A Tribute Poem to Minnie #1"

   

 To Min; my faithful pony  

Your name was Min 

best horse there's ever been 

(About you, Min)

Dappled white with 

small spots of gray throughout 

Always there for 

me to pet, brush, and stroke 

Min was Dad's horse 

Bess, older, was for us 

Soon Min grown old   

became the horse for me 

Rode her to school 

high school three miles away 

Plodged at first 

I taught her to gallop 

Also to jump 

the puddles and ditches 

Come rain and snow 

was off to school we'd go 

Bareback come cold 

Minnie would keep me warm 

New friends for her, 

they, very soon she made 

Other horses 

in the school barn, kids too 

Two girls we'd meet 

at the corner waiting 

Waiting for us 

to come over the hill 

Minnie first saw  

the girls and their horses 

Years quickly passed 

Two in town then we're gone 

Minnie retired, 

soon after, pasture went 

I drove to school 

grades eleven and twelve 

Off to college 

made new friends, boys and girls 

Minnie passed on 

Heaven's horse now, was friend of mine 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - For the Photo Prompt I'm liked to Carrie for The Sunday Muse #211 at 

http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/05/sunday-muse-211.html?m=1 

 - Tribute #2 (URL)

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Trees - for dVerse, a new form, The Constanza

Tall Trees

In a far away land tall trees  

 Under those trees quiet and still 

 Feeling breeze atop a small hill  

 Welcoming the birds and the bees  

 All are greeting the smiling sun  

 Make ready for a day of fun  

 Lake water to their roots does seep  

 Nearby lies its source a small lake  

 Water for all who needs can take  

 It's a place I would like to be  

 Tralala and twiddle dede  

 Birds lullaby makes a good sleep  

 

Little cottage under those trees  

 Whitewashed, red roof, with yellow trim  

 Make my home best place I have been  

 A far away land in the trees  

 Welcoming the birds and the bees  

 Lake water to their roots does seep   

It's a place I would like to be  

 Little cottage under those trees 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Bjorn at dVerse for a new to us form, the Constanza.  Read of it here, 

https://dversepoets.com/2022/05/19/meet-the-bar-with-the-constanza/ 

 - Bjorn also supplied the photo.  I print screened it and touched it up a bit.

 - NOTE:  Google has hijacked me and will NOT ALLOW me to leave comments on your Blogger blog unless it permits me to post Anonymous comments.  Sometimes not even that liberty. (I don't allow anonymous comments on my blog because hundreds were robo-commented in an Asian language.)

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Speak Up -- a Poem for "Friday Writings"

    Go Tell 

If I could speak and you would listen 

I'd speak my peace 

Not popular what I have to say 

I'd buy a stump take it to the park 

Stump for human race 

For all, fairness, opportunity 

But those I'm not permitted to say 

Not in public speak 

It's rigged for the rich and powerful 

Poets arise, say it with your rhymes 

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

 - I'm linked with Rosemary for Friday Writings #27,  

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/05/friday-writings-27-watching-and.html

 - This week she is asking us what we would say in order to bear witness to these times we are living in, and how it feels to be living in them. 

 - The little book pictured above comes in handy sometimes.  I have another book, "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare," that I bought at a book store in Stratford-upon-Avon when we visited in 1980 but I have mislaid it for now, picture taking time.

 - One of my bucket list items is to attend, auditing, a college class of the works of Shakespeare but I am afraid that is one that will not be fulfilled.  I have waited too long.

 - 61 Words, ten lines, 93 syllables.  Short.  Flash Writing?

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