Word List Easter Poem -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Sixteen

   One day in May 

Passover had come late that year 

It was Friday, her friend was killed 

This third day was going to be 

the saddest day in her short life 

Sunday morning without breakfast 

Moonlight, Mary trudged to his grave 

Crazy guy, said he'd live through death 

Slowly, with tears, tomb she approached 

Really bad, twas vacant!  Empty!

Angel sitting near gave the news 

"He has risen!!" 

NOTE:  This is a modernized true poem according to Christian, of which I am, beliefs which we celebrate on Easter Sunday.   Jesus, Son of God come to earth in form of a man, died, was killed by Crucifixion but rose from his grave three days later. 

In your Bible, Luke 24:6-7.  

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Sixteen for form, the Curtal Sonnet, prompting suggestion, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-9/ 

 - I am also linked with Shay at the Sunday  Muse for her Garden Word List prompt with 20 word from which to choose, 

http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/04/word-garden-word-list-19-

aehousman.html?m=1

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 - Our NaPoWriMo 2022 prompt today is to write a Curtal Sonnet. It has eleven lines, instead of the usual fourteen, and the last line is shorter than the ten that precede it. 

 - Shay's words for us, "our aim here is to use these words as a starting point for work of our own.  Please use at least 3 of the 20 words on the list in an original poem, then link, and visit others. Enjoy. 

 Now, your list: 

 altered;  breakfast;  church;  dreary;  fetch;  garland;  grave;  harness;  humming;  laurel,  May;  moonlight;  rainy;  sheep;  shiver;  sloe;  slough;  stem;  vacant; and willows." 

 - The five words I used are breakfast, grave, May, moonlight,  and vacant.

 - According to "Britannica" the Curtal Sonnet refers specifically to a sonnet of 11 lines rhyming abcabc dcbdc or abcabc dbcdc with the last line a tail, or half a line. 

 https://www.britannica.com/art/curtal-sonnet 

According to modern technics I did not use rhyme, but I did use eight syllable lines for Syllabic Form. 

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Dolls and Toys -- NaPoWriM 2022 Day Fifteen

    Be My Paper Doll 

Boys have toys 

That's well known 

And when they grow older  

some they still own 

I don't mean their Porsches 

and electronics 

Ones they might keep for play 

like down on the floor or 

up on a table top 

While others are keepsakes 

of which they never play 

So now I'll tell of mine 

Some I still have some are 

out in a grove 

Like my steel wheelbarrow wheel, 

or rusting behind a barn 

Others were only in my mind 

though I never owned 

That would be the electric train 

I found every Christmas time 

It stays in the store or Sears catalog 

or on my cousin's shelf 

Teddy bears and trucks and cars 

Most every marble I've ever 

had resting in an old crank churn 

The tin monkey that knows 

his multiplication table through twelve 

Six Match Box cars on my dresser 

lined up ready to race and 

my gyroscope in its box  

A wooden box with my wood box and 

My Shirley Temple scrape book 

that Mom and I filled 

An old cast iron taxi my sister 

bought sort of like the one 

I had when small 

There's my Dick Tracy camera 

I'd ordered from Chicago 

And a few others I haven't told 

There's one I played with 

but never owned 

And NEVER WILL 

That's the paper dolls 

Ones like I played with 

while visiting my cousins 

I would cut out clothes for the dolls to wear 

When we ran out then we'd find some more in the Sears and Wards catalogs 

Doing all that was fun 

But now I've no desire for them 

No desire to even play 

let alone own 

There is an exception 

But still, I would be FAKING IT 

That's if a GRANDAUGHTER 

wanted me to play

Paper Dolls 

Oh yes, I forgot to tell of, 

my trusty Red Ryder BB Gun, 

it still shoots 

And my Snow Sled 

hanging on a garage wall, 

we have no snow in our 

Gulf Coast part of Texas 

[My dresser top -- Race Ready]

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Fifteen for the prompt below, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-8/ 

 - We were asked, like  "challenge you to write a poem about something you have absolutely no interest in."  That would be PAPER DOLLS.

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My Life, a Movie -- NaPoWriM 2022 Day Fourteen

"Boy Meets Girl"

[CAMERAS ROLE] 

(Curtains go up)

(Several occupied tables, a used setting on some, all seated have finished a meal) 

(Enter Jim, a full time 

 engineer 

and part time student )

Roommate (Mike) voice:  

   We were hoping you would come 

   we made you a plate 

Jim voice: 

   Oh Gee, thanks.  

   The prof let us go after he took roll 

   Thank you much 

Roomate's girlfriend (Pamela) voice:

   This is Arnell, I just met her tonight 

    I told her you might come 

Jim voice: 

(facing Arnell) 

   I'm glad to meet you 

   Clam Fettuccine is my favorite Italian 

(Music plays) 

   Arnell, would you like to dance this one 

(All four go onto the dance floor)

(Curtain lowers) 

[CUT!!] 

This script is not finished 

Filming has continued 

After forty-nine years 

One marriage--Jim/Arnell 

The end is not in sight 

NOTE:  The story is true.  The girl's names were changed.  Six months later Mike became Best Man at our wedding.

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 - Film Script?? / Poem?? Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 14, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fourteen-9/  

 - I am also linked to dVerse (https://dversepoets.com) 

 - And to 

 - And to Rommy with the Friday Writings #, 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1 

 - "Today’s (NaPoWriMo 2022) challenge is a fun one: write a poem that takes the form of the opening scene of the movie of your life. Does it open with a car chase? A musical number? A long scene panning across a verdant plain? You’re the director (and also the producer, the actors, the set designer, the cinematographer, and the lowly assistant that buys doughnuts for the crew) – so it’s all up to you! Ju

Happy writing! 

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Living -- NaPoWriM 2022 Day Thirteen

      ["Perfection is Boring"]

     On Edge; what if

People say, "She's living on the edge" 

What that says I have no idea 

I only know the world ends with me 

It goes no further there is no more 

It's only me in this crazy world 

Me and three other dearly loved ones 

Those would be Honey and my parents 

Yes and my dog and cat to the list 

Live for us six or is it we six? 

Though not for me to worry about 

Doctors and vets worry for them 

I worry for me the pets a bit 

Mostly I worry 'bout falling off 

Off the edge of the world I might fall 

And if I fall who would cry for me 

Just those five it would be Count me out 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo writing inspiration is "Perfection is Boring", the work of "Vika Muse". She's featured at dVerse for you to see some of her other art pieces as well,  

 https://dversepoets.com/2022/04/12/poetics-the-light-of-vika-muse/

 - Vika Muse may be found on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/get.muse/

Below is the entire picture of Vika's picture, "Perfection is Boring".  As you can see I viciously cropped the portion that inspired me to write of one living on "The Edge of the World".  The topic seemed wide open for my Muse, from we chose what you saw at the beginning. 

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Balls -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Twelve

             Two Balls 

One was large one was small 

Today is for the small 

She was short he was tall 

Today she is Queen Ball 

Exercise aids they are 

He's sitting and pushing 

She is hugged and gets squeezed 

With folks elbows and knees 

For health they do it all 

Best liked is the small ball 

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 - I  am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Twelve, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twelve-10/ 

for writing of small objects 

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Poem, Tall -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Eleven

   

     Tall Women 

Tall women or girls if I slip  

Frighten me in elevators 

Whenever one gets in with me 

Especially if just us two 

Quickly then I push the button 

Push the button for the next floor 

Not on the run but I will scram 

Tall women, if taller than me 

For a reason that I don't know 

Scare the bejabbers out of me 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2014 and 2022

 - I am writing for NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Eleven, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eleven-10/ 

 - Photo first posted here: 

http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2014/02/six-word-saturday_22.html?m=1 

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Love Poem -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 10

Mr. and Mrs. Jim's wedding picture (1973) 
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They* said to write a love poem

To my sweetest, my blossom true
wanting to write you a love poem
telling you how much I love you
fingers to keys sweet words to come 

tell how you felt when first you saw her
I will try to write a love poem

When first we met my heart went wild
no tender little pitty-pat
but one long jolt you caused, my child,
a bolt from the blue hit my chest 

how you knew it was her you loved
It came one day into my head 

Listen to my arrow pierced heart
my life will never be the same
Dan Cupid hit me on the mark
that arrow had your name

tell now about being with her

My life is whole a life complete
I need you always by my side
dearer than chocolate you're so sweet
love you always will you're my pride 

are you happy with what you wrote?

If I could only write a poem
if I had the sweet words I felt
if I could now put them to print
there would be a love poem for you

discarded thoughts that didn't fit?

Many thoughts I dropped one thing sure
I love you to Heaven above
you can do no wrong you're so pure
I can't live without you my love 

Photo and Poem Copyright
© 2010 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved  

Photos Copyright © 2013 Jimmiehov

We have been married 49 years.  Both photos are of Mrs. Jim and me away from home.  Top was taken by a "friendly stranger", a drunk guy on the beach at Cayman Island.  The lower we'd been walking and now were aboard the Princess Cruise ship at Aukland for a cruise around New Zealand, down to the south and over to Tasmania, ending up at Sydney, Australia.  

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 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 10, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-ten-10/

 - Our instructions were to write a love poem 

 - This one is a slightly reworked version of the 

one I published in June of 2010.