Sunday Muse -- Come Back?

Photography by Josephine

The old man looked down on the cat.  She was new in the neighborhood and looked up at him expectingly.  He felt her inquiry, could he help her, feed her and give her some loving, a tickle on the neck would do fine?  He was thinking of keeping her around, did she have a home, did she have a family?   He silentlly asked, 

You remind me of a long time ago 

A time we fished at the pond on your farm 

Little brother had come along to fish 

He was an interruption to our day 

Not a pest, rather a constant bother 

We'd just get settled and he'd have a catch 

We'd take fish off his hook and bait anew 

That was our afternoon, fish after fish 

We went together for almost a year 

Played it nice and keeping the Bible rules 

Came a day the bottom fell out for me 

Her old boyfriend came back from fighting wars 

 

All was over for our relationship 

Could you be her come back in other form? 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved

 - Photo furnished by Carrie at The Sunday Muse # 196,

 http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/01/sunday-muse-196.html 

  - There is some truth for this in my past.  We were young and I know now that things like this happen.

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Friday Writings -- Feast or Famine?

“feast or famine”, no in-between  

 On or off, there's no dimmer knob  

 Hot or cold, there's no lukewarm  

 Dems or Reps, no Independents  

 We could go on with this a long long time 

 

 What's happened to middle ground  

 There's no compromise anymore  

 Polarized world has come about  

 Don't blame Mother Nature for this  

 Stubborn and selfish humans rule the world  

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  - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved  

  - I'm linked with Rommy at the Friday Writings # 11, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/01/friday-writings-11-feast-or-famine.html?m=1

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Word List - Dithery

Dont be dithery 

when indecisive 

fills the bill better 

Tis like maundering,  

when squandering flakes 

clattering in snow

Gloomy haunted pomp 

suffers needlessly 

All papier-mache

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 - "Write" Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Shay for her Word List #10 choices from Wallace Steven's' poetry, http://fireblossom-wordgarden.blogspot.com/2022/01/word-garden-word-list-10-wallace-stevens.html?m=1

 - Shay's Word List #10: 

 blackbird;  book;  catastrophe;  chimera;  clattering;  dithery;  fragrance;  gloomy;  haunted;  lilacs;  mask;  maundering;  papier-mache;  police;  pomp;  postcard;  snow;  song;  suffers; and witching