Sunday Muse - Will I open?

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    The door is locked  

I have the key the door is locked 

You can't come in without the word 

Your magic word I'll turn the key 

Works better than cupid's arrow 

You know the word don't say in vain 

Please, want it seriously said 

When I know you really mean it 

I'll turn my key, open the door 

Door to my heart and shoot your dart 

Let Cupid's Arrow sting my heart 

    

      "Cupid's Arrow" Artwork by Jimmiehov 2021

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

 - Photo Prompt furnished by Carrie at The Sunday Muse #187  , http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2021/11/sunday-muse-187.html?m=1 

 - The heart and arrow drawing in  the "Cupid's Arrow" is on a picture of a piece of paper that I have been carrying in my Bible almost ever since we were married, 48+ years ago.

 - A song similar to my ditty:  

    Bob Dylan - "Is Your Love in Vain?" (Official Audio)  

Official audio for "Is Your Love in Vain?" by Bob Dylan Listen to Bob Dylan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWlM790UJLk

 Lyrics (sing along?) --

    Is Your Love in Vain?

Do you love me 

Or are you just extending good will? 

Do you need me half as bad as you say 

Or are you just feeling guilt? 

I've been burned before and I know the score 

So you won't hear me complain 

Will I be able to count on you 

Or is your love in vain? 

Are you so fast that you cannot see 

That I must have solitude? 

When I am in the darkness 

Why must you intrude? 

Do you know my world, do you know my kind 

Or must I explain? 

Will you let me be myself 

Or is your love in vain? 

Well, I've been to the mountain and I've been in the wind 

I've been in and out of happiness 

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings 

And I've never been too impressed 

All right, I'll take a chance 

I will fall in love with you 

If I'm a fool you can have the night 

You can have the morning too 

Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow 

Do you understand my pain? 

Are you willing to risk it all 

Or is your love in vain? 

Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow 

Do you understand my pain? 

Are you willing to risk it all 

Or is your love in vain? 

Thank you 

Source: Musixmatch 

Songwriters: Robert Dylan Is Your Love in Vain? 

lyrics © Universal Tunes 

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Friday Writings - an Allegorical Poem

    "Don't judge a book by its cover"** 

 

book with a face that tells a lie 

must examine to its fullest 

horse's mouth look him in the teeth 

is it a book of fiction tales 

book of fables, nursery rhymes 

beauty lies in deceit and smiles 

delights we like breaking the rules 

those bad pennies come back to haunt 

battle scared covers bled for naught?

listen to your heart, it's your call 

         (and a Senryū)*** 

Book of the Dead 

Truth behind the lie 

The secret of me and you 

Shakespeare for the squirrels 

(My book runneth over) 

Two hunters sitting 

  in a duck blind:  

 "M.R. Ducks." 

 "M.R. Not Ducks." 

 "O.S.A.R. C.M. Wangs?"   

 "L.I.B! M.R. Ducks."  

I fail to see any value whatsoever about the above conversation which has gone ballistic years ago and still lives. [a Joke or a Poem, google doesn't know either (URL)]

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

 - I am linked with Rosemary for the prompt described below on the Friday Writings website,   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/search/label/Friday%20Writings 

 - Rosemary has invited us to "reinterpret a well-known saying."  I picked this one from a googled list, "Don't judge a book by its cover.  You can visit her instructions by going to the link above, also you can visit others who have posted their writings and recorded them at the bottom of her post. 

 - Notes:

    ** My answer to Rosemary's request was "Don't judge a book by its cover" which saying is my writing's title.

     *** The final Senryū I composed at our public library as a "Spine Poem" using the titles of four books found on their bindings spines.  I have not read any of them although I am thinking about checking the bottom book out to read.  

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