April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 22 -- Doctor's Advice -- and a Poem for Sunday Muse

“Pointlessness” by Fine Art Photographyer Lara Zankoul 

Her Mistake 

She doesn't understand her doctor's cure 

She takes his advice literally 

He's told her the fix for her jitters 

That would be for her to get her broom 

She's to take her broom and bucket 

Go to the edge of the sea 

Sweep the sand, dump it into the sea 

When she has finished find another 

She took his advice literally 

Didn't understand his metaphors  

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Carrie for the Photo from her selections for the Sunday  Muse #256 at 

 https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2023/04/sunday-muse-256.html?m=1 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Writing Month, Day 22 , 

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-two-9/ 

 - My entry time was around 8:07 Central Standard Time if you'd care to see my entry posted.  The picture is not there.

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April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 21 -- and "Time" for a Write for Friday Writings

        Keeping Time

It has been said, “time affects all things”

Between you and me that's all hooey   

I have "time" in the house most every room 

Micky Mouse, digital, wall, and stove 

Seems every "time" I need my flashlight 

I have to find it, no place of it's own 

Songs like "time", they make use several "times"

"You picked a fine "time" to leave me," Lucy 

Lunch "time" is the best, my mom comes to mind, 

"Have fireman lunch today, dessert first" 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Rommy at the Friday  Writings #73  at  

   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1 

  - I am linked with NaPoWriMo, National Poem Writing Month, for writing Day 21. You can see the instructions and will be able to read others' writings there at  

   https://www.napowrimo.net/

 - Magaly/Rommy has asked us to "find (writing) inspiration in the phrase “time affects all things”"

 - The bottom clock is in Dubrovnik, Croatia and the Hall Clock above is ours, old English, 1800s, we have clocks in most every room.  

 -These are our collector clocks, 

    https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2017/07/fridays-hunt-v403-c-is-for.html

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April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 20 -- a Poem that Garbage Tells

   Garbology from Afar 

Garbologists no longer 

are holding their noses 

so keep those clothespins 

for the museums 

Technology and archeology 

sciences have emerged to 

change garbologists way of 

obtaining humanity's past 

Predictions are now 

showing that the earth will 

end by one large snuff 

Like snuffing a candle one 

large pinch will come 

in our lifetime 

It will drop from the sky into 

one deep and smelly abyss 

like one crumb falls from the 

cracker 

Never to be found, as the 

crumb waiting for a 

South American ant

When that ant, larger than 

the world's largest creature, 

will swallow it with one large 

gulp 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo from NASA via AP 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo,  National Poem Writing Month Day 20 at  

     https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-10/ 

 - I am also linked with dVerse Open Night at 

  https://dversepoets.com/2023/04/20/two-opportunities-to-join-us-live-3/ 

 - If you would like to read others writing for dVerse please click here 

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April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 19 -- a Poem of Scares, then and now

My sister sewing up Adi's (my Beagle dog) Teddy Bear 
[click on the picture for a larger size]

        Scary Things 

There's two scary things in my life 

There's one for my little sister 

one for me, both tamed, still around 

Monster Boogie Man honored well 

To this day Sis peeks 'neath her bed 

Knowing he's not there peeks in case 

She was about five, makes me ten 

I told about that monster 

Boogie Man hides 'neath children's beds 

Seems all my life but not really 

Still go to sleep with dim light on 

Since I was young not liked the dark 

Had my sister walk me at night

Outhouse in back of chicken house 

Young, I was afraid of the dark 

I'd bribe her, let her hold the light 

Remains a small guilt 'cause I told  

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 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Writing Month, Day 19.  We were requested to write casting "your mind back to your own childhood and write a poem about something that scared you – or was used to scare you – and which still haunts you (if only a little bit) today."  

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

April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 18 -- My Cat - and a dVerse Poem for Poetics

 

              

            Cat in the Window 

Cat in the window, yes we could go out 

Out where there's giants, giants and monsters 

They'd outrun your legs, small legs carry you  

You think there's there, food on the wild 

Birds and mice for you, those are scarce for cats 

Monsters, giants, hawks, the bane of all cats 

Harness I could buy, put you on a lease 

We tried that before, that you did not like

You balked, wouldn't walk, be different this time? 

Best view from the house, I say "you stay there"

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2010 and 2023 respectively, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with merrildsmith at dVerse Poetics Day, the prompt being  "Windows"  

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/04/18/poetics-window-gazing/ 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMO, National Poem Writing Month, who has a different prompt or order of rhymes, which is optional 

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eighteen-9/ 

 - Amber was a rescue cat who lived with us for her last four years.  She was our daughter's cat, very old, too old to take being quarentibned to come to London where the Daughter was working.  To see her more  please click here.  

 - To read other poems about "windows" click here.

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April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 17 -- Is there a problem? -- a Quadrille Poem for dVerse writing

      

         [Click on any picture for larger viewing]

        Danger Wheel

Big Wheel turns and I'm not on it 

Round and round it goes up and 'round

My love is there thinks safe and sound

She sits, with her “brother”, she says

Revolutions she does not count

Not while he's there, him I like not

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2010 and 2012 for Ferris Wheel shots, see text below, and 2023 the Poem, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Kim at Quadrille #174:You say you want a Revelution, to, 

 https://dversepoets.com/2023/04/17/quadrille-174-you-say-you-want-a/

 

 - Kims's instructions, "the quadrille, it’s simply a poem of 44 words, excluding the title. It can be in any form, rhymed or unrhymed, metered, or unmetered. You MUST use the word “Revolution” or some form of the word in your poem . . . " 

 - Click here to view other participants' Quadrille efforts 

 -  I am also linked with Day Seventeen, NaPoWriMo, where we were instructed to write a In the poem, try to make a specific comparison between some aspect of the plant’s lifespan and your own – or the life of someone close to you. Also, include at least one repeating phrase, As you can see, I did not follow this prompt instruction which is optional.  I had a 'Repeating Phrase' but I took it out to get down to 44 word, our limit for dVerse todayhttps://www.napowrimo.net/day-seventeen-9/. 

    

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A modern Ferris wheel was at our county fair Texas rodeo, the County Fair at Brenham, Texas, on September 17, 2010 .  It was the first one we had seen in a long time, this time we went on request.  We had a guest from France, friend of our son, who had wanted to see a bull riding contest.  She was not disappointed. 

https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2010/10/rodeo-2010-02.html?m=0 

We have ridden on this old 1923 Ferris wheel, it belonged to a fellow in our car club.  And yes, one time it stopped working while we were on top.  It took quite a while to get us off, I'm not real sure how we passed our time up there. 

 https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2012/09/two-shoes-tuesday-2-danger-midweek-blues.html?m=0 

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