Rainbow Making -- a poem for dVerse Meeting the Bar

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A Rainbow to be Born

Rain rain go away 

Child's wishful complaint 

Raining all the day 

Bow like one she wears 

Make one for the sky  

Multi color there 

Make when rain wanes 

She'll give it a name 

The rain will taper 

The sun reappears 

Through the tapering rain

 

"Rainbow" it's Surnamed

Sun's traveling beam a

multicolor bow 

 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2006 and 2033, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Lara Bloomsburry in here dVerse Meeting the Bar, her directions were to write of the merger usage of the three words, Rain, Bow, and Rainbow, where the merger of the first two combine for a new related compound word, the third word 

 - The Photo I took at evening time from our back porch over the golf course--we moved away, across the town of Houston, Texas back in 2015, to be near our daughter and family

 - Lara's URL, https://dversepoets.com/2023/03/09/mtb-three-way-split/  

 - Click here to see some others' writing efforts

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Shadow Shot

 

 Near Sunset 

At Jackson, TN

Photo © by Jimmiehov 2021

All Rights Reserved 

Again (before editing) 

At Jackson, TN 

Photo © by Jimmiehov 2021

All Rights Reserved 

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MMT hosts and has a pretty shadow photo for you to visit at 

https://magicalmysticalteacher.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/shadow-shot-sunday-2-storm-clouds-2/

She also has a link for you to post yours or find others to go see.

Also post or look at them, 

below, click Mr. Linky, 

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 30 -- Our Short Ride to . . .

 
[photo of picture in Hill Country Houses book by Cindy Severson, page 10]

    Lover's Lane 

We're going out to Lover's Lane

Do what we are supposed to do 

Smooch a little and chat a lot 

Enjoy a couple of kisses 

Like days of old please lead me there 

Post Office Road past the office

Out of town come close and snuggle 

Cow pasture right, down Old Dirt Road 

Road's end by the creek, turn around 

The Moon and stars will be our guards 

Play our favorite CD real soft 

Kiss, close our eyes, we merge as one 

You've lead me well please lead some more  

More paths galore to explore  

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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved   

 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero at Writer's  Pantry #68, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/05/writers-pantry-68-get-caught-reading.html 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2021Day 30, at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirty-7/ 

 -  http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/search/label/NaPoWriMo%202021 is the link, click on it, for viewing all of my NaPoWriMo writings.  Today, Day 30, is the last day until next year's April National Poetry Writing Month.

A Tuesday Poem



 

In the Sky

 

Riders of the sky have you in their sights

No, they're not shooting or going to hurt you

They're aiming their big ear, pointing your way

 

Big Brother up there wants to listen in

What you are saying and talking about

Who you are talking to and what about

 

So you ask, just what is this all about

It's all hush-hush and not for you to know

Best keep your skeletons in the closet

 

You have often heard it said, "Break a leg"

But Big Brother would rather break a knee

 

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Photos and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved

 - I'm linked with Sanaa Rizvi  at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-tuesday-platform_22.html for the Tuesday Platform. 
 - Sanaa opened with this quote:
"“In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.” ― Ishmael Beah."
 - I've been laying low lately.  Actually, pretty low feeling.  Literally low also, I HAVE BROKEN MY LEFT KNEECAP.  Doctor's orders, "Immobilize it for six weeks to see if it will grow back together."  My other knee cap never did grow back, it only calcified.  I go back to my orthopedic doctor next Wednesday.  BTW, it wasn't Big Brother, just my brittle bones gave loose. 

Willis, Texas, Sky Pollution -- Looking At the Sky

If I hadn't of told you then you might have thought some place in the Boonies, it looks so awful. Willis is on Interstate 45 just north of Houston a bit. I like the suspended I-45 sign. Isn't invisible wire wonderful!

For pictures of our new Granddaughter click here.

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French Sky -- Looking At the Sky

Old town, Carcassonsne, is next on our journey. See the map below.

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We are at the entrance to the Old Town. This little town even had a mote but it never was filled with water. Today the town survives, mostly on tourist dollars and euros.

Businesses include a lot of eateries, souvenir shops, and quite a few hotels. Our money there went for food. This was right after the canal boat ride as a part of the day trip south.

We would stay until dark. The lights came on later than we thought we would be staying and still we didn't see the town lit up here on the hill except from the distant road back to our hotel.

That's all for today. Next posting will be more (or an other France post) of Old Town Carcassonne but for now all we see is mainly coming into the compound. We couldn't drive in until the tourists mainly went home so we walked up the hill from the parking lot (free).

[click here to see the whole European Holiday]


We had fun. I will be telling more of our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday periodically.

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France -- Midi du Canal Part #1-- Looking At the Sky

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We are off and running
Our ride would take about two hours
We would go under several bridges on our ride



Cruising along -- A friendly family

The scenery was delicious

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Seen along the way:
The ducks watched us go by -- Old boat, for the taking?




A lock to go through -- It's full, we are going in
On the right note the lower water level down stream

Through in good shape -- Couple watching the action
Again note now we are on a lower level,
the water in the lock is gone



We are back -- There is our car




Tim tied us up
He enjoyed his holiday in Europe, we enjoyed his presence.

Tim, our son, is a boatman by profession. He ties up large ships and barges when they get into the Port of Houston. He has been doing this line of work now for over twenty-five years.

I will post Part #2 of our Midi du Canal ride another day. For a couple of other posts showing this ride click here.


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A borrowed sunset -- Looking At the Sky

I'm saying borrowed because it wasn't taken from my back door. This pretty sunset over the water was from a balcony of a house being built over on the lake (in our Texas subdivision, Bentwater).

Looking straight down, I almost got sea sick. The little waves were rolling up to the bulkhead. So IF we lived here I would always look out, not down.



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Maybe more of Jim's European Holiday posting next week. I have been having a VERY busy week and it isn't nearly over yet.

A hard day's play in France [part 1] -- Looking At the Sky -- Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday

This would be a busy day made busier.

We went to Homps to ride a canal boat on the Canal du Midi. When we got there we found out that in late April they only ran the afternoon ride so we had to figure out what to do whit our morning.

By unanimous vote it was decided we would visit an old town a bit to the north.

I will show you around that quaint little town which once had been a medieval fortress city.

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The boat captain (only he and a boat attendant would be on our little canal boat) suggested that we drive north to Minerve (link).

We couldn't take the tour (we wouldn't anyway) because we had to have eaten and be back to Homps by 1:00.

The cat was at the restaurant outside eating area.

We made it back in plenty of time for our canal boat ride. I will post from that nice ride next time.

After our boat ride, our busy day would continue. Old town, Carcassonne, was next on our journey. See the map below.

We had fun. I will write more of our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday later.

[All Jim's Europe Holiday posts link]



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On the Road to Albi -- Looking At the Sky -- Our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday

I could tell it was going to be a nice day,
not a cloud in sight in France's big blue sky!

We were headed to Albi, France, to visit the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Museum (link). I have a picture (print, copy) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (link) painted for my office and this would be an opportunity to see more of his original art.

I am glad we did because of the small things, being there with his associations, and seeing so many of his paintings in one sitting helped me appreciate this man still more.

My opinion of him? At first he painted fairly run-of-the-mill pictures of people. There may have been a slight impressionist leaning in some. Towards the end of his life he was so intrigued with dancers at the Moulin Rouge (Paris) and prostitutes that that was about all he painted. Well, he was still painting entertainment posters. I would like to have one of those or a copy.

These are pictures we took at a pull-out along the way. We were staying in Caunes-Minervois (link) which is a short drive from Carcassonne, France. At first there were a lot of grape fields which soon gave way to pastures with cows and sheep.

Then we hit the mountains. From the pictures you might guess were in West Virgina, U.S.A, complete with mills along the river down in the valley. We would next go down into this little town, Mazamet (link), to the market. Thursday (April 23, 2009) was market day for Mazamet. Sorry, pictures, we were to busy eating our food and shopping.

I never did figure out what the fields of yellow were. The plants were about height of yellow clover but they were courser and bushier. Anyway they matched the colors of the old John Deere tractor.

The tractor was decoration for the middle inside the turn-about. I went around twice to get the better picture. Of course the road was one way. How could a person miss with nice blue signs like this?

Finally we got to Albi. Parking was going to be a problem, but they must have known we were coming and saved this Handicap parking place just for me. I always travel with my hanging Texas Handicap Parkng Permit.


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