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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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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Worries - a Poem for Sunday Muse

Photography by Elizabeth Korning 

Early Life 

She's got a tiger by the tail 

Sitten' on the top of the world

Between the tiger and the globe 

She's easily queen for a day 

Wondering now when her day will be 

Worrying bad lost her appetite 

Seems it never would come her way 

Worn silly soon she's skin and bones 

Is the queen for her not to be

We'll wait and see--Storry's moral?   

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Carrie at The Sunday Muse #226, https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/09/sunday-muse-226.html?m=1 

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Question? NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Eighteen

You've got a Question? 

Well, I've got Answers 

Have several for you

(1)  It would be an awfully lot.  One million or more. 

(2)  Your oldest unmarried daughter. 

(3)  Wine and chocolates for a year.

(4)  Arms and legs.

(5)  Priceless.

Highlight the blank area below to see the Question. 

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What do I need to do to get 

you to sell me your dog?

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 - Question and answers Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with  NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 18 for writing an "Answers" prompt, 

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

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Sunday Challenge -- A Quatern

..................The Drink 

Don't drink the water it can kill

Beware where you dip, one small sip

can lead to death or make you blind

Pour it down the sink don't you drink 

Boil it to make sure. Be safe or

don't drink the water it may kill

Sparkle chemicals can infuse

Chemicals can kill on their own 

The spring may be safe, cool and clear

Or bathing spot for animals

Don't drink the water it might kill

You bathe with soap, won't help a lot 

Buy your drink from the grocery store

Pure, spring, distilled, it matters much

whence it came. Check its source, beware

Don't drink the water it will kill



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Photos and poem Copyright © 2014 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved

Today I am linked with the Real Toads, Sunday Form Challenge ~ Quatern 
That was yesterday, a Sunday.  The link still words but 
today, Monday, I'm linked with Real Toads, Open Monday.  They are different links.


Notes:
1.  At the above link, Kerry challenged us to write a Quatern.  This is my attempt.  She said,

"A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It is similar to the Kyrielle, which repeats line 4 as a refrain throughout the poem. However, with the Quatern, the refrain is in a different place in each quatrain. The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fourth line of stanza four. A quatern has eight syllables per line. It does not have to be iambic or follow a set rhyme scheme."

2. I found this sign Thursday when I played golf at our local Panorama Village Country Club. Note how our freeze (just one) this year put the grass into dormancy. For sure I wouldn't lick my ball for good luck knowing where their irrigation water came from. When the grass returns it is a very pretty course.

Where was I Sunday? No, not Claude Monet's garden in Giverny --- Wordless Wednesday #045

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A Quiz Today -- What does the "R" stand for on this car gas gauge? -- Wordless Wednesday

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What do these three pictures have in common? Wordless Wednesday 7-11-2007

PICTURE # 1: Lake Maggiore at Stresa, Italy, the mountains across the lake are in Switzerland. http://www.stresa.org/eng/index.html
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PICTURE # 2: just north of Torino, Italy, out our motel window. Those are Swiss mountains also.

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PICTURE # 3: is me (Jim) at Reggio Calabria, Italy (across from Sicily). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggio_Calabria
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Another Sign That Jim Needed -- Where was I?

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