The Daughter - a Poem for the Sunday Muse

 

She was her father's girl 

Carried his image where she went 

Girl was the 'apple of his eye'

School girl one if there ever was 

Day and night carried that image 

Flowers in hand for her teacher 

Haven where father couldn't go 

Jealous he stayed at home 

This her special day 

Girl had reached her sixteenth birthday 

Be a young woman when she wished 

Every lady remembers that 

Was day to leave her daddy home 

Stayed with her image in his mind 

Surprise surprise boys noticed her 

Looks in eyes she'd not seen before 

Days young men's fancy turns to love 

Sixteen changed vision changed passions 

Woman of her own desires

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Carrie for Picture Prompt at the Sunday Muse #230 at 

https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/10/sunday-muse-230.html?m=1 

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Kissing and Voting - a Poem for Friday Writings

Apple Decides; Tells; 

or what does it?

Twist the apple stem 

she loves me she loves me not 

(repeat) She loves me ... 

When the stem breaks we will know 

I'm tired of this game 

I've been tired since the first grade 

Led to storm cellar 

Show me yours I'll show you mine 

Strict Republicans 

and Liberal Democrats 

We vote, ballots filled 

When count is in then we'll know 

Majority wins 

most of times but not always 

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

 - I am linked with Magaly at the Friday Writings #46 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/09/friday-writings-46-different-points-of.html?m=1  

 - Magaly has invited us to write one piece of poetry or prose from two different points of view. 

 - Note:  With our, U.S.,  electoral college system of voting the college doesn't always vote the same as the popular majority voters. 

 - This has happened five times: 

John Quincy Adams (1824);

Rutherford B. Hayes;  (1876);  

Benjamin Harrison ; (1888); 

George W. Bush (2016; and 

Donald Trump (2020) 

[ https://www.history.com/.amp/news/presidents-electoral-college-popular-vote ] 

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Good Prevails? - a Write for Poetics dVerse

Night Beneath Streetlight by Jimmiehov

Day and night

Day and night, 

In the light and in the dark 

Does day and light prevail 

Night and in the dark may spell trouble 

Crimes at night when the bad prowl 

and the upright are laying in sleep 

Technology brings light to the night 

Yet the bad find dark corners 

and snuff the lights  

Good and bad extend their window 

Artificial and flame bring light 

Then it's night with light 

Averages and trends 

smooth these things out 

The most important I know 

is right from wrong 

I, as all should, try 

to always do right 

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 - As I wrote this Mrs. Jim and I were watching "Murder on the Orient Express." Detective Hercule Poirot's words were, "There was right and there was wrong . . . ", Created by Agetha Cristie.

 - Write Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights reserved

 - I'm linked with Punam for the Poetics dVerse, whose title there posting, "The Good and Evil". See what were're doing at  

https://dversepoets.com/2022/09/27/poetics-the-good-and-the-evil/ 

 - Click here to read some others' works for the prompt 

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