Dream and Worry - Day 4 of NaPoWriMo 2020

Tea in China 

All the tea in China 

What does that mean to me

Why was that on my mind 

It woke me up at five 

The sleep I lost today 

Big problem of the world 

That could be I don't know

Was no bother before 

I've heard it all my life 

Must have dreamt it last night 

China men pointy hats 

Long black coats and rickshaws 

Have it still on my mind 

Mark Twain's "Punch brother punch" 

That ditty was to him 

This is to me.  Earworm 

So I tell it to you 

Then perhaps you might care 

And I can sleep again 

Because with you I shared 

Drink coffee with my bride 

And let another care 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright,  All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Day Four National Poetry Writing Month at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-four-8/  (Dreams)

 - And with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-1-5.html?m=1 (Caution: Tender Buttons)

Down - Day 3 of NaPoWriMo 2020

Down He Went

Most courageous of our Navy today
Beloved concerned  Admiral yesterday
That was yesterday with no job today

Code of military, "do what I say
then ask questions later" that is the code
Follow chain of command things move slowly

Meanwhile his troops were dying by dozens
Aboard that ship of death in his command
Superiors were slow, he needed action

To the top he went, over heads afraid
Afraid of loss of prestige their silence
Unafraid and brave he went to the top

Fired but proud of doing right for his flock
I'd vote for him president any day
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 -
 - Linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-1-5.html?m=1 and to
 - the NaPoWriMo Day 3, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-three-6/ ;

Change of Plans -- Day 2 of NaPoWriMo 2020

Hemmed In

I am hemmed in here
while my Mustang Ford
is ready to whine
Lovely top-down days
are going to waste
Texas Bluebonnets
drool for company

That's because some dirt
farmer west of town
we're saving him from
dread COVID 19
Him we don't know and
for sure haven't seen

So gladly I stay
Here on my own street
But that's not all bad
My granddaughter came
with sidewalk chalk to
decorate my drive

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 - Poem  and Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov 2920, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked to the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-1-5 with Susie  Clevenger's prompt suggestion for Day 2, Taking it to the Streets
 - the NaPoWriMo Day 2, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-two-7/ ; and

Mother-to-be, little bird - Day 01 of NaplPoWriMo 2020

    [nest is above the drainpipe] 

My Heart this Week

I am the little mother 
Mother-to-be little dove 

You may think that is scary 
Responsibility loved 

Smallish memory is short 
I may have been here before 

Was I the little bird who 
hatched her brood here in this nest 

Or the runt born here last year 
Runt of last year's brood come back 

Guided, invisible hand 
One I don't know got me here 

It could have been my husband 
Faithful friend father-to-be 

This our family home for years 
Safe secure under the eaves 

Little Dove, Mother-to-be 

(I, Jim, live in home behind)
(My heart this week?  Little bird)
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 - Photos and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with Rommy at Weekly Scribbles,    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/04/weekly-scribblings-13-all-small-things.html?m=1
 - Also I'm linked to http://www.napowrimo.net/day-one-2/, daily National Poetry Writing Month coordinators when I connect.  Click on "Participants' Sites' link at the top of Day 1 page to read other bloggers' poems.
 - And I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden which is reopened for April, National Poetry Month, at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-1-5.html?m=1
There I used a prompt formerly suggested by Marian  at April is for Fools and Poets 
 - I plan to write a poem each week or even daily.  We are shut-ins until April 30 per our Governor's COVID 19 orders.  We will see if I live that long.  💝

Our doves have been returning since 2016 to hatch a brood of baby doves.

LOL; Graffiti Artist I

   Image Source

There was this Little Old Lady.
LOL for short.  Short she was
on her funky ladder standing

Standing there with paint brush in hand
Town's budding graffiti artist
No one knew who this artist was

Clever and sly then one clear day
Caught in the act run away try
Her funky ladder it did fly

Police were fooled thought she would roll 
Long gone our LOL did flee 
Yon town gets her graffiti 
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Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved
I am linked with Carrie Van Horn of the Sunday Muse #101 at http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2020/03/sunday-muse-101.html?m=1