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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Friday Writings -- Who has seen?

                       [youngest granddaughter's bedroom when 

                             she spends the night with us]

    Mama's Early Lesson 

Where is the Boogeyman tonight 

He might be under your bed or 

he might be under mine 

One never knows for sure 

It never hurts to look and  

it pays big time for assurance 

I'm pretty sure he is there 

some of the times I didn't look 

But one never knows 

Mama says she doesn't know 

what the Boogeyman looks like 

She has never seen him  

Very few people ever have

I dread the day that I might 

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 - Photos and Writing Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Rommy for The Friday Writings # 14 theme for this week, at 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/02/friday-writings-14-monster-madness.html

 - Rommy has suggested working with the idea of monsters, either a specific one or monsters in general.

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Word List - Dithery

Dont be dithery 

when indecisive 

fills the bill better 

Tis like maundering,  

when squandering flakes 

clattering in snow

Gloomy haunted pomp 

suffers needlessly 

All papier-mache

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 - "Write" Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Shay for her Word List #10 choices from Wallace Steven's' poetry, http://fireblossom-wordgarden.blogspot.com/2022/01/word-garden-word-list-10-wallace-stevens.html?m=1

 - Shay's Word List #10: 

 blackbird;  book;  catastrophe;  chimera;  clattering;  dithery;  fragrance;  gloomy;  haunted;  lilacs;  mask;  maundering;  papier-mache;  police;  pomp;  postcard;  snow;  song;  suffers; and witching

Words Count? -- A double inverse Venetian sonnet

Didya?

Ya hear, eons past,

two nuns, a priest, a gopher,

died, went to Heaven

Met St. Peter at the gate

Eighty-plus, four April Fools
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Haha, folks, that's all.

Got their Obama Care. Now

deadline came and went

Double inverse Venetian

sonnet--nonesuch, April Fools!
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Today my double tanka is linked with Mama Zen at the Real Toads Word Count

Mom Zee's command:
- "Today, I would like you to write a double inverse Venetian sonnet using the traditional hexatonic goatameter. Your piece must include two nuns, a priest, a gopher, and a space / time paradox.  Please address either universal health care or twerking in the volta . . . in 37 words or less.
- April Fools!"

- I did pretty well even with the joke.  My 'Word Count:' 1 (title), 24 (verse one), 20 (second verse) (thats less than 37 per tanka so it was fudged a bit for a total of 45 words)