Little Rabit -- Poem for Friday Writings

(Originally posted Tuesday, April 23, 2019,

for NaPoWriMo, Day 23 find it here) 

Cousin to the Easter Bunny?

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I'm a little Sock Toy Rabbit

No dark rabbit hole for my home

Sleep in a large green padded box

Share it with a whole bunch of toys

Infused with kindness, smile ingrained

From a grey sock, red and white toed

Kind little lady imparted

love portion with each needled stitch 

Not seeking greatness or riches

Hanging out with my toddler friend

I love him he drags me around

By my ear, arm, or leg he pulls

Some day I'll be outgrown, cast off

Choose me next and you I will love

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-tuesday-platform-gather-around-for.html?m=1
 - and with NaPoWriMo Day 23 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-three-5/

 - Not quite on prompt for Friday Writing #104, where Rommy has invited us to write about a “Small Kindness” we have done, had someone done for us, or just witnessed. https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/  (I do include the words, "little, kindness, and kind" which are underlined.  

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The Cake ~~ NaPoWriMo 2022, Day One

A Cake Lover Tells 

My favorite 

A cake with candles 

Candles burning brightly  

Quickly blow them out 

Ones for me to blow

But first I make a wish 

A wish I'll want to come true 

Birthday spent with you 

Will happen I know 

'Cause you always do 

You'll find I'm running away

So then you run with me 

And bring my cake along 

        ["Birthday at Age 12"] 

     [Photo Ⓒ by Jimmiehov 2022]

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 - This is my FIRST poem written for this year's National Poetry Writing Month  (NaPoWriMo), in support of April's National poetry month read more.  I have been participating since 2015.  You can read some of them by clicking on the yearly "Label" links below.  

 - You can read other writer's work and see how to participate yourself at the link below within these notes.

 - Photo of my Youngest Granddaughter and P

oem  Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Rommy at the Friday Writings #20, at 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/search/label/Friday%20Writings?m=1

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 at 

https://www.napowrimo.net/

 - Rommy has invited us to write poetry or prose that includes the word “Cake”.

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NaPoWriMo Review, 2015-2021

 Testing waters. 

NaPoWriMo Labels for 2015 through 2021 are below.  

This weekend's "Sunday Muse" link, 

https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2021/05/sunday-muse-158.html?m=1 

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Day 8 of NaplPoWriMo 2020 - a Poem - Days Past

     [Adi's - our Beagle dog, RIP - last Teddy Bear] 

 

      Like it Was 
I. 

"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
Radios broadcast all our ilk
Play a song tell the news
But then there's a commercial 
And to beat it all Gossip Day
That's when the ilk comes out

Girls swing high boys they come to play
And spilled milk makes one pout

II. 
"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
The songs were great Rock had begun
There's Elvis and the Beatles 
Bands and singers Favorites and new tunes 
Dare we dance under park trees
Like it was park your bike find your date 

Listen to the songs, all was free 
Music filled the parks, ZZ Top down at the lake 

III. 
"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
Sing along clap our hands stomp our feet 
Gather in bunches chat rooms on the grass 
Darkness wins, time for the poems 
To the coffee houses we poured 
Recite our latest work or read from Poe 

Sitting around the rooms elbows merge
Bottles out around the room wine would flow 

IV. 
"Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" 
Like all things they must come to end 
Empties to the corner, time for stars 
Fill the terraces, balconies call 
Houston's loading docks by dozens emptied for us 
Drugs were few save them for NYC *

Yes don't forget mosquito spray 
That's the way it was 1970 

* Notes:  
 - A part of the final line of my mother's lecture on my smoking the Canibus tops which grew up wild on our farm.  "... besides the good stuff is smoked in New York City."  I have never smoked that particular weed or "the good stuff."  Not exactly sure why that didn't happen. 
 - Some of this I did.  You might know or imagine how much.
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden  at   https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-6-10.html?m=1 .  
 - Go there where other's Poetry Writings are linked.  If we follow Kerry's daily oldie picks there's a schedule.  
 - For today it was here with Sanaa Rizvi  at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/04/poems-in-april-l-arora.html?m=1 where she introduced a new form. 
 - "The A L' Arora, a form created by Laura Lamarca consists of eight lined stanzas. The rhyme scheme is a, b, c, d, e, f, g, f with no syllable count per line and the minimum length for the poem is 4 stanzas with no maximum length stipulation."

 - I am also linked to NaPoWriMo Day 8 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eight-7/ where their prompt was to use a line from another's work as the beginning line ours took off from there.
 - My line, "Like the radios, the songs, the poems and the stars" is from a poem by Lisa Jarnot's work which she also copied her first line from a poem by Frank Lima, "And how terrific it is to write a radio poem"

(BY LISA JARNOT )
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51833/poem-beginning-with-a-line-by-frank-lima

 - Please comment how I have done, merging the two keeping a theme,  writing it consumed a little more than a short time.  So said I'm going back AFTER posting to correct typos and fix any wrong tense verbs.

Day 7 of NaplPoWriMo 2020 - A Bracelet Acrostic Poem

B R A C E L E T 

Bracelet fine adorns my wrist 
Robbers aren't as rich as I 
Always on arm or bedside 
Charms dangling ever sparkling 
Each tells special time with him 
Lovely blossoms every one 
Entangled with him whiffs sweet 
Those secrets never revealed 
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved (photo is my screen print of one from Susie's post, link below)
 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-6-10.html?m=1 where  - the prompt is to write of "Bracelet" which previously had been asked in April 2016 by Susie Clevenger in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/04/bits-of-inspiration-bracelet-napowrimo.html?m=1
 - I am also linked to the NaPoWriMo Day 7 post at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-seven-6/

 - in 2016 I also wrote a "Bracelet" acrostic for Susie's post linked above which I also used for NaPoWriMo 2016 at http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2016/04/napowrimo-2016-day-seven-bracelet.html?m=1

Day 6 of NaplPoWriMo 2020 - The Owl at ...

Aristotle; I am the owl at the well

(Motivation Monday poem) 

Dr. Aristotle I am 

My PhD is from Oxford 

Superior intelligence 

What I am famous, noted for 

My brain won't hold all my knowledge 

Overload in my chest is stored 

Closest friends call me *Puffed Up" 

Plenty, enough is said on that 

You now, "What does this owl do?" 

We've water activity all 

around.  Enough, Clean, and Plenty 

Water fun, that is our business 

Our guests play, swim, eat and they rest 

Enough; never lacked for water 

Clean; it's drinking water for all 

Plenty: make sure where it's needed 

Big it needed ME.  Smart, Mensa 

And, ...owls scare other birds away 
 

[click on pictures to enlarge, back to re-enter]
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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved (photos are edited and screen printed by me, see "Garden, et al " link below).
 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-6-10.html?m=1 -- Speaking in the Voice of Another, for Day 6 of NaPoWriMo (Sherry Blue Sky original author}
 - and Day 6 at NaPoWriMo, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-six-8/ where speaking in another, using a character from the artwork at "The Garden of Earthly Delights", https://archief.ntr.nl/tuinderlusten/en.html 

 - "Motivation Monday" google search link. 
 - Quote:

“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week"

A Foxy Ladies Poem - Day 5 of NaPoWriMo 2020

Three Foxy Ladies 

Three foxy ladies vowed to vie 

to be the foxiest lady 

in placid small little town 

The first fine lady dressed in white 

adorned herself total contrast 

black was her peace loving  wild beast 

The second wearing sinful black 

barely controlled her fiery hound 

he jumped to the ground ran away 

The third damsel sultry red dress 

she loved the pure fox colored white 

he peeked around feeling all's well 

Wide eyed judges they were all males 

easily enticed by foxy 

lady in red her fox so tame 

Foxiest gal won Red turns heads 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved (photo is my print screen edited of Photography by Anatasiya Dobrovolskaya click HERE for Website)

 - I'm linked with Carrie Van Horn of the Sunday Muse at http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2020/04/sunday-muse-102.html?m=1

 - Also - I am linked with Day Five National Poetry Writing Month at http://www.napowrimo.net/  (I did not use their prompt today) 

 - And with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-1-5.html?m=1 (Space Time, for which I wrote in April 2017 a poem of dimensions, like two or three dimensions.  There I also described more dime.sions which cannot be graphed in 2-D, namely four and five dimensions. http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2017/04/napowrimo-2017-05-poem-about-spacetime.html?m=1) .  (I did not use their prompt today either) 

Dream and Worry - Day 4 of NaPoWriMo 2020

Tea in China 

All the tea in China 

What does that mean to me

Why was that on my mind 

It woke me up at five 

The sleep I lost today 

Big problem of the world 

That could be I don't know

Was no bother before 

I've heard it all my life 

Must have dreamt it last night 

China men pointy hats 

Long black coats and rickshaws 

Have it still on my mind 

Mark Twain's "Punch brother punch" 

That ditty was to him 

This is to me.  Earworm 

So I tell it to you 

Then perhaps you might care 

And I can sleep again 

Because with you I shared 

Drink coffee with my bride 

And let another care 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright,  All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Day Four National Poetry Writing Month at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-four-8/  (Dreams)

 - And with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-1-5.html?m=1 (Caution: Tender Buttons)

Down - Day 3 of NaPoWriMo 2020

Down He Went

Most courageous of our Navy today
Beloved concerned  Admiral yesterday
That was yesterday with no job today

Code of military, "do what I say
then ask questions later" that is the code
Follow chain of command things move slowly

Meanwhile his troops were dying by dozens
Aboard that ship of death in his command
Superiors were slow, he needed action

To the top he went, over heads afraid
Afraid of loss of prestige their silence
Unafraid and brave he went to the top

Fired but proud of doing right for his flock
I'd vote for him president any day
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 -
 - Linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-1-5.html?m=1 and to
 - the NaPoWriMo Day 3, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-three-6/ ;

Change of Plans -- Day 2 of NaPoWriMo 2020

Hemmed In

I am hemmed in here
while my Mustang Ford
is ready to whine
Lovely top-down days
are going to waste
Texas Bluebonnets
drool for company

That's because some dirt
farmer west of town
we're saving him from
dread COVID 19
Him we don't know and
for sure haven't seen

So gladly I stay
Here on my own street
But that's not all bad
My granddaughter came
with sidewalk chalk to
decorate my drive

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 - Poem  and Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov 2920, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked to the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-1-5 with Susie  Clevenger's prompt suggestion for Day 2, Taking it to the Streets
 - the NaPoWriMo Day 2, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-two-7/ ; and

Mother-to-be, little bird - Day 01 of NaplPoWriMo 2020

    [nest is above the drainpipe] 

My Heart this Week

I am the little mother 
Mother-to-be little dove 

You may think that is scary 
Responsibility loved 

Smallish memory is short 
I may have been here before 

Was I the little bird who 
hatched her brood here in this nest 

Or the runt born here last year 
Runt of last year's brood come back 

Guided, invisible hand 
One I don't know got me here 

It could have been my husband 
Faithful friend father-to-be 

This our family home for years 
Safe secure under the eaves 

Little Dove, Mother-to-be 

(I, Jim, live in home behind)
(My heart this week?  Little bird)
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 - Photos and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with Rommy at Weekly Scribbles,    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/04/weekly-scribblings-13-all-small-things.html?m=1
 - Also I'm linked to http://www.napowrimo.net/day-one-2/, daily National Poetry Writing Month coordinators when I connect.  Click on "Participants' Sites' link at the top of Day 1 page to read other bloggers' poems.
 - And I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden which is reopened for April, National Poetry Month, at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-1-5.html?m=1
There I used a prompt formerly suggested by Marian  at April is for Fools and Poets 
 - I plan to write a poem each week or even daily.  We are shut-ins until April 30 per our Governor's COVID 19 orders.  We will see if I live that long.  💝

Our doves have been returning since 2016 to hatch a brood of baby doves.

Day 30 (of 30 days) -- NaPoWriMo -- I Finished !!! (one a day for 30 days)

  

Nibbles Excessive

Thin little stick of sweet

Candy treat for sugar starved

One nibble at a time

Those love bites are repaid

Potassium shortage

 Brings about heart problems

Licorice glut bitten back

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See all my Daily poems for April at these Archive Links:

3/31/19 - 4/7/19

4/7/19 - 4/14/19

4/14/19 - 4/21/19

4/21/19 - 4/28/19

4/28/19 - 5/5/19

 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved   

 - I am linked with Anmol (HA) in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-tuesday-platform-frontier-of.html?m=1 

 - Anmol's suggestions, "Write a poem in praise of a source of inspiration — your muse, your life, your own web of thoughts, your dreams or sleeplessness, your daily tasks, a favourite artist or musician, nature and environment, et al. Also, let's keep it between 30-60 words — there is a certain beauty in brevity after all."  I have 30 words plus two for the title, total of 32 words.

 - I used to be a Licorice glut myself but since the FDA has issued a warning of the dangers of "Black licorice contains the sweetening compound glycyrrhizin, which can decrease potassium levels in the body, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. That temporary potassium deficiency can cause abnormal heart rhythms, high blood pressure, and even congestive heart failure. Oct 31, 2017" from a Google search of "licorice health issues."

 - Obviously I do not have a package of licorice candy for picture taking, this is Red Chewy stick picture has lots of regular sugar and is made by the leading distributer of Licorice.  I have not tasted Licorice in about 15 years.

 - and with NaPoWriMo Day 30 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirty-5/ 

Day 29 -- NaPoWriMo 2019 - What, when, how, if, why?? -- A Monday Poem for You

When I wonder;

not your ordinary book of Wonders;

we never finish asking

When I wonder how it would feel

like to be squashed by a Giant

I think of me squashing an errant ant 

When I wonder ... 

When I wonder what the wonders

of the world were like in their day

Colossus of Rhodes--think of Kids Artwork 

When I wonder what it'd be like

to smoke a joint of Mary Jane

If it were legal when I might have tried 

When I wonder when one should yield

grow old and gray and act that way

I ask the Misses but she's of no help 

When I wonder ...

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked to Bjorn in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/poems-in-april-asking-questions.html?m=1 

 - and with NaPoWriMo Day 29 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-5/ 

 - I'm not an expert but I do have a couple of encyclopedia supplements called The Book of Wonders (1920's and 1960's editions).  And I have visited five of places of the Seven Wonders of the (Ancient) World (google search) but not to the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (ISIS has probably recently destroyed this one) and four of the New 7 Wonders.

 - Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (again from google search, above)

• ☆Great Pyramid of Giza, the only one that still exists.
• ☆Colossus of Rhodes.
• Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
• ☆Lighthouse of Alexandria.
• ☆Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey)
• Statue of Zeus at Olympia. 
• ☆Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.

 - The New 7 Wonders of the World Are an Instagrammer's Dream

• ☆1 The Great Wall of China — China. Getty Images. ...
• 2 Machu Picchu — Peru. Getty Images. ...
• ☆3 Roman Colosseum — Rome. Getty Images. ...
• 4 Taj Mahal — India. Getty Images. ...
• ☆5 Christ the Reedemer Statue — Brazil. Getty Images. ...
• ☆6 Petra — Jordan. Getty Images. ...
• 7 Chichén Itzá — Mexico.

Day 28 -- NaPoWriMo 2019

Reimagined

 

Unidentified Woman ca. 1950's - Walter Silver Photographs

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90070510-e04b-0131-be59-58d385a7bbd0

In the Box

At best for now she has a cat

She's always wanted a yellow one

But how it came about raises brows

Walking down the road hot sweaty

Blue blouse slung over her shoulder

Was wishing now she'd worn her bra

Blouse shouldered as the pickup slowed

She'd take a ride hope he would

Would keep roaming hands to himself

Wonders were blessing her that day

Old pickup the driver was slight

"It's a girl my Lord"** I'm okay

Long blond hair--would you like a ride

It's way to hot for you to walk

Panicky now no girl at all

Shy girl she wasn't good with men

No escape she found small talk come

Hottest day ever still April

Curiosity held in check

Didn't ask what was in the box

Sitting between them on the seat

Noises, the box soon came forefront

I'm taking my cat to the pound

Moved I can't keep him any more

He had to go there's no place else

Silence overcame them thinking

He seemed so nice and well behaved

Scheming woman she never been

But women have their subtle ways

Might it help if I would keep him

Yes yes would you please I'd much like

His things are packed and in back

Let's change numbers and keep in touch

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 - Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - Photo copied from Margaret at the link below
 - I am linked with Margaret in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/poems-in-april-photographic-images.html?m=1
 - and with NaPoWriM 2019 Day 28 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-5/

 - **Note:  "It's a girl my Lord (in a flatbed Ford) " words from the song, "Eagles - Take It Easy" (link).

Day 27 -- NaPoWriMo 2019

Multi colored pansy summer beauties front yard bed display 
Six grey cotton tail rabbit herd one night stand gourmet delight
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- Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved (picture was scanned from an Easter napkin.  See it here.
- I am linked with Toni Spencer in the Imaginary Garden  at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/in-station-of-metro.html?m=1
 - and with NaPoWriMo Day 27 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-seven-5/
 - A day of contrast, diversity; a two line poem of "an image that juxtaposes two images, per Toni, linked above."

Day 26 -- NaPoWriMo 2019

Three little big words

Revive recharge and rekindle

Keys to keeping what ere' is named

Call object subject or what be

Mine a musket old and rusty

Find and clean saved from piles of junk

Oil and polish then lock and load

Ready when it's time spark the charge

Joy in job use when wants or needs

Be musket, person, love or poem

Recycle, renew, or rewrite

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Outlawyer, aka Karin, in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/reboot-rewind-recycle-rebirth-poems-in.html
 - and NaPoWriMo Day 26 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-six-5/

Day 25 -- NaPoWriMo 2019

Luck of the Draw 

The more I look the more I see
First I was seeing tapestry
Then I saw streamers to the floor
Quickly realized theirs was more

The more I looked the more I saw
Behind the streamers was a draw
The floor began to rise until
Until there was you on the sill

The more I look the more I want
Wished you were alive not so gaunt
Plumped and prime and could come with me
Off your ledge, meet my family

The more I looked the more I knew
You can't be real dreams don't come true
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/kerry-says-lets-be-imagists.html?m=1
 - and with NaPoWriM Day 25 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-five-5/

Day 24 -- NaPoWriMo 2019

All

Nature

Must obey

Battle of mind

Will Nature submit to DNA's rule

Will the Gene's follow DNA's comand

Reflex responds

Subconscious

Said NO

Way!

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 - I am linked with Sherry Blue Sky inn  the Imaginary Garden

at  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/wordy-wednesday-with-wild-woman-natural.html?m=1

 - and to NaPoWriMo Day 24 at  http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-four-5/

 - to learn more about the tetractys Form Poem read here, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/06/fussy-little-forms-tetractys.html?m=1