Flower Love -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 30

     Fleeting Love

She a window flower, 

and he a winter breeze *

Her early leaf's a flower 

but only so an hour ** 

He gives his harness bells a shake, 

and miles to go before I sleep ***

I could've died for love--

But for livin' I was born ****

Nobody knows this little Rose --

Did I not take it from the ways *****

If suddenly you forget me 

do not look for me, for I shall 

already have forgotten you  ****** 

 NOTES:  Line notes from their sources and URL's-- 

* Wind and Window Flower - Poem by Robert Frost (famouspoetsandpoems.com) 

** Nothing Gold Can Stay - Poem by Robert Frost (famouspoetsandpoems.com) 

*** Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Poem by Robert Frost (famouspoetsandpoems.com) 

**** Life Is Fine - Poem by Langston Hughes (famouspoetsandpoems.com) 

***** Nobody knows this little Rose - Poem by Emily Dickinson (famouspoetsandpoems.com) 

****** If You Forget Me - Poem by Pablo Neruda (famouspoetsandpoems.com) 

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 - Poem line sources Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 30 for the Prompt idea of writing a "Cento" form poem, 

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

 - The Cento borrows one line from several other poems to construct a poem of our own.  I chose the Flower Love theme to look for and use.  

 - References to other works are in the body notes above.

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April -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 30 -- it Ends Today

"Running Time" by

 Victor Bezrukover 

              _ _ _ 

Sifting fertile dirt 

Spread it helps the flowers grow 

Dirty hands will wash 

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     April to May Handover 

When April's day is done, last day 

Last day for another long year 

April showers have come and gone 

Has made ready for May flowers 

Plants are ready previews given 

All May bloomers have qualified 

Even the slow Magnolia 

has produced with two whites today 

The rest standing tall as can be 

White Oleander, purple white 

Yesterday and Tomorrows, pink Oleanders, 

Green we don't know what's guarding fence, 

Green all year Berried Holly Tree, 

Red Canna Lilly (up from freeze), 

Louisiana Iris tall, 

And Red Oleander cornered. 

Lily of the Nile for July,  

Rabbits eat Sunflowers come up, 

Oak tree takes roll, all are ready 

May will be here on the morrow 

All is ready for her to come 

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

 - I am linked for the top Photo Prompt with Carrie at the Sunday Muse #208, 

http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/04/sunday-muse-208.html?m=1 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 30 (last day) at 

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

for my NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 30 AND IT IS POSTED on THIS BLOG at 

http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2022/04/flower-love-napowrimo-2023-day-30.html?m=0 

It was too much to post inside this one.

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- I have written every day, I hope you can classify all as poems of sorts.

 Each of the links below should pull up several writes from April 1 down to April 30 (today, 2022): 

NaPoWriMo 2022, 

NaPoWriMo 2022b, 

NaPoWriMo 2022c, 

NaPoWriMo 2022d, 

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The Spoon -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 29

Born with, Good and Gooey

No silver spoon was I born with 

True, not even a stainless spoon 

Plastic hadn't been invented 

We were poor wasn't everyone 

"Things" didn't have sure woulda liked 

Electric train and others big 

But had the "little things" boys need 

Pocket knife, barrow wheel to push 

We were poor but plenty of love 

Things children need money can't buy 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 21xx, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo Day 29 for the prompt push, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-8/ 

- I am also linked with Rosemary at her hosting's today of Friday Writings #24.  Congratulations, Rosemary, on your latest writing achievement.

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/04/friday-writings-24-your-landscape.html?m=1  

 - Photo is my Fifth Grade school picture.  Eight in school, four of us were cousins.  Can you find me?

 - The prompt was to write a poem in which you muse on the gifts you received at birth — My gift, it really was, was being in a poor family.  A two bedroom, four room house called for sister to have the second, I slept on the front porch without heat or AC, all Nebraska seasons.  My grandfather and Dad closed it in with storm windows. 

 - Photo,  I was the boy in back, sister was front by our teacher.

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The Cat -- NaPoWriMo Day 28 -- a Shape, Shaped, or Concrete Poem

     

                  The Cat in the Window 

                           (an)       (an)

                      (Ear)     (Ear) 

                     in the    window 

                my cat in the window 

          cat in the window looking out 

 (Eye) looking in, out for her friends, birds 

     Birds are singing, cat is smiling applause

       Sits, stares, and smiles for me 

        Smiling at me ready for her food 

     She's smiling at me ready for her meal

 She's smiling at me ready for her tasty meal 

   When it comes she'll jump down to where

    She'll jump down where I am

   (Leg     ) ready for supper now ready to eat, chomp down

   (Leg     ) wants it now ready to eat, chomp, swallow it down 

   (Leg     ) wants it now ready 

  (Foot      ) she'll be saying, "please, please, I want to eat" 

  (Foot      ) she gets her bowl will say  (tail tail tail tail tail tail tail tail) 

"Meow, meow, thank you, thank you" chomp, "Meow, I love you" chomp chomp  "Purr purr  purr   purr    purr     purr      purr       purr        purr . . . " 

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

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 28 for Prompt instructions to write a "concrete poem" which I have always called a "shape or shaped poem", 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-8/ 

 - I am also linked with dVerse, Open Night, with Grace hosting, at

https://dversepoets.com/2022/04/28/openlinknight-315/ 

Go there to the Mr. Linky button at the bottom to find other's work

 - The Photo is of Amber, my grand-cat, belonging to our younger daughter, but who had lived with us almost all of her five years while she and family lived in London.  I took this picture from my 2007 posting,

 http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2007/04/cat-whisperer-and-cat-in-window.html . 

Amber was a nice had.  She died in 2013 at age 19.

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Sunday Meal-- NaPoWriMo Day 27

We went out to eat last Sunday 

Money in pocket we could pay 

Pocket money pay our waitress 

Tip money too, buy her a dress 

Now pretty dresses cost a lot 

We wished to see the one she'd bought 

Tip money she'd got, happy girl 

Showed dress to us gave it a whirl 

Wife wore Pearl's came to eat again 

She'd spent all her money on them 

Like good men shared my meal with her 

To save the day and save her fur 

Money in pocket we can pay 

We can go to eat next  Sunday 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 27 for writing prompt and to post my poem, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-seven-8/ 

 - The prompt was to write a Duplex Poem, a variation of the Sonnet 

 - The photo is of half my plate last Sunday, Mrs. Jim's was the same as I shared the other half with her.  We had a Shrimp Poboy, French fries, and Diet Cokes at our "Fish City" restaurant .

"With 10,000 restaurants representing cuisine from more than 70 countries and American regions, Houston's restaurant scene is as ethnically diverse as its more than 6-million residents. With so many options, it's not surprising that visitors leave the city with plenty of good things to say about dining in Houston." 

https://www.visithoustontexas.com/restaurants-and-bars/restaurants-and-eateries/ 

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The Day -- NaPoWriMo Day 26

The day there was nothing

I pulled over to stop 

A pulloff beconed me 

And when I did there was 

Nothing 

Nothing there of value 

to make my stop worthwhile 

Middle of the desert  

Nothing 

Nothing was there to see 

Not one thing impressed me 

Brown sand up close was all 

Nothing 

Nothing to see down there 

Creek had been dry for years 

Nothing there that could grow 

Nothing 

Nothing up there to see 

Nothing back where I'd been 

Brown beside on the hill 

Nothing 

Nothing here sand and rocks 

Fans of Brown have a feast 

Feast of nothing at all 

Nothing 

Nothing tugs, "in the car" 

In the car turn the key 

"Nothing" 

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

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo Day 26, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-six-8/ 

 - There we are prompted to "write a Poem containing an epic simile, also known as a Homeric simile."

 - The photo is of my TV screen during a commercial.  I don't know what was being advertised, mostly I was trying to figure out the make, it is a Mazda Miata maybe?

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The Dream -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 25

 Nightmare Lady Beloved

I had this dream last night 

It's a recurring dream 

Always of you my dear 

You come to wreck my head 

Last night you wanted be 

You'd be Queen for a day 

That's it the way it starts 

You'd be boss over me 

I don't like being bossed 

But with you that's okay 

You've a cause to defend 

Worthy of fighting for 

Leaders Nazi type are

Taking your country down

Terrible sounding news 

Trouble she had pronounced 

What to do, what to do 

Quandried head she had made 

We took it by the horns 

Swords and sabres unsleaved  

Grabbed her by her skirt tail 

Flew to the town center 

Uprising taking place 

We swished and swashed heads rolled 

What a mess there was strewn 

Bodies scattered around 

One soldier lived we'd take 

Take him to jail prisoner 

Lifted up fighting still 

Holding out wouldn't go 

With his last gasping breath 

Stabbed us both to our death 

She put on her crown, Queened 

We flew away where safe 

Wait for another night 

Wait for another dream 

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 - Photo (read note below) and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo Day 25 for the prompt,  https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-five-8/ 

 - The prompt was to write an aisling poem, see the above link

 - I made my own screenshot of the Aisling figure, I found her here, 

https://heroes-and-villain.fandom.com/wiki/Aisling 

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