Bop introduction - a Poem for dVerse Bop MTB

   My Small Box 

My little small box 

Came crackers inside 

Ate all the crackers 

Over six months 

Breakfast lunch or sup 

Kitchen on one wall 

I found a box and put a room inside 

In soup or a snack  

Parties and our meals 

Graduation kids 

Loved those brown sweeties 

Cornered caps and gowns 

Poems they'd learned 

Sweated and written 

Porches 'nother wall 

I found a box and put a room inside 

Guests had left their marks 

Floor scattered around 

Erasers not found 

Classes dropped before 

Was no sweeping floor 

Walls memories swabbed 

I found a box and put a room inside 

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Adi and my ashes will be buried together in a miniature casket 'box', large enough for two urns.  Adi and I were a Pet Partner pair, a certified Pet Therapy Team.  I still miss her.

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Lara at dVerse MTB 

  https://dversepoets.com/2024/05/02/mtb-boxing-clever-to-the-bop/ where she introduced a new to us form, the Bop.

 - Click here to read others' poems for the Bop

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A Hope -- a Poem for Friday Writings

    

      "Cupid's Arrow" Artwork by Jimmiehov 2021, 

 Copyright 2021, URL - I've carried this in my Bible for 

 ages but 2021 is the first time I've found it published

    Sweethearts 

Have you ever been asked 

what's your favorite word 

My house you'd have to 

ask, the little lady knows 

Does he use now and then 

or is it regular 

Little lady is the 

apple of my soft heart 

She can do no harm 

to this old hardboiled egg 

So the lady responds 

for me, knows my innards 

 

I'm hoping she will say 

it's "Sweetheart" with a smile 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, URL

 - I am linked with Rosemary for Friday Writing #126 at  

   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/

where she has asked 

"us to write about to write a poem or story (or a few) in only 160 characters including title and spaces. (If you choose to write more than one, please put them all in one post and make sure that collectively they don't exceed our 369 word limit.) (or use) one of our favorite words."  Mine, for this 'us' is "Sweetheart".

 - Note" This is the number 2003 of 'poems' labeled or called as such I've posted here since the first, in 2006.  Some I forgot to label.  

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Blaze -- a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 30 and for dVerse Poetics #200

[dense blazing star - Wild left, garden right, settings]

 Dense Blazing Star, et al 

"Liatris spicata" 

"dense blazing star" 

"prairie feather" 

"gayfeather" or

"button snakewort"

What is in a name 

No matter what's said 

I'd recognize you 

by your blazing heads 

You're "a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to eastern North America" 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo from a googling search (see the similar Bing & AI below) 

 - Verse in quotes from Wikipedia (a similar search by Bing & AI, (URL)

 - I am linked with Mish at dVerse Poetics "200 at 

   https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/29/quadrille-200/ 

a 44 word poem, requested us to use "Blaze", or derivative, in the poem 

 - Click here to see and read what others have written

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 30 

   https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirty-10/ 

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Talyler Swift's Word - - a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 29

    Cardigan; the old chum 

You picked me up and threw me on 

Like chum you are you warm me up 

I don't know what or where I'd do 

Helpless, sad were it not for you 

When I'm sad then you cheer me up 

When I hurt crying or bleeding 

Then you sooth me like mother did 

Other friends depart you'll still remain   

Come night throw you back neath the bed 

Like my shadow that can't be seen 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo last from the list, see below (a screen copy)

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 29 

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

where our host has posted this for us to choose one word for the title of our poem today, Merriam-Webster put together a list of ten words from Taylor Swift songs.  I chose the word, Cardigan, last on the list.

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Man, Woman, and Child - a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 28

Bing's AI found photo

Mother Nature's Rule 45 

Man needs a woman, woman needs a man 

Mother Nature's rule 

From the start the man hunts food and the 

woman cooks the food 

When man and woman love each other  

 babies, children repeat 

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  - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

  - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 28 

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

    Written in Sijo Poetic Form, "Mother Nature's Rule 45" because it has 45 syllables (44-46 form requires) 

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