NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 29 -- Cats are the Meow

  

Cat in the Window; cut this poem out, carry it in your pocket for National Pocket Poem Day, April 29, URL  

Been looking out my window 

This is my favorite perch 

Every day there's something new

Most enjoyed is sunning here 

While I do I see it all 

Golfers and lawn caretakers 

Critters of all kinds, squirrels, 

skunks, dogs looking in at me 

Snakes and lizards aplenty 

The birds I like, doves and hawks 

Hawks eat cats and small kittens 

They eat baby doves as well 

So that's why I like it here 

I'm sunning and staying clear  

Clear of the hawks and blue jays 

I would eat a baby bird 

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 - Poems and Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021 and 2007, (photo at http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2007/04/cat-whisperer-and-cat-in-window.html ) 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 29 at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-7/ where we were asked to imagine looking in or looking out of a window in our writing.  My favorite cat will be looking out the window.  

 - On May 9, 2021, I linked it again, this time with Rommy in the Writer's Pantry #69 at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/05/writers-pantry-69-i-am-not-throwing.html?m=1 

 - Here are a few of my blog posts of favorite cats, https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=cat .  I would loan one if you need for your writing illustration.  But I would want credit and a warning posted that it is copyright by me. 

 - http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/search/label/NaPoWriMo%202021 is the link for viewing all of my NaPoWriMo 2021 writings.

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Watching the October storm -- a 7 line stanza challenge poem



[Jim1Jim1 YouTube]

October Storm

Here from the safety of my porch 
I watch the wind as it blows 
Objects bow 
Bending palms give their alms 
Blowing rain swirls.  Glows, 
Silhouetted distant light 
I watch, standing straight 

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Photo and Poem copyright 2015, Ó Jimmiehov, All rights reserved.
YouTube Video Copyright 2008, Ó Jimmiehov (aka Jim1Jim1), All rights reserved

YouTube Video is from my back balcony (former home) in 2008 during Hurricane Ike.  Ike did not damage to our home although it did break branches and pushed down several trees.

The Photo is of our present home's back yard after our recent Texas storm from remnants of Mexico's Pacific Hurricane Patricia combined with a low pressure tropical storm which came in from the Gulf of Mexico.  Over the weekend we had over seven (7) inches of rain but no wind or water damage.
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Today I am linked with Margaret at the Toad's Imaginary Garden, Play It Again, Toads! , where Margaret asked us to write for a vintage challenge.  Mine is from Kerry O'Connor's 2012 challenge, "Paul Laurence Dunbar - 7 line stanza poem". 

She requested that we write a seven line stanza poem with the following recommended, but not required form of 8, 7, 3, 6 (with internal rhyme), 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively for each line.  I met that requirement in my above poem.

Frost ~~ Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Golf course pictures were taken from our back porch

Monday morning with frost on the golf course. Temps got down to 26, the lowest of the year (2007, this year also) so far.

My Haiku/Senryū

frost on the golf course
means a frost delay for sure
we'll tee off at ten

Saturday morning after a nighttime storm with a couple of inches of rain.

morning after rain
good earth extra bright and green
golf starts at seven

Sunday morning, not a cloud in the sky!

Sunday morning bright
honor sabbath--keep it holy
afternoon golf

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Sensational Haiku Wednesday is hosted by Jenn. Please click on here (Jenn's blog) for info about joining in and for more Haiku Wednesday participants.

SkyWatch Friday (my nineteenth) -- Back porch views, cloudless early morning fog with dew and twilight with a cloud in the Texas horizon

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SkyWatch Friday (my tenth) -- Hurricane Ike -- Comes and Goes

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Calm before the storm (last week's Skywatch),
September 11, 2008 at 11:57 AM

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Storm clouds brewing, September 12, 2008 at 11:51 AM

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Peaceful, yet troubled sunset,
September 12, 2008 at 6:35 PM

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Ike has arrived (taken from our upstairs back balcony)
September 13, 2008 at 7:55 AM
(my one minute [Jim1Jim1] YouTube with the above scene)

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We have endured,
(note the broken horse apple tree on the right)
September 15, 2008 at 7:41 AM.

Now ten million plus are enduring, some not in as good shape as us. Five million plus are were in the Houston/Galveston area. Check here for our status (we do have electricity today and will return home over the weekend).

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SkyWatch Friday (my ninth) -- Calm Before the Storm

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These pretty Southeast Texas clouds are moving from northeast to southwest. Later they will be moving from east to west, then from south to north and finally from west to east.

What is going on? Here is their source (ABC13 Weather Storm News).

Today our Houston area is preparing for Hurricane Ike (and remembering at least 1,956 deaths in 2005 from Katrina and Rita).

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Wordless Wednesday #071 -- Back deck views -- Guess? Ours and the neighbors down the street, which is which? Theirs cost five times our cost

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