An Epistolary Poem, aka a Letter Poem - Settling a Score -- a Write for Friday Writings

My Dear Brother xxx, 

You think my sonnets are non-conforming 

as they should be eighteen ten syllable lines.  

And the rhyming scheme should be abab cdcd 

efef ghgh ii.  

Mostly though I will continue writing what 

I call "short sonnets" with syllable count 

possibly from five to 11 or 12 syllables 

here those are okay.  Generally the meter 

is constant but sometimes not.  I am thinking 

most are seven or eight. 

And it probably will not be eighteen lines, 

most time smaller.  

  

BTW, I have Lingering COVID since March 2021.  

I can hardly smell and taste.  It also has made 

my memory loss worse, especially names of 

persons and places.  

Plus my mucus collects as never before, lungs, 

through, nose, and sinus. It seems the latter 

has lessened somewhat.  

And my balance has worsened, I'm using a cane 

now to help me to walk in a straight line.  I have 

lost about eight canes, I leave them someplace 

and someone else keeps. A few I get retrieved,  

including last week. I will check for it at the library 

come Tuesday; Monday is a holiday here in the 

USA.  

My neurologists think that I can blame some of 

the memory problem on to aging. But to me that  

memory problem is very annoying and embarrassing in conversations and writing, it also affects my keeping train of thought.  I will be [many] come this October, I will cope, or try to. 

Sorry also this became so long. Thank you again 

for what I hope is leeway on the sonnets in giving 

me a second chance with the writing, you are 

most kind.

Yours always, Jim 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved             

 - I am linked with Magaly in Friday writing #82 with 269 words of Prose with a four-word Title/Greeting] at       https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2023/06/friday-writings-82-favorite-books.html 

 - Note that I opted not to us her prompt which would have been a lovely writing experience for me.  This is new and never used before, but helped me to work off a small grudge.

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These things make the Mrs. Happy -- A Poem for dVerse Poetics Day

Mrs. Jim at the school--for Grandparents Day 2015 
[grammar school, KP now starts High School in August]

     Things that make the Mrs. Happy

I asked my wife to tell me SOME things 

Gave her little pad and a pen 

and asked her to give me a list 

"a list of things that make me happy" 

Was I surprised?  Was I? 

Well, not exactly, they were all things,  

things that I DO now, Me.  

I am so very privileged, 

That list alone makes me happy and

I am glad that I faired fairly well 

I'm going to show you the list now 

p.s. if she thought of some more just tell 

(an Aside:  When I first started writing 

my other blog, one of the things I told 

my readers was that I gave my wife 

an ANUAL EVALUTATION. Woo Hoo) 

Here is her list:

 - Time together 

 - Walks 

 - Cuddling at night and good night kisses 

 - Remembering over fun things, or times

    we enjoyed together 

 - Courtesy of a gentleman 

 - Helping to make up bed in the morning 

 - Watching TV of show we both like 

Wasn't that nice, she had decided to involve 

me with everyone--I hope she didn't  

misunderstand that just list SOME THINGS 

You can tell that number one on her list 

is the very first thing that she listed, "together"

All the other fit it well, her saying since 

COVID came along, "We are joined at the Hip"

Which are my THREE FAVORITES of these?  Any one 

could be, I enjoy our walks the most, we have 

a pleasant parklike place to walk complete with 

paved walking trails, streams, water throughout 

with ducks, cranes, and birds of all sorts.  And 

then there's the turtles and walking bridges, lots 

of trees, small playgrounds with swings and slides 

along the way.  And of course, WE TALK. 

Next I'll tell of the making of the bed 

Generally one of us gets up first, that person 

starts the coffee if she or I think the other might 

arise fairly soon.  IF SO, that person last up MAKES. 

(p.s.  Some times the first up gets up at a terribly 

early time.  I generally make a cup of hot chocolate 

and a piece of raisin bread with creme cheese and 

strawberry jam to tide me over until coffee time 

She makes hot chocolate with a graham cracker 

and perhaps some peanut butter 

and the Third HAS TO BE cuddling and stuff 

I wasn't told the birds and bees from my parents 

I learned it all in high school and perhaps a little of 

what comes naturally and morally around a girl with 

mutual likes 

That started in the first grade, we didn't have

kindergarten, when the other girl in first grade 

invited me to sit down in the storm cellar steps 

Well, the Mrs. and I have very mutual likes!!!

I love my wife dearly, I pray to for my life to 

be as long calendar wise as hers, I'm sad and almost tear 

to think it won't 

We are old 

All this and more walking trails are 

within three-mile radius our home:

Pictures if we walk to the east of our house 
Cinco Ranch, Katy, Texas.  They are for flood
water retention, we can walk to the west, north, 
or south also [click picture for larger size]

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

 - I am linked with in Sara [sarahsouthwest in ]Poetics

 Poetics at dVerse Poetics, for her prompt, she did also allow for us to write our own wishes or of someone else's -- I chose Mrs. Jim's 

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/06/20/what-colour-is-hope/ 

 - Click here to read what others have written 

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