She had a Fan - a Poem for the Sunday Muse

Louise Brooks, fashion icon of the 1920's

 

Flapper with Fan 

She was a flapper girl 

Flapper fresh off from farm 

Flapper of the Twenties 

Carried a flimsy fan 

A fancy formal fan  

Front decorated fresh 

Shy, fear of being found 

Safely behind the fan 

She carried for safety 

Of whom was she afraid 

City friend she hadn't found 

Afraid learning to kiss 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Carrie for my Picture Prompt at the Sunday Muse #228, 

https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/09/sunday-muse-228.html 

 - Read her words and find others writing from viewing of her pictures 

 - "Flappers were a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes in public, driving automobiles, treating sex in a casual manner, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms." Wikipedia, Read More 

 - My dad used to tease my mom by saying that when he found her, she was a Flapper

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How Many? -- a Poem for Bob Dylan (Repeat)

How Many

How many times must a man fall down
  Before he gets picked up no more
How many times must a child get killed
  Before we take the guns away
How many times must the girls be sold
  Before we don't raise any more
The answer my friend, is not to be had
  The answer is not to be had

How many souls must come to their end
  Before motherhood stops in vain
How many graves for the little ones
  Before the earth will hold no more
How many families loose their precious ones
  Before all are rotting away
The answer my friend, is not to be had
  The answer is not to be had

How many times must a bad man kill
  Before they take his toys away
How many men will be locked away
  Before greedy men go to Hell
How many days will turn into years
  Before God makes the carnage stop
The answer my friend, He alone does know
  God alone the answer does know

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Photos and Poem copyright, © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 

Today I'm linked with Rommy at the   Friday Writings #44 at 

 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/09/friday-writings-44-to-err-is-human.html?m=1

 

In 2016, for our springboard, Kerry said: "On Thursday, October 13, Bob Dylan became the first song-writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.’ Dylan is the only artist to have won a Grammy, Golden Globe, Pulitzer, Polar, Oscar and the Nobel Prize." And more.

Notes: 

 Excerpted from a write, poem, that I wrote for October 21, 2016 (here on my Blog Search for "How Many)

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Jimmie's Got a Gun
.Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound of my gun
Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound, it's the sound...
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah....

Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Her whole world's come undone
From lookin' straight at the sun
What did her daddy do
What did he put you through

From Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun Lyrics (There's more at the link. I interpret 'daddy' to be her old man in hippy terms and the 'little baby' (later in the song) meant that Janie was very young--way too young.)

 

[For larger pictures click on to the picture, try again for larger still]

I blogged of my guns and gun experiences here.  Since most of those I have acquired a real gun that I could keep.  It is a Spanish 9mm pistol of which the manufacturer has long gone out of business.  It is a Star, M243 Model Firestar Plus, 9mm, manufactured by Star Bonifacio Echeverria S.A. Eibar (Guipuzcoa), Spain. 
It is still new, never been shot. http://star-firearms.com/firearms/

"A double-stack 9mm version (M-243) ... was commonly referred to by the unofficial name "Firestar Plus". The Firestar was produced by the now defunct Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. in Eibar, Spain until 1994. The Firestar was imported into the United States by Interarms of Alexandria, Virginia."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Firestar_M43 

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8 Comments: (from 2016, you may find an old friend here)

At Friday, October 21, 2016 12:52:00 PM,  brudberg said...

the questions are so very relevant

 

At Friday, October 21, 2016 1:06:00 PM,  Kerry O'Connor said...

You ask the hard questions, Jim.. ones we would all like the answers to. This is a powerful piece in the style of Bob Dylan.

 

At Friday, October 21, 2016 8:30:00 PM,  kaykuala said...

Great Dylan's parody, Dr Jim! Certainly must have taken lots of thinking to do so!

Hank

 

At Friday, October 21, 2016 10:05:00 PM,  Linda said...

A very powerful post, Jim. Thank you so much for sharing.

 

At Saturday, October 22, 2016 12:03:00 AM,  Teri L said...

Dylan would approve. :) Thought provoking and straight forward.

 

At Saturday, October 22, 2016 1:43:00 PM,  Helen said...

One of your finest, Mr. Jim! Dylan and I were both born in 1941 ~ I love that little fact.

 

At Sunday, October 23, 2016 6:38:00 PM,  Outlawyer said...

Wow--so terribly sad--thank you, Jim. k

 

At Monday, October 23, 2017 11:33:00 PM,  Artsy said...

So powerful. Well done, parody.- Gel

 

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Magic Ride - a Write for Poetics at dVerse

 Lee Madgwick (leemadgwick.co.uk)

Welcome 

Welcome to the magic ride
to the place you will find 
It's where we don't really know 
It's guaranteed to please 
You'll be pleased or money back 

What we know you dare not ask 
Ask and you cannot go 
You'll be just a bit higher 
Higher than you think 
Exquisite for prairie land 

Whole ride's guaranteed to please 
It pleases us to please you 

Lee Madgwick  (leemadgwick.co.uk)

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 - Write Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights reserved 

 - I'm linked with Sarah for the Poetics dVerse, whose title there posting, "The strange houses of Lee Madgwick".  See what were're doing at 

 https://dversepoets.com/2022/09/13/the-strange-houses-of-lee-madgwick/ 

 - Click here to read others' works 

Note:  This probably is gibberish, I hope the management here doesn't evict me.  I feel "strange" today after studying (ekphrastic poem??) Lee's "strange art" works.  It looks like a poem but please note I'm not calling it a poem as of yet.

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Mom's Garden - a Piece of Prosery for dVerse

from "How to Grow and Care for Sweet Alyssum" (URL) 
photo, "The Spruce" / Kara Riley

“I’d like, too, to plant the sweet alyssum that smells like honey and peace.” from the poem, “What I would like to grow in my Garden.” / Katherine Riegel (URL) 

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 Mom found me out behind the chicken house, playing with my toys. She said to me, “Come see. 'I’d like, too, to plant the sweet alyssum that smells like honey and peace.'  Dad said you'd like to help.”  What was I to say, of course I would.   

 Living on a farm, Mom had a large, beautiful garden.  She grew vegetables, strawberries, rhubarb, most years some flowers.  We'd eat some ripe fruits fresh right there, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, strawberries, melons, could be more.  

 She wanted patches of pretty flowers, lavender and white ones, all around the garden.  We dug, planted seeds and covered them and sprinkled water onto the new looking soil, finishing just before dark.   

 That was good for Mom a bit, big life change for me.  From that day on I was the garden helper, from then until I left home for college. 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved  

 - I am linked with Sanaa at Prosery, dVerse,  her prompt line is above and posted at  

https://dversepoets.com/2022/09/12/prosery-when-it-comes-to-katherine-riegel/ 

 - Click here for others writing Prosery Flash Writing this week.  I wrote exactly 144 Words, the Maxim that Sanaa has posted 

 - This Writing is TRUE in a way; the difference is that I was enticed to help milk cows instead of helping Mother in her garden.  But I did help, hoeing and weeding and harvesting for sure.  

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