NaPoWriMo 2018-29 -- Day 29, "When you're out"

 

When you're out on the town;

  dine, drink, play, and be safe

 

You're eating crawfish, savor the last four, end unless you suck their heads.

 

If you're out boozing, have designated driver,  or you go to jail.

 

When you're bowling, make sure your shoes are tied, trip and you'll go down the lane.

 

And if you go pee, make sure to wash your hands twice, before and after. 

 

( A four set "American Sentence Haiku/Senryū" form poem ) 

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Photos and Poem Copyright, 2018 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 
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 - I'm linked with Fireblossom at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads; http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/04/fireblossom-friday-this-is-almost-end.html 

 - Fireblossom discussed 'endings' as this is near the end of April, the National Poetry Month.  This will be he next to last 'poem' I write, one more tomorrow, then the end.  Her instructions are "... let's write about almost-endings. Endings that haven't happened yet, but are surely close at hand." 
 - No specific form was prescribed, we could pick and choose.  I chose the "American Sentence Haiku/Senryū" form."  It has seventeen sentences in each sentence, even one sentence could stand alone and be a poem in itself.  For more about the American Sentence and Haiku and Senryū poetry forms, click here) 
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 - I'm also linked with the National Poem Write a Month for my NaPoWriMo, Day 28 Poem at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-4/ .
 - Today was Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Day at the NaPoWriM0 site linked above.  We were asked to choose one of ten of Plath's poems and write our thoughts after words.  I chose her poem, "Event" (link).   I felt the last five lines were approaching the poet's end, and are repeated below:

"A small white soul is waving, a small white maggot.
My limbs, also, have left me.
Who has dismembered us?

The dark is melting. We touch like cripples."

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Hurricane Irma survivors.

 

Contented Cat, all fifty-four survived, Hemingway's cats
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[Hemingway's study over the garage -- Open to cats and public now]

[click on picture for larger size]

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(my American Sentence Haiku/Senryū for today)
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   - Photos were previously posted on my "Jim's Little Blog" on December 24, 2014, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-alphabe-thursday-5th-letter-f-some.html  [Scroll down about halfway for the Key West pictures.]

  - I'm linking with Marian of The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Tuesday Platform, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-tuesday-platform_19.html

  - I'm also linking with Sandee at her Awww Monday post, https://comedyplus.blogspot.com/2017/09/awww-mondays_18.html?showComment=1505749793569#c3923382155097785627

 

 

NaPoWriMo 2017, Day 16 -- Clouds, an American Sentence Poem

. . . . . . . .   HAPPY EASTER !!!

 

 

   Statements; cloud-like 

 

Over town small clouds, boldly proclaim to the folk, over fields they fade

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

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 - I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor  at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Micro Poetry,  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/04/micro-poetry-streetlight-rain.html
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 - to Day Sixteen of NaPoWriMo, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-4/

 - Kerry has invited us to write an American Sentence Poem which is like a Haiku or Senryū "with seventeen syllables (BUT) going across, linear, like just about everything else in America."
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