Flies - a Poem for Friday Writing

 . “Do what we can, summer will have its flies” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Do those words you to tell your story?  Magaly thinks and hope's they will today. Let's write and we'll see.

Flies in My Pie 

Pick up your spoon 

and play your tune 

Flies in your pie 

don't take a bite 

'Cause if you do 

they're bad for you 

Insects' nasty 

born from nasty 

Like horses dead 

Eggs in their head 

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 - Poem Copyright Jimmiehov 2024 - all Rights Reserved

 - I am linked with Magaly at Friday Writings #133 at 

    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

for her Ralph Waldo Emerson prompt line, as posted from above at the beginning of this blog 

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Sad - a Poem for Friday Writings and dVerse Quadrille

                     "Adi is retiring from Pet Partners"

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Adi and I were best buddies

Adi's working life link

Lot's about Adi link 

[posted 2016, link]

  Deepest Sleep

Awoke this morning

Feeling very sad

My dog died last night

Vet came to pronounce

There is no help for her

She must be put to sleep

My face on her neck

Slowly she went to sleep

Oh that I could join her darkness 

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 - Poem Copyright 2024, Photo Copyright 2016, Jimmiehov 2024 and 2016, All Rights Reserved 

 Reserved  

 - I am linked with Rosemary at dVerse Friday Writings#128  at   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

 - I am also linked with Punam at dVerse Quadrille #202, (must be exactly 44 word poem) 

  https://dversepoets.com/2024/05/27/quadrille-202-hello-darkness/  

 - Click here to read the others posting for this week's Quadrilles

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Rabbit and the Fowls - - a Poem for Friday Writings and a Piece of Prosery for dVerse

 Missing friends

Little rabbit was 

 getting lonesome 

He'd sit by the fence 

 missing his buddies 

“Something told the wild geese 

 It was time to fly.”

Then they all left  

  alone again 

Didn't last him long

 ducks coming in

Quickly making friends 

 Rabbit's alone no more 

 

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

 - I am linked with Rosemary at dVerse Friday Writings #126 at 

    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

   Rosemary has asked as an optional assignment for us 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.)  

   I chose not to do that and wrote instead what you see next here.    

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 - I am also linked with Kim881 at Prosery, dVerse,  her prompt line is above in quotations and posted at 

https://dversepoets.com/2024/05/06/prosery-something-told-the-wild-geese/ 

 

 - Click here for others writing Prosery Flash Writing this week.  I wrote only 44 Words, we could have 144

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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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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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Unspeakable-- a Poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 16

    Getting Worse 

His rash was unspeakable 

In places we never want 

Bad chafe initiated 

His underwear went unworn 

He didn't see his doctor, 

a woman, he was bashful 

Oh dear, it was getting worse, 

every day.  Now it hurts 

Medicine he had was old 

And the rats in the barn 

 had longer tails 

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 - No Photo, Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day Sixteen 

   https://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-11/ 

 - I think I am on prompt today; you can be a judge.  ". . . here’s today’s (optional) prompt, taken from our 2016 archives. Today, we challenge you to write a poem in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does. The “surprise” ending to this James Wright poem is a good illustration of the effect we’re hoping you’ll achieve. An abstract, philosophical kind of statement closing out a poem that is otherwise intensely focused on physical, sensory details."

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A Question -- a Piece of Prose for dVerse Prosery and for NaPoWriMo Day Nine

["Fu Bao in quarantine ", In China, born in 2020, 

Panda Bear just came from lease at South Korea]

            

                    Bears Checking Out 

    I was asked the other day a question about the stars, "What does it matter that the stars we see are already dead?" I was stumped and of course I put it to rest along with seems a zillion rhetorical questions I have been asked. "I dunno."  

  

    When I got home I went to old trusty fellow, Mr. Bing whose helper is Ms. AI. They know a lot, trivia and otherwise. Well, he scratched his head calling a friend. Those two knew, he wanted to make sure.

    Bing's retort, “No matter how you look at it, the idea that all, or even most, or even a lot, of the stars you can see in the sky are already dead is simply wrong. It sounds true, and kinda sorta fits with things you might think you know, but in the end the facts will win.”* 

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 - * Note: found when asked the question in paragraph one, Bing (substitue for Google) answer word for word.  (URL)

 - Writing Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Dora at dVerse Prosery at 

    https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/08/prosery-amy-woolard/ 

 - Dora's instructions Write a piece of prose (not poetry) of no more than 144 words that includes what is the question asked in my first paragraph here.

 - Click here to read others' works with the prompt

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo Day Nine at 

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

 - NaPoWriMo to choose a Day is here, https://www.napowrimo.net/ 

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My Cow - a Haibun for Friday Writings

Imagine a Brown Swiss Milk Cow, brown in color, with the same features as my FFA, Future Farmers of America, project for my junior and senior Ag activity and class. We took her home from a calf auction when she was small, just a few months old.  

That was for my sophomore year, I fed and cared for her, she was a pretty young heifer at summer break time. By graduation time next spring she was a good Milk Cow.  We separated her from her little calf the day it was born, and she joined our small Milk Herd.   

 All school FFA animals at our school must have been named.   I  named her Brownie.  

Baby to mama 

One short year boviens become 

A good investment

[Picture of a cow like mine, Brown Swiss]

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 -  Haibun Prose Poem Copyright, 2024 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Rosemary at Friday Writings #120, read her instructions here, 

  https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1 

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Situation Intolerable - a Poem for dverse Poetics

René Magritte, Homesickness (1940), oil on canvas

  

        What I see in the photo 

Home seems different, seems so very warm 

Back to where I left off this very bridge 

Had no wings back then plunged into the cold 

Team with wings dressed in white that pulled me out 

I was issued suit like that, white with wings 

Notices on my back saying, "stay pending" 

Pending interview with the famous saint 

Backlog was ahead of me but I could wait 

I had persisted going back, visit 

Visit with kin left behind and explain 

Tell of my ills, worries, evil thoughts why 

I could bear no more had to make the jump 

Now thinking why and what, why I would leave 

Leave a mess behind that I couldn't cope 

So I was released, on leave of absence 

Gave me the lion to ride him back home 

Didn't tell me before but when we left 

Out the golden door my suit turned to black 

Wings I'd never used they said take with me 

But don't to use those wings as they're evil now  

And we came but the kin understood not 

Why I'd leave like that, messes left for them 

Here we stand on that bridge ready to leave 

Wanting to test these wings, I'd like to fly 

Lion senses bad, he needs to mount up 

With one giant leap and we could be gone 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Melissa Lemay at dVerse Poetics, 

    https://dversepoets.com/2024/03/19/everything-we-see/ 

 - Click here to read what others have written, go to the link just above to read about the artist, René Magritte, and to read our instructions from Melissa, our host tonight 

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Rizz leads to ??? -- a Poem for Friday Writings

      She Had the Rizz 

She was cute, cute as a bugs ear 

She had the rizz to go with it 

She'd wag her tail and boys would fall 

She had the rizz, just waged her tail 

She made her mother cry in joy 

She had been a gift for her mom  

She met a guy who loved her rizz 

She was wooed as she heard his verse 

She called his words kudos for her 

She dreaded day Daddy comes home 

She wondered will boy he approve 

She'd bite her lip and hide the rizz 

She worried too about her boy 

She dreaded their meeting the most 

She lived those thoughts.  Oops here he comes 

She heard this greeting, "Daughter dear, 

my how you've grown, tummy the most"  

      (a sigh between these lines)

  I hope I will be called Grandpa" 

[Photo is taken by me, first published here in 2020]

Note:  I had this mother rabbit in our backyard in mind when the words were coming out.              

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020 and 2024 Respectively, all Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Magaly at the Friday Writings #109,  at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

 - Magaly has invited us "to write poetry or prose which includes the "Oxford word of the year for 2023: rizz, an informal noun, defined as ‘style, charm, or attractiveness; the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner’." 

   I have quite often used the word "rizz" as a colloquialism in place of "risen" and "arose" to mess with my 'grammar wise' friends. 

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A New Home -- a Poem for Friday Writings

 

    Going Home 

We're going home today 

Luxurious manor 

Patiently yearningly 

Dreamingly going now 

Specially-designed craft 

Happily we're boarded 

Anticipating pair 

Orphans we always thought 

Lush tender green young stocks 

Lush green, pasture-like fields 

Bambo shoots leaves and stalks

Heavenly-like yumminess 

Mysterious China 

Unseen new home awaits 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Rosemary who gave us license to use abundantly modifier words today at Friday Writings #102, 

  https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1 

 - Notes:  

 - 1. China has loaned some near extinct giant pandas to the US and various other countries. They have propagated well, the project was a sucess.  The agreements are expiring and the pandas must be returned. The Washington D.C.'s three left for China this Wednesday , November 9.  Only three others in Memphis, Tennessee, remain, scheduled to leave next year.  [Click here to read more]

 - 2. Right after my retirement (2001) during our three week visit to China we visited Chengdu to see the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries [China, Moscow, and the Panama Canal travel items were on my bucket list-you can search my blog for our 2006 Moscow to St. Petersburg River Cruise via Viking Cruises glimpses here]

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