Weekly Scriblings - October Calling

 
Jim's birthday, 2007, at a Hue Hue Tenango (Guatemala) 

orphanage (first year, I went again on this mission trip in 2008)

    October's Call 

“I’m so glad I live in a world 

where there are Octobers.”*  Because . . .  

Calendar month my birthday lies 

Every year I threaten to run 

Run away from my cruel world 

Often times I do make that run 

Run away far away from here 

Or be it near round the corner 

Take my wife and away we go 

New York City has beckoned me 

Guatemala two times I went 

Octoberfest in Germany 

Others beckoned me London too 

Nearby New Braunfels Texas called 

Galveston beaches soft warm sand 

Or a ship sailing far away 

Oceans wide or Moscow rivers 

Arctic Circle, China's rivers 

Still many more they've beckoned me 

Around the world penguins to roos** 

Fifty states 76 lands***  

Now to then candles on my cakes

Oh yes in many I've driven 

October birthdays, hit the roads 

*quote from  L.M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables (Wikipedia)

**"roos", an abbreviated form of Kangaroos 

***"76 lands," Click Here for countries I've visited.

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 - Poem and Photos Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2021 and 2007, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Rommy again at The Weekly Scribbles #90,  Poets and Storytellers United: Search results for Weekly Scribblings #

 - Rommy wants us to "take our inspiration from the quote “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers”, the word October, or from autumn in general."

Poem, Sunday Muse # 122, Guatemala

 Art by helldivo at DeviantArt

I'm Watching My Friend;
  in my mind

But my eye is on Guatemala today
Guatemala is where I want to go
Look closely you can see it on my face

It's not a secret most anyone can tell
There in Guatemala I left my friend
Friend so dear--she can't come here I must go
 
A coyote I must pay border to breach
Pay with dollars hard earned some donated
Her lovely self and I we meet again

Together we must stay and part we must not
Spousal citizen I'll become for you
Guatemala in my eye ever more 

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At Antigua,  Guatemala,  this is our mission group from Texas with our guides.

This poem is Fiction, it is not me except for the added bottom picture, I am on the left, front.

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 - More Guatemala photos on my blog, click here. 
 - Poem Copyright, 2020 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
 - Photo prompt found where I'm linked to Carrie Van Horn at Sunday Muse # 122, http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2020/08/sunday-muse-122.html?m=1

A Poem for the Tuesday Platform

Why do I travel;
for delight it brings?

Started with a bucket list
Moscow, Panama Canal
Great Wall of China as well

Those in mind, first came my son
To his wedding, Barbados
With blushing bride made their vows

While in the Caribbean
Why not visit Martinique
And St. Lucia, islands near

Learned of Napoleon's wife
Awed by their island homesite
Josephine's Statue, headless

Ate bananas in their fields
from their trees and sampled rum
from the barrel.  Shoulders rubbed 

Soon cruised Panama Canal
Then sailed from Moscow on to
St. Petersburg. Walked the Wall

Our bucket list long empty
With the highway in our veins
Now eighteen years we've traveled

Fifty states, most of Europe,
South America have been
India to Capetown next

Why do I travel
Because it's there
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-tuesday-platform-questions-of-travel.html?m=1

 - I hate that this turned out sounding like a bragging write. More detail would have been more boring  But it has been much of my eighteen retired years and many summer while teaching has been on the road, sea, and air.
 - Best liked was driving literally all over Europe but there isn't one holiday travel that I have regretted. Eight have been Missionary oriented.
 - Oh yes,  Mrs. Jim has been with me everywhere except for my business
  monthlong romp in San Francisco and one trip to Guatemala.  Two of our children and three grandkids have also tagged along.

Cow's in the pasture ~~ Tuesday Poem is Written

Bovine Pastures and ...
  The poet writes 

Let the bovine pasture at day
Her calf's in the shade 'neath a tree
Suckle her baby when she's back
She chews her cud while the kid sleeps

Let the farm boy write his ditty
A poem of the cattle and sheep
No sheep today they're being sheared
That's man's way of keeping them cool

Let the bovine pasture at day
Write of the habits of his cow
Use metaphors freely they sell
She's chewing her cud the calf sleeps

Farm lad is writing his memoirs
David-like the giant he slew
What good for him he didn't know
Baby's saved cow loves him for that

Bovine's resting under the tree
Chewing her cud while farm boy writes
Writes of the lion who attacked
Strangled by the herder calf sleeps

Night comes mama and calf are barned
Baby's suckled more next he sleeps
Mother chews her cud cogitates
Boy on the street selling his work

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[Tag: Guatemala visit posts ]

  - Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2018. All Rights Reserved

  - Photo Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2007. All Rights Reserved

     [Guatemala 2007 mission trip, mixed with 2009 trip (link), very bottom picture]

 - I'm linked with Willow_switches  (aka Pat) in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-tuesday-platform-poeming.html?m=1



Fleeting ~ Haiku Bones

The cows come home

when twilight comes

and the cows come waddling home

milkmen go to work

Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

Thanks to Haiku Bones for the prompt word, fleeting.

Wordless Wednesday #079 — MacDonald's delivers! (in Guatemala City)

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SkyWatch Friday (my seventeenth) -- Daylight Savings Time comes to the market

This is a busy time at the Mercado.
We are in Antigua, Guatemala
This sky is best viewed by clicking on the picture.

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The time here is around 5:00 to 5:45 PM.

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I'm betting the light bill goes up in the winter!

Other Participants and How to Have Your Own Skywatch

Wordless Wednesday #078 — Banos or Bushes?? — (toilets or nature path)

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SkyWatch Friday (my sixteenth) -- Busy sky -- Lazy sky

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This is at the only traffic signal between Guatamela City and Huehuetenango. They have very nice and clean rest rooms as well as a Coca Cola Light and Milky Way (my breakfast for the morning).

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How about this for a peaceful sky?

I guess this shows that a few people make a big difference!

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Wordless Wednesday #076 — Time of the year again, Guatemala bound

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SkyWatch Friday (my sixth) -- Pretty clouds over Guatemala

Over Lake Atitlán (Lago de Atitlán)

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We rented a boat and traversed Lake Atitlán. A small town on it's shores is where I found the 'dog sleeping on the roof' picture below.

We did have several stops, the views, the people, and the skies were wonderful. One was for lunch and souvenirs. I bought a nice hat, Mrs. Jim bought a wooden flute like instrument, each was "made in Guatemala."

This was our last day in Guatemala so there were about seven hours on the bus. That wasn't nearly as much fun as doing the lake in our boat.

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On the road (dah) via Highway CA1, which is the PanAmerican Highway. It really isn't too great in places but the scenery is wonderful. We passed a lot of roadwork using temporary side roads as Guatemala is upgrading portions to four lane.

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Huehuetenango, the street leading out of town to the west. This was not the PanAm Highway. We stayed a week in Huehuetenango helping at an orphanage. The kids were sooooo loving.

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Tag: Skywatch participants and How To Have Your Own Skywatch

Links:
Lake Atitlán Wikipedia article
PanAmerican Highway Map Write-up
My previous Guatemala posts
Guatemala Road Map

Beats sleeping under a bridge -- Wordless Wednesday #068

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Who called the cops cows? -- Coming down this Guatemala street

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Do I see a cow here?




Yes, several of them!



There they go. I wonder where to?






This little old lady (a lol) was fully in charge.