Tightrope Walker -- Sunday Muse Write

 

Tightrope Walker; Sleep Walking 

Tightrope walker's nightmare come   

Sleep walking on a steel beam  

Without a net high high high  

Netless over the city 

Free as a bird on a wire 

Pretty figure dressed in black 

Gracefully walks with no care  

Slight footed cat on a fence 

Will she fall, that we will see 

Cross our fingers, say a prayer 

She's jumping down, did she fall 

Far below what do we see 

A fine Flying Trapeze school 

On the side of Regents Park 

She is there, now on a bar 

Swinging she jumps to the next 

And see, she stands on the ground 

Those lessons were learned so well 

 [Jim's Photo]

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 - Poem and Bottom Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021 and 2013, here (poem) and 2013 (bottom photo, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2013/09/home-now-includes-feline-friday-picture.html ).  

 - Top photo from Carrie's This weekend's "Sunday Muse" link, 

https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2021/05/sunday-muse-158.html?m=1 

 - NaPoWriMo (the National Poetry Writing Month folks) are saying "Thank You" and "So Long Until Next Year", https://www.napowrimo.net/so-long-until-next-year/ 

 -> I completed writing and posting a 'poem' every day in April for NaPoWriMo, you can see them here, NaPoWriMo 2021 .  Fun but almost a 'grind'.

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NaPoWriMo Review, 2015-2021

 Testing waters. 

NaPoWriMo Labels for 2015 through 2021 are below.  

This weekend's "Sunday Muse" link, 

https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2021/05/sunday-muse-158.html?m=1 

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 30 -- Our Short Ride to . . .

 
[photo of picture in Hill Country Houses book by Cindy Severson, page 10]

    Lover's Lane 

We're going out to Lover's Lane

Do what we are supposed to do 

Smooch a little and chat a lot 

Enjoy a couple of kisses 

Like days of old please lead me there 

Post Office Road past the office

Out of town come close and snuggle 

Cow pasture right, down Old Dirt Road 

Road's end by the creek, turn around 

The Moon and stars will be our guards 

Play our favorite CD real soft 

Kiss, close our eyes, we merge as one 

You've lead me well please lead some more  

More paths galore to explore  

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

 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero at Writer's  Pantry #68, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/05/writers-pantry-68-get-caught-reading.html 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2021Day 30, at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirty-7/ 

 -  http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/search/label/NaPoWriMo%202021 is the link, click on it, for viewing all of my NaPoWriMo writings.  Today, Day 30, is the last day until next year's April National Poetry Writing Month.

NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 29 -- Cats are the Meow

  

Cat in the Window; cut this poem out, carry it in your pocket for National Pocket Poem Day, April 29, URL  

Been looking out my window 

This is my favorite perch 

Every day there's something new

Most enjoyed is sunning here 

While I do I see it all 

Golfers and lawn caretakers 

Critters of all kinds, squirrels, 

skunks, dogs looking in at me 

Snakes and lizards aplenty 

The birds I like, doves and hawks 

Hawks eat cats and small kittens 

They eat baby doves as well 

So that's why I like it here 

I'm sunning and staying clear  

Clear of the hawks and blue jays 

I would eat a baby bird 

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 - Poems and Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021 and 2007, (photo at http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2007/04/cat-whisperer-and-cat-in-window.html ) 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 29 at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-7/ where we were asked to imagine looking in or looking out of a window in our writing.  My favorite cat will be looking out the window.  

 - On May 9, 2021, I linked it again, this time with Rommy in the Writer's Pantry #69 at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/05/writers-pantry-69-i-am-not-throwing.html?m=1 

 - Here are a few of my blog posts of favorite cats, https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=cat .  I would loan one if you need for your writing illustration.  But I would want credit and a warning posted that it is copyright by me. 

 - http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/search/label/NaPoWriMo%202021 is the link for viewing all of my NaPoWriMo 2021 writings.

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 28 -- The Flock -- Weekly Scribblings

[My Photo]

Why get up; Rooster and Chickens and Me and You

Why get up when my rooster crows 

He's not crowing for me or you 

He's crowing for his flock, it's time 

Time for them to rise, rise and shine 

He knows early bird gets the worm 

Early to bed early to rise 

makes for healthy wealthy and wise 

Axioms he's learned and rules by 

Yes sure he's boss of the chickens 

But for me my boss is my wife 

She is still in bed and asleep 

[also my photo]

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

 - I am linked to NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 28, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-7/ , where we are prompted there for today to write question and answer poems.  You can find other's efforts there as well. 

 - I have also linked it to Rommy at the Weekly Scribblings #67, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/04/weekly-scribblings-67-liminal-space.html for the idea of liminal space.  I wrote this before I knew the prompt but I think Mrs. Jim (i.e. the writer's spouse) still in bed asleep is far removed from the wake up call of the rooster on his roost in the hen house.

 - This April I am again once a day writing "poems",  for the National Poetry Writing Month 2021.  To read my others click HERE.

NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 27 -- Group Behavior

My 1955 Ford Crown Victoria (a 1:18 scale toy)

Twdt**; things we did then 

Things we bragged about way back then

Things we are sorry about now 

Things we never tell anyone 

Things, we could have been arrested 

Things I heard stars bragging about 

Things bad I heard them bragging on 

Things boldly carried through store doors 

Things, beer, for which  never they never paid 

Things obscene on tape bragged about 

Things dismissed vulgar locker room 

Things as boys or girls, might have done 

Things, shoplifting, initials carved 

Things serious, joy rides stolen 

Things, panty raids, girls college dorms 

Things, midnight swims at country clubs 

Things, Saturday nights street racing 

Things we shouldn't have ever done 

Things our friends did, WE DID NOT DO 

Things our consciences kept us from 

Things WE WOULD NEVER WANT TO DO 

Things I did or else wished I'd done

Things you did do or wished you'd done 

Things of youth glad we didn't do   

Things others did, some went to jail  

Things naughty or nice, 

we did or did not, 

'life goes on' 

**I also coined a new 'initialism', "Twdt"; things we did then.

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 - Poem copyright, Jimmiehov2021,  All rights reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day  27, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-seven-7/ 

 - Recommended at the link above as an inspiration to write today,  "The Dictionary of Obscure Desires",    Perhaps, from there on page three, https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/page/3 , but NOT used as I found it after my write, 

 -  kuebiko n. a state of exhaustion inspired by an act of senseless violence, which forces you to revise your image of what can happen in this world—mending the fences of your expectations, weeding out invasive truths, cultivating the perennial good that’s buried under the surface—before propping yourself up in the middle of it like an old scarecrow, who’s bursting at the seams but powerless to do anything but stand there and watch.   

 - And I am attempting to write at least one poem a day for the National Poem Writing Month. Today is Day 27 of the 30, you can see my progress here, NaPoWriMo 2021 . 

NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 26 -- Chili Dog

[This is not a Chili Cheddar Cheese Dog, 

 it is a French Hot Dog, made in France.  

There the true sausage is stuffed inside 

a French Baguette cut to just over the 

length of the wiener/sausage] 

http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-kind-of-hot-dog-is-this.html

[to the tune of the Oscar Meyer Wiener Song]

I wish I were a Chili Cheddar Cheese Dog  

That is what I truly wish to be 

Cause if I were a Chili Cheddar Cheese Dog  

Everyone would want two or three

Oh everyone would get so fat  

Everyone would be Rolly Polly

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 - Poem is a Parody Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - The original song:

I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Wiener 

That is what I truly wish to be 

Cause if I were a Oscar Mayer Wiener

Everyone would be in love 

Oh everyone would be in love 

Everyone would be in love with me 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 26 (National Poem Writing Month) for the prompt idea, at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-six-7/ 

 - And I am attempting to write at least one poem a day for the National Poem Writing Month. Today is Day 26 of the 30, you can see my progress here, 

NaPoWriMo 2021 .

 - Instructions were, ". . . like to challenge you to write a parody. Besides being fun, writing parodies can be a great way to hone your poetic skills – particularly your sense of rhyme and sound, as you try to mimic the form of an existing poem while changing the content. Just find a poem – or a song – that has always annoyed you, and write an altered, silly version of it. Or, alternatively, find a poem with a very particular rhyme scheme or form, and use that scheme/form as the basis for a poem that mocks something else."

NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 25 -- Her Life

An Occasional Poem, "a poem suited to, or written for, a particular occasion. This past January, lots of people who usually don’t encounter poetry got a dose when Amanda Gorman read a poem at President Biden’s inauguration. And then she followed it up with a poem at the Super Bowl (not traditionally an event associated with verse!) The poem you write can be for an occasion in the past or the future." (per prompt hint at NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 25, link) 

The Occasion for my write below was at Mother's funeral.

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When Mother went away 

When Mother went away that cold day 

We knew she had lived the perfect play 

From Act One all the way, Seventh Act 

Act One, her schooling, she Quarterbacked 

Mother could throw the ball a whole mile 

Each day teachers said for them a smile 

Act Two, her working and courting life 

Each beau or work task was for to die 

Memorized her lines though flexible 

Adlibbed to suit, she was so able 

Act Three, she married, chose perfect mate 

For special one she opened the gate 

Christian couple, they minded their God 

Lived Golden Rule, Neighbor Love not flawed  

 

Her kids Obeyed, their Father, Mother 

Just two she had, wished for another 

Special Act Four for them, boy and girl 

She taught them well their father was hell 

Act Five was Senior Citizen gowned  

In retirement she moved to town 

Grandmother supreme she lived her part 

Three girls and four boys were all so smart  

Act Six spent with doctors and nurses 

Making sure their lines were well rehearsed 

Hard things, transfusions, forgotten lines 

When the curtain was pulled, was her time 

Act Seven, blink of the eye, that's all 

That's all, the fastest journey, God called 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 25 (National Poem Writing Month) for the prompt idea, at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-five-7/  

 - And I am attempting to write at least one poem a day for the National Poem Writing Month. Today is Day 25 of the 30, you can see my progress here, NaPoWriMo 2021 .