Where to Retire -- a Poem for Friday Writings

    A Town I Dream Of  

If there's a town in my dreams 

One where I would like to live 

Then I wouldn't remember 

'cause I don't remember dreams 

So I'm going to tell you 

Tell you some towns that I like 

Towns to which I'd run away 

There's Sydney, Australia 

Sydney is a pretty town 

Goes easy on their seniors 

A dollar lasts all day long 

All day rides the mass transit 

Seniors treated very nicely 

There but other places too 

Rio, Santiago, Rome 

Victoria, and Key West 

My slim budget says Key West 

Live on the street like a bum 

Food and bed, Salvation Army 

Chat with tourists, they will buy 

U.S Medicare works there 

Relatives will often come 

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[click any picture for larger Key West viewing]

 

Chickens are birds, therefore protected species in Key West.  Also protected are cats.

Click on a picture for larger view.  It might get larger still if you click it again.

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018 and 2023, All Rights Reserved  

 - Photos are from our 2018 visit, I blogged it here, 

    https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=KEY+west  [Earnest Hemmingway residence and garage second floor study are on the bottom post of three]

 - I am linked with Rosemary at the Friday Writings #81,  at  

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

 - Rosemary has asked us to write of "Which city do you dream of" 

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Weather's Future Guessing - a Ditty Trial Poem for dVerse Heroic Form

            Thoughts; Climate Theories 

    Weather science and climate change 

    Do these two behemoths conflict 

    Science has the proof to offer claim 

    Climate theory yet hasn't clicked 

    States have passed laws which forbid 

    acknowledging climate change     

    Calling "useless" theoretics 

    Imagining of the strange  

    

    Look at the thermometer 

    Check the rainfall and the floods 

    Winter snows call St. Peter  

    Droughts and dust storms, eating bugs     

    Hotter and colder, stronger each 

    Temperature changes may hurry 

    Or perhaps they will never be 

    I'm no expert I just worry 

    Me, put my head neath a pillow 

    Way too much for me to swallow 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2011* and 2023, Respectively,  All Rights Reserved 

 - The photo at 

   https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2011/08/well-wishes-six-word-saturday-therapy.html

 - I am linked with Bjorn at dVerse Poetry Forms, at    

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/06/15/mtb-with-john-donne-and-his-heroic-sonnet/   

 - Bjorn has introduced us to the "Heroic Sonnet" form and given us an example written by John Donne.  As we were given some leeway in our product, mine has ten eight syllable lines instead of eighteen lines of ten syllables.  

 - Click Here to read other's writings for this prompt

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It's on the Cook -- a Poem for dVerse Quadrille Night

 

          Cook is Being Generous 

        It's Friday night and tonight 

        It's fish night, fish and chips night 

        They're free tonight, a handout 

        A present from the Pub cook 

        Buy a drink then grub is free 

        Can of diet Coke fits me

        Catsup, peas, tarter sauce

        With BIG TIP following 

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2012* and 2023 respectively, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with lillian in Quadrille at dVerse Quadrille Night where the prompt word is "present"

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/06/12/come-imbibe-with-me-today/ 

 - Click here to see other's works with this prompt *Note:  I eat 'Fish Chips with Mushy Peas' quite often, not all make my blog.  These are some of them.  The ocean window seat was of Mrs. Jim and me having lunch at the Pub on the cruise ship, Queen Mary.  Of course they served Fish and Chips.

    https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=fish+and%20chips