Autumn, First School Week

Prompt of the week:  "we’ll invite you to write poetry or prose inspired by Autumn (rituals, foods, colors, celebrations… or anything that makes autumn memorable and/or special)."

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First Week of School 

Autumn, first week of school 

First of my school learning 

First week with girls up close 

All dressed up pretty like 

I liked her, she liked me 

Her daddy liked me too 

My parents held me back 

Back so that she'd have me 

Me to make two students 

Two students in her class 

Come third grade she's not there 

Daddy had pulled her out 

A private school for her 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright Jimmiehov 2025 All Rights Reserved 

- I am linked with Rommy at "Friday Writings" 196 at  https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1 

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Note:  This was my school, I am the boy in back, a 4th grader.  My sister was the little girl in front near our teacher, she was a 1st grader, we did not have kindergarten.  Four of us were cousins.  

We lived a mile from the school and generally walked to and from school.  The teacher borded with a farm couple living within walking distance, we had school regardless of the weather.  On bad weather my father would have me unter a tarp in a trailer pulled by two horses. 

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Sunny Open Road

 

Sunny Open Road 

Open roads in the sunshine

Top-down carrier's ready 

Ready for its sunlit ride 

Tall green trees along the way 

They wave at the passing cars 

Happy to see passengers 

Waving back and smiling wide 

Thinking of sunburns tonight 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright ©️ 2025 All Rights Reserved 

  - I am linked with "What's Going on " at https://newwhatsgoingon.blogspot.com/?m=1  -- This poem was to be written in the vein of Imagist Poetry.  Short, eight lines encouraged and to be pointed.  

 - I tried.  "to write a minimalist, small space poem focusing on a vivid, concrete and specific image that might convey a complex idea or emotion in a single moment. We need a direct language to describe this. It would be perfect if the poem stays within eight lines. "

 Note:  The car belongs to me, a registered Texas Antique Auto.  It is a1998 Ford  Mustang GT 4.6 Convertible that I bought as a retirement present for me from myself.  I retired in 2001.

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Petals on the Floor 

Petals on the floor 

Everywhere you looked 

One was picked up not 

a petal at all 

'Twas papers were dropped 

At the courthouse were 

Papers place of rest 

Like petals fallen 

Fallen from their tree 

Never used again 

Petals making mulch 

Papers mice nests 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright ©️ jimmiehov 2025 All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with dVerse to write a 44 word poem, plus the title if there is one