Thursday, June 15, 2023

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 
        _ _ _  

 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2011* and 2023, Respectively,  All Rights Reserved 
 - The photo at 
 - I am linked with Bjorn at dVerse Poetry Forms, at    
 - 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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Thursday, April 20, 2023

April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 20 -- a Poem that Garbage Tells


   Garbology from Afar 

Garbologists no longer 
are holding their noses 
so keep those clothespins 
for the museums 

Technology and archeology 
sciences have emerged to 
change garbologists way of 
obtaining humanity's past 

Predictions are now 
showing that the earth will 
end by one large snuff 

Like snuffing a candle one 
large pinch will come 
in our lifetime 

It will drop from the sky into 
one deep and smelly abyss 
like one crumb falls from the 
cracker 

Never to be found, as the 
crumb waiting for a 
South American ant

When that ant, larger than 
the world's largest creature, 
will swallow it with one large 
gulp 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 
 - Photo from NASA via AP 
 - I am linked with NaPoWriMoNational Poem Writing Month Day 20 at  
 - I am also linked with dVerse Open Night at 
 - If you would like to read others writing for dVerse please click here 
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Thursday, April 23, 2020

NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 23 - New Wheel, a Poem

I am writing this poem for William Shakespeare who died on this date, April 23, 1616, at his birth town, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom (we visited his birthplace in 1980, there I bought the book, "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare).

"A’ shall answer it. Some pigeons, Davy, a couple of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook."

Henry IV Part 2: Act 5, Scene 1


The Wheel

Rediscover the wheel
Make it better this time
One on every plate and
one in every garage

Review its performance
Is it compatible
All computer platforms
Restart in one minute

Reveal it in New York
Make headlines tell it all
Advertise sell sell sell
Every office and home

Respect the laws of state
Patents and copyrights
Protect invention well
Competition be gone

Renounce all old models
Software updates won't work
on machines that aren't ours
Corner on the market 
 _ _ _ _  

 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020-days-21-25.html?m=1 .  Kerry had for our prompt today a previous post, "The Bard", a prompt in honor of William Shakespeare's death on this day on 1616,  https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/04/kerry-says-lets-tip-our-hats-to-bard.html?m=1
 - linked with Rommy FOR MY FIVE "Re WORDS" at Weekly Scribbleshttps://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1 
 - and with NaPoWriM 2020 Day 23 at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-three-6/


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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Day 24 -- NaPoWriMo 2019

All
Nature
Must obey
Battle of mind
Will Nature submit to DNA's rule

Will the Gene's follow DNA's comand
Reflex responds
Subconscious
Said NO
Way!
 _ _ _ 

 - I am linked with 
 - and to NaPoWriMo Day 24 at  http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-four-5/

 - to learn more about the tetractys Form Poem read here, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/06/fussy-little-forms-tetractys.html?m=1

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Thursday, April 11, 2019

Day 11 ~~ NaPoWriMo

M87's Black Hole

I never really understood 
the theory of the much talked about 
Black Hole

But I wake up this morning and 
learn that for sure there is 
such a thing

Google explained it briefly 
in an article telling 
why it doesn't quite fit 
the "Star Wars" image

That doesn't help me much 
so I'm going back to bed 
to think about it some more

And worry a little 

Today or tomorrow I'll read up 
on this from my eighth grade 
science book

In the meantime 
I'm saving the Google article 
in this 'link' here 

for all the world to read
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov  2019, All Rights Reserved
- I'm linked with Isadora Gruye in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/song-prompt-news-from-your-bed.html?m=1
    And
 - I'm also linked with NaPoWriMo Day Eleven  at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eleven-7/
 - And on May 7th, 2019, I am linking it with dVerse at https://dversepoets.com/2019/05/07/poetic-theories-of-everything-and-anything/

 - Izzie prompting wants us to write something that will make us shrink in bed and pull a pillow over our heads
 - Wikipedia has an article about black holes. It gets pretty technical for me (link).  Here is a simpler discussion (link).

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Saturday, February 16, 2019

Going to Mars

If I were on a spaceship 
Going to Mars 

I'd miss some niceties 
Spitting out the window and
Let fresh air in 
Pretty sunsets be no more 
Or stars at night 

Because there would be no night 
Nor bright sunrise 
How would I count the days 
That 
We'd be apart 

Wonder if they'd let me drive 
Pass by your house 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved 
 - I'm linked with Magaly Guerrero in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/02/weekend-mini-challenge-strange-news.html?m=1 
 - I had a 55 word version but now it's 60 words plus three for the title. 

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Sunday, September 30, 2018

A lesson in science not -- a fringe Poem

Silly things; (like)
  far away black holes
I should write of silly things 
Things like far away black holes, 
of some space-time curvatures,   
also Newton's gravity 
Must come up with a new poem 
One that will have at least some 
connection to science theme 

Here goes:

What was here is gone 
Black holes have concept I like 
All has flown away 

Space-time curvature 
I don't know and never will 
Left day I was born 

Gravity's my friend 
She keeps me right here on earth 
Her love holds me tight 
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Bjorn Brudberg in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/09/physics-with-bjorn-gravity-and-space.html?m=1

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