Figment gone wild -- for dVerse Quadrille #203

   Can't Win All

Tell you little figment bout

my imagination wild 

Was a little boy again 

getting the cows to come in 

Birdie, workhorse disliked me

concerned for the cows' freedom 

Walked over and kicked me good 

in the back I was bedridden 

I limp still today

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 - I am linked with Lillian hosting at dVerse Quadrille #203, (must be exactly 44 word poem) and this one contain the word "figment" 

  https://dversepoets.com/2024/06/10/what-do-mark-twain-and-a-purple-dragon-have-in-common/  

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

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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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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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- - a Poem for dVerse Quadrille #198 and NaPoWri Day 1

[Farm contoured, Bing search, (URL)]

  Contour Farming 

Down hills rains eroding 

Solve, County Agent comes

Nodding heads did agree

Surveyors measuring

Hills left with bright markers

Following them Dad plowed

Plowed more—Terraces made

Corn, Alfalfa between

Corn for feeding beef cows

With hay for winter meals

Erosion stopped, soil enriched 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo, Bing Search, "Contour Farming" (URL) 

 - I am linked with Lisa for dVerse at   

    https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/01/dverse-quadrille-monday-198-fuzzy-frameworks/ 

where her instructions were to "Pen us a poem of precisely 44 words (not counting the title), including some form of the word contour." 

 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 1 (URL)

 - Click here to read the other writers works 

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Army then -- a Poem for Quadrille #197

armycadets.com from Amazon gun ad

  War stories 

Getting old now

loves telling tales

Army stories

are his forte

No war for him

guns on the rack

Not shooting range

Score penciled in

Sharpshooter him

Medal to prove

Wore alongside

Good Conduct pin

Did Radar man

once shoot that gun

Basic Training

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with De Jackson at dVerse Quadrille #197 for hosting, 

https://dversepoets.com/2024/03/18/quadrille-197-look-sharp-now-lets-write-a-poem/ 

    she asked us to Write a Quadrille poem, 44 words in length and to use her chosen prompt word, "sharp" 

    Click here to read some others work, same instructions 

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Picture Sketch - a Poem for dVerse Quadrille

Sketch Me

She texted me

“Send me a sketch

So I'll know you

leaving the train”

And so I did 

just like she said 

"I'm fairly short

Unruly hair

Eyes that can see

in dark of night

Ears protruding

And button up

Underwear" 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2006 and 2023 respectively, All Rights Reserved (Photo first used January 2, 2006, on my "Ask Dr. Jim (blog)", click here to read it.

 - I am linked with Mish for the dVerse Quadrille #190 prompt and with her hosting.  It must use the word "sketch" and be exactly 44 words in length.  https://dversepoets.com/2023/11/27/quadrille-190/

 - Click here to visit others doing the same 

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Winter, season welcome? - a Poem for dVerse Quadrille

["Freezing rain", ©  Jimmiehov 2007] 

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Season not favored;

or is it?

Season for which 

I have mixed feelings 

Winter is coming 

A little freezing rain 

once in a blue moon 

But more often than not 

there'll be no snow, be 

only rain or 

freezing cold 

Is though, little bit fun  

to play when snow comes  

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, 2007 and 2023 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) for dVerse Quadrille #189 who requested for prompt that we use some form of the word moon in context of our poem, at     https://dversepoets.com/2023/11/13/quadrille-189-poems-most-mad-moonly/ 

 - Quadrilles are poems of exactly 44 words 

 - Click here to read others using this prompt

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Note: I used the picture and third and fourth lines on January 29, 2007 

    http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2007/01/just-for-grins-we-do-have-little.html

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Celebrate! a Quadrille for dVerse

 

 

    Darío de Regoyos – Basque 

    Celebration (dance at El 

    Antiguo, San Sebastián)

Let's go!!! 

Let's go see what's going on 

at the square 

I've heard there's dancing 

food and drink 

music  

Fireworks 

and boat rides 

all under moons' light 

Comes just once a year 

Cinco de Mayo 

Celebrate 

won Battle of Puebla  

Repelled Napoleon III 

1861 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Merrill at dVerse #155 which is celebrating its 11th year. Let's go, 

https://dversepoets.com/2022/07/11/quadrille-155-lets-celebrate/ 

 - dVerse Quadrille poems must have 44 words which mine does, not counting its title.  

 - You can read about Cinco de Mayo here.

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Spells and spellng - a Write for dVerse Quadrille

Spell of good fortune 

Cast upon my dame 

Lasted a long spell 

When it was over 

Riches and good looks 

Upon her fell spell 

others she loved 

Our loving spell doomed 

Onery spell moral is 

'Riches, good looks 

Those two spell trouble'

""T"  "R"  . . . " 

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 - Poem  Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - Picture courtesy: A Close-up Shot of a Cocktail, Pexels.

 - I'm linked with Sanaa at dVerse for this Quidrille #154, Casting a Poetic Spell at 

https://dversepoets.com/2022/06/13/quadrille-154-casting-a-poetic-spell/ 

 - Our "Quadrilles" have exactly forty-four words, and are considered "Flash Writing" due to their shortness.  

 - For us we are given ONE WORD which we must use, today Sanaa has given us "Spell".  This word has three meanings, making it a "homogram" with three homographs. 

 - My writing is also a Flash Poem in many circles based on syllable count, I have 56 syllables, twenty-five in each line of the first five, then fourteen in the second and seventeen in the last.   Most times I like either 55 or 144 as those two are magic for either syllables or words, as is 44.

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Young artists and poets -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Nineteen ( for dVerse Quadrille)

     Broken Chalk 

Put the broken chalk in the box 

Save it for the children poets 

Pretty driveway pictures they'll make 

Messages to passerbys and 

In secret code some to their friends 

Best of all will be their poems 

Friends and strangers alike will read 

Eoohs and aawes children love to hear 

Broken chalk 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Nineteen, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-nineteen-7/ 

 - There we are to start our poem with a command, my first line is my command. 

 - I am also linked with De Jackson at dVerse for Quadrille #150, 

https://dversepoets.com/2022/04/18/quadrille-150-chalk-it-up-to-poetry/ 

 - She has us writing a Flash Poem with a body of exactly 44 words and using the word, "Chalk".   Also mine is using 59 syllables, 7 x 8 and 1 x 3.

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