Why do I write? A Poem

Why do I write (poems, and other)

"They" write their hearts out
telling of the ilky life that they share
with pen and keystroke

Some of them, that is,
though others tell of good days
and months and years
Others a cause or complaint

That's them but why do I write? 
Why do I wish to share the words I know,
though mildly limited one-room country 
school words, grades 1 through 10?

Share them on paper and screen,
through the ether and wire they come  
I call them poems, some don't

It's a thing. A thing I do,
a thing I like.  Give me a place where
my endless ink reserve can dry

I have this passion to share,
to have read what I write,
to bring a smile or a frown,
or even a tear

It's what I do in old age,
I write for you who's reading this now,
to share a thought with you  
Or share my silliness

That's it, why I write
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, © 2009 and 2018 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved (Photo originally at http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-futile-thinking-midweek-blues.html )
 - I'm linked with Susie Clevenger in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/01/bits-of-inspiration-poet-discovery.html  - Susie introduced us to a poet named Jessica Helen Lopez and one of her poems called  her poem, Mama is a Poet.  Read more about it at her link above.  Susie then asked us to write, expressing why we write poetry. 

a Sunday Poem -- Resistance

Resisting Change;
  double negatives 

I'm old and I don't want to change
Why then do you write those new forms
Sometimes yours are okay some flop
Mediocrity you are called

I'm old and I go with the flow
What others can do I can write
I've been told some aren't really poems
You think you write because that's you

I write for readers most of them
if I can.  Writing is fun when
some folks read and like what you wrote
For them I write, forest trees fall

To resist resisting's my game
Going with the flow I won't change
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Brendan MacOdrum in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/09/weekend-challenge-resistance.html?m=1

Four Generations -- a Dimensional poem

      [My 'Three Generations,' my 'Four G's' are males]

Four generations
We've four dimensions

Won't graph very well
but stair steps so good

Dressed so differently
Hoop skirts and short shorts

Mini skirts knee holes
Foursome, years apart
 - - - -

Draw a round circle
Rounder is better

When Enso* is true
Better is person

We fill this circle
With fourth dimension

East/west north/south up/
down Ana/Kata

That fourth dimension
Ana/Kata's hard

Hard to explain so
you can read it here
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2017 and 2018, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked to Toni Spencer in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/09/step-into-void.html?m=1
 - Toni explained filling the circle with the first, second, and third dimension but said we needn't go to the fourth.  It is beyond me tonight, if you'd like click on the last word above.  Click on the link just above here to read Toni's explanation and directions.
 - *Enso: (per Toni) means “circle”; it symbolizes the Void, or also elegance, the Absolute.  
 - Now in life, fill the circle.  I drew mine free hand, not bad, not real good.  I joined them and filled with a toy person out of perspective.