my Poodle Dog -- a Poem for dVerse Poetics, NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 17 and Friday Writings

[Tree just off our back yard (then) click on picture for larger size viewing]

My Beagle Dog 

You were a puppy 

when we first got you 

You grew fairly fast 

got set in your way  

Chasing squirrels 

you loved to do

Up the trees where 

squirrels were safe 

Walks you hated 

going the worst 

Coming home best 

that you would walk 

You are old now 

and can't respond 

Ashes I'll keep 

bury with me 

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

 - I am linked with Sanaa of dVerse Poetics  

https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/16/dverse-poetics-maggie-smith-and-conversational-mode-of-address/

   where she instructed us to write form poem as she described.  Write first person with the listener cannot respond.

 - Click here to read other's works to answer Sanaa's request. 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 17, 

      

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And tonight I am linked with Rosemary at Friday Writings #123 

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

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Flowers to Moons and Stars -- a Poem fot NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 14

   

   If's; an anaphora form poem 

If roses were pink and 

If violets were purple 

If angels had wings and 

If the Devil had horns 

If the moon pulls down his pants and 

If all the "stars" were afire 

Then what we say would be true but 

We are not, no way.  So then 

Everyone knows, and 

Nobody cares 

Thats not a lie.  It 

Suits me

(I'm not wearing a "suit",   

That "fits" me. And 

I "quit" . . . )

Flowers that are blooming today in our backyard.  The Canna Lilies had one blossom but wanted to wait for a bit to have some more; it will bloom until the next freeze.

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, 

Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked to NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 14, here 

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fourteen-11/

    where we were asked to, optional, write an anaphora form poem  

 - Click here to read all my poems, mostly for NaPoWriMo as of late 

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a Poem -- for dVerse SMB and for NaPoWriMo Day Four

["Fu Bao in quarantine ", In China, born in 2020, 

just came from lease at South Korea]

   Liar, liar; 

   written for National "Tell a Lie Day"

I never tell a lie 

Lies are wrong, crooks, the like 

Although they can be told 

Have to be very bold 

Tell when they mean no harm 

Not like you've sold the farm 

Meant to help all for you 

Natural thing to do 

I'm sorry taken wrong 

Not like you've bought a thong 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo My Copy from Wall Street Journal April 5, 2024, page one 

 - I am linked with Larua Bloombury at dVerse SMB, 

  https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/04/mtb-backtracking-your-truth/

   where she asked us to write a Palinode (poem) 

 - Click here to read others' Palinodes, most also an experiment 

 - Also written for NaPoWriM0 Day Four, 

   https://www.napowrimo.net/day-four-12/

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Cooking vs. Making - a Poem for Friday Writings and for dVerse Quadrille

My Egg, Ham, and Cheese sandwich open face 
See its recipe amongst various ones that I make 
Oct 13 in a search of my blog for the word "sandwich  
 here, https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=sandwich 

Note: Today, March 8, is International Women's Day.   Click here to read about it.

    A Woman's Touch 

It takes a woman's touch 

Woman's touch for to cook 

Cook I said, not to make 

I make sandwiches, egg,

ham, and cheese oh so fine

Meatballs and spaghetti

and follow recipes

It's finer touch, deserts

pretty dishes she cooks 

Woman touches for those

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 - Photo and Poem Copywrite, Jimmiehov 2023 and 2024 Respectively, All Rights Reserved

 - I am linked with Rosemary at the Friday Writings #117 at 

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

  where she asked "us to write sensual poetry or prose about an item of clothes." (this request was optional for us to use)

 - I was also linked with De Jackson for the dVerse Quadrille 195  on February 19 at 

  https://dversepoets.com/2024/02/19/quadrille-195-dont-touch-that-dial-stay-and-write-a-poem/

 where she asked us to use the prompt word "touch" in our poem of exactly 44 words, not counting the title.

 - Click here to read other's Quadrille writings 

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Lesson Learned - a Poem for dVerse

W

  I Went Walking

day i went walking 

i'd walked a ways 

day i learned a lesson

learned of birds and bees 

a bunch of bees 

mourning that morn

a dead deer in the ditch

killed by a car

hawks hogging on its meat

hawks get hungry 

bees stay busy 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2008 (URL) and 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Djorn at dVerse here,

https://dversepoets.com/2024/02/22/meet-the-bar-with-a-beat/ 

    Click here to read of others using this form as described at the link above.  I wrote too late to make roll call there, but I enjoyed giving this an attempt.   

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Saved by the Plug - a Poem for Friday Writings

from a google search for "Cinderella"

Magaly has invited us to write poetry or prose which explores current Global Issues through fairy tales (let the retellings be bright, be dark, or be both).  This has been a controversial issue all over the world.  A demonstration is in progress over this matter this weekend at our National Capital, Washington D.C.

  Country Saved 

Miss Cinderella 

She'd found her fella 

He'd solve her worry 

Prince comes-now hurry 

Capital break in* 

Night darkness therein 

Pull bad guys' plug**

Make country smug 

While the others fuss

No more killing us 

 

She'd found her fella 

Miss Cinderella 

He solved her worry 

Prince came-they'd hurried 

While the others fuss

No more killing us 

Notes:

 *  I do not recommend this, prison punishment may result 

 ** What action might possibly accomplish this result I am not sure, nuclear depletion comes to mind?

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo is a Screenprint from a result from a google search for "Cinderella" 

 - I am linked with Magaly, for Friday Writings #103, see the above blurb,for prompting inspiration 

    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/

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Separation - a Poem for dVerse Quadrille and for Friday Writings

    Across the water  

As I drive across the bridge 

Our part of the lake is host 

Host to what seems a zillion 

A zillion foreigners there 

Across the water between 

"them" and us 

They're of all kind, assorted

Lump them together, "snowbirds"

Northerns--hidding from winter's wiles    

-- 44 word Quadrille

Note:  This is the northern end of Lake Conroe at Conroe, Texas north of Houston just a bit.  In the winters which are fairly warm in Texas and other parts of the South and Southwest the folk from the northern states come south to have nicer weather rather than the harsh winters of the northern states. 

We here in the South call them "Snowbirds".  This trailer park is very full up during the winters.  We lived south of this park on the other side of the lake in a golf course neighborhood but have moved back into a suburb of Houston to be closer to our younger daughter and her family.  They were an hour and a half drive from us before the move.  Now it is a five-minute walk.

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with  whimsygizmo  for the July 24, 2023, Quadrille # 180 dVerse prompt, "Water" at 

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/07/24/quadrille-180-pouring-out-our-poems/  

 - Click here to read the works of other writers using the prompt 

 - I am linked with Rosemary for the prompt at Friday Writings # 87 ,   

   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/

 - Rosemary has asked us to write of "what pleases you".  

  - I am pleased that these people from northern state come. We are helping them and they help our economy here.  More so than holding football's Super Bowl.

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The duck stays with us -- a Poem for dVerse using the Duplex form

Our Guest 

She spends her mornings in our front yard

That's where the shade is in the mornings 

  

Where the shade is in the afternoons

In the afternoons this duck's across the street 

She's across the street where the shade is then 

She drinks sprinkler water from the street 

I worry about the water in the street 

Has washed fertilizer from the soil 

Fertilizer from the soil tastes not good 

She drinks it anyway that's all she's got 

All she's got but needs it for her eggs 

She'll hatch them in a shadow box nest  

Her chicks after they're born will leave the nest

She'll spend her mornings in our front yard again 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Merril D Smith who in dVerse MTB the Duplex has introduced to us a new form, "The Duplex". which I have copied its construction below.  Read more also here, you may wish to try it.  Fun, a little tricky to make it come out right, sort of. 

https://dversepoets.com/2023/07/27/mtb-the-duplex/ 

 - Click here to read the efforts of other writers, you will all like them.

 - O yes, this starts out like a poem that I wrote on my other active blog.  The duck really has adopted us, and spends its time in the three places.

  

 - Here are the basic components of the form: 

 14 Lines, in couplets 9 to 11 syllables for each line (but the lines don’t have to have the same number of syllables) 

The second line of each couplet is partially repeated or echoed by the first line of the following couplet. 

The last line (line 14) echoes the first line. 

The second line of each couplet should change the meaning of the first line in some unexpected way. 

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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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Weather's Future Guessing - a Ditty Trial Poem for dVerse Heroic Form

            Thoughts; Climate Theories 

    Weather science and climate change 

    Do these two behemoths conflict 

    Science has the proof to offer claim 

    Climate theory yet hasn't clicked 

    States have passed laws which forbid 

    acknowledging climate change     

    Calling "useless" theoretics 

    Imagining of the strange  

    

    Look at the thermometer 

    Check the rainfall and the floods 

    Winter snows call St. Peter  

    Droughts and dust storms, eating bugs     

    Hotter and colder, stronger each 

    Temperature changes may hurry 

    Or perhaps they will never be 

    I'm no expert I just worry 

    Me, put my head neath a pillow 

    Way too much for me to swallow 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2011* and 2023, Respectively,  All Rights Reserved 

 - The photo at 

   https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2011/08/well-wishes-six-word-saturday-therapy.html

 - I am linked with Bjorn at dVerse Poetry Forms, at    

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/06/15/mtb-with-john-donne-and-his-heroic-sonnet/   

 - Bjorn has introduced us to the "Heroic Sonnet" form and given us an example written by John Donne.  As we were given some leeway in our product, mine has ten eight syllable lines instead of eighteen lines of ten syllables.  

 - Click Here to read other's writings for this prompt

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It's on the Cook -- a Poem for dVerse Quadrille Night

 

          Cook is Being Generous 

        It's Friday night and tonight 

        It's fish night, fish and chips night 

        They're free tonight, a handout 

        A present from the Pub cook 

        Buy a drink then grub is free 

        Can of diet Coke fits me

        Catsup, peas, tarter sauce

        With BIG TIP following 

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2012* and 2023 respectively, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with lillian in Quadrille at dVerse Quadrille Night where the prompt word is "present"

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/06/12/come-imbibe-with-me-today/ 

 - Click here to see other's works with this prompt *Note:  I eat 'Fish Chips with Mushy Peas' quite often, not all make my blog.  These are some of them.  The ocean window seat was of Mrs. Jim and me having lunch at the Pub on the cruise ship, Queen Mary.  Of course they served Fish and Chips.

    https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=fish+and%20chips

Oceans and Cities -- A Poem for the Sunday Muse

        Angels are Busy Tonight 

    When oceans rise cities flood 

    Streets become paths of water 

    New Venice a thousand times 

    Unexpected near midnight 

    Climate Change Global Warming 

    Cities will flood people drown  

    Unpredicted Solar Flare 

    That straw broke the camel's back 

    Communications were down 

    Traffic was stopped world around 

    Came Flash flood Oceans did rise 

    People unaware of its coming 

    Angels helped in the cities  

    My angel stopped for a pose 

    People began to believe 

    Oceans rose and people drowned 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo from Carries last choices, all previously used, see them at the Final Sunday Muse (#261), https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2023/05/sunday-muse-261.html

 - This poem is new to me, a Quatern Form, where the first verse works it's, or a variation of (here), way down to the fourth and last line of the last verse.   Read about it here and my first poem Thursday, May 25, using the form here.

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Cat in Hiding -- a Poem for dVerse

  

  Naughty Cat; don't tell him that 

Cat's runaway, I'll find him soon 

He's dark gray with shining green eyes 

Close your toilet he likes to drink 

Twice he's fallen in doing that 

Look around maybe you'll see him 

Runaway you could find him soon 

If you see him call him by name 

His name is Erric king of cows 

He might be drinking milk skim milk 

Milk from his subjects king of cows 

Runaway cats he's our pride, joy 

I hope he's in our house hiding 

I hear him now meows us a hint 

Hint to where he may be I call 

Erric here's your treat five o'clock 

Cats runaway he's come for treat 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Grace in "form for all", here a Quatern at dVerse, 

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/25/poetry-form-quatern/ for more 

 - Click here to read other writer's works with this form 

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Seeers are believers -- a Ditty for Friday Writings

 

  Comes the Stomper Outers 

Mean 

Stomper Outers' discovery 

They came, the stomper outers 

Killjoyed the little kids 

Ruiners to them 

Dismay the girls  

Cry their fun 

Bursted 

Joy

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Magaly for the Prompt phrase at the Friday Writings #70 at  

    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

 - Photo from Carrie at  Sunday Muse #252 

https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2023/03/sunday-muse-252.html?m=1

  - Hooked with Grace at "Wordplay",  

       https://dversepoets.com/2023/03/23/meeting-the-bar-word-play/

  - I think my poem is a Reverse cinquain based on syllable count.  It will work either way:

Joy

Bursted 

Cry their fun

Dismay the girls

Ruiners to them

Killjoyed the little kids 

They came, the stomper outers 

Stomper Outers' discovery 

Mean

 - Read other's writes, here 

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