ROCKS with IMAYO form ~~ a poem for dVerse MTB

  Toto's Rock Garden

 

'Cause my dog loves a garden -

I made one for him 

with pretty rocks but there's no -

not one, cockle shell 

but only rocks, pretty rocks -

painted bright colors 

and now we're looking for him -

a wee white fairy 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2017 (bottom picture) and 2023 respectively, All Rights Reserved -- Bottom picture of Katrin credits here

 - I'm linked with Laura Bloomberry at dVerse MTB Rocking the IMAYO , 

https://dversepoets.com/2023/07/13/mtb-rocking-the-imayo/  

 - Click here to read other writers' works with ROCKS and using the IMAYO form's one long sentence poem

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Weekly Scribblings Poem ~~ To Not Overly Punch

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Adi Beagle Dog, has she found a poodle friend? 

(Click the title for website link)(Punches Saved) 

Punches; 

pull or not to pull

One who pulls no punches 

Bent on winning regardless 

Loses lots of friends 

Cousin of my spouse 

Touted all words from the king 

Unfriended her fast 

Kid in class argued 

Proved the prof was very wrong 

Only one to fail 

Timids seldom swing 

They unload punch carefully 

Called diplomacy 

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 - My YouTube Video Copyright, Jimmiehov 2009, All Rights Reserved 

 - Poem Copyright Copyrightk Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved

 - Adi was our Beagle dog, she and I were a Pet Therapy Team (more)  

 - The littyle poodle, Katrin, came to live with lus that day. (more) 

 - I am linked with Rommy who provided the idea to write about ", or not to pull punches," at Weekly  Scriblings #55, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/02/weekly-scribblings-56-hit-me-with-your.html

 - I have neglected my YouTube page, Jim1Jim1, terribly.  I may never post another?  https://www.youtube.com/user/Jim1Jim1 

 - Rommy would like us to 'write new poetry or prose while “reflect[ing] upon either the phrase ‘pull no punches’ OR ‘pull your punches’.”'

If had the time -- a set of poems for Tuesday Platform

If Only I Had Time 

I'd clean the garage
I'd buy my spouse a new car
wait that takes money

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if I had the time
cookies for the folks I'd make
my time's in the jar

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all it takes is time
what they told me long ago
my time's gone I'm old

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if I had the time
I'd write a nice little poem
wait I'm no poet

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I'd give you the time
clocks have stopped would if I could
if I had the time


Poem and pictures
Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved
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Tag: One Single Impression If Only I Had Timeprompted by Gemma at Greyscale Territory, thank you
Tag: Jim's OSI

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Dégas
The same goes for my poetry attempts (don't know how, but I enjoy it!).

 

Copied from my older post of January 25, 2009 and submitted for this week's Tuesday Platform

http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2009/01/one-single-impression-if-only-i-had.html

It is a compilation of five senryu verses.  The clocks along with several other clocks and a toy poodle, Katrin, were gifts to Mrs. Jim from her very dear friend.
Katrin died December 2, 2014 of heart failure.  We loved Katrin so very much. 

Special Day -- a Challenge Poem

 

Grandparent's Day at School

 

Be sure not to miss, only comes one time 

wonderful occasion, Grandparent's Day   

Experience comes to selected few

Put on your Sunday best, style show of shows

 

Be on time, little early is better

Sign in with smiling front office people

They will check, background impeccable be

Line up outside library, wait your call

 

Ten, twenty minutes later child appears

She's full of smiles with a big hug for you

Follow me to the cafeteria

Mac and cheese special today, choclat milk

 

Papa a picture takes, tyke and Mimi

All smiles still until, loving words of care,

"Better eat your apple dear, can't waste food"

Comes by nature, grandmas can't help, BOSSY

 

Meanwhile at home, this little piggy stayed

Chicken and special renal food, healthy

And in the fridge desert for after school

Mimi, tyke and papa, Grandparent's Day

 

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 Photos and Poem Copyright © 2015, Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Today I am linked with Outlawyer, "K", at the Real Toads, Weekend Mini-Challenge - Poeticizing Out

Her Challenge was, "write something inspired by a breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea, coffee, snack eaten out, at the local diner, café, restaurant, fast food joint, even, if you wish, camp site."  

Mrs. Jim and I did visit our grand-daughter, KP, at her kindergarten.  Lunch wasn't Mac and Cheese but I can't remember what it was.  Okay for adults but not all the kids were liking it.  KP liked her banana for sure.

The little piggy who stayed home was our Katrin.  She had liver and kidney problems and ate a special diet to help her.  I was nice to her and let her eat out of one of my special Texas Blue Bonnet soup bowls.

Katrin died in September last year.  May she RIP.

One Poem from Last Year -- "The Barren Woman" Repeated -- Carpe Diem

Fix my goof.  The assignment was to comment with Haiku about last year's writing here.

Very good last year
Learned some new forms and techniques
Can't remember now

At first this is how I thought I was supposed to go.  WRONG but here it is:

Our instructions for the first post of the new year is to choose a poem from last year's writing and make it the first post of the new year for Carpe Diem, Carpe Diem #639, Last Year (Kozo) (link). 

I choose this one:

Friday, November 21, 2014

The Barren Woman -- today's poem for Carpe Diem    

 

The Barren Woman

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Try to make amends

Help puppies; orphaned children

Barren woman dire

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Picture and Poem Copyright, © 2014 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Notes, on how I felt about my attempt to follow the instructions given below:
 - Puppies for my seasonword (kigo),  from list of season "words" approved for haiku, link.
 - Comma  for my  cuttingword (kireji, in western mostly interpunction) to start revert thought to basic theme (link to explanatory definitions and examples)
 - First and third line interposed (might make it better?):

 - - Barren woman dire
 - -Help puppies; orphaned children
 - -Try to make amends

- A short moment.  This was hardest of the criteria for me as I think it reads better if the woman used 'helping puppies' as a lifetime avocation rather an immediate action.  It would then read thus:

 - - Tries to make amends
 - - Helps puppies; orphaned children
 - - Barren woman dire

 - I will let the last, a deeper meaning, for you to be found.  To me it's meaning was in line with Jesus Christ's love for children (Matthew 19:14, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven”).

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Today I am linked to Carpe Diem "Sparkling Stars" #13, " "

 - Following is a part of the Carpe Diem instructions for today found in the above linked site.  It includes directions.  I tried to diligently follow the six-part instruction list printed in GREEN for my haiku.  See my "notes" above about my feel on how well I followed.

"""- the childless woman,
- - - -how tender she is
- - - -to the dolls!

© Ransetsu (Tr. Blyth)

[photo furnished with directions (below), courtesy of  Kristjaan Panneman]
 

"It’s a gorgeous haiku full of compassion for this woman without children. He sees her taking care for the dolls as were they real children. How much pain and sadness this woman will have had as she couldn’t have children or maybe she had children, but they died ... it’s not clear.

Use your  imagination to see this scene in front of your eyes and try to write/compose an all new haiku following the classical rules:"
+ 5-7-5 syllables
+ a seasonword (kigo)
+ a cuttingword (kireji, in western mostly interpunction)
+ a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown in water
+ interchangable first and third line
+ a deeper meaning

Not an easy task I think, but I know you will succeed """

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Labels: Carpe Diem, Children, Haiku, Katrin, Poem, women

Katrin at the stair -- Carpe Diem

Katrin at the stair

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Come down, join the rest

Care, bottom step, yellow stripe

Oops, dogs, color blind

 

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Photo and Poem Copyright, ©  2014 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Today I'm linking with  Kristjaan Panneman at

Carpe Diem Special #124, Richard Wright's last haiku of this month

Kristjaan's instructions are " For now .... be inspired and share your haiku in the same spirit as the one by Richard Wright with us all."

Richard Wright's poem:
just around the corner
welcoming a new spring
cherrytrees blooming

Note:  Katrin, our toy poodle died this year, December 12 (link).

The Barren Woman -- today's poem for Carpe Diem

 

The Barren Woman

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Try to make amends

Help puppies; orphaned children

Barren woman dire

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Picture and Poem Copyright, © 2014 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Notes, on how I felt about my attempt to follow the instructions given below:
 - Puppies for my seasonword (kigo),  from list of season "words" approved for haiku, link.
 - Comma  for my  cuttingword (kireji, in western mostly interpunction) to start revert thought to basic theme (link to explanatory definitions and examples)
 - First and third line interposed (might make it better?):

 - - Barren woman dire
 - - Help puppies; orphaned children
 - - Try to make amends

- A short moment.  This was hardest of the criteria for me as I think it reads better if the woman used 'helping puppies' as a lifetime avocation rather an immediate action.  It would then read thus:
 - - Tries to make amends
 - - Helps puppies; orphaned children
 - - Barren woman dire

 - I will let the last, a deeper meaning, for you to be found.  To me it's meaning was in line with Jesus Christ's love for children (Matthew 19:14, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”)

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Today I am linked to Carpe Diem "Sparkling Stars" #13, " "

 - Following is a part of the Carpe Diem instructions for today found in the above linked site.  It includes directions.  I tried to diligently follow the six-part instruction list printed in GREEN for my haiku.  See my "notes" above about my feel on how well I followed.

"""the childless woman,
- - - -how tender she is
- - - -to the dolls!

© Ransetsu (Tr. Blyth)

[photo furnished with directions, courtesy of  Kristjaan Panneman]
 

"It’s a gorgeous haiku full of compassion for this woman without children. He sees her taking care for the dolls as were they real children. How much pain and sadness this woman will have had as she couldn’t have children or maybe she had children, but they died ... it’s not clear.

Use your  imagination to see this scene in front of your eyes and try to write/compose an all new haiku following the classical rules:"

+ 5-7-5 syllables
+ a seasonword (kigo)
+ a cuttingword (kireji, in western mostly interpunction)
+ a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown in water
+ interchangable first and third line
+ a deeper meaning

Not an easy task I think, but I know you will succeed """

 

Dog and squirrel games -- Challenge writing

 

Dog and squirrel fun

 

Little squirrel, I hope you'll come down

Down from your tree so we can play

We'll play some more but no more chase

Game of chase, you ran up that tree

 

A new game for us, follow me

We run and run and when we're done

I take you gently by your neck

Game of shake, a dog's show of love

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Photo Copyright, © 2008 Jimmiehov (link) and Poem Copyright, © 2014 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Today I'm linked with Kerry at the Real Toads, If Only They Could Talk (Link)
and
on Monday with Magaly at the Real Toads, Open Link Monday (Link)

Kerry's Challenge:  "reimagine an iconic literary character or monologue as presented from the point of view of a close animal companion (or one that just happens to be passing by). Alternately, you may like to write a poem about yourself from your pet's perspective. Have fun with this idea - the only stipulation is that the narrative voice of the poem be non-human."
Katrin is our 14-year-old Toy Poodle.  She was eight when the picture was taken and the dog/squirrel game of "chase" ended with the squirrel up the tree.  Katrin was new then to us, she was given to us, when the former owner died we were her choice. (more Katrin posts HERE)
Adi,  my beagle dog (she died a couple of years ago) shows us how dogs play the game of "shake": (more Adi posts HERE)
 [from my YouTube postings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEGXiWws33E&list=PL38B949635D7A06A8
 

My iconic literary character?  It might be one of Edgar Allen Poe's "victims",
i.e., "The Pit and the Pendulum".

One Single Impression: Wrinkle

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Getting Old

Little Lady went to be seen
The others around watched her preen
Her doctor soon would come
Poking, snooping, no fun
Wrinkled, sixty-eight*, our Katrin

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Photo and Poem Copyright
© 2013 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

Find more poems using the prompt word,

"Wrinkle", at One Single Impression.
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Also shared and listed with Real Toads, Open Link Monday 

*Notes:
1. Toy Poodle age 13 converted (link) to human year equivalent.
2. Our  "apricot" color Katrin (French) is pronounced Katrine

A Naughty Dog -- MidWeek Blues -- Toothpaste tube demise

Please scroll down two posts for my Sunday poem
One Single Impression: Allow

Today I have a guest writer, my 12-year-old granddaughter, BP.

The setting:
BP, daughter Karen, SIL Billy, and newest grandchild, KP, were visiting for the weekend.

BP was using my office for her room. That was nice for her as my couch is a hide-a-bed.

Our little dog, Katrin then sneaked into her room and got into mischief.

This BP ably relates in her story here:
Rest in Peace, My Dear Toothpaste

A normal day for one to behold. An average day in comparison to the normality of the life we face. Then, it happened. Katrin disappeared; we did not think twice, we assumed to play. A fatal mistake, as you will soon find out why.

Suddenly, a ripping noise, the sound of shredding, worse than nails on a chalkboard. I raced towards the noise, that terrible noise. Katrin sat on the couch, eating my toothpaste like ice cream. The end of the tube was torn to Smithereens. Blue gel flowed out like water, only soon to be licked up by Katrin.

The bag, my toothpaste's only protection, his bodyguard, lay fatally injured, never to hold and protect once again!

So may you rest in peace, my dear toothpaste, or would rest in pieces be more appropriate?

All thanks to that menace of a toothpaste killer, murder of cavity fighting goodness, Katrin.

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(='.'=)

(")_(")

...Princess BP

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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo here. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did..

Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.

Do you remember this -- MidWeek Blues

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"Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
"And I do appreciate you being round.
"Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
"Won't you please, please help me?"

Sound a little familiar? Here is the credit (click)

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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo below. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions (considering it is for the second week). Just do what I did.

Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.

One Single Impression: Twilight

Twilight
twilight grey and dim
it's not my favorite time
time of life's season

twilight for child's play
nice out cool can barely see
fireflies light their way

twilight for the pets
please may we be fed our due
then we watch you feast

workers love twilight
clean their tools wash their faces
null vicious cycle

mothers take deep breath
cook feed bathe kids turn their beds
then night is for self
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who dies in twilight
that question asked of Google
"is" is not defined

King David was old
could not keep warm even when
put covers o'er him
young virgin to attend him
lie beside him keep him warm
(more in 1 Kings 1:1-4)
Photos and Poems Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved

Note: David did not have intimate relations with the young lady:
(more in 1 Kings 1:1-4)
1 When King David was old and well advanced in years, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. 2 So his servants said to him, "Let us look for a young virgin to attend the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm."
3 Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 4 The girl was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no intimate relations with her.
Jeremiah who wrote this may have had a censoring wife (Jim's reasoning). She said this was not good to write, people would think wrongly of David. So he added the half line, "but the king had no intimate relations with her."

Tag: One Single Impression Twilight
Tag: Jim's OSI
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Dégas
The same may go for poetry? (whatever, I enjoy painting with the words!).

Parting is so sad (leave me your comments)

Dear Blogging Friends,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

and please don't cry. This is my line:

I will be scarce until the end part of January unless we can find a cheap Internet Cafe on the QM2 or in Grenada. It is getting cool here so we had to go. We did get new bathing suits last Sunday.

So check for me every now and once in a while on my Jim's Little Blog or Jim's (other Little Place) where I might could put up a word or two once in a while. This is my final goodbye for now.

Hope this soothes you somewhat (someone asked, so for sure you don't cry),

Dr. Jim

And Adi?

Adi can.

Adi can get her suitcase packed!

She doesn't like flying so Karen and Billy have her. Mitch and Carmen are keeping Katrin. Thank you kids!

SkyWatch Friday (my eighteenth) -- Adi Can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Show off our best Texas fall scenery

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This is about as good as it will get around here. Pictures of both dogs and fall scenery. Yes, our pear trees will turn yellow before those leaves fall off but you saw them last year.

Now isn't that a pretty blue Texas Sky we see showing through the bushes?

We were walking home from the pro shop where Mrs. Jim left us when she went golfing. Neither dog was very photogenic on this day. Adi wasn't too keen on sharing the picture with Katrin. Katrin hadn't had enough practice getting pretty in the nature setting yet. She will have time to learn.

As you see below, at first Adi didn't want to have ANYTHING to do with a picture with Katrin.

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Other Participants and How to Have Your Own Skywatch

One single impression: Stairways

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Stairway Forbidden

Who you say, would dare?
Would dare put up that wall?
Just a simple stair,
access denied seems unfair.

A child small you say ,
no access seems alright.
And come whatever may,
little one, no way!

No mere child I cry!
This small wee one I love,
oh dear pet of my,
sweet doggie safe nearby.



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Tag: One Single Impression