Winter vs. Spring

(Previously posted April 17, 2020)

The New Spring

Flowers bloom--freeze not 
January grass is green

Winter never came 

Daily walk with green 
Baby rabbits run year 'round 

Climate change is here 

Photo credit

April's baby birds 
BioRhythmic Lunar Clock 
Keeps calendar time 

Humans much confused  
This one goes jalopy spin 

Eagles on 8-track 
Moon and stars doing just right 
Mother Earth is out of whack 

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- Poem and Photos except for the third Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020 

 - On May 24 I linked again to Rommy at the Writers Pantry, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/05/writers-pantry-21-change-of-plans.html

 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-16-20.html?m=1 from where I was led to a former Day 17 prompt by Hannah for 2016 on Kyōka writing (today I wrote three Haiku and the fourth is a Kyōka) https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2015/04/transforming-fridays-with-natures.html?m=1

 - I am also linked to NaPoWriMo Day 17 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-seventeen-6/ 

Today, April 17, is International Haiku Day 

Another Poem for a Weekend Mini-challenge

Solstice Humbug

Longest day this year

We did not burn do not fear

Needs come every year

Spring chick scratches straw

Time for her to 'fly the coup' 

Scratch for worms it's own

What's the fuss about

Nothing here to be revered

Mark the calendar

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Toni Spencer in the Imaginary Garden at  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/06/weekend-mini-challenge-summer-solstice.html?m=1 
 - Three Senryū verses, 51 syllables, 55 counting the title.  43 words plus 2 (= 45) with the title. 

Hidden ~~ a Poem for Friday

"...and the very folds of the curtains
contained secrets and sighs." -Anais Nin

[Picture courtesy of Sanaa Rizvi at the

         "Real Toads" link below.]

 
Hidden

Something's hiding here
Hiding behind the curtain
Just a pIle of dust

Something hard to hide
Some sweep it under the rug
Hoping none will see

Or in the closet
Waiting for it to come out
Secret no one tells

Things always come out
Things that can't be hidden, it's
Now or later on
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Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved

I'm linked with Sanaa Rizvi to the "Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, 'The Curtain Falls'" at  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/03/curtain-falls_8.html?m=1

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.

 

Cell 23 is reserved ~~ a Poem for the #metoo effort

The Silence Breakers

Cell 23

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Cell 23 is reserved. Reserved for the men fulfilling their own uncontrolled beastly lusts.  These ladies, and millions more, who have been made their objects have had enough of being silent.

Not wanted and not liked, these antics towards the women have changed the lives of every one touched or spoken to. The actions and words are not forgettable and hardly ever forgiven. 

We who have somehow been spared have a hard time emphasizing with them. That could be you or me but try a little harder. Can you remember when you were hurt in ways you won't ever discuss? 

Have you been spoken to in harsh or demeaning ways you didn't deserve? Have you? Or perhaps if you try hard you can remember injustices done to you. Well, like you, these millions of women have memories that never will be erased.

(If you are a perpetrator, don't say you forgot.  Except for people lacking in mental capacity, perpetrators don't forget crass, hurting, immoral, and illegal acts to another person.  If you say you forgot YOU LIE.)

Worse ever so more for the victims because it affronts and insults their humanity.  Situations in life, perhaps from birth, which lend to their powerlessness to avoid . If you witness such an incident you can report it. And be a witness with testimony that can help.

And if you are a perpetrator STOP IT RIGHT NOW!

With the courage of so many in modern times, it is time for Cell 23's all over the land to be filled. Remember, you can help the effort in many ways, whether or not you have been an object.  There's an empty Cell 23 near you.

Women still hurting
Indelible scars remain
Let's make it better 
Help fill your Cell 23 
There is one near you, start now
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Poem Copyright, © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 

Top photo is a cover of Time Magazine which I copied from Sherry's post at the "Real Toads" link below 
Photo at right is furnished by GMa - at GMa's Succinctly Yours Week 143 , ( http://grandmas-goulash.info/2013/12/succinctly-yours-week-143/ )
 - I'm linked with Sherry Blue Sky , at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, The Silence Breakers,  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/12/wordy-thursday-with-wild-woman-silence.html

 - Sherry wrote, "Women's strength and courage is validated by the Time Magazine devoting its cover this week to honour The Silence Breakers. Woman-strong, they stand together to acknowledge the brave actresses naming their abusers. The mighty are falling."  Read more at her link shown above.

 - My writing is of an experimental form to me, the Haibun .( http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/haibun-poems-poetic-form.)  Mine is modified as the Haibun by definition concludes with a three line Haiku or Senryū with seventeen syllables, 5-7-5.  I felt need for an extra couple of lines so opted for the Tanka which has fourteen more syllables with two additional lines, 5-7-5-7-7. Poetic Forms: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Lunes (http://lestersmith.com/2009/05/poetic-forms-haiku-senryu-tanka-and-lunes/ )

Tenderness -- a Poem for Sunday

Tenderness
Definition: (Google search "Tenderness")
noun: tenderness; plural noun: tendernesses

1a. gentleness and kindness.
"he picked her up in his arms with great tenderness"
synonyms: kindness, kindliness, kindheartedness, tenderheartedness, compassion, care, concern, sympathy, humanity, warmth, fatherliness, motherliness, gentleness, benevolence, generosity
"with unexpected tenderness, he told her what had happened"

1b. feelings of deep affection; devotion.
"tenderness for the opposite sex"
synonyms: affection, fondness, love, devotion, loving kindness, emotion, sentiment
"I felt an enormous tenderness for her"

2. sensitivity to pain.
"abdominal tenderness"
synonyms: soreness, pain, inflammation, irritation, bruising; More

Tenderness - Do you know anyone in politics who fits the definition?  Hard to think of one, I know.  In fact I believe politicians cause inflammation, especially if they win and are in office, with lots of power.

Well, lets approach it from another angle - do you know anyone in our government who fits that definition?  You should find a few here.

I'll try to help, what is the mission of the FEMA -- U.S. government agency designed to help folk recover from disaster.  FEMA is to manage our emergencies so the name says. 

But then I knew a very kind young lady who graduated from college and was employed by FEMA, she was the kindest.  I cannot imagine her ever grouching at a client.
 

Child Welfare -- Help and rescue the children from various harms, in and out of the family situation. 

Child Abuse is the most dastardly crime I can ever think of, poor defenseless children don't have a chance.  I didn't and still cannot forgive the abuser, even though he is long deceased.  If I forgot perhaps I would forgive.  One never forgets abuse.
 

I am quoting from an unnamed source, written from a lady who really meant it, it was listed in her list of desires: 

"I desire a kinder, more peaceful world, less divided by things like politics and religion.  I wish we didn't have either one of those things in this world - they are both the root of much suffering and I believe we'd be better off without them, and with more acceptance and tolerance and love."

 
I'm all for the riddance of politics but I believe that God is the author of "Love".  I'll stop there for this post, just as she stopped with the word, "love".


With these lines I'll stop
Do I rant?  Well I should, loud
Get on my high horse
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 
 - - My Photo is a 'PrintScreen' of Kerry's picture by Blake.  Use her link below

 - I'm linked with  Kerry O'Connor, at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Play it Again, Toads! at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/09/play-it-again-toads.html

 - Since we are playing "Play it Again, Toads", I am linked to the blog of my choice, by  grapeling at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Get Listed - September at  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.co.za/2014/09/get-listed-september.html
 - For Play it Again we will be given a list of words from a selection the selector has read.  My list is art, war, attack, fire, capture, neglected, ardor, tactics, energy, alliance, treachery, scheme, tenderness.  I used only one word from Grapling's list, "Tenderness".

 - My 'rant' is using loosely a form of the Haibun. http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/haibun-poems-poetic-form

NaPoWriMo 2017, Day 7 -- a Senryū Pair, Art Inspired

 . ."Big Owl" by Kaoro Kawano,  Fair Use

 

Big Owl Sits 

 

Big owl sits by pool

On duty all day and night

Scaring birds away

 

Bird bath it's not

But when they catch him sleeping 

Time for hot tub bath  

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Photos and Poem Copyright © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Photo is a "Screen print" from my computer of Kaoru Kawano's print, Big Owl.
You can find it in his On-line works, here:  https://www.wikiart.org/en/kaoru-kawano

 - I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor  at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Let's Paint a Picture, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/04/kerry-says-lets-paint-picture.html 
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 - I'm also linked to Day Seven of NaPoWriMo, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-seven-4/

 

Kerry would like us to write our poem after 'grazing' through some of the artist, Kaoru Kawano, and write what might come to mind.  I am also gazing out the back window beside me and seeing the blackbirds using our hot tub as a bird bath. 

 

Supposedly we can place a sculptured owl near the birds will stay away.  Some say it work, some say not.  I found this owl print in his portfolio on the WikiArt Internet site ( https://www.wikiart.org/en/kaoru-kawano ).

A Spine Poem again, Hornet's Nest -- Red Radish and the Beet, a Limerick

Hornet's Nest 

The house of widows 

The girl who kicked the hornet's nest 

Furiously happy 

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. - I'm linked with Marian  at The Tuesday Platform with the Real Toads in the Imaginary Garden.   

. - I chose my books from our ship (the Caribbean Princess) library.  This ship doesn't have much of a library, one row of bookcases.  The room is shared with the computer and Internet Room. Not real friendly neighbors. http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search/label/2016%20Caribbean%20Cruise

. - I hope you don't mind too very much, this one is marginal, perhaps not qualifying for a Haiku or a Senryū.  Thanks for peeking at my other poems, I try to write 'poems' of a sort most of the time.

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My entry to the current Limerick-Off Monday contest

http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/category/limerick-offs/

Red Radish and the Beet

Said Red Radish to her friend Beet

“I’m Queen Vegie here” in her tweet

Corn said “real corny”

Trumpet vine, “horny”

Mary C picked them both, to eat

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. - Photos and Poems Copyright © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Snowy night car play - μ Poetry, a tinge of e e cummings

Up the street from the Blair (Nebraska) MacDonald's on a snowy December morning

snowflakes lighting on
moscow streets gives inklings of
stay-at-home evening

 
highway's run move them
off the streets дорогие полиции 
please dear politsii
 
make space for us
skillful drivers midnight boys
snowy night street racers 
 
(now a refrain, e e cumming style)
 
ma
k
e
 
s . . p
a
. . c
. e
 
f
. o
. . r
 
. . . r
. . a
. c
e
. r
. . s
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. - Photo (s) and Poem Copyright © 2013, 2016, and 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
 .- I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor to her post, one this snowflake ~ Micro Poetry
bearing in mind a short poem, 10 lines or less  and "You may choose your own form or stick to free verse, if preferred."  Also it may relate to the e e cummings "'one this snowflake' angle" of his poem, perhaps his own way of writing Haiku poetry (link1)(link2)(link3-Wikipedia)
 .- I have ten lines, the last being a 'refrain' in e e cummings style typewriter skewed form, with my first nine in Haiku/Senryū form.  
 .- When visiting Moscow in 2006 we spent three days and three nights (sleeping on our river cruise boat) there.  The first day it did snow some, the next day with some accumulation the drivers didn't seem to mind.

Out with Nature ― Day 17 of NaPoWriMo 2015

Pleasant eating out with Nature

 

Fast food, lunch on deck

Little green friend, eats bugs, lunch

White flower grows bugs

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Green by blue water

Canoes, fishing, party boats

White herons soaring

 

 

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Sunshine, sit and chat

Hours later time it's to go

Pick up trash, some don't

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Photos and Poem Copyright © 2015 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

I am linked with Hannah at Real Toads, Transforming Fridays with Nature's Wonders

and  NaPoWriMo 2015, both for Day 17 of National Poem Writing Month

and  also the National Haiku Foundation blog (link) for National Haiku Poetry Day 

Notes:
 - Our assignment was to write Haiku about the expression of nature – we’ll celebrate and recognize haiku today because today is NATIONAL HAIKU POETRY DAY –April 17!! -- National Haiku Foundation blog (link)
 - We’ll speak in the tongue of nature…any facet of the wild-natural-world that we choose. Express your poetry today in the traditional style of haiku or step into a modern manifestation of haiku in English.
 - In my three-set poem, I probably started with Haiku and ended with Senryū.

 - Wednesday was such a nice day, with showers before dawn.  After mailing my tax stuff in Montgomery P.O. (Texas, our county seat)(second in line!!) we decided to eat at our Subway fast food restaurant across Lake Conroe on State Hwy 105.  For sure it was a day for top-down driving and sitting on the deck beside the water.  Mrs. Jim and I sat and ate and talked for more at least two hours. 
 - There was a White Heron trying to catch fish but I didn't get its picture.