The Egg vs. the Apple -- a Poem for the Sunday Muse

 

  Humpty Dumpty's Dream

Humpty Dumpty had a dream 

Dreamt he was an apple green 

His apple sat on a wall

His apple had a great fall 

All the King's horses and all 

the Kings men carried him well 

Carried him to urgent care 

Sewed him together again 

Humpty Dumpty thus aroused 

Dreaming still went for a walk 

Sleep walking he's at his best 

Apple still, the wall will test 

Daring like never before 

He jumped as feeling secure 

Hundreds of pieces he broke 

Egg as born he awoke 

Men and horses couldn't put 

Humpty together again 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Carrie for the picture prompt, The Sunday Muse #250  

    https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2023/03/sunday-muse-250.html 

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Raring to go, Spring is here #2 ~~ a Poem for the Friday Writings

Spring has sprung; 

  where are the wildflowers

Spring is for the flowers to shine 

Wildflowers are special to me 

Old ones, young ones, wherever found  

In the fields or up from sidewalks 

In the parks or at garbage dumps 

No matter colors I like them all 

Purple violets, wild pink roses  

Yellow dandelions in grass 

I'd pick one or make a bouquet 

'Twould be for my mom or good friend  

I loved my friends girls and boys, but 

“Write love letters to wild flowers” 

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I picked this clump of clovers beside the sidewalk 

leading to downtown Killarney, Ireland

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 - Photos and Poem Copywrite, Jimmiehov 2015 and 2023, All Rights Reserved  

 - Top Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov 2015 (URL) 

 - Botom Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2011 (URL) and 2008 (URL)

 - I'm linked with Magala for the Prompt phrase at the Friday Writings #67 at  

    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

Notes: 

 - Magaly has invited us to create poetry or prose inspired by a line from our own Marja, “Write love letters to wild flowers”.

 - You can find my 2015 "Raring to go, Spring is here #1" by clicking here where the Texas Bluebonnet photos stay 

Rainbow Making -- a poem for dVerse Meeting the Bar

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A Rainbow to be Born

Rain rain go away 

Child's wishful complaint 

Raining all the day 

Bow like one she wears 

Make one for the sky  

Multi color there 

Make when rain wanes 

She'll give it a name 

The rain will taper 

The sun reappears 

Through the tapering rain

 

"Rainbow" it's Surnamed

Sun's traveling beam a

multicolor bow 

 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2006 and 2033, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Lara Bloomsburry in here dVerse Meeting the Bar, her directions were to write of the merger usage of the three words, Rain, Bow, and Rainbow, where the merger of the first two combine for a new related compound word, the third word 

 - The Photo I took at evening time from our back porch over the golf course--we moved away, across the town of Houston, Texas back in 2015, to be near our daughter and family

 - Lara's URL, https://dversepoets.com/2023/03/09/mtb-three-way-split/  

 - Click here to see some others' writing efforts

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Trouble Brewing - a Poem for dVerse Quadrille

    Found Stuff from Drawers

 A Gasp and a Half 

Twenty-four hours ago 

I called the IRS 

Younger voice answered me

I had money to pay                      16

Was told I had to have

an ID in my file

She looked to see, was there?

Info ID needed                              20

I gasped out loud 

Of those I've none                         . 8

                                                    44 words 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Sanaa and De Jackson for the prompt word, "gasp", at 

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/03/06/quadrille-171-poetry-is-a-kind-of-gasp/ 

 - Their request is that our quadrille should be exactly 44 words, not including the title and include the word “Gasp” or a derivative of the word. 

 - To read other's writings, click here

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Quote Dickens? -- a Write for the Sunday Muse

"The first known accounts of spontaneous human combustion (SHC) date all the way back to 1641, the phenomenon gained wider exposure in the 19th century after popular author Charles Dickens used it to kill off one of the characters in his novel “Bleak House.” When critics accused Dickens of legitimizing something that didn’t exist, he pointed to research showing 30 historical cases."  (more) 

Does it Really Not Exist?  

Accounts in his newspaper 

were saying 

Folks burning right and left 

there on the plain 

Cities too, large and small, 

counting them up 

Three hundred seventy 

Those were the death tallies 

 many more had burns 

 Spontaneous Human Combustion 

 was blamed 

 Burns starting on the back 

 scorching behind 

 Not possible he thought 

 loosened his tie 

 Feeling hot behind twas 

 such a cold day 

 Scratched his itching back 

 nails came back scorched 

 Looked behind, jumped away 

 hell was burning 

 

He'd started the fire 

 now he believed 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Carrie for the picture prompt, The Sunday Muse #249 

    https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2023/03/sunday-muse-249.html 

 - I have read the Dicken's book, "Bleak House", it is very long.  That is where I learned of Spontaneous Human Combustion. 

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