True Love ~~ Poem

   Lass and Bunny 

There once was a young lass
She carried her bunny
wherever she would go

They made a dreamy pair
Eyes closed she dreamed of love
Bunny loved his carrots

They met a bright young man
Poor bunny had to go
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They courted for a while
And married thereafter
Marriage made on a cloud

Problems too soon appeared
They quarrelled and they fought
Neither cooked almost starved

Went their ways court approved
True love bunny came back
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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved (photo is a screen print made by me and edited slightly)
 - I'm linked with Carrie Van  Horn at Sunday Muse,  http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/?m=1

Day 11 of NaplPoWriMo 2020 - Ode to a Weed

Ode to Wild Milkweed 

Oh Milkweed plant prettiest weed that flowers

Whose blooms are the brightest orange of all

Your lineage is one of the hardiest

Great great grandparents hoed out of the corn

Your line has survived and gained prestige

You beckon the Monarchs from afar

On their treks from Old Mexico they stop

Your sweet smell pretty blooms they can't resist

While those butterflies stay their eggs are laid

You graciously host them and their cacoons

Then beautiful Caterpillars do roam

over your limbs over your body

Gracious again you give your leaves their food

While their mothers continue path to North

Die on their way praise your name in Heaven

Those worms turn to Monarchs like their Mothers

and take their places at the north

Oh compassionate weed of the wild

You'll have time once again more leaves to grow

And milkweed plant prettiest that flowers 

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 - Poem and Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020,All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-11-15.html?m=1 
 - and with NaPoWriMo Day 11 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eleven-8/ where I used mainly their prompt, a particular flower for inspiration.  I chose the Wild Milkweed which attracts the Monarch Butterfly.
 - I am also linked with the Writer's Pantry at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/04/writers-pantry-15-all-about-that-love.html 

Day 9 of NaplPoWriMo 2020 - a Poem to Comfort

  [Click picture to enlarge] 

Basics of Comforting 

Pathetic Fallacy
Back to the basics
To there we find a path
A path which is etic to cure
Yon mountain hidden dale
We climb that big hill
View the other side
Peace in valley
We will find

The climb

Climb we must
To see other side
Put on our hiking shoes
Foot to path pet the bunny
Turtle pig cow and lion come
Natural enemies combine
To save the turtle
Life on the hill
Our friend

At the top

Fresh air
Gentle breeze
Blows through our hair
Smell the flowers yellow
Purple reds and orange abide
High climber's rich reward
Pick some for our vests
Enjoy the pretty view
Peace there abides
Stay we mustn't
Below calls

Almost there

Going down
That is easy part
We get there fast can't dally
Sweets there to find
Aren't you glad
We came

Our Reward

See the spread
Laid out food and drink, ours
Linen sheets feather pillows
Gyms pools friends and wifi
Paths are strewn with gold
Ours to pick, shall not want

Here we stay, campers not 
Find music -- soothe our souls 
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 - Photos and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved (photo northwest of Capetown,  South Africa)
 - Links: Weekly Scribblings: Imaginary Garden; and NaPoWriMo Day 9 
 - See above links for multiple prompts, Comfort/Pathetic Falacy, Words Count (60 Words Count - saved for another day), and a Shape Poem

Day 8 of NaplPoWriMo 2020 - a Poem - Days Past

     [Adi's - our Beagle dog, RIP - last Teddy Bear] 

 

      Like it Was 
I. 

"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
Radios broadcast all our ilk
Play a song tell the news
But then there's a commercial 
And to beat it all Gossip Day
That's when the ilk comes out

Girls swing high boys they come to play
And spilled milk makes one pout

II. 
"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
The songs were great Rock had begun
There's Elvis and the Beatles 
Bands and singers Favorites and new tunes 
Dare we dance under park trees
Like it was park your bike find your date 

Listen to the songs, all was free 
Music filled the parks, ZZ Top down at the lake 

III. 
"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
Sing along clap our hands stomp our feet 
Gather in bunches chat rooms on the grass 
Darkness wins, time for the poems 
To the coffee houses we poured 
Recite our latest work or read from Poe 

Sitting around the rooms elbows merge
Bottles out around the room wine would flow 

IV. 
"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
Like all things they must come to end 
Empties to the corner, time for stars 
Fill the terraces, balconies call 
Houston's loading docks by dozens emptied for us 
Drugs were few save them for NYC *

Yes don't forget mosquito spray 
That's the way it was 1970 

* Notes:  
 - A part of the final line of my mother's lecture on my smoking the Canibus tops which grew up wild on our farm.  "... besides the good stuff is smoked in New York City."  I have never smoked that particular weed or "the good stuff."  Not exactly sure why that didn't happen. 
 - Some of this I did.  You might know or imagine how much.
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden  at   https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-6-10.html?m=1 .  
 - Go there where other's Poetry Writings are linked.  If we follow Kerry's daily oldie picks there's a schedule.  
 - For today it was here with Sanaa Rizvi  at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/04/poems-in-april-l-arora.html?m=1 where she introduced a new form. 
 - "The A L' Arora, a form created by Laura Lamarca consists of eight lined stanzas. The rhyme scheme is a, b, c, d, e, f, g, f with no syllable count per line and the minimum length for the poem is 4 stanzas with no maximum length stipulation."

 - I am also linked to NaPoWriMo Day 8 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eight-7/ where their prompt was to use a line from another's work as the beginning line ours took off from there.
 - My line, "Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" is from a poem by Lisa Jarnot's work which she also copied her first line from a poem by Frank Lima, "And how terrific it is to write a radio poem"

(BY LISA JARNOT )
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51833/poem-beginning-with-a-line-by-frank-lima

 - Please comment how I have done, merging the two keeping a theme,  writing it consumed a little more than a short time.  So said I'm going back AFTER posting to correct typos and fix any wrong tense verbs.

Day 7 of NaplPoWriMo 2020 - A Bracelet Acrostic Poem

B R A C E L E T 

Bracelet fine adorns my wrist 
Robbers aren't as rich as I 
Always on arm or bedside 
Charms dangling ever sparkling 
Each tells special time with him 
Lovely blossoms every one 
Entangled with him whiffs sweet 
Those secrets never revealed 
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved (photo is my screen print of one from Susie's post, link below)
 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-6-10.html?m=1 where  - the prompt is to write of "Bracelet" which previously had been asked in April 2016 by Susie Clevenger in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/04/bits-of-inspiration-bracelet-napowrimo.html?m=1
 - I am also linked to the NaPoWriMo Day 7 post at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-seven-6/

 - in 2016 I also wrote a "Bracelet" acrostic for Susie's post linked above which I also used for NaPoWriMo 2016 at http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2016/04/napowrimo-2016-day-seven-bracelet.html?m=1

Day 6 of NaplPoWriMo 2020 - The Owl at ...

Aristotle; I am the owl at the well

(Motivation Monday poem) 

Dr. Aristotle I am 

My PhD is from Oxford 

Superior intelligence 

What I am famous, noted for 

My brain won't hold all my knowledge 

Overload in my chest is stored 

Closest friends call me *Puffed Up" 

Plenty, enough is said on that 

You now, "What does this owl do?" 

We've water activity all 

around.  Enough, Clean, and Plenty 

Water fun, that is our business 

Our guests play, swim, eat and they rest 

Enough; never lacked for water 

Clean; it's drinking water for all 

Plenty: make sure where it's needed 

Big it needed ME.  Smart, Mensa 

And, ...owls scare other birds away 
 

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved (photos are edited and screen printed by me, see "Garden, et al " link below).
 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-6-10.html?m=1 -- Speaking in the Voice of Another, for Day 6 of NaPoWriMo (Sherry Blue Sky original author}
 - and Day 6 at NaPoWriMo, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-six-8/ where speaking in another, using a character from the artwork at "The Garden of Earthly Delights", https://archief.ntr.nl/tuinderlusten/en.html 

 - "Motivation Monday" google search link. 
 - Quote:

“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week"

A Foxy Ladies Poem - Day 5 of NaPoWriMo 2020

Three Foxy Ladies 

Three foxy ladies vowed to vie 

to be the foxiest lady 

in placid small little town 

The first fine lady dressed in white 

adorned herself total contrast 

black was her peace loving  wild beast 

The second wearing sinful black 

barely controlled her fiery hound 

he jumped to the ground ran away 

The third damsel sultry red dress 

she loved the pure fox colored white 

he peeked around feeling all's well 

Wide eyed judges they were all males 

easily enticed by foxy 

lady in red her fox so tame 

Foxiest gal won Red turns heads 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved (photo is my print screen edited of Photography by Anatasiya Dobrovolskaya click HERE for Website)

 - I'm linked with Carrie Van Horn of the Sunday Muse at http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2020/04/sunday-muse-102.html?m=1

 - Also - I am linked with Day Five National Poetry Writing Month at http://www.napowrimo.net/  (I did not use their prompt today) 

 - And with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-1-5.html?m=1 (Space Time, for which I wrote in April 2017 a poem of dimensions, like two or three dimensions.  There I also described more dime.sions which cannot be graphed in 2-D, namely four and five dimensions. http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2017/04/napowrimo-2017-05-poem-about-spacetime.html?m=1) .  (I did not use their prompt today either)