How Many? -- a Poem for Bob Dylan (Repeat)

How Many

How many times must a man fall down
  Before he gets picked up no more
How many times must a child get killed
  Before we take the guns away
How many times must the girls be sold
  Before we don't raise any more
The answer my friend, is not to be had
  The answer is not to be had

How many souls must come to their end
  Before motherhood stops in vain
How many graves for the little ones
  Before the earth will hold no more
How many families loose their precious ones
  Before all are rotting away
The answer my friend, is not to be had
  The answer is not to be had

How many times must a bad man kill
  Before they take his toys away
How many men will be locked away
  Before greedy men go to Hell
How many days will turn into years
  Before God makes the carnage stop
The answer my friend, He alone does know
  God alone the answer does know

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Photos and Poem copyright, © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 

Today I'm linked with Rommy at the   Friday Writings #44 at 

 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/09/friday-writings-44-to-err-is-human.html?m=1

 

In 2016, for our springboard, Kerry said: "On Thursday, October 13, Bob Dylan became the first song-writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.’ Dylan is the only artist to have won a Grammy, Golden Globe, Pulitzer, Polar, Oscar and the Nobel Prize." And more.

Notes: 

 Excerpted from a write, poem, that I wrote for October 21, 2016 (here on my Blog Search for "How Many)

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Jimmie's Got a Gun
.Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound of my gun
Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound, it's the sound...
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah....

Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Her whole world's come undone
From lookin' straight at the sun
What did her daddy do
What did he put you through

From Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun Lyrics (There's more at the link. I interpret 'daddy' to be her old man in hippy terms and the 'little baby' (later in the song) meant that Janie was very young--way too young.)

 

[For larger pictures click on to the picture, try again for larger still]

I blogged of my guns and gun experiences here.  Since most of those I have acquired a real gun that I could keep.  It is a Spanish 9mm pistol of which the manufacturer has long gone out of business.  It is a Star, M243 Model Firestar Plus, 9mm, manufactured by Star Bonifacio Echeverria S.A. Eibar (Guipuzcoa), Spain. 
It is still new, never been shot. http://star-firearms.com/firearms/

"A double-stack 9mm version (M-243) ... was commonly referred to by the unofficial name "Firestar Plus". The Firestar was produced by the now defunct Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. in Eibar, Spain until 1994. The Firestar was imported into the United States by Interarms of Alexandria, Virginia."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Firestar_M43 

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8 Comments: (from 2016, you may find an old friend here)

At Friday, October 21, 2016 12:52:00 PM,  brudberg said...

the questions are so very relevant

 

At Friday, October 21, 2016 1:06:00 PM,  Kerry O'Connor said...

You ask the hard questions, Jim.. ones we would all like the answers to. This is a powerful piece in the style of Bob Dylan.

 

At Friday, October 21, 2016 8:30:00 PM,  kaykuala said...

Great Dylan's parody, Dr Jim! Certainly must have taken lots of thinking to do so!

Hank

 

At Friday, October 21, 2016 10:05:00 PM,  Linda said...

A very powerful post, Jim. Thank you so much for sharing.

 

At Saturday, October 22, 2016 12:03:00 AM,  Teri L said...

Dylan would approve. :) Thought provoking and straight forward.

 

At Saturday, October 22, 2016 1:43:00 PM,  Helen said...

One of your finest, Mr. Jim! Dylan and I were both born in 1941 ~ I love that little fact.

 

At Sunday, October 23, 2016 6:38:00 PM,  Outlawyer said...

Wow--so terribly sad--thank you, Jim. k

 

At Monday, October 23, 2017 11:33:00 PM,  Artsy said...

So powerful. Well done, parody.- Gel

 

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Shoot 2 - a Poem for Sunday Muse

New!! I'm now allowing 

anonymous comments!! 

(Please leave your name and URL 

 I'd like to return your comment.) 

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        Your Gun

Go shooting up the town 

Will it make your revenge? 

Getting even for them  

They've been mistreating you 

That for a short moment 

Seems to fix the world 

Later on you'll be caught 

Or maybe at the scene 

Then you'll lose your freedom 

And perhaps lose your life 

Sons, leave your guns at home

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - Bottom photo is from my 'top up' exploration of the small town near here, Cut and Shoot, Texas.  Read of my trip here.

 - Photo at the beginning is from the September 1970 movie, 3:10 to Yuma, read about the movie here.  I have not watched this movie.

 - Carrie, hosting, told us, "This week I am doing something a little different. I am posting images from different movies I have loved over the years." You can see them at the Sunday Muse #221, 

https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/07/sunday-muse-221.html?m=1 . 

        Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns To Town

    Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns To Town - YouTube 

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Shoot - a Poem for Friday Writings

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anonymous comments!! 

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 I'd like to return your comment.) 

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Magaly has invited "us to create poetry or prose inspired by the following phrase: 'to stay creative, is to stay happy and stay alive."

( https://youtu.be/WlgoUlOkyzU ) 

John Travolta's big hit, Saturday Night Fever, made him famous in 1977.  That movie was our favorite for years.  The movie also made the song, "Stayin' Alive" famous. 

Bad Guys Don't 

Bad Guys Don't Win (forever) 

Have different ways, they than we 

But each of us have one goal 

Stayin' alive fits us all 

They cheat and kill (please not me) 

Good health's our way, best for all 

Nature's way works All is well 

But we're no match Guns purpose 

Going for rides Top is up 

When eating out face the door 

Driving the car Road raged shoot 

Stayin' alive that's for us 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Magaly at Friday Writings #37,

at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/07/friday-writings-37-stay-happy-and-alive.html .

 - To read and see Jim and his Mustang's guided picture tour of Cut and Shoot, Texas, north of Houston about 30 miles, click here. The 1998 Mustang GT convertible has 113,000 miles of which 64,000 Jim put on since he bought it used in 2001. It was Jim's retirement present from himself.

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GUNS KILL ~~ a saterical poem

https://momsdemandaction.org/

New Azalea Press, 2/16/2020:
It's been two years now.  Nearly every gun in the U.S. has to been insured in case it shoots and kills or injures someone.  If not insured, it was a goner.  Or an animal except for legalized hunting. GUNS DON'T KILL but ALL GUNS ARE MADE TO KILL.

Sport shooting, IF NOT MADE TO KILL wasn't a problem.  ALL GUNS FOR SPORT are now PELLET GUNS.

The insurance companies are loving this addition to their business, their profits are soaring.  And the states regulate insurance companies.  That way the former DO NOTHING CONGRESS is now out of the picture.  2nd Amendment too, guns are legal but must be insured.  

An incredible number of lives have saved.  Deaths by guns last year were down by 83 percent, murders were down by 67 percent.  Family violence injuries and deaths are now down by 64 percent, deaths alone down by 92 percent.  The insurance companies have done wonders in their screening efforts to withhold insurance and turn over the guns of those mentally unfit for gun ownership.

An added benefit to 'czar mr wrecking ball', he has had his blind trust buy an insurance company.  While he's at it he can insure himself against all the "lying" aggressive "romance" starved women he might molest.

J.H. wire service    

 

Is it all fake news   

     Some is true some is satire        

It's your pick to choose  
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, © 2018 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved  -- Photo is a printscreen from Moms Demand Action, link below the picture. 

 - I am linked with Brendan MacOdrum at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Hasta La Vista, Wormtail: Satiric Verses for the Weekend Challenge ( http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/02/hasta-la-vista-wormtail-satiric-verses.html ) 

 - I have never written formal satire before.  I choose for my assignment to attempt Political Satire.  I do not politicize in this blog although if you do so I may participate there.  This could be an exception, your comments may also be satire or may be your true feelings. 
 - Personally, I own three guns which are near antiques.  One is a 1920's Montgomery Ward 22 gauge rifle, the other one that shoots bullets is a post WWII Spanish 9mm pistol for which the manufacturer has gone out of business.  The other is my childhood Red Ryder BB gun that still shoot.  I have never fired the first two nor have I purchased bullets for them.

 

How Many? -- a Poem for Bob Dylan

How Many

How many times must a man fall down
  Before he gets picked up no more
How many times must a child get killed
  Before we take the guns away
How many times must the girls be sold
  Before we don't raise any more
The answer my friend, is not to be had
  The answer is not to be had

How many souls must come to their end
  Before motherhood stops in vain
How many graves for the little ones
  Before the earth will hold no more
How many families loose their precious ones
  Before all are rotting away
The answer my friend, is not to be had
  The answer is not to be had

How many times must a bad man kill
  Before they take his toys away
How many men will be locked away
  Before greedy men go to Hell
How many days will turn into years
  Before God makes the carnage stop
The answer my friend, He alone does know
  God alone the answer does know

_ _ _ _ 

 

Photos and Poem copyright, © 2016 Jimmiehov, All rights reserved

 

Today I'm linked with Kerry O'Conner at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kerry Says ~ It's Blowing ... [http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/10/kerry-says-its-blowing-in-wind.html]

For our springboard, Kerry said: "On Thursday, October 13, Bob Dylan became the first song-writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.’ Dylan is the only artist to have won a Grammy, Golden Globe, Pulitzer, Polar, Oscar and the Nobel Prize." And more.

Notes: 
(1) The bigger bad boys, i.e. I.S.I.S. and the like have very large toys, cannon sized and still larger.

(2) https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGHP_enUS574US574&q=boy+dylan

Born: May 24, 1941 (age 75), Duluth, MN

Full name: Robert Allen Zimmerman Spouse: Carolyn Dennis (m. 1986–1992), Sara Dylan (m. 1965–1977)_ _ _ _

Jimmie's Got a Gun
.Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound of my gun
Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound, it's the sound...
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah....

Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Her whole world's come undone
From lookin' straight at the sun
What did her daddy do
What did he put you through

From Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun Lyrics (There's more at the link. I interpret 'daddy' to be her old man in hippy terms and the 'little baby' (later in the song) meant that Janie was very young--way too young.)

 

[For larger pictures click on to the picture, try again for larger still]

I blogged of my guns and gun experiences here.  Since most of those I have acquired a real gun that I could keep.  It is a Spanish 9mm pistol of which the manufacturer has long gone out of business.  It is a Star, M243 Model Firestar Plus, 9mm, manufactured by Star Bonifacio Echeverria S.A. Eibar (Guipuzcoa), Spain. 
It is still new, never been shot. http://star-firearms.com/firearms/

"A double-stack 9mm version (M-243) ... was commonly referred to by the unofficial name "Firestar Plus". The Firestar was produced by the now defunct Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. in Eibar, Spain until 1994. The Firestar was imported into the United States by Interarms of Alexandria, Virginia."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Firestar_M43