NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 24 - Wildflower

 

Sunday Morning

On the streets again 

where wild I grew up 

I've had my chances 

this day might be last 

My life has been blessed 

living in the cracks 

Sunday on the streets 

this my time to bloom 

Here I've been beat down 

nearly every day 

Can't help where seeds blow 

so here I was born 

That's where I must bloom 

no one dug me out 

Perhaps you will cut, 

put me in a vase 

 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo presented by Carrie Van Horn at the Sunday Muse #157,  http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2020/08/future-muse.html?m=1 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 24, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-four-7/ 

 - I am attempting to write at least one poem a day for the National Poem Writing Month.  Today is Day 24 of the 30, you can see my progress here, NaPoWriMo 2021.

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 22 -- Earth Day

 

[This old Model A Ford Pickup was parked in our church parking lot one Sunday.  Don't know whose it was but I'd like to have one like it.]  

Earth Day

 

What does that mean to you 

Several years ago those words meant 

Get out the old pickup, 

we will pickup trash.

When we got it full 

We'd drive to the dump 

and then go for another load 

and maybe plant a tree

These to show our 

appreciation to 

Mother Nature, 

work to keep her pretty

Nowadays it's still plant a tree 

But there is more 

Like 

write your congressman 

sign your name to a petition 

charge your PayPal 

a hundred bucks 

or less to

the Sierra Bunch, 

get six friends to do 

the same,  

and then go plant the tree 

and get out the old pickup 

truck to pickup trash. 

These to keep our home, 

bodies, and planet 

habitable and 

looking 

nice 

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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021 and 2016, All Rights Reserved (photo first at http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2016/08/my-survey-fridays-hunt-v206-f-is-for.html 

 - I am linked with the Writer's Pantry #67,    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/04/writers-pantry-67-ecolinguistics.html

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 22,      https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-two-7/

 - I am attempting to write at least one poem a day for the National Poem Writing Month.  Today is Day 22 of the 30, you can see my progress here, NaPoWriMo 2021. 

 - Write a poem using a Metonymy and I wanted to write also for the observance of "Earth Day" in my writing today.  Earth Day represents more than just a holiday.  It represents out of the ordinary  action that one doesn't ordinary do for the purpose of making and keeping our Earth the fine place it physically is.

 - Metonymy (/mɛˈtɒnəmi/)^[1] is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.^{[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy}

NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 21 -- April -- Weekly Scribblings

 April (Anti-I-Over)

April comes once a year 

Year that makes me smile 

Smiles can win a lover over 

Over the woodshed goes the ball 

Ball you catch and play chase 

Chase, your it--please don't cry 

Cry babies never win the prize 

Prize, prizes, for the April game  

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The rules for the school Game of Anti-I-Over are found here, http://www.oneroomschoolhouses.ca/the-games-they-played.html .   We used to play it at school recess and after eating noon lunch until the bell rang.  Generally we played it when the weather would get nice, April was the nicest.  All it takes is a bunch of restless kids, a shed to which we through the ball over (ours was a genuine woodshed that held enough wood for the stove all the cool and colder months), and a rubber ball that wouldn't hurt real bad when someone threw it at you. 

Anti-I-Over was my favorite school outside game, Fox and Goose played in the snow was next best on my list. Come May we still played throwing the ball over the woodshed but also making a May Pole entertained us as well.  The most fun was watching the teachers trying to make that work without getting the streamers tangled when we played Dance around the May Pole. 

Note:  (found at "The Games They Played" link above)

"Anti-I-Over: The object of the game is to throw a ball over the roof of the schoolhouse or woodshed, yelling “Anti-I-Over”. If a person on the opposite team on the other side of the building catches the ball, other teammates sneak around the building while the catcher tries to touch as many players from the other team with the ball, before they safely reach the half way mark. Tagged children are captured and become part of the opposite team. Teams change sides each time the ball is successfully caught. If the catcher drops the ball, he has to join the opposing team. The team that captures all the players wins. "

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 21,     https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-one-6/ 

 - I am also linked with Rosemary at Weekly Scribblings #66,      https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/04/weekly-scribblings-66-all-about-april.html

 - I am attempting to write at least one poem a day for the National Poem Writing Month.  Today is Day 21 of the 30, you can see my progress here, NaPoWriMo 2021.

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 20 -- a Sijo form poem

           Creature of the night 

Lover boy stays out all night 

         while I cry here all alone waiting

Won't come home you stay and play 

          play pool with boys you knew before 

 I'm not here and the house is locked 

          you won't find me, Key is lost 

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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked for prompt with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 20,     https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-8/ 

 - Our (optional) prompt for the day is to write a sijo. This is a traditional Korean poetic form. Like the haiku, it has three lines, but the lines are much longer. Typically, they are 14-16 syllables, and optimally each line will consist of two parts – like two sentences, or a sentence of two clauses divided by a comma. In terms of overall structure, a sijo functions like an abbreviated sonnet, in that the first line sets up an inquiry or discussion, the second line continues the discussion, and the third line resolves it with a “twist” or surprise.   I am following the model below, check out more of this "primer" here 

 - The first line is usually written in a 3-4-4-4 grouping pattern and states the theme of the poem, where a situation is generally introduced.

The second line is usually written in a 3-4-4-4 pattern (similar to the first) and is an elaboration of the first line's theme or situation (development).

The third line is divided into two sections. The first section, the counter-theme, is grouped as 3-5, while the second part, considered the conclusion of the poem, is written as 4-3. The counter-theme is called the 'twist,' which is usually a surprise in meaning, sound, or other device.

NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 19 -- Hey You!! (a Humorous [??] Rant)

   Get Off My Cloud 

Move your grimy butts off those steps 

I didn't dig this pool for you 

It's for me and family to swim 

Your pleasure baths won't change my mind 

I'll never sing one song to you 

'Stead I'm watching your feathers shed 

In a way, you two love bird doves 

It's hard for me you to chastise 

But Mr. Blackbird, one hour bath?

While I may of you tolerate 

My Misses will shoo all away 

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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 19, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-nineteen-6/ 

 - Words of our Host, "Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a humorous rant. In this poem, you may excoriate to your heart’s content all the things that get on your nerves."

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