Imagine - a Poem for dVerse Quadrille

        Imagine

When I was a little boy

I could not imagine things

Other children could do that

Had imaginary friends 

My little sister did well

Age of two she had a friend

His name was “Two Year Old Kid”

At three his name didn't change 

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 -  Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehove 2010 (URL) and 2024
 - I am linked with Lisa at dVerse Quadrille #194, at             https://dversepoets.com/2024/02/05/come-play-with-me/
 for the prompt word, "imagine".  Here at dVerse our Quadrille form has only 44 words not counting the title, if any
 - Click here to read what other folk have written using this prompt word 

Should I have stayed? -- a Quadrille poem for the dVerse prompt "Fold"

[Writer's "Flirty Guy"]

   Love's Corner 

Our paths we cross 

At Love's Corner

She smiles at me

Mine's bit warmer

Followed by my wink

She turns her head

As if I stink

Making me think

My love for her

Would be one way 

I'll fold my tent 

And fade away 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2010 and 2023 respectively, All Rights Reserved 

 - I first started using the "Flirty Guy" with my love stories and poems in probably the year 2010, you might read it here.  My label, "Flirty Guy", at the bottom here will brink you quite a few more.

 - I am linked with De Jackson of Friday Writings dVerse Quadrille #186 at 

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/10/16/quadrille-186-fold/ 

 - Quadrilles,have Exactly 44 words, which this one has, today's is to use the word, "Fold" 

 - Click here to read other's Quadrille poems writings

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April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 07 -- and a Write for Friday Writings

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The Love Letter 

When I first held you 

The invention of fire (!!)

Haunted by the past 

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

 - I am linked with Rommy at the Friday  Writings #71  at  

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

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo, National Poem Writing Month, for writing ___________. You can see the instructions and will be able to read others' writings there at    

    https://www.napowrimo.net/ , 

and then click on the day's title that you wish to read.  This one will be posted on "Day 7" but I am not following the given prompt suggestion.

 - Rommy has invited us to write about “small victories” 

 - A 'Spine Poem" makes a poem using the words of spines of books.  I composed this Senryu during a recent library visit

 - The little Flirty Guy follows most of my love poems.  I found him outside a store in Gdańsk, a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland. .

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Making New - an Acrostic Poem for Friday Writings

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Reclaim, Rekindle, and Rebirth 

Relax yourself--claim again 

empty heads will not count 

clip from your paper 

lots of paper dolls you can make 

almost a dozen from only one page 

in paper doll contests you might win 

make them slim, make them pretty,

 

Remember childhood days 

empty bellies do not count 

kindergarten days rekindled 

invest in rounded point scissor cutters 

no one cares if you act senile today 

don't you know its New Year's Day 

let them laugh the laughs on them

early childhood memories coming forth, 

another plight you'll buy

nothing counts from them 

dare acting senile today

Reserve the time wisely 

emptied hearts try to count 

better filled with childhood dreams paper dolls 

ignore the hoots they don't know 

right from left hasn't registered 

tonight new birth you will have   

hoot and holler and scream like the kid you be 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2014 (URL) and 2022 , All Rights Reserved 

 - Magaly wishes to see us into the new year with our next prompt: Reclaim, Rekindle, Rebirth for Friday Writing #58 at,  

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/search/label/Friday%20Writings 

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Working, loving, staying - a Friday Writing poem

   Working Man 

I'm a working man 

Making bucks where I can 

Figure your tax 

Mow your lawn clean your car 

I'm a working man 

Making bucks where I can 

When my day is done 

Then I'll shine just for you 

I'm a loving man 

Getting kisses where I can 

Kisses on your cheek 

Bolder as night goes on 

I'm a loving man 

Smooth my hair hug my neck 

Kisses just for you 

Hugs for you hug your back 

I'm a staying man 

Stay for you please return 

Don't leave me alone 

Together we'll do best 

I'm a staying man 

Day and night be around 

I hope you'll be there please 

Hold you tight you can't go 

Working and staying 

Bodies right loving pair 

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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022and 2010 (Estonia couple and Flirty Guy, on a Baltic cruise), All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Rommy at the Friday Writings #32, 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/06/friday-writings-32-right-song-at-right.html 

 - Rommy has "suggest(ed) taking a line from a song that moves you on some level and using that to inspire your words." 

 - My inspiration came from Bob Dylan's song, "Lay, lady, lay", especially the verse that says, 

  "His clothes are dirty, but his-

    His hands are clean
    And you're the best thing that he's
    Ever seen"

  (both google search)

    Lay, lady, lay lyrics 

Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed

Whatever colors you have
In your mind
I'll show them to you
And you'll see them shine

Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay
Stay with your man awhile

Until the break of day
Let me see you make him smile

His clothes are dirty, but his-
His hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's
Ever seen

Stay, lady, stay
Stay with your man awhile

Why wait any longer for the world to begin?
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love?
When he's standing, in front of you

Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay
Stay while the night is still ahead

I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night

Stay, lady, stay
Stay while the night is still ahead

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Bob Dylan

Lay Lady Lay lyrics © Universal Tunes, Big Sky Music

Spells and spellng - a Write for dVerse Quadrille

Spell of good fortune 

Cast upon my dame 

Lasted a long spell 

When it was over 

Riches and good looks 

Upon her fell spell 

others she loved 

Our loving spell doomed 

Onery spell moral is 

'Riches, good looks 

Those two spell trouble'

""T"  "R"  . . . " 

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 - Poem  Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - Picture courtesy: A Close-up Shot of a Cocktail, Pexels.

 - I'm linked with Sanaa at dVerse for this Quidrille #154, Casting a Poetic Spell at 

https://dversepoets.com/2022/06/13/quadrille-154-casting-a-poetic-spell/ 

 - Our "Quadrilles" have exactly forty-four words, and are considered "Flash Writing" due to their shortness.  

 - For us we are given ONE WORD which we must use, today Sanaa has given us "Spell".  This word has three meanings, making it a "homogram" with three homographs. 

 - My writing is also a Flash Poem in many circles based on syllable count, I have 56 syllables, twenty-five in each line of the first five, then fourteen in the second and seventeen in the last.   Most times I like either 55 or 144 as those two are magic for either syllables or words, as is 44.

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Friday Writings - Keep that boy

Did your mother teach 

Did your mother teach you that 

Did she teach you how

How to skin a cat 

How to boil a duck 

Did your mother teach 

Did your mother teach you that 

Did she teach you how 

How to meet a boy 

How to keep a boy

Did your mother teach 

Did your mother teach you that 

Did she teach you how 

Give him lovin' he needs 

For sure he'll love you back 

Did your mother teach 

Did your mother teach you that 

Did she teach you how 

How to keep that boy 

How you feed him well 

Did your mother teach 

Did your mother teach you that 

Did she teach you how 

Give him your lovin' all 

Feed well keep doing it 

He'll stay on forever 

Love you back, your mother taught 

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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021 and 2012 (Flirty Guy photo, at Poland), All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Rosemary who for our prompt wanted up to six short poems from us.   - 

 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/search/label/Friday%20Writings   

 - After reading some from a new Paul McCartney auto bio two volume new book I worked on a short six line.  But then instead I modified it and finished with what you see.   

 - The two-volume book, just out, is,  

 "Paul McCartney 

  The Lyrics 

  1956 to the Present".

The volumes contain the lyrics to every song he has written with its background and pictures.

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A Pi Poem for Pi Day (3.14) along with my Writer's Pantry Poem

Pi R Good 
(A Pi Day Senryu)

I like lemon Pi

Yesterday was Strawberry

Tomorrow Di-et 

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"I didn't say that"

Read, "Let us taste each other’s words"
Was the Poet's admonition **
Way the world communicates
We say and hear we show and watch

Lest we get it wrong plenty find
Wrong transmission or reception
Purposefully said fake news, lie
A lie, nice way is said 'fake news'

'Heard it wrong' denies ignorance
'Didn't say that,' an outright lie
From whose lips these false statements come?
Whose ears incite to lie some more

Not yours nor mine, it could not be
And politicians don't take blame 
Candied words can seem delicious.  
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2010, 2020, htand 2020, All Rights Reserved
 - 2010  "Smiley Guy" photo was taken and first posted here,  https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2010/09/smile-we-passed-on-street-started-with.html?m=1,  taken when we were at Gdansk, Poland, during our 2010 Baltic Sea cruise.  He was standing beside a street doorway to a small shop.  I have used him a lot on this blog going under the alias of "Flirty Guy" because I first used him in a 'flirting poem.'  See his Label below.
 - Pi and Pie photos are my screen shots from Pillsbury "31 Pi Day Pies", here

 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero in the Writer's Pantry, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1

** Magaly's words.  She also said,  "(words can be rather nutritious, I’ve been told)", adapted to my bottom line.

I've almost always, perhaps always, written as poem or a ditty for Pie Day, March 14 (3.14) .  Things slipped up on me this year so this Senryū will have to do.

Flash Poem ~~ Go away?

 www.wikiart.org/en/edward-weston/shell-1927-1

I won't go away
Stay here my shell
Call me some bad names
Roll off my back

Hit me with your stick
My hide is tough
I won't go away
doesn't hurt much

You don't love me like
You used to do
It bothers me much
But I won't leave

'Cause I love you still
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/09/camera-flash.html?m=1
 - This is a Flash Writing Challenge, I have exactly 55 words related to Kerry's picture find.

Eyelashes, Manure, and Past Job Titles ~~ Poems?

I.

The Politician  
 

Our hero didn't look his part

Eyelashes of greens, reds, yellows

Blue jeans matching light blue sport coat

Makes fellow sort of want to cry
 

Politician, heroic role

The eyelashes give him away

Doesn't matter his wife likes it

His eyes too are painted that way
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II.

Caretaker, Barnyards Unlimited 

Our hero, Farmer once before
Went to college but didn't stay
Now in the Army getting out
Spent his time, five years of his life

Told them he wouldn't reenlist  
A year of school and training two
Learned fancy stuff, electronics
Radars and computers he'd fix   

Will you re-up?  No sir, I'm through
Civilian soon, an Engineer  
Till then a two month job for you 
Haul horse manure to my garden 
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III.

New Occupation

Our man has quit with his day job 
Went back to school and learnt some more
So he's a Professor, Doctor
Make that Emeritus, retired
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Photo and Poem(s) Copyright, Jimmiehov (2010) Photo and 2018 (poems), All Rights Reserved
 
I'm linked with Rommy at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/05/job-title.html 

NaPoWriMo 2018-08 -- Day 8, a Poem for Fun

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Of the Nagging Woman;
 fill in the blanks with your own words

 

I.
 

She's (besides being _____ )

  She's Loud

  and Disappointing,   

  Arrogant

  It's Demoralizing

  the way she Barks

  So Disgustingly irritating

 

  Spews Hateful remarks,  

  they are so Very grating

 

II.
 

How I feel (like _____ )

  I might be Insufficient

  but for sure I'm terribly Disappointed

  Often I would like to be Hatefully retorting

  I'm Demoralized

  and painfully Hurt,  

  wishing I was Running away  

 

  I feel like Dirt

  she treats me like that.  I could go Faraway

 

III.
 

What to do (besides _____ )

  Sometimes I Cry

  almost drives me to Drink  

  wish I could Muffle  

  her and Disappear  

  while she gets loose.  I like to Kick
  but I'll settle on going to the Golf course  

  It makes me to Be sick

  You might think we need to Divorce

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2011 and 2018, All Rights Reserved
 

  - I'm writing for  Sanaa Rizvi  at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/04/poems-in-april-l-arora.html

- I'm also linked to Day Eight of NaPoWriMo,  http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eight-5/.  If you click on the comments with links left or you can also try 'PARTICIPANTS SITES' link at the top of their page you can read the poems submitted by other bloggers.

 

I am not sure everyone will call this work tonight a poem, it got late as I've had a busy Sunday, I'm sorry.  For sure it is a list of words or phrases.  I did in my mind have something much better planned.  I think it may fit the requirements of both the groups above.

 

That said, Sanaa want us to try a new form, the A L' Arora. 

 - Hers ideally would have four verses but she said that two or three would do. 

 - The second is modeled after Shelly's defence described in the NaPoWriMo instructions.  Mine is very abbreviated though.

 - I believe it also loosely fits the requirement of a "triptych form poem," also very abbreviated (Google links for you to read up on it). 

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A little sad poem for Friday

Nobody wants me
Makes me cry at night
Thinking, asking why

Everyone wants me
Wants what all I've got
But they dump me off

To cry. Cry the night
Come morn, wash my eyes
What I had its gone

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Photo and Poem Copyright, © 2014 and 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 

 

I'm linked with Marian at The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Cruel, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/10/cruel.html . Marian wants u's to watch a video she had posted there, to be inspired, and to write listening to our inspirations.  I'm dead in the water as I didn't like the video.  All the time I was thinking of "Everybody wants you." a song by Billy Squier.  Listen here.

 

NaPoWriMo 2017, Day 17 -- a Poem, Over, Under, Through

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Your Daddy Built a Wall

Your daddy built a wall for me

A wall between us, you and me

It's tall, supposed to keep us apart

Will it work, well I think no way

Wild horses can't keep me away

No better than oceans apart
Or flinging me up to the moon

I'll find a way to come to you

Over, under, or through I'll come

Come flying, crawling, or pushing

Our love is burning hot, searing

Boiling like a pot on the stove

Love will see us through, I'll hold you

Hole we'll make, to carry you through

Let's try it now, wait no longer

Write your note, let's be on our way

"Daddy, seems I can't have you both
Love you too but it's Charlie.  Mine"
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Poem and Photo Copyright
© 2017 and 2010 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved
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 - I'm linked with Isadora Gruye at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Over // Under // ThroughMicro Poetry,  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-under-through.html
  - - - and   
 - to Day Seventeen of NaPoWriMo, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-seventeen-3/#comment-35474 - Izzy asked, "Today's (Over // Under // Through) challenge is all about challenges, and how we rise ...or er, don't or whatever."