Adi Beagle Dog -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Seventeen

Adi was retired -- In more ways than one 

Adi died in 2012 

Adi; our Beagle Dog; 

                            sort of

Adi was my granddog 

Google never liked her 

mostly because granddog  

was spelled with 

two words in 

her sad dictionary 

Adi was a grand dog 

and was our granddog. 

Adi came to live with us 

when our daughter could 

not keep Beagle Dogs in 

her new apartment so she 

had stayed with us for the 

rest of her life. 

Adi and I were registered 

as a pet therapy couple 

We were tested every year 

She loved to visit 

the Alzheimer wing 

Every resident loved her 

and she loved them in return 

One day Adi's mom came to visit 

Hubby had come along 

Adi didn't know they were coming 

I didn't want her to get 

her hopes up too far ahead 

of time 

watch the video 

below 

to see our daughter's welcome 

https://youtu.be/4qGUaj8Jb60 

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 - Photo, YouTube, and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2012, 2008, and 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Seventeenth for the prompt, "Dog", 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-seventeen-8/ 

 - This is a fun one – it’s a prompt developed by the comic artist Lynda Barry, and it asks you to think about dogs you have known, seen, or heard about, and then use them as a springboard into wherever they take you.  Lynda Barry, Wikipedia 

 - Below are a few I've already written about my favorite dog, Adi, now in Doggie Heaven:

 - Adi's Routine -- http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2006/02/routines-i-my-dog-adi-has-her-routine.html 

 - Adi blogs or mentioned in one of my blogs -- https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=adi 

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Dolls and Toys -- NaPoWriM 2022 Day Fifteen

    Be My Paper Doll 

Boys have toys 

That's well known 

And when they grow older  

some they still own 

I don't mean their Porsches 

and electronics 

Ones they might keep for play 

like down on the floor or 

up on a table top 

While others are keepsakes 

of which they never play 

So now I'll tell of mine 

Some I still have some are 

out in a grove 

Like my steel wheelbarrow wheel, 

or rusting behind a barn 

Others were only in my mind 

though I never owned 

That would be the electric train 

I found every Christmas time 

It stays in the store or Sears catalog 

or on my cousin's shelf 

Teddy bears and trucks and cars 

Most every marble I've ever 

had resting in an old crank churn 

The tin monkey that knows 

his multiplication table through twelve 

Six Match Box cars on my dresser 

lined up ready to race and 

my gyroscope in its box  

A wooden box with my wood box and 

My Shirley Temple scrape book 

that Mom and I filled 

An old cast iron taxi my sister 

bought sort of like the one 

I had when small 

There's my Dick Tracy camera 

I'd ordered from Chicago 

And a few others I haven't told 

There's one I played with 

but never owned 

And NEVER WILL 

That's the paper dolls 

Ones like I played with 

while visiting my cousins 

I would cut out clothes for the dolls to wear 

When we ran out then we'd find some more in the Sears and Wards catalogs 

Doing all that was fun 

But now I've no desire for them 

No desire to even play 

let alone own 

There is an exception 

But still, I would be FAKING IT 

That's if a GRANDAUGHTER 

wanted me to play

Paper Dolls 

Oh yes, I forgot to tell of, 

my trusty Red Ryder BB Gun, 

it still shoots 

And my Snow Sled 

hanging on a garage wall, 

we have no snow in our 

Gulf Coast part of Texas 

[My dresser top -- Race Ready]

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

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Fifteen for the prompt below, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-8/ 

 - We were asked, like  "challenge you to write a poem about something you have absolutely no interest in."  That would be PAPER DOLLS.

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My Life, a Movie -- NaPoWriM 2022 Day Fourteen

"Boy Meets Girl"

[CAMERAS ROLE] 

(Curtains go up)

(Several occupied tables, a used setting on some, all seated have finished a meal) 

(Enter Jim, a full time 

 engineer 

and part time student )

Roommate (Mike) voice:  

   We were hoping you would come 

   we made you a plate 

Jim voice: 

   Oh Gee, thanks.  

   The prof let us go after he took roll 

   Thank you much 

Roomate's girlfriend (Pamela) voice:

   This is Arnell, I just met her tonight 

    I told her you might come 

Jim voice: 

(facing Arnell) 

   I'm glad to meet you 

   Clam Fettuccine is my favorite Italian 

(Music plays) 

   Arnell, would you like to dance this one 

(All four go onto the dance floor)

(Curtain lowers) 

[CUT!!] 

This script is not finished 

Filming has continued 

After forty-nine years 

One marriage--Jim/Arnell 

The end is not in sight 

NOTE:  The story is true.  The girl's names were changed.  Six months later Mike became Best Man at our wedding.

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 - Film Script?? / Poem?? Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 14, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fourteen-9/  

 - I am also linked to dVerse (https://dversepoets.com) 

 - And to 

 - And to Rommy with the Friday Writings #, 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1 

 - "Today’s (NaPoWriMo 2022) challenge is a fun one: write a poem that takes the form of the opening scene of the movie of your life. Does it open with a car chase? A musical number? A long scene panning across a verdant plain? You’re the director (and also the producer, the actors, the set designer, the cinematographer, and the lowly assistant that buys doughnuts for the crew) – so it’s all up to you! Ju

Happy writing! 

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Poem, Tall -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Eleven

   

     Tall Women 

Tall women or girls if I slip  

Frighten me in elevators 

Whenever one gets in with me 

Especially if just us two 

Quickly then I push the button 

Push the button for the next floor 

Not on the run but I will scram 

Tall women, if taller than me 

For a reason that I don't know 

Scare the bejabbers out of me 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2014 and 2022

 - I am writing for NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Eleven, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eleven-10/ 

 - Photo first posted here: 

http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2014/02/six-word-saturday_22.html?m=1 

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Love Poem -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 10

Mr. and Mrs. Jim's wedding picture (1973) 
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They* said to write a love poem

To my sweetest, my blossom true
wanting to write you a love poem
telling you how much I love you
fingers to keys sweet words to come 

tell how you felt when first you saw her
I will try to write a love poem

When first we met my heart went wild
no tender little pitty-pat
but one long jolt you caused, my child,
a bolt from the blue hit my chest 

how you knew it was her you loved
It came one day into my head 

Listen to my arrow pierced heart
my life will never be the same
Dan Cupid hit me on the mark
that arrow had your name

tell now about being with her

My life is whole a life complete
I need you always by my side
dearer than chocolate you're so sweet
love you always will you're my pride 

are you happy with what you wrote?

If I could only write a poem
if I had the sweet words I felt
if I could now put them to print
there would be a love poem for you

discarded thoughts that didn't fit?

Many thoughts I dropped one thing sure
I love you to Heaven above
you can do no wrong you're so pure
I can't live without you my love 

Photo and Poem Copyright
© 2010 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved  

Photos Copyright © 2013 Jimmiehov

We have been married 49 years.  Both photos are of Mrs. Jim and me away from home.  Top was taken by a "friendly stranger", a drunk guy on the beach at Cayman Island.  The lower we'd been walking and now were aboard the Princess Cruise ship at Aukland for a cruise around New Zealand, down to the south and over to Tasmania, ending up at Sydney, Australia.  

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 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 10, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-ten-10/

 - Our instructions were to write a love poem 

 - This one is a slightly reworked version of the 

one I published in June of 2010.

Nonet -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Nine

Little Winged Acrobat 

Glad you came little winged acrobat 

Glad you came prety bird to eat 

Glad you came to eat with me 

Come again tomorrow 

Come again more bugs 

Come again please 

Eat with me 

Eat well 

Eat 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked for the photo which I've embellished with Carrie at the Sunday Muse #206, 

http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/04/sunday-muse-206.html?m=1 

 - And with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Nine for the prompted form, the nonet, requirement, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-nine-8/ 

 - the nonet starts with nine syllables and works a line at a time down to one single syllable.  Read more at the link above and it's link.

Aubade -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 8

    An Aubade*; 

     the day after 

Morning has broken 

 wake up little Sweetheart 

The sun is rising 

 hurry before it's hot 

It's time for breakfast 

 coffee is in your cup  

New day is ready 

 ready for your attack 

Morning has broken 

 little Sweetheart wake up 

We've had a nice time 

 our wedding went just fine 

Just as fine weekend 

 learned more of each other 

Helped our love to grow 

 Loving you more and more 

Morning has broken 

 wake up little Sweetheart

People are calling 

 want to see you today  

They're from your workplace 

 wondering if you'll come  

Your work has you now

 tonight we'll continue 

  

Wake up little Sweetheart   

 morning has risen 

* Note: Aubade dfn. below 

https://wordwool.com/aubade-poem-type/ 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Eight, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eight-9/ 

 - Also linked with Rosemary at Friday Writings #21,

 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/04/friday-writings-21-whats-there.html?m=1 

 - And my prompted inspiration came from Laura of dVerse at

 https://dversepoets.com/2022/04/07/mtb-morning-has-broken/ 

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A Proverb -- NaPoWriM 2022 Day Seven

A good man is hard to find 

A good man is hard to find 

Nobody argues with that 

I tell young ladies I meet 

When looking for a man friend 

"Be sure to find a nice boy" 

And then I go on to her 

"There's sooo many NOT out there, 

looking for self--do you bad"

"Like my mother said, 'You won't 

won't find nice girls in the bars'" 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day at 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-seven-8/ 

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Eddie Green, as the title of his song A Good Man Is Hard To Find:  [Composed in 1918]

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A good man is hard to find
You always get the other kind
Just when you think that he is your pal
You look for him and find him fooling 'round some other gal
Then you rave, you even crave
To see him laying in his grave
So, if your man is nice, take my advice and hug him in the morning, kiss him ev'ry night,
Give him plenty lovin', treat him right
For a good man nowadays is hard to find, a good man nowadays is hard to find.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-good-man-is-hard-to-find.html

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. A good man is hard to find You always get the other kind Just when you think that he is your pal You look for him and find him fooling 'round some other gal Then you rave, you even crave To see him laying in his grave So, if your man is nice, take my advice and hug him in the morning, kiss him ev'ry night, Give him plenty lovin', treat him right For a good man nowadays is hard to find, a good man nowadays is hard to find.

Boo Boogy Man -- a Line Acrostic -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Six

   Where?

Where is the boogy man tonight  

is he sleeping tight or  

the onery old  

boogy  

man  

tonight he may prowl  

He may be under my bed 

may have sharpened fangs 

be waiting just for me 

under covers think 

my mind must be clear 

bed is not safe from him 

he may be under yours    

may have sharpened fangs 

be they for biting you 

under your bed waiting 

yours isn't safe from him 

no one knows until we look 

one must crawl down low 

knows not if we're safe 

until we look 

we must 

look real good 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 for the prompt idea at 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-six-9/ 

 - I used the first four lines of a previous "Monster" poem and used every word there to  make four verses here.

http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2022/02/friday-writings-who-has-seen.html?m=0 

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B a t m a n -- NaPoWriMo 2022

     For Many Years 

B a t m a n's  been living in the comics 

for many years he's been hiding there 

Hiding from the parents so well 

but now I've been told he's getting old 

The kids have no problems finding him 

he shows every day to those who love 

Cares not love or like him in degrees 

some have seen him not and he doesn't care 

For his true fans he aims all to please 

covets every "Like" that he can get 

They're sorry for him, he's getting old 

stumbles, falls, spits his cud, worse than that 

Every comic wants their big heydays 

Kids know he's been had, now finding tech 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Five at  https://www.napowrimo.net/day-five-9/ 

 - Our leader's prompt for Day Five has a "challenge" for us "to write a poem about a mythical person or creature doing something unusual – or at least something that seems unusual in relation to that person/creature." 

 - B a t m a n's  BIRTHDAY was March 30 born in 1939 which makes him to be 81 years old.  

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Breakfast in Bed - NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Four

       Beans and Bread 

"Beans and bread" I've  heard that said 

Not joking at all that's what they said 

Breakfast for Brits in my head 

Pinching pennies they and still well fed 

When quarantined for ten days 

By my door several times on my plate 

Fare for the poor what I got  

Embellished by sausage 

 and some fruit 

Food for me and prompt fit for poets *

       [a screen print of Google Maps

Portsmouth is 61 miles south of London]

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 today where asking for a "Prompt Poem" at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-four-10/ 

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 -  * Note:  While on a Transatlantic cruise starting March 12 Mrs. Jim and I contracted COVID-19.  We'd had our shots and a booster so our sickness was mild.  When our cruise was finished and docked at Southampton, U.K, we were whisked off the ship to a motel in Portsmouth to finish our ten-day quarantine requirement.   

The breakfasts were good, beans, sausage, the croissant and some times scrambled egg was of my choosing. We are home now, today, in Katy, Texas. 

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Sunday Muse - Memories - NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Three

An old diner / along the road

It brings memories / of my youth 

Meals on weekends / the food was good 

Minor item / there's so much more 

More to tell so here goes / the diner in my mind sat beside the sidewalk / had parking in the front / behind was a lush green lawn belonging to the "Y"

The YWCA is / may still be there today / I dated her / she worked where I was but a different floor / she made watches I made proximity fuses for the Navy torpedoes / Elgin National Watch factory 

She was my first Steady / we both were young / not twenty-one / teens I think / she liked my hot rod Ford / we'd ride and ride and then park and park in the dark / we'd get hot and bothered / touchy too / but we never disobeyed / disobeyed our mothers not 

She had to be in the Y by eleven / she always was / we didn't drink or do drugs / real nice kids / but after I took her home I'd cruise some more / sometimes party with the boys / 

or race my Ford out on the Interstate not yet opened / I'd built up the engine myself / my Ford would outrun the Chevys 

then one day her old boy friend came home from the wars / my girl was not my girl anymore / she left town quit her job / didn't tell me goodbye / I never saw her again 

don't regret our time together / well over a year 

I never minded that diner again 

But still it's IN my mind / won't go away 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Carrie at the Sunday Muse #205 for the Prompt Photo at 

http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/04/sunday-muse-205.html?m=1 

 - I have linked this write  with NaPoWriMo 2022 at 

https://www.napowrimo.net/ 

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The Body - NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Two

A Post Card From Us (a postcard Prose Poem attempt)

To our Dearest Daughter,

 -- (She) We are both doing well but as the photo shows / some health problems have arisen / He has developed a pot belly, we call "Belly Welly" and my memory has slipped.  Memory xxxx 

 -- (He) Her memory surely slipped, it's "Early Onset Dementia," commonly called a "Memory Fog". And my stomach is "Billy's Belly Deli O"

 -- (She) that's us anyway, like he say / our REAL PROBLEM is  

WE NEED TO COME LIVE WITH YOU !!!

 [Rollo needs to come too]

[Photo courtesy of WebMD (Click here and see Slide 11)]

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I have linked this write  with NaPoWriMo 2022 at 

https://www.napowrimo.net/ 

 - Our NaPoWriMo Day One leader choice for Monday, "optional prompt (for Monday)! I got this one from a workshop I did last year with Beatrix Gates, and I’ve found it really helpful. The prompt is based on Robert Hass’s remarkable prose poem, “A Story About the Body.” The idea is to write your own prose poem that, whatever title you choose to give it, is a story about the body. The poem should contain an encounter between two people, some spoken language, and at least one crisp visual image.

Happy writing!"

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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Forever - a pre-NaPoWriMo ditty

Forever Comes 

Forever comes once 

 in a lifetime 

She'll haunt us until 

 the day we die 

Makes us fret and brood 

 sometimes we cry 

Wipe our eyes stand tall 

 leave her alone 

Worry instead of 

 the after life 

Make peace with the Lord 

 what folk can do 

TV, I, preachers

 will show us how 

"Inspired by" Emily Dickinson's 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linking with NaPoWriMo 2022 pre-day for National April Poetry Writing month's early bird  warmup. 

https://www.napowrimo.net/one-day-to-go-and-an-early-bird-prompt-3/

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