A Write for the Pantry

Out of the Ordinary

An unusual sight for Edinburgh folk
Streets wet and slippery icey and snowy
Cold wet winds blowing weather report "snow"
Bonnets jackets scarfs and gloves rubber boots

Houston, Texas, carry your gun holstered
Waking up this morning they found surprise
Before their eyes dead man there on the floor
Wondered who he was and why he was shot 

Killing activists in old Mexico 
Environmental activists stand tall 
Pay the price bucking government's interests 
Near fifty murdered in past two years *

Water leak in Houston Thursday evening 
About half of Houston lost their water 
Thirty-five years old was this water link 
Schools and business closed just for one day 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 
 - I'm linked to Rommy in the   Wrtiters Pantry  at 
https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/03/writers-pantry-9-rabbit-rabbit.html?m=1 
 - Photo credits, all are from February 28, 2020 edition 
      Top - Edinburgh News
      2nd - Houston Chronicle
      3rd - Sierra Magazine 
      4th - Houston Chronicle
 - Click the link above to read how some other writers wrote to the photo. 

* Note: (excerpts from the current 'Searra Club Magazine' news publication citing the murders of two environmental activists already this year)

"... reports highlight the collusion between business and government agencies in carrying out the violence against environmentalists and ensuring impunity for the perpetrators."

"Mexico has become incredibly dangerous for environmental defenders -- according to various reports, close to 50 environmental activists were murdered in the past 2 years."

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When you come

When you're here I want not

for you to feel welcome

But I won't make you leave

After my old roan died

her stall over in the
red barn has been empty

 

Please feel free to go back

to where you have come from

and I won't care a bit

Seems my clean stable here

has been missing a mare

I think for way to long

Well, you might grow on me

you'd have to neck rein** well
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 - Photos taken (2014, link) at the Vauxhall City Farm, Vauxhall, London U.K. (More pictures here).
 - Photos and Poem  Copyright , Jimmiehov 2014 and 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Sanaa Rizvi at Poets United in the Poetry Pantry,  http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/11/pantry-of-poetry-and-prose-3.html? m=1

 - Go there to find a similar titled poem by Maya Angelou link which helped inspire me to write this.
 - ** Neck rein, a horse will turn right or left at the rider's nudge on her neck, left or right, to the opposite of the nudge.  The reins are not necessary at all.
 

A November Poem for Pantry of Poetry and Prose juat Poets United

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That First Kiss

I've got this thing
and your face reminded me again,
of trying and not ever knowing,
to

remember the first girl
I ever kissed
or vice versa. 

Can you yours?

I do remember a couple
of other firsts, critical two 
One in the first grade,
the other way after
I had dropped out of college

but I can't recall the first girl
I ever kissed
or vice versa

You might exchange the question,
boy for the girl  Was he handsome,
thin or muscular,
dark or light skinned,

or perhaps like your dad
or your brother (it may have been him)

so can you remember then
the first boy that
you ever kissed

I don't remember mine
I wish that I could
She's not a place holder
with the numbers in my mind

She may have been
the girl in the first grade,
the one who took me
by my hand down into
the storm cellar steps

but if she was
I don't remember
that (part)

so can you remember then
the first girl or boy that
you ever kissed

Well?
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2011 and 2019 respectively, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero in the Pantry of Poetry and Prose at Poets United, http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/11/pantry-of-poetry-and-prose-2.html?m=1 

 - The street you see becomes London's Abbey Road ahead at the corner.  That corner crossing is the one pictured on the Beatles prized album jacket.  We were staying with our daughter and her family in a flat building over the sidewalk fence.