Oceans and Cities -- A Poem for the Sunday Muse

        Angels are Busy Tonight 

    When oceans rise cities flood 

    Streets become paths of water 

    New Venice a thousand times 

    Unexpected near midnight 

    Climate Change Global Warming 

    Cities will flood people drown  

    Unpredicted Solar Flare 

    That straw broke the camel's back 

    Communications were down 

    Traffic was stopped world around 

    Came Flash flood Oceans did rise 

    People unaware of its coming 

    Angels helped in the cities  

    My angel stopped for a pose 

    People began to believe 

    Oceans rose and people drowned 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo from Carries last choices, all previously used, see them at the Final Sunday Muse (#261), https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2023/05/sunday-muse-261.html

 - This poem is new to me, a Quatern Form, where the first verse works it's, or a variation of (here), way down to the fourth and last line of the last verse.   Read about it here and my first poem Thursday, May 25, using the form here.

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Tell me it isn't -- a Poem for Friday Writings

    Uncultured Robotic Virtual Machine; 

        on our desks

        I am old fashioned 

        Sorry folks, once more 

        New "ism" cropped up 

        It's eating poets 

        Like pinball machines 

        Like computer games 

        ate with appetite 

        Our scourging demon 

        Men and women cursed 

        Like housewives succumbed 

        Teens and little kids 

       "Writing" poetry 

        Takes their time away 

        Pushing buttons 

        See where wheel will stop 

        This new monster chews 

        Swallowing, spitting 

        Tempting buttons pushed

        Just microseconds 

        Out comes a new verse 

        Verse they wanna call 

       "Poetry" blasphemed 

        Imbecilic words 

        Instant poets born 

        New Artificial 

        Intelligence reigns 

       "AI" victim's wooed 

        Another poet 

        is seduced to hell 

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

 - I am linked with Rosemary who is hosting for Friday Writings #78 this week 

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

 - Rosemary has asked us to write something – anything – on the subject of AI.

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Cat in Hiding -- a Poem for dVerse

  

  Naughty Cat; don't tell him that 

Cat's runaway, I'll find him soon 

He's dark gray with shining green eyes 

Close your toilet he likes to drink 

Twice he's fallen in doing that 

Look around maybe you'll see him 

Runaway you could find him soon 

If you see him call him by name 

His name is Erric king of cows 

He might be drinking milk skim milk 

Milk from his subjects king of cows 

Runaway cats he's our pride, joy 

I hope he's in our house hiding 

I hear him now meows us a hint 

Hint to where he may be I call 

Erric here's your treat five o'clock 

Cats runaway he's come for treat 

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

 - I am linked with Grace in "form for all", here a Quatern at dVerse, 

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/25/poetry-form-quatern/ for more 

 - Click here to read other writer's works with this form 

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Wearied Artist -- a Poem for dVerse Poetics

“Portrait of Halvor John Schou” painted in 1911 by the artist Thorvald Hellesen (1888 – 1937)

   I Was Tired 

I was tired and weary 

Painting day and night 

Pictures of people 

Animals Vegetables 

Fruit and Trees 

And more 

Never could get to my 

Hearts desire 

Painted bolts of  cloth 

Sides of cars 

Lunch  boxes 

And sacks 

Finally got so bad 

Was painting 

Walls of the . . . 

Of the house 

Upstairs 

And 

Down 

My misses said 

"You painted your 

Last straw 

Now that you've 

Painted your 

Selfie 

Three D 

On the wall" 

I used to enjoy 

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 - Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo prompt furnished by Lillian at dVerse Poetics,  it is a portrait by the artist Thorvald Hellesen (1888 – 1937) 

 - Read more about Lillian and Thorvald Hellesen at Lillian's dVerse prompt page, 

https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/23/an-artist-gets-his-due/ 

 - You can read how others have written when inspired by Hellen's pictures here 

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