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 

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

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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Flowers -- a Poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 26

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A field of wild Texas Bluebonnets flower previously posted in 2013  

https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-alphabe-thursday-2nd-letter-v.html

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 

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

to try using alliteration, consonance, and alliteration.  I tried. 

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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  

   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/

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) 

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

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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 

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

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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,

 https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/23/if-you-dont-like-cats-im-sorry/ 

- Click here to read others who heeded the warning, "do mention the word cats"

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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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, 

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

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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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