Happy Me - a Poem for dVerse Poetics

 

    Happy Fellow 

I am happy happy 

Most of the time that way 

Have a smile on my face 

even more than that 

What makes me so happy 

Say because I was born 

I didn't have to be 

Who said "we don't like kids" 

My father wanted me 

I milked cows and did chores 

And so did my mother 

A happy companion 

Grandpa named me Smiley 

cause I smiled all the time 

Happy to be with him 

I was Grandma's pet too 

When I grew up, married 

had a happy marriage 

Even when we divorced 

free, happy then, three years 

Met a new wife for me 

Right away I liked her 

and she liked me also 

She's happy pioneer 

Now that I'm old and gray 

I'm happy even if 

Even if one cripples 

Even if one lives no more 

Fifty-one together 

Makes me happy hearing 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo by Louis Wain is a photo copy enhanced by me  

 - I am linked with Melissa Lemay of dVerse Poetics,

 https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/23/if-you-dont-like-cats-im-sorry/ 

- Click here to read others who heeded the warning, "do mention the word cats"

Simple Life - a Poem for Friday Writings

   Glimmers 

Microwaves and Keurig 

Dishwashers and wash 

machines and the likes 

Glimmers in my life 

Quick and easy is 

the way of my life 

Quick and easy fits 

From hot chocolate, 

square eggs to fit bread, 

stuffed peppers a snap 

Little things, glimmers,

make my life simple 

Note: 

• "Glimmers are small moments that spark joy or peace, which can help cue our nervous system to feel safe or calm.
• Experts say this mindset shift can make a positive impact on our mental health."
• USA Today

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Rommy for the prompt at Friday Writings # 86 ,   

   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/

 - Rommy has asked us "to write about our “glimmers”. A glimmer is the opposite of a trigger--some small thing that fills us with happiness/delight and can turn a mood around."

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April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 30 -- Mad Money -- and a Poem for Sunday Muse

     Wasted time and money

    Mama had warned her 

    "Spend your mad money

    very cautiously" 

    She didn't heed her  

    Now she wished she would 

    Save it for the time 

    Time you really need 

    Mad because your date 

    Didn't play fairly

    You imagine when 

    Times I've warned come true 

    Naughty naughty he 

    Sorry this came true 

    Walk home now you must 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Carrie for the Photo from her selections for the Sunday  Muse #257 at 

    https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2023/04/sunday-muse-257.html

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Writing Month, Day 30, 

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirty-9/ 

 - Our suggested prompt is  follows"(. . . optional) prompt.  It wasn't compatible with any of Carrie's pictures so I opted out."  

 - It's a ditty with five syllable lines, I call it a half Sonnet

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Seeers are believers -- a Ditty for Friday Writings

 

  Comes the Stomper Outers 

Mean 

Stomper Outers' discovery 

They came, the stomper outers 

Killjoyed the little kids 

Ruiners to them 

Dismay the girls  

Cry their fun 

Bursted 

Joy

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Magaly for the Prompt phrase at the Friday Writings #70 at  

    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

 - Photo from Carrie at  Sunday Muse #252 

https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2023/03/sunday-muse-252.html?m=1

  - Hooked with Grace at "Wordplay",  

       https://dversepoets.com/2023/03/23/meeting-the-bar-word-play/

  - I think my poem is a Reverse cinquain based on syllable count.  It will work either way:

Joy

Bursted 

Cry their fun

Dismay the girls

Ruiners to them

Killjoyed the little kids 

They came, the stomper outers 

Stomper Outers' discovery 

Mean

 - Read other's writes, here 

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"Does she love me?" -- a Write for the Sunday Muse

Shivers; 

all about love

She loves him she loves him not 

Sitting on threshold of love 

Somberly he thinks of that 

Seems three petals yet to go 

Selection by kiddie love 

Some never outgrow this stage 

Some wish upon a bright star 

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- Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

- I am linked with Carrie for the picture prompt, The Sunday Muse #248 

https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2023/02/sunday-muse-248.html 

- A "Seven's ditty", Seven lines each with Seven syllables all Seven start the same letter.

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Super Bowl - a Limerick

   

Courtesy Fortune.com click here

        Game Night

Super Bowl is worthy of watching

If it's not then catnap is catching

It was fun tonight

My team won their fight

Nickles and dollars bets I'm fetching 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

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Gin it Up - a Senyru Ditty for Friday Writings

Ginning up a poem 

Glad I learned to spell and write 

Google spells for kids  

Educated kids 

Get the good jobs for today 

Sign painters for sure 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with the Friday Writings #39, hosted by Rosemary , 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/08/friday-writings-39-crafting.html?m=1 

 - Rosemary's writing suggestion this week, "How could you make a poem or a story? Gardening, sculpting, building, knitting, raising it like a child?

Please tell us the answer – :

 - Here goes, I just Gin Up a blub and hope it is a Ditty or a Poem or a Story told.

 - Plus my Music and Song Writing daughter thinks I need an illustrating picture.

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Change and Renewal

[picture of my gas meter, Copyright Jimmiehov]

Mary, Mary, how does your gas meter flow  

With little wheels spinning and numbers changing  

Comes a little man who reconditions them  

Good as new they will be with improvements made

    

Fix yours today before the market goes out  

It will send your numbers to a satellite  

You can get your bill via the Internet  

Meter readers gone like lift operators  

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved. 

 - I am linked with Rommy in the Writers Pantry #82 at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/08/writers-pantry-82-here-in-my-car.html?m=1 

  - I am linked with Rosemary for the topic prompt, "Change and Renewal," at her Weekly Scribbling #81, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/08/weekly-scribblings-81-change-and-renewal.html

 - There Rosemary has asked us to write about change and renewal.  She chose this topic after her apartment/flat needed a complete renewal due to a severe invasion of Mould.  

 - 88 syllables were written today for my ditty.  The associate pastor at our church worked for and with his father reconditioning gas meters for customers and utility companies when theirs would go on the fritz.  He has a meter in his office with glass sides and top for the purpose of showing customers how the meter worked.   Clever.   That job was before he went into the ministry.

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A Ditty Poem for Wednesday

What goes up must come  down 

The skeletons in your closet 
They are to be worried about 
Those things will come out in the wash 

What to do what to do--there's hope 
Why were they in the wash machine 
Who was watching this bloody act 

Did you heed Tide cleans things better 
There's hope those dry bones get whiter 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 
- I am linked with Magaly Guerrero with Weekly Scribbles in the Writers and Poets United site at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/02/weekly-scribblings-6-turn-cliche-into.html?m=1 
 - Magaly has asked for us to write using a cliche or cliches to write.   I used several.  On the above link she has a list of cliches we use, GO THERE to see how many are in your working repertoire. 
 - A Ditty Poem,   http://buffysilverman.com/how-to-write-a-ditty/

A Tuesday Ditty, a Senyru

Boxes

I save boxes

Large ones, small ones, middle sized 

Do you need one?

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Anmol (a.k.a. HA) in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-tuesday-platform-let-path-go-on.html?m=1

Aspirations

More than I can handle;
bogged down 

 

What do I want, can you tell me

So many others have tried but

They all say for me to "want more"

 

Well I'll tell you what I've got here  

It's more than I can handle now

It keeps me busy day and night

 

So why would you think I'd want more

Colloquialism, quaint but true

Bitten off more than I can chew 

Please quiet while I mend my fence 
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Photo and Poem Copyright, © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Notes:

 - I'm linked with Marian at The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Aspire, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/12/aspire.html .

 

Marian has given us a video featuring the singer, DeQn Sue, where she is singing a song, Aspire.  From this and reading of her we are, from her inspiration, to write our feelings.  My head had this ditty right of way.  Getting old slows one down.

A Cold Day in ... a Ditty Poem for Tuesday Challenge

..... . . . ..[click on picture a time or two for larger viewing size]

A cold day in Summer

When the summer heat is about to get you down
When the thermometer says feel-like temperature
is one hundred and five, that's the time you should think
Think about a cold day, cold day you liked a lot

That proverbial day, day when you froze walking
It was a cold day then the wind blew up your clothes
Pants and skirts bellowed out full of air oh so cold
I saved a bottle of cold air just for today

This'll be our cold day, cold day in the summer
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with  Kerry O'Connor, at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Tuesday Platform,  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-tuesday-platform_22.html
 - Her theme was "Post a Poem (old or new)"
 - Picture is one I took this year in February on our walk from Georgetown University over to the Washington Monument and then around and back to our hotel by the government buildings.  We walked in the 'teen' miles that day.  Fairly cold too.

a somewhat silly ditty ~~ "Small giants and large dwarfs"



Namba Parks in Osaka
Bored Panda 

 

Small giants and large

dwarfs share the landscape

 

Architects delight,

weaving climbers and

tiny windows share

the scene fighting for

 

the top, upside down,

downside up, silly

twins bewilder you

and me, cousins sad

 

to think of what may

become way of life

for normal people

too, way too sick to

 

argue, quarrel. 

Doesn't matter

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Ditty copyright, © 2016 Jimmiehov, All rights reserved

Photo inspiration, Namba Parks in Osaka by Bored Panda , from Kerry's Flash 55 PLUS! Challenge. 

Kerry, at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads (at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/10/flash-55-plus.html ) introduced us to the Bored Panda website.  There she "came across the post, 15+ of the most Amazing Examples of Japanese Architecture. ... (she) was transfixed by the ergonomic and/or economic use of space" (just right for my giants and large dwarfs).

Oh yes, exactly 55 words, per Kerry's request. 
Note:  I may not be politically correct.  But then, ... (Doesn't matter -- I liked the picture)

Lollipop Pole; and it's Fairy ~~ a Ditty Poem for 'Until Later'

Lollipop Pole;
and it's Fairy

Totem Pole's far cousin is lurking near
Fueled by her fairy, waiting to lure you
Boys and girls beware, her danger is near
She's kind, will leave candy and coin for you

But her pole contains the magic power
Pick its fruit, good to the taste, sweet morsels
Bad as Adam's apple, this demon girl
She's bidding for queen, Queen of Boys and Girls

Lollipops are her weapons.  Innocent?
No, not this fairy nor her fruit come free
Their price is tooth decay, the dentist's joy
Tooth Fairy is on our dentists' payrolls
 
Beware of her lure, the Lollipop Pole
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Photos** and Poem Copyright © 2012** and 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
**Photos found at http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2012/08/lollipops-lily-pads-and-laxatives-my.html



Today I'm linked with Hannah in the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads,
Transforming with Nature's Wonders
at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/07/transforming-with-natures-wonders.html

Notes: 

1. Searching the Totem Pole animal list (link) did not yield the Tooth Fairy.  But it did include the imaginary animal, the Unicorn: 

Unicorn

Purity, innocence, dreamer, personal power, gentle, spiritual vision, other realms, faith, healing.

2. Why is the Tooth Fairy not on this list? A creation of dentists, they may also have invented these delightful fairy creatures knowing that they would bring in more $$$$ than their blood sucking leeches could ever (my belief).

A 'How Many' ditty for Tuesday Platform

How Many? 

How many sailors 

does it take to change a light bulb 

How many preachers 

does it take to change one's habits 

How many Twinkles 

does it take to make Sailor sick 

How many wait staff 

does it take to carry six coffee mugs 

How many opticians 

does it take to change a light bulb 

One 

One or two 

Two or one 

Three or two 

Patience  

                            Geniuses unite!  

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. - Photo and Poem (ditty) Copyright © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

. - Today I'm linked with  Kerry O'Connor  at The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads and her post for The Tuesday Platform

Note:

I've had this Earworm bugging me all week. I thought I might use Mark Twain's help, by adopting the tactic that his character, the conductor, used in his short story, "Punch, brothers, punch." (Link -- read Twain's story here, please click). The conductor could not help himself from singing this ditty until he finally passed it on to one of his passengers.
The little song went like this:

Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,
A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,
A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!

CHORUS

Punch, brothers! punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!

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Mount Franklin's Peak;

fun mountain climb memories

I'm having memories again this day

Memories of El Paso and it's hill

Mount Franklin beckoned me oft before

I would climb the mountain, rocks and all

Then the cable car I'd ride back down

 

I'll climb no more though return I might

Will be in the little orange cage

Up and down, this time I'll ride both ways,

Titanium knee, creaking joints, they beg

Please do leave the climb for younger folk
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Picture credits:

Top:  Summit Posts, Ranger Peak http://www.summitpost.org/ranger-peak/457590

Bottom:  Texas Parks and Wildlife, http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/wyler-aerial-tramway

 

Poem copyright, © Jimmiehov 2014, all rights reserved

 

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Today I'm linked with  Hannah  at the Real Toads, Transforming Friday (Link)

 

- Hannah tells us of her planned repeat visit to Maine and some of her plans to climb Maine's Mount Katahdin.  It is Maine's tallest Mountain (5,269 feet), although my Texas highest peak find, Mount Franklin (Wikipedia link), is much taller (7,192 feet, although my Ranger peak is only 5,632 feet--have to climb the rest). (Everything is bigger in Texas!!)

 

- She asked us, "...  if you have a mountain that's grown a granite stone-shape in your heart, by all means, share! "  So I tried that a bit with my little ditty 'poem'.  I climbed that mountain quite often back when I was in the Army, stationed at Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Texas, for five years.