Saturday, April 27, 2024

kids and cats talk - a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 27

Louis Wain, The Naughty Puss (1898)

  High School Cats and Kids; 
    what and where do they learn 

juicy farts, high school kids delight 
talking of them can fill the air 
bane of mothers who wash their pants 
"accident" when explain to moms 
moms take it in mother's duty 

clear the air precious high school talk 
sex and 'lgbtq' hushed 
not supposed to know of these things 
seems high school is meant for learning 
most time these are learned from 'big' kids 

moms and dad will know these go on 
learning, kids will pass stuff down 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 
 - Photo by Louis Wain, 1898 
 - I am linked with NaNoWriMo 2024 Day 27 
where we are asked to post an "American Sonnet".  Mine is one, sort of, has no rhyme.  But it is a Trometer (eight syllables each line) one.
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Friday, April 26, 2024

Flowers -- a Poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 26

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A field of wild Texas Bluebonnets flower previously posted in 2013  

Our Wildflower Ride  

Went for a ride today 
Went for flowers today 
Went for a long bus ride 
Fourteen of us riding 
Small bus, lady driving 

She knew where to look 
Carried a flower book 
Out at ten, back at five 
Sought Texas Bluebonnets 
Hamburger Cheese on it 

Misses and I split it 
Lettuce and tomatoes  
Ketchup with some French fries 
Twenty-two bucks did fly 
Money out window it goes 

On with the trip, flowers 
Yellow, purple and red 
And Indian paint brush 
Few Indian paint brush 
Alongside the highways 

Fields of mellow yellow 
But no fields of the blue 
The Bluebonnets were few 
Aside the road must do 
Fourteen disappointed
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 26 at 
to try using alliteration, consonance, and alliteration.  I tried. 
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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Questions -- a Poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 25

   Art: Bree & Dreamweaver Coat by Lisa Graham

  Happiness and White Lies

Bumped into a thought provoker today 
What makes you happy, bunch of queries 
Answers may tell us, what is it really 

I wasn't worried very much at all 
I'm a happy guy, questionnaire can find 
Proust Questionnaire shows my desires 

One question got my attention, liars, 
"What do I think about telling white lies?" 
I've always believed in them, they're okay 

Okay if it's minor and doesn't hurt  
Probably like Santa, Easter Bunny,  
and help young kids enjoy their holidays 

What if your date, could be a steady gal 
She's a minor but tells you adult age 
Very serious, then you find her age 

Run, run quickly!  Tell her mom? Have a choice?   
That is more than a white lie, pure trouble 
She looked older, you fell for it, but now?

Hurtful to break but strictly illegal 
Prison can beckon, truth you should have known 
Could it be different if she's expecting 

That happens quite often, marriage might quell 
Got to let the chips fall, hope for the best 
Lawyer might help; minor fell for your car 
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 - Poen Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with Magaly for Friday Writing #124 at  
where I am opting out of her prompt plan of using at least three of the five words she has chosen.  I like writing for those kinds of assignments
 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 25 (the 35 questions are listed here) 
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

A Short Ode - a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 24



Ode to an Injured Wild Rabbit

"Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!" 

You've just read in British the first sentence of a John Burns very famous poem It is "Ode to a Mouse".  Poor mouse had been 
partially plowed under a farmer's plow blade 

I will continue this write with his first sentence in mind 

Oh small animal, I am so sorry, this trap wasn't meant for you. Rather for rats running wild. My children made a good find and had brought you to our house. Now we'll get you fixed up, clean, bandage, and splint that bloody leg.  

If you have babies at home I hope and pray that Daddy Bunny will care for them and feed them well. 

The people who set that trap in our hay field should be ashamed and feel sorry for you.  They are poachers breaking the law.
 
I'm hoping with you that the vet will fix you maybe so that you can soon go home, walking again. 
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  - Writing Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 24 
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Happy Me - a Poem for dVerse Poetics

 


    Happy Fellow 

I am happy happy 
Most of the time that way 
Have a smile on my face 
even more than that 

What makes me so happy 
Say because I was born 
I didn't have to be 
Who said "we don't like kids" 

My father wanted me 
I milked cows and did chores 
And so did my mother 
A happy companion 

Grandpa named me Smiley 
cause I smiled all the time 
Happy to be with him 
I was Grandma's pet too 

When I grew up, married 
had a happy marriage 
Even when we divorced 
free, happy then, three years 

Met a new wife for me 
Right away I liked her 
and she liked me also 
She's happy pioneer 

Now that I'm old and gray 
I'm happy even if 
Even if one cripples 
Even if one lives no more 

Fifty-one together 
Makes me happy hearing 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 
 - Photo by Louis Wain is a photo copy enhanced by me  
 - I am linked with Melissa Lemay of dVerse Poetics,
- Click here to read others who heeded the warning, "do mention the word cats"

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Dick Tracy, hero in the Comics - a poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 23


[My Dick Tracy 80 year old camera,
(vase behind) Bought mail order Chicago]

    Dick Tracy

A ten year old's hero 
Found out about him 
from a clandestine comic 
Dick Tracy, super detective 

Found the comic book 
at a cousin's home, fell 
in love with the 'dick' 
Cousin said, it is yours now 

Tucked it in his trousers 
his mom detested comic books 
At home he hid it in the 
hayloft away from Mom 

Could have been with his 
cigarettes, they too "found" 
Strange what an uncle keeps
in his glove compartment 

If you're not knowing of Dick 
Tracy, he was a plainclothes 
detective on the police force, 
solving the unsolvable crimes 

That was in the 1940s--soon  
more exciting things going on 
Like war, games, fighter planes 
and bombers, Marines and so on 

Then he found Dick Tracy again, 
In the comic strips from paper 
That too, now legal with Mom 
But lost interest anyway 

All was left is his Dick Tracy 
camera and some memories 

Click on picture for larger size viewing 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 
 - Photo, photocopy of (URL) on my computer from Bing search 
 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 23 (URL)
where the writing prompt was "Super Heroes".  I am the 10-year-old boy in the writing--some readers will assume that but I wanted it way.
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Monday, April 22, 2024

Cat stuff - NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 22

 
        [Our Daughter's Russian Blue cat]


   Cat Fight

Hey diddle doddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
They had a big fight, 
The cat won out, 
The fiddle had a black eye 

The cow quit giving milk, 
The moon cried big tears, 
The little dog laughed no more, 
The dish leaked to the press, 
And the silver spoon sold tickets 
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 - Photo and Poem Adaptation Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 22, 
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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Blue is Calling - a Poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 21

 


    The Blue Room 

The Blue Room, dread of high school kids 
The Blue Room, what can matter be 
The Blue Room, did your school have one 
The Blue Room, don't remember one 
The Blue Room, anger cooling place  

The Blue Room, who was married there 
The Blue Room, U.S. Capitol
The Blue Room, Grover Cleveland did 
The Blue Room, to Frances Folsom 
The Blue Room, one to remember 

The Blue Room, you ever had one 
The Blue Room, two bedrooms here 
The Blue Room, had one painted blue 
The Blue Room, moved to other  
The Blue Room, helps calm as we sleep 

The Blue Room, ought get you one 

* Note:  The Blue Room in the United States Capital (building) is the famed "Oval Office" where many important dignities have had a visit with the U.S. President.  More and photos, click here
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 21, prompt today, they’d like to challenge you to write a poem that repeats or focuses on a single color. 
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