The Cat -- NaPoWriMo Day 28 -- a Shape, Shaped, or Concrete Poem

     

                  The Cat in the Window 

                           (an)       (an)

                      (Ear)     (Ear) 

                     in the    window 

                my cat in the window 

          cat in the window looking out 

 (Eye) looking in, out for her friends, birds 

     Birds are singing, cat is smiling applause

       Sits, stares, and smiles for me 

        Smiling at me ready for her food 

     She's smiling at me ready for her meal

 She's smiling at me ready for her tasty meal 

   When it comes she'll jump down to where

    She'll jump down where I am

   (Leg     ) ready for supper now ready to eat, chomp down

   (Leg     ) wants it now ready to eat, chomp, swallow it down 

   (Leg     ) wants it now ready 

  (Foot      ) she'll be saying, "please, please, I want to eat" 

  (Foot      ) she gets her bowl will say  (tail tail tail tail tail tail tail tail) 

"Meow, meow, thank you, thank you" chomp, "Meow, I love you" chomp chomp  "Purr purr  purr   purr    purr     purr      purr       purr        purr . . . " 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 28 for Prompt instructions to write a "concrete poem" which I have always called a "shape or shaped poem", 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-8/ 

 - I am also linked with dVerse, Open Night, with Grace hosting, at

https://dversepoets.com/2022/04/28/openlinknight-315/ 

Go there to the Mr. Linky button at the bottom to find other's work

 - The Photo is of Amber, my grand-cat, belonging to our younger daughter, but who had lived with us almost all of her five years while she and family lived in London.  I took this picture from my 2007 posting,

 http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2007/04/cat-whisperer-and-cat-in-window.html . 

Amber was a nice had.  She died in 2013 at age 19.

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Friday Writings -- a (strong) secondary character point of view

[ a free one,  https://unsplash.com/s/photos/raven ] 

(Door Knock) 

I am the Raven 

 

in a Poem named after me 

I co-star in Mr. Poe's best seller 

in that setting I was a pest at first 

but soon I became her bosom friend 

even so she never really understood me 

she thought she did, read it yourself, you'll see 

she lost her lover and that was her end 

going bat batty trying for more 

knocks on her Chamber Door 

but "Quoth (me,) Raven, 

"Nevermore""

persistence 

ends 

but I'll remain 

above her Chamber Door 

haunting her always 

for some more

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Note:  I have activated my "jim's little Christmas Tree farm" blog posting for this season.  Click this label, Christmas 2021 , to have a peek and monitor my progress. 

It has directions to send me a picture of your tree or decorations if you wish.

 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Rommy at Friday Writings #5 for the prompt idea, she would like for us "to write poetry or prose from the point of view of a secondary character in a story (book, movie, TV show…)",

 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/search/label/Friday%20Writings   

 - Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "The Raven", can be read here, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven 

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Cupid's Arrow -- a Poem for the Tuesday Platform

My heart      has a
Cupid's arrow slanting
upwards from bottom to top.

I guard it strongly within

the pages of my Bible.

I take it out at

random times
to show
my
Love 

She shot the arrow.

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-tuesday-platform.html?m=1 

 

a Shape Poem, an Art Inspired Writing

A

Hard

Night
.

Oh

Gracious

Awake so soon

Head was aching

Belly somersaulting

He turned over to see

To see where he was

Remembering the 
night before

could not

How

did

he

get

here

There in the bed

A possible answer

to his dilemma lay 

Stirring she cooed

Darling you I love
His turning point

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved  
 - I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor in the Imaginary Garden at

http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/02/art-flash-55.html 

 - Kerry introduced us to the artist, David Bülow, Danish architect and imaginer in ink.  She featured his work, "The Turning Point" and challenged us to write a Flash55 Poem (55 words) after viewing this piece (pictured here with his permission).

 - The piece, "The Turning Point," may be found at

https://www.instagram.com/bulow_ink/ .  More of his work may be found at  the Bulow Ink Website.

One Single Impression: Top

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top

spinning top goes round and round
musical sound cannot identify that tune
when it will stop only do the children know
spinning spinning spinning round and round

spinning top slowing now ever going around
wobble here wobble there still playing its song
silly tune that save the children no one knows
spinning and wobbling along new crazy path

now clipping the ground yet spinning still
wobbling and singing more crazily yet
it will stop near to you or by me
last wobble stopped by a child
whoa
stopped
it
is
quiet

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Photos and Poem Copyright
© 2011 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

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Prompt word, Top, suggested by Sandra at If

Find more poems at One Single Impression using "Top" as prompt

One Single Impression: Indurated

Indurated
trees hardened as stone
once were supple and green
holding birds in their bows
this rock I now hold
earlier was
one
makes
me wonder
of all the processes it went through


O that
I could stand those pressures
of stresses from everyday living and fires
raising family loving spouse feeding us all
I'd surely falter along life's way
be burned
and
turned
into
stone myself
this all reminds me of Lot's poor wife*

Poem Copyright © 2010 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

Find more poems at One Single Impression
"Wings" as prompt was
suggested by Kuyerjudd at My Heart Up Close

* Notes:

1. Lot's wife, looking back on Sodom, was turned into a pillar of salt.(link)

2. Indurated definition Online Dictionary ]
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Indurating.]
[1913 Webster]

1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some
fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
[1913 Webster]

2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render
obdurate.
[1913 Webster]

Indurated \In"du*ra`ted\, a.

Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart.
--Goldsmith.
[1913 Webster]

indurated - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "indurated":
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case-hardened, conscienceless, crusted, crusty, crystallized,
flinty, fossilized, granulated, hard, hardened, hardhearted,
heartless, hornified, impervious, incrusted, indurate, insensitive,
inured, lapidified, lost to shame, obdurate, ossified,
pachydermatous, petrified, proof against, reinforced, rigidified,
sclerotic, seared, set, shameless, solidified, steeled,
steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, strengthened,
thick-skinned, toughened, unblushing, vitrified