Adios

Thank you, pantry prompter, 
for writing this reminder, may we 
never forget the bravery of Rosa 
Parks. Love your illustration, 
she makes me feel young and happy. 

TODAY I START MY SABATICAL 
TO END JANUARY 12, 2020 
(love the ring of those numerals, 
my hope is to live that year long). 

Also, I may sneak 
out a dity or few when 
my Warden isn't looking. 

Bye Bye, wish me a BON VOYAGE,  
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 - Like most blog writers I appreciate comments and critiques from my readers.  
 - Very likely though my warden, a cousin to my muse, will not allow me to return your comments.  Even so I am planning to read a lot of yours. 

 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero in the Pantry of Poetry and Prose with Poets United, https://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/12/pantry-of-poetry-and-prose-6.html?m=1 

 - You can read Magaly's tribute to Ms. Parks at the link above. 

Moonlight Musings I - an Essay

Moonlight Musings I (1st. Edition): Interactive Edition was born. (Meaning that Magaly Guerrero gets to be the first of it editors.)


My essay, a commentary:

Well, today is your day you can interact with me and the others who have opened themselves to criticism over their social media writing via comments left (click on the link below).

I've had some pretty flagrant endings of the great social media from some nasty commenters. "If you can't say something nice then it's better to say nothing at all."

My first was a supposedly news writer who went beyond flaming on my Facebook. She said nasty things and insinuations about Mrs. Jim, my wife. Saying bad things to or about me is one thing, I'll even try making up. But you'd best leave Mrs. Jim alone, to me that's cheap shot bullying. I unfriended her. 

Another was upset because I sided with Anna Nicole Smith (Wikipedia link) in the feud over her inheritance from her husband, J. Howard Marshall, with her stepson, E. Pierce Marshall. The upset reader harassed me continually until I took my post down.  I decided that I would not take sides over anymore issues like that.  Nor did I or will I get political on my blog.  

(Smith lost her battle, the stepson died before the case was finally settled, and some time later Smith also died of "... "combined drug intoxication" with the sleeping medication chloral hydrate as the "major component."^[88] No illegal drugs were found in her system. The official report states that her death was not considered to be due to homicide, suicide or natural causes." [Wikipedia])

Then the ones who rule play cops and letting you know when you've flaunted one. Like leaving a reference when one is asked for. Jesus said, "Let him who has done no sin throw the first stone." I start ignoring these types.

Now I don't mind pointing out typos, I beg you to let me know. Besides the Professor is to set an example.  In the comments left of course I like compliments.  But just letting me know you've read makes me 'feel good'.  Blogger tells me that I have about a 25 percent figure of my 'readers' who will leave comments.  For sure several are family members and Facebook friends who are not bloggers.

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 - Writing Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero at Poets United, at http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/08/moonlight-musings-the-interactive-edition-1.html?m=1
 - Magaly has asked us to have a post that will encourage readers to interact via comments.  Also to write in Essay Form using 369 or fewer words.  My essay portion is 361 words.  Phew!!

 

Day 07 -- NaPoWriMo 2019

The Road Kill Possum;
Happy Vogen Poem Reading (in Plain English)  

Chomping down on a road kill possum

Broke six teeth and ruptured my throat

Possum rotting ten days old. Fourteen vultures had
sucked his blood ate his feet appetizer for their buck 

Blarney puked and had a tail for the road

Band-Aids on my throat lost nine more teeth

The vultures picked them up to eat

but got stuck in their noses

Walrus mistook the vultures for his harem

Death to them by hanging they wouldn't make love

All come get you some dead fowl

Let's start this food chain again.

Who will be first, dead vultures been thrown

on the road and run over by ten hemi's.

Yum yum - Oops, comes turtles, late, to drink the puke

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2016 (Photo) and 2019 (Poem), All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked to _____ in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/
 - and to NaPoWriMo, Day __  at http://www.napowrimo.net/
 - Vogon Poetry is considered to be the Third Worst Poetry in the World.  The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon#Poetry )

a midweek "Going Poem" for you

Do you want to come along

We have this cute little tugboat

Sister and I

Going up and down the canals

That's our new life

Wouldn't you like to come along

Two empty bunks

It doesn't seem so romantic

But wait you'll see

Sister and I and our spouses

Four retired folk

But guests don't stay you'd have to leave 

We share with all

Cook, clean, swab, pull ropes.  Fill the tanks

A hand could stay
 

[Taken at the Little Venice Canal Boat show, 2014, London, U.K.]

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018. All Rights Reserved
   (Photo of the Tugboat is by Karin, aka "Outlawyer", click on her name or see her prompt post today at the link below.   There she has it and some of her other pictures also posted.  She reserves all rights but has released use by us for our poems.  I made a PrintScreen copy photo to post here.)
 - I'm linked with Karin in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/08/going-going-gone-midweek-prompt.html?m=1
 - Karin was remembering the poems she had memorized when she was young. She then realized that many used the word "going" or another form of "go" in them.
 - This process was the basis for her a  asking us to remember along with her and then to WRITE a poem using "going" fairly near its beginning.   BTW,  I've used the word "going" 17 times on this blog https://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/search?q=going&m=1  One them is titled, "Going, going, gone" as the title of Karin's post with the Toads above.
 - If Nursery Rhymes count I'm sure "This Little Pig . . . " was my first to memorize.

Outside Homps, France, riding a canal boat on the Canal du Midi.

After the boat ride, our busy day would continue.

Old town, Carcassonne, was next on our journey.

[click any picture for a larger sized view]

 

The Shopping Trip -- a Poem

I'm sitting here in the store just waiting
Waiting for you
Shopping you are, bras undies--I'm fainting
And slippers too

Wait by the side door in a big red chair
'Til you're finished
I'm writing a poem my rhyming is fair
Good one I wished

But should I write of the sandals I bought
You look I bought
My shopping is done I wait while you shop
Fish could of caught

But I'm not fishing good husband I am
Buy you Moon and stars put them in a can
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Marian in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/08/fussy-little-forms-cavatina.html?m=1
Marian wants us to write a Cavatina form poem, with a set meter and rhyme scheme. Like this:
  •Ten-syllable non-rhyming line,
  •Alternating with a four-syllable rhyming line,
  •Repeated at least three times,
  •Ending with a ten-syllable line couplet.
It was a fun project, I really did write most of it while waiting for Mrs. Jim to finish her shopping.   I LOVE THAT GAL.
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Small Time Art ~~ a Ditty

Reaching my Potential;  
Small time Art with Stickman style 

Stickman Art, reached my potential
Some are born with silver pallet
Beautiful hues in jars beside

That is a life I never knew
Born into share cropper family
A different life awaited me

With knees astride speckled pony
Friends were make believe, we would play
Corn fields and pastures nature's green

Yearning for those days departed
We are born with what we're to have
Make the best from there, Stickman Art

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Photos and Poem Copyright © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 - Today I'm linked with Hannah at  the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

 - Hannah's theme there is Transforming with Nature's Wonders

 - She showed 'nature art' eg. a mandala made with seashells.  I reversed this idea with the commercial arrangements, first at McDonalds with a Balloon Bouquet, then a Cupcake Grouping I found in the Kroger Store bakery section.

 - You can click on the pictures to enlarge, probably they won't get any prettier.

 - The Stickman I designed back when I was in the first or second grade.  It was first published here on my blogs as my profile picture back in 2006 or so.

 - Stickman appears on all my posts on "Ask Dr. Jim (blog)" (link).  I have not updated that blog since March 20, 2015 but I have not given up.  When my time is not so precious I intend to resume posting there..

I just love a little nip of Jack Daniels during my bath.
It makes me feel so invigorated.
Would you care for one also?


Story Copyright
© 2010 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

Check over at Susan's blog, Stony River, for more microfiction Monday! They should read quickly because our requirement is 140 characters or less.

One Single Impression: Avatar

My Avatar

Ugly and so scrawny
smirks at me from afar,
my avatar hates me;
I hate my avatar.

What did he do to me
that gets me so upset?
The others are pretty
yet here's my ugly pet.

And now I'm asking you
what is your opinion;
for you would he do?
I'd rather an onion.

Beauty running skin deep
but no curves here to love,
angles and bony knees.
My own is far above.



Poem and Photos Copyright
© 2010 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

Find more poems at One Single Impression
"Murmur" as prompt was suggested
by Beth Patterson at Virtual Tea House

Happy Birthday Tammie Lee

we love you dearly
happy birthday Tammie Lee
your poems rate with me

Tammie's birthday is today.
Her blog is Spirithelpers

Anniversary Post Newsletter — MidWeek Blues — What is this thing?

Note, please don't forget to enter Adi's contest.
Click here. You have until Next Sunday.
You are permitted to change or update your answers.

Today is the start of my fifth year of blogging. I have just completed four full years.

I will do three things in this post. First I need to do a MidWeek Blues picture. Second will be a statistical update. This will be followed by a short evaluation of areas of which I am concerned. Some will affect you, dear reader.


MidWeek Blues:
What is it?
Hints: (1) Don't kick it, you'll hurt your foot (2) It isn't a rock or stone

Answers will be given, and shown on my next week's MidWeek Blues post.


Statistics:
Total Posts: 2616 (for the eight blogs)
Total Hits: 83,512 (many are from Google, my priority there is fairly decent) Total Comments: 12,386 (Yahoo is not cooperating for me to tell you how many are my own, I have left several.)
YouTube Viewers: 19,492 (views for my 20 YouTube videos)
Adi is the most popular, on posts and comments and on YouTube

Active Blogs & YouTube
Jim's Little Blog (1439 posts, 56,047 hits)
Jim's Little Photo and Poem Place (566 posts, 12,603 hits)
Ask Dr. Jim (blog) (80 posts, 8,356 hits)
Jim1Jim1 (YouTube) (20 videos, 19,492 views)

Areas of concern

Friend list: I need to update my friends lists. I have three categories which are '... Friends ...', 'Haven't Heard From These Lately', and 'The Bone Yard'.
Very soon I will move a bunch to the lower two categories (The Bone Yard has invisible links) and add some new Friends.

Mrs. Jim annual performance evaluation: Time is now. She has been an excellent wife but these things still need to be done. If she reads it she might find out how good I think she is. (I hold her on a pedestal.)

Consolidation: Every year I think about having just one blog. Right now basically I have the three active ones and it seems to be working.

Neglected areas:
1. Ask Dr. Jim (blog) needs to be updated at least once a week. It hasn't been nearly that often lately.
2. Jim1Jim1 (YouTube) needs some new videos. Most times I make them pertinent to a current blog post.

A minor concern: People believe everything that I say. Not all my poems are true. Please don't believe every word I write there as gospel, some is poetic fiction.

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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo picture on the right. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did. .

Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.
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One Single Impression: Fog

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[Adi meme]

In a Fog

His head is in the fog;
his work is in a bog.
Bogged down so much he is,
he's going to close this blog.

Please, please don't close this blog.
Tales we'll miss, like your dog;
walks, plays, eats the dead worms.
Say "TTFN, fog."

Okay, Ta Ta For Now

Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

Note: TTFN link

Find more poems at One Single Impression
"Fog" as prompt was
suggested by F.P. of Sweetest in the Gale

One Single Impression: Circles(OSI 1st Anniversary)

Circles Spinning

spinning circles make
the cycle of poverty
thank God some spin off
OSI's not poverty
polished writers here to stay

I think and I write
you all know I jumped on late
my poems are so poor
oh happy day for the chance
my trivia souls will read

Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved


Tag: One Single Impression Circles(OSI 1st Anniversary)
Edward S. Gault of Forest River Journal brought this week's prompt
Tag: Jim's OSI
Link: Cycle of poverty

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Dégas
The same may go for poetry? (whatever, I enjoy painting with the words!)

Happy Valentines Day -- Will you be my ... ?

Won't you join me for a cuppa coffee (come look)? Happy Valentine!

This was our desert at last nights Valentine Day dinner. It tasted even better than it looked! Coffee was good too (come look if you didn't do it above).

my love you're my love
precious lovely sweet our love
will you marry me

Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved

Posted by: at February 12, 2009 09:50 AM
on blogs.chron.com/memo/

In case anyone wonders, this had to be three lines and 17 syllables (haiku style).
Of course I'd tell Mrs. Jim about buying her the Moon and getting her anything else her little heart desires and all those nice niceties.

Happy Blog Anniversary Jim!

My Active (whatever that means) Blogs: (3)
JIM'S LITTLE BLOG -- Started December 1, 2005
-- 1,153 Posts -- 41,0699 'Visitors' -- Currently 40/day average
Running several (3-4) posts per week currently
(Generally Ruby Tuesday on Tuesdays)

JIM'S LITTLE PHOTO AND POEM PLACE -- Started December 1, 2006
-- 359 Posts -- 7765 'Visitors' -- Currently 15/day average
Running three +/- posts per week: (these may appear sometime the day before due date)
(Wordless Wednesday -- on Wednesday)
(SkyWatch Friday -- on Friday)
(One Single Impression -- on Sunday)
(an occasional 'feel good' post)

Ask Dr. Jim (blog) -- Started December 1, 2007
-- 64 Posts -- 3445 'Visitors' -- Currently 16/day average
Running one +/- post per week, no set day
Posts are Q&A; Questions on most any subject from 'reader' and Answers by Dr. Jim who knows most everything about most everything there is to know (at least Dr. Jim always has an answer)

General Statistics:
8533 Comments on all blogs (Yahoo mail won't let me refine anymore)
2086 Total posts, all blogs

Inactive or little used blogs:
JIM'S LITTLE HAPPY PLACE – 192 Posts (once a controversial blog with a different name--I couldn't tolerate the flaming and converted it to a HAPPY PLACE--then it went inactive as I couldn't care for and feed it properly)
me, old blogs never read, and . . . – 169 Posts -- A dumping place
To All the Girls I've Loved Before – 16 Posts --purpose link -- not nearly completed
jim's little Christmas tree farm – 102 Posts -- lots of Christmas trees earlier, now a few miscelaneous posts
What Susie Wrote on My Blog – 21 Posts -- while I was on holiday


FAQ:
Q -- Do you have a YouTube?
A -- Yes, Jim1Jim1. It has very sporadic posting with 19 Videos

Q -- Will you create a new blog this year?
A -- No plans at the present time. In fact I spend too much time blogging and would like to slow down and get better quality posts.

Q -- Then will you discontinue one of these three blogs?
A -- Right now, No. Later I may consolidate JIM'S LITTLE BLOG and JIM'S LITTLE PHOTO AND POEM PLACE. They seem to overlap.

Q -- But you have different readership on each blog, I don't want to leave the one I like and am accustomed to.
A -- That is the major problem with consolidation.

Q -- What would you like to do about consolidation?
A -- I have thought about moving everything to JIM'S LITTLE BLOG. Then it would lack organization so I think I am stuck the way I am.

Q -- You don't seem to read my blog very much anymore. Why?
A -- If you don't leave comments on my blogs I won't pester you (very much).

Q -- Can I ask more questions?
A -- Yes, just leave them in a comment. Request for me to remove the comment after reading and it will soon be gone.

Q -- What if I don't like to even show my comment, thought, or idea for even a short time until you read it. Don't you have an e-mail address?
A#1 -- Yes, I have several e-mail addresses. My blogging address is jhovendic[at]yahoo[dot]com.
A#2 -- I also have one moderated comment page (click here) taking private comments. It was intended for anonymous questions to Ask Dr. Jim (blog) but you also could use it to remain anonymous.

One single impression: Fleeting

That Night

A fleeting rendezvous it was
From her that night her timid call
Nearing her door what would we do

Womanly instinct guides her now
A hug and kiss embrace some more
Touch and feel with reaches explore

No wine or candles here tonight
Hastily those flirtings to end
Harvesting now as frenzied love

Quickly she leads the dance that night
Over too soon memories won't fade
We part with kiss embrace and wave

Now was our fleeting rendezvous
Forbidden fleeting fantasy
A wistful dream never come true

Copyright © 2008 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved
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Tag: One Single Impression
prompted today by (thank you) Nancy of Genre Cookshop

Tag: Jim's OSI

One single impression: Autumn

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My Autumn

I'm in my autumn
Silly sounding you wonder
Autumn of my life

Remembers the past
Forgets what you said today
Autumn of my life

Playing this and that
Doesn't do his little chores
Autumn of my life

Sleeps from nine to nine
Waking to eat, read and blog
Autumn of my life

Tag: One Single Impression prompted today by (thank you) Teri

Tag: Jim's OSI

One single impression: Defenses Down

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Defenses Down?

Go home
that's where I am wanting to go
go home, go home

Don't stop
just once perhaps will do no harm
don't stop, won't stop

I can't
'though all's so yummy enticing
I can't, I can't

I mustn't
Just a quick little tasty snack
I mustn't, I mustn't

I know
the family awaits, dogs as well
I know, I know

My home
it's calling me, please come right now
my home, my home

One bite
won't hurt, no one will ever know
one bite, that's all

At last
the last dark mile awaits me now
at last, at last

I've kept
my defenses up, up so good
I've kept, I've kept

I'm pure
not straying from where I should go
I'm pure, I'm pure

. . . . . . . . .

Don't let
please don't let your defenses down
don't let, don't let

You can
keep your defenses up, you can
so pure, stay pure

Tag: One Single Impression

Tag: Jim's OSI

Wordless Wednesday #070 -- Adi Can . . . . . . Gravitate to the Green Things

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Or yellow,
if it says
John Deere

Wordless Participants
[link Tues] [link Wed]
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Tag: Adi Can

One single impression: Spectacle

The Spectacle

I could not see
the signs in time
road signs that said
do this go there

Eye spectacle
need for the right
cost me hundreds
to pay the tab

A pitch dark night
I did not see
that sharp tree stem
my eye did poke

Eye bandage gone
need specs no more
the signs so clear
again I see


Tag: One Single Impression to see poems by the others

Tag: Jim's OSI

Award Day -- Oh Happy Day!

HAPPY FEET award

Hi Guys:

I think most of you know that I post pictures and perhaps a short (most of the time) narrative to go along with. Therefore my readers consist mostly those who share similar theme pictures.

I respect these readers and especially have a warm feeling and happy feet (they were smiling the last time I checked) for those encouragers who make it worth while posting.

What I may think of as a mundane post may be lifted in esteem as seen through my eyes just because of those thoughtful comments. THANK YOU ALL, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

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Mary, the teacher got this award going, she gave it to a long list of her regulars for which I am honored to be with those others.

Since she passed the award on, I feel that I should also. Therefore it will go to the top commenters for the last three months on my JIM'S LITTLE PHOTO BLOG.

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To the following I hereby send the "You Give Me Happy Feet" award
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Comment Sender Count:

• SandyCarlson (19) @ Writing in Faith
• Ellen B (13) Happy Wonderer
• Sandee (Comedy +) (12) Comedy Plus
• Mary (the teach) (12) Work of the Poet
• Jams O Donnell (11) The Poor Mouth
• Raven (Katherine) (11) Views from Raven's Nest
• Jim (11) Jim's Little Photo Place
• EastCoastLife (11) EastCoastLife
  

Some, including myself, will receive this award for the second time. I don't think anyone has returned it to Mary before. After you get it please pass it on as you see fit.

Read all about its origin and how it is run at Mary's Blog, here at The Work of the Poet.