A Write for the Pantry

Out of the Ordinary

An unusual sight for Edinburgh folk
Streets wet and slippery icey and snowy
Cold wet winds blowing weather report "snow"
Bonnets jackets scarfs and gloves rubber boots

Houston, Texas, carry your gun holstered
Waking up this morning they found surprise
Before their eyes dead man there on the floor
Wondered who he was and why he was shot 

Killing activists in old Mexico 
Environmental activists stand tall 
Pay the price bucking government's interests 
Near fifty murdered in past two years *

Water leak in Houston Thursday evening 
About half of Houston lost their water 
Thirty-five years old was this water link 
Schools and business closed just for one day 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 
 - I'm linked to Rommy in the   Wrtiters Pantry  at 
https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/03/writers-pantry-9-rabbit-rabbit.html?m=1 
 - Photo credits, all are from February 28, 2020 edition 
      Top - Edinburgh News
      2nd - Houston Chronicle
      3rd - Sierra Magazine 
      4th - Houston Chronicle
 - Click the link above to read how some other writers wrote to the photo. 

* Note: (excerpts from the current 'Searra Club Magazine' news publication citing the murders of two environmental activists already this year)

"... reports highlight the collusion between business and government agencies in carrying out the violence against environmentalists and ensuring impunity for the perpetrators."

"Mexico has become incredibly dangerous for environmental defenders -- according to various reports, close to 50 environmental activists were murdered in the past 2 years."

A Poem -- Time to Play

Image Source

Hello 

I'm here to learn 

To learn to play like the masters 

I'm to play the classics, 

Mama likes Chopin 

When I have my recital 

A little statue I'll get 

Like my softball one 

Sorta 

We'll put it on the shelf 

Maybe I'll play good as my cousin 

She can play "Bill Grogan's Goat" 

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 - Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Sunday Muse at http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2020/02/sunday-muse-97.html?m=1

a Poem -- Tribute to a Red Fruit

A Broken Ode to a 
Wannabe Romantic 
Red Tomato 

Tomato ripe and red our love's so young
Forever on my mind I think of you
Your red lips parted place for tooth or tongue
Little brown love nuggets they call, some do 

Doctor says I can't have you anymore 
Those brown nuggets colon irritators 
We played like the morrow was here to stay
That came to a stop when we knew the score 

You left and so I eat mashed potatoes 
Now I miss you so since  you've gone away 
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- Photos and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Sanaa Rizvi at Weekly Scribbles, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/02/weekly-scribblings-8-red-fruit-rendition.html?m=1

 - At first this was to be an Ode to the Red Tomato but that really didnt work out well.  I did have some lines so I kept on writing for the result you see.
 - It does have the conventional rhyme scheme, Ode Format (??),
ABAB CDEC DE . 
Still I will try some more soon.

 - Sanaa asked of us, "Your challenge today is to write while inspired by red fruit. Fruit as a metaphor, analogy, a persisting idiom, as a symbol or even ..."  Her illustration is below, 

Still Life with Ewer and Fruit 
by Milne Ramsey, Pinterest

A Pantry offering Poem

 

    May thee Rest

Lucy in the sea with diamonds
She couldn't take them up with her
Opted to be buried at sea

There the diamonds lay beside her
Peace offering to those before her
Sharing with the sharks consumed her

Now diamonds are for the taking
Shiny bubbles before the sun
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved  

 - Photo from Magaly, linked below 

 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero in the Writer's Pantry at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/02/writers-pantry-8-we-like-multiples-of.html