia"

My problem first came to light when

I was marching in the Army

Left right left right your right left right ...

Those starts and turns were bad for me

I'd often hear, "Soldier put a

rock in your right hand." Not much help

And when I'm driving please don't say

"Turn left here," because we'll be through

the intersection way before

I think it out. Say "North or south."

When driving in France harder still

Please dont say to me "gauche et droite."

So now you can know why I wear

my watch on my right wrist. A 'Clunce'

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Kim Russel in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/09/weekend-mini-challenge-maladroit.html?m=1

 - The word, "Clunce".  I made it up,
"a hybrid wird produced when 'dunce' is mated with 'klutz'."
I first used it in another of my blogs, "Ask Dr. Jim (blog)", https://jimmiehov8.blogspot.com/2018/05/wife-knows-she-was-right-husband-thinks.html?m=1

A Poem for Midweek Motif

The Birds and ... 

The birds and the bees

I never was told

My father started

but then he said, son

you've watched cows and pigs  

The birds and the bees

I never quite knew

The birds fly high and

little bees fly low

Busy buzzing bees 

sweet smelling flower 

blooms make honey sweet

Pretty birds are nice
find worms for the nest
and make stinky poo

 

And if size matters

then it's large and small

Feathers or fuzzy  

There had to be more

The Birds and the Bees

 "S" word was the clue 
for school boys and girls
 

 Wikipedia 
was interesting
I tried not much help

 

 (Thomas Carew first user) 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved

 - I'm linked with Sumana Roy at Poets United, Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Honey / Bee, http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/09/poets-united-midweek-motif-honey-bee.html?m=1

 

A Poem for an experiment in Synesthesia

I just wanna be sure 

I just wanna be sure 

Tall green stalks of corn 

Their leaves green and long 

But our love's cooling off  

I just wanna know 

Leaves with yellowing tips 

And stalks bending brown 

Will you hold me tight tonight 

I just wanna find a hue 

Their embers burning red 

Red green yellow brown 

May we burn blue tonight 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Susie Clevenger in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/09/bits-of-inspiration-colors-in-song.html?m=1

 - Today we are by listening to one of five players furnished by Susie to see if we were inspired to write using the colors the inspired using our song.  I chose an Ella Henderson song where she sang a song I call, "I just wanna know." My colors were red, green, yellow, brown, and blue.

 - Susie calls our experience an experiment with Synesthesia, particularly the color of music.  My colors popped out after I thought of those cornfields.  
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