Toast with cheese and hot chocolate -- a Poem for Friday Writings #136

 Magaly has invited us to write poetry or prose inspired by Grace Lee Boggs’s (read URL link below) quote, “We can begin by doing small things…”  Lots of possibilities here? 

Pictures copyright Jimmiehov 2024

   Twelve little pieces 

Twelve little pieces 

that there should be but, 

Eleven this time 

They have a purpose? 

slathered with creme cheese 

Yummy by itself 

But there's more to come 

Jar, strawberry jam 

Hot chocolate to drink 

Fork does the dabbing 

dabbing and dipping 

smearing white with red 

Yummier now still 

Small things together 

Dainty breakfast comes

Yes, “We can begin 

by doing small things…” 

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Pictures copyright Jimmiehov 2024

- Photos and poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am Linked with Magaly at Friday Writings #136,     https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

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Sad - a Poem for Friday Writings and dVerse Quadrille

                     "Adi is retiring from Pet Partners"

.

Adi and I were best buddies

Adi's working life link

Lot's about Adi link 

[posted 2016, link]

  Deepest Sleep

Awoke this morning

Feeling very sad

My dog died last night

Vet came to pronounce

There is no help for her

She must be put to sleep

My face on her neck

Slowly she went to sleep

Oh that I could join her darkness 

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 - Poem Copyright 2024, Photo Copyright 2016, Jimmiehov 2024 and 2016, All Rights Reserved 

 Reserved  

 - I am linked with Rosemary at dVerse Friday Writings#128  at   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

 - I am also linked with Punam at dVerse Quadrille #202, (must be exactly 44 word poem) 

  https://dversepoets.com/2024/05/27/quadrille-202-hello-darkness/  

 - Click here to read the others posting for this week's Quadrilles

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For the Birds? -- a Poem for Friday Writing and for dVerse Poetics

Notice Mrs. Jim's painter shoe covers.  The ground
here is like a duck's kennel floor, covered.

  

Parenting is shared 

 Realization comes 

I lived on a balloon 

Sailing and flitting 

Didn't matter to where 

I sailed through the marshes 

Range Rover's delight 

Penguins visit well worth 

On sailing to China 

I walked the Great Wall 

Didn't stop great masses 

.Day Three found us at the Kremlin for 

a nice tour. This is the Kremlin Wall.

Or the Kremlin's Great wall 

Glide past with great care 

Their prisons work you hard 

And so life goes right on 

We are but peons 

I could go on some more 

Realization hit 

me like a ton of bricks *

You care not one Iota 

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 * These two lines are taken from Dwight Roth's poem, "Resolve" 

 https://rothpoetry.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/resolve/ 

 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024 or earlier, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Rommy for Friday Writing # 128 who is hosting at 

    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

 - Rommy had asked, optional with her writers, us to write about something small (a raindrop, a ladybug, a lie, etc.).  

    Perhaps our world is smaller when we have traveled a lot.  We’ve been retired 25 ( Mrs. Jim) and 23 (myself) years and have fairly well finished our desire to travel. We have visited at least 82 countries. My list, https://jimmiehov3.blogspot.com/2021/08/countries-where-i-have-been-78-of-them.html?showComment=1716438967251 .

 - I was and still am first linked with Melissa Lemay for her easy out Idea No. 1 since it is late, hosting for dVerse Poetics at  

 https://dversepoets.com/2024/05/21/april-poems-bring-may-centos/ 

 - Read here other's poems hosted by Melissa

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A Date Perhaps? -- a Poem for Friday Writings and for dVerse Quadrille

 
                    [Courtesy "freepic.com]

  A Haven Not

Your place or mine

was question asked

no way ever

I'd make it yours

Yours'd be a trap

unwary falls

I am aware

of what's behind

Behind your door

jump out and scare

bejeebers out

never your place

Not safe for me

nor anyone

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  - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

  - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero for hosting at Friday Writings #127 at 

     https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

 - I am also linked with De Jackson for dVerse Quadrille Monday #201, prompt today "pine",  

   https://dversepoets.com/2024/05/13/quadrille-201-poems-of-place/ 

 - Quadrille Monday's poetry has exactly 44 words 

 - Click here to reads other's Quadrille poems 

     Perhaps you would like to write these also 

 - Note:  I used this same blog title August 21, 2023 for Jackson Quadrille Monday #182

https://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-date-perhaps-poem-for-dverse-quadrille.html

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Rabbit and the Fowls - - a Poem for Friday Writings and a Piece of Prosery for dVerse

 Missing friends

Little rabbit was 

 getting lonesome 

He'd sit by the fence 

 missing his buddies 

“Something told the wild geese 

 It was time to fly.”

Then they all left  

  alone again 

Didn't last him long

 ducks coming in

Quickly making friends 

 Rabbit's alone no more 

 

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved  

 - I am linked with Rosemary at dVerse Friday Writings #126 at 

    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

   Rosemary has asked as an optional assignment for us to write a poem or story (or a few) in only 160 characters including title and spaces. (If you choose to write more than one, please put them all in one post and make sure that collectively they don't exceed our 369 word limit.)  

   I chose not to do that and wrote instead what you see next here.    

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 - I am also linked with Kim881 at Prosery, dVerse,  her prompt line is above in quotations and posted at 

https://dversepoets.com/2024/05/06/prosery-something-told-the-wild-geese/ 

 

 - Click here for others writing Prosery Flash Writing this week.  I wrote only 44 Words, we could have 144

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A Hope -- a Poem for Friday Writings

    

      "Cupid's Arrow" Artwork by Jimmiehov 2021, 

 Copyright 2021, URL - I've carried this in my Bible for 

 ages but 2021 is the first time I've found it published

    Sweethearts 

Have you ever been asked 

what's your favorite word 

My house you'd have to 

ask, the little lady knows 

Does he use now and then 

or is it regular 

Little lady is the 

apple of my soft heart 

She can do no harm 

to this old hardboiled egg 

So the lady responds 

for me, knows my innards 

 

I'm hoping she will say 

it's "Sweetheart" with a smile 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, URL

 - I am linked with Rosemary for Friday Writing #126 at  

   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/

where she has asked 

"us to write about to write a poem or story (or a few) in only 160 characters including title and spaces. (If you choose to write more than one, please put them all in one post and make sure that collectively they don't exceed our 369 word limit.) (or use) one of our favorite words."  Mine, for this 'us' is "Sweetheart".

 - Note" This is the number 2003 of 'poems' labeled or called as such I've posted here since the first, in 2006.  Some I forgot to label.  

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Blaze -- a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 30 and for dVerse Poetics #200

[dense blazing star - Wild left, garden right, settings]

 Dense Blazing Star, et al 

"Liatris spicata" 

"dense blazing star" 

"prairie feather" 

"gayfeather" or

"button snakewort"

What is in a name 

No matter what's said 

I'd recognize you 

by your blazing heads 

You're "a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to eastern North America" 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo from a googling search (see the similar Bing & AI below) 

 - Verse in quotes from Wikipedia (a similar search by Bing & AI, (URL)

 - I am linked with Mish at dVerse Poetics "200 at 

   https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/29/quadrille-200/ 

a 44 word poem, requested us to use "Blaze", or derivative, in the poem 

 - Click here to see and read what others have written

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 30 

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

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Talyler Swift's Word - - a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 29

    Cardigan; the old chum 

You picked me up and threw me on 

Like chum you are you warm me up 

I don't know what or where I'd do 

Helpless, sad were it not for you 

When I'm sad then you cheer me up 

When I hurt crying or bleeding 

Then you sooth me like mother did 

Other friends depart you'll still remain   

Come night throw you back neath the bed 

Like my shadow that can't be seen 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo last from the list, see below (a screen copy)

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 29 

   https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-10/

where our host has posted this for us to choose one word for the title of our poem today, Merriam-Webster put together a list of ten words from Taylor Swift songs.  I chose the word, Cardigan, last on the list.

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Man, Woman, and Child - a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 28

Bing's AI found photo

Mother Nature's Rule 45 

Man needs a woman, woman needs a man 

Mother Nature's rule 

From the start the man hunts food and the 

woman cooks the food 

When man and woman love each other  

 babies, children repeat 

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  - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

  - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 28 

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-10/ 

    Written in Sijo Poetic Form, "Mother Nature's Rule 45" because it has 45 syllables (44-46 form requires) 

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kids and cats talk - a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 27

Louis Wain, The Naughty Puss (1898)

  High School Cats and Kids; 

    what and where do they learn 

juicy farts, high school kids delight 

talking of them can fill the air 

bane of mothers who wash their pants 

"accident" when explain to moms 

moms take it in mother's duty 

clear the air precious high school talk 

sex and 'lgbtq' hushed 

not supposed to know of these things 

seems high school is meant for learning 

most time these are learned from 'big' kids 

moms and dad will know these go on 

learning, kids will pass stuff down 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo by Louis Wain, 1898 

 - I am linked with NaNoWriMo 2024 Day 27 

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-seven-10/

where we are asked to post an "American Sonnet".  Mine is one, sort of, has no rhyme.  But it is a Trometer (eight syllables each line) one.

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Questions -- a Poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 25

   Art: Bree & Dreamweaver Coat by Lisa Graham

  Happiness and White Lies

Bumped into a thought provoker today 

What makes you happy, bunch of queries 

Answers may tell us, what is it really 

I wasn't worried very much at all 

I'm a happy guy, questionnaire can find 

Proust Questionnaire shows my desires 

One question got my attention, liars, 

"What do I think about telling white lies?" 

I've always believed in them, they're okay 

Okay if it's minor and doesn't hurt  

Probably like Santa, Easter Bunny,  

and help young kids enjoy their holidays 

What if your date, could be a steady gal 

She's a minor but tells you adult age 

Very serious, then you find her age 

Run, run quickly!  Tell her mom? Have a choice?   

That is more than a white lie, pure trouble 

She looked older, you fell for it, but now?

Hurtful to break but strictly illegal 

Prison can beckon, truth you should have known 

Could it be different if she's expecting 

That happens quite often, marriage might quell 

Got to let the chips fall, hope for the best 

Lawyer might help; minor fell for your car 

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 - Poen Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Magaly for Friday Writing #124 at  

   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/

where I am opting out of her prompt plan of using at least three of the five words she has chosen.  I like writing for those kinds of assignments

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 25 (the 35 questions are listed here) 

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-five-10/ 

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A Short Ode - a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 24

Ode to an Injured Wild Rabbit

"Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!" 

You've just read in British the first sentence of a John Burns very famous poem It is "Ode to a Mouse".  Poor mouse had been 

partially plowed under a farmer's plow blade 

I will continue this write with his first sentence in mind 

Oh small animal, I am so sorry, this trap wasn't meant for you. Rather for rats running wild. My children made a good find and had brought you to our house. Now we'll get you fixed up, clean, bandage, and splint that bloody leg.  

If you have babies at home I hope and pray that Daddy Bunny will care for them and feed them well. 

The people who set that trap in our hay field should be ashamed and feel sorry for you.  They are poachers breaking the law.

 

I'm hoping with you that the vet will fix you maybe so that you can soon go home, walking again. 

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  - Writing Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 24 

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-four-10/

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Cat stuff - NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 22

 

        [Our Daughter's Russian Blue cat]

   Cat Fight

Hey diddle doddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

They had a big fight, 

The cat won out, 

The fiddle had a black eye 

The cow quit giving milk, 

The moon cried big tears, 

The little dog laughed no more, 
The dish leaked to the press, 

And the silver spoon sold tickets 

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 - Photo and Poem Adaptation Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 22, 

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-two-10/ 

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Blue is Calling - a Poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 21

 

    The Blue Room 

The Blue Room, dread of high school kids 

The Blue Room, what can matter be 

The Blue Room, did your school have one 

The Blue Room, don't remember one 

The Blue Room, anger cooling place  

The Blue Room, who was married there 

The Blue Room, U.S. Capitol* 

The Blue Room, Grover Cleveland did 

The Blue Room, to Frances Folsom 

The Blue Room, one to remember 

The Blue Room, you ever had one 

The Blue Room, two bedrooms here 

The Blue Room, had one painted blue 

The Blue Room, moved to other  

The Blue Room, helps calm as we sleep 

The Blue Room, ought get you one 

* Note:  The Blue Room in the United States Capital (building) is the famed "Oval Office" where many important dignities have had a visit with the U.S. President.  More and photos, click here. 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 21, prompt today, they’d like to challenge you to write a poem that repeats or focuses on a single color. 

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