April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 07 -- and a Write for Friday Writings

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The Love Letter 

When I first held you 

The invention of fire (!!)

Haunted by the past 

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

 - I am linked with Rommy at the Friday  Writings #71  at  

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo, National Poem Writing Month, for writing ___________. You can see the instructions and will be able to read others' writings there at    

    https://www.napowrimo.net/ , 

and then click on the day's title that you wish to read.  This one will be posted on "Day 7" but I am not following the given prompt suggestion.

 - Rommy has invited us to write about “small victories” 

 - A 'Spine Poem" makes a poem using the words of spines of books.  I composed this Senryu during a recent library visit

 - The little Flirty Guy follows most of my love poems.  I found him outside a store in Gdańsk, a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland. .

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April -- NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 02 -- a "What is This" Write using a Word List

 

The White Queen

Under Bridge with Dick and Harry

Black Friday

 

Photo and Spine Poem are Copyright
© 2015 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

 

On August 4, 2015, I had this linked with Marian at the The Tuesday Platform

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My write for the day, April 2, 2023:

      What is this? 

What is a Song?

    It's a tune waiting to be murdered 

    by a guy like me who cannot sing 

    but he tries--utter flop 

What is an Owl? 

    An owl is a funny bird who can't 

    sleep at night, partly because 

    he has four dimensions of color 

    spectrum vision that keeps him awake 

What is an Oyster? 

    Its a little sea monster who's afraid 

    to come out of its shell; it only 

    does that when it is dying and 

    ready to be cooked or eaten raw 

What is the Fog? 

    It's a condition of the brain so
    that the one who's in it acts silly
    goofy and cannot think straight

What is a Ghost?

    It's a person who dresses in a white 

    sheet at Halloween time; he tries 

    to scare old ladies and little kids 

and a bonus,

What is a Quahog? 

    A Quahog is a word that I didn't 

    know the meaning of until I sicced 

    my Search Engine on it

    You can find it out also, just click here 

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 - Photo and Poem, Copyright,  jimmhehov 2015 and 2023 respectiverly, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo, National Poem Writing Month, for writing of five to ten of the words listed below.  You can see the instructions and will be able to read others' writings there at  

    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-two-10/

My word list was:

owl          generator      fog      river      clove      miracle      cyclops     oyster     mercurial     seaweed     gutter         artillery     salt      elusive      thunder      ghost      acorn      cheese      longing      cowbird     truffle     quahog         song 

Note: 

The dictionary pictured in this Spine Poem is 110 years old and had belonged to my father. We were in the process of moving and I was about to throw it away. I had been keeping it because I thought it was the one Dad 'corrected', by changing the pronunciation of Hostess to utilize a soft "O" that he had penned in. My mother would always be very upset at him and his, 'whatever' whenever he would bring this up. 

Now come to find out after my saving this dictionary for several years after Dad died (2009 at age 97) that this it is not the one he had changed. Bummer, so I had thought that I would throw it out even if it was published in 1913, making it 110 years old. A 'Spine Poem" makes a poem using the words of spines of books. Here I used some liberty in using a similar sounding but different meaning of the middle book in my stack.  You can see more of my Spine Poems by clicking here

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Epitaph* - a Senryū Spine Poem for the Friday Writings

"It was a sure thing"***

‘In the face of disaster…’**

Sure he could not loose  

Walk Away 

Blue Moon Haven 

The house in the orchard 

Death of a traitor 

“I’m a writer,                  

but then nobody’s perfect.” ***

by Billy Wilder                

**     Prompt phrase by Rosemary Nissen-Wade  (1941[est] - ) (also here)    

***  The funny epitaph of filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906 – 2002) 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved  - Notes:

 - I'm linked with Rosemary for the Prompt phrase at the Friday Writings #66 at  

    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/ 

Notes: 

    a.   A spine poem is a Senryū where each line is a title of a book, as 

         written in it's spine 

    b.  I estimated Rosemary's birth year as she graduated from college 

         with a BA in 1962 

    c.  I checked out "The house in the orchard" as it claims to be 

        "the finest in gothic fiction" and I need examples and more 

         practice in writing gothic poems and fiction (Jim's Gothic Fiction) 

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Four Stanza Riddle Senyru Group -- NaPoWriMo Day 23 -- a Spine Poem

The Start of Something Good

Such a quiet place 

A bridge across the ocean

The Perfect Stranger 

What am I tonight 

"Robe of Many Colors"

Totally out of sight

Who is this stranger 

You have seen me many times 

Again not tonight 

I am the rainbow 

Afternoons after the rains 

Delight for the world 

[Earth Day, love our Earth]

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

 - "Write a Riddle Poem" puzzle prompt by Djorn, dVerse, p

https://dversepoets.com/2022/04/21/meet-the-bar-with-riddles-guess-right-or-be-devoured/ 

 - I am linked too with Magaly at the Friday Writings #23, 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/04/friday-writings-23-write-your-medicine.html?m=1 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 22, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-two-8/ ,

for a requested use of repetition.  Here I only used it once, "afternoon, after ..."

 

The Books:

the start of something good -- Jennifer Probst

Such a quiet place  -- Megan Miranda 

A bridge across an ocean -- Susan Moissner 

The perfect stranger -- Megan Miranda 

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Friday Writings - Spine Poem plus

 

Rock, paper, tiger 

Silver Anniversary 

Humpty Dumpty was pushed 

(my spine poem/senryu)

(I was overhearing their talk:)

I think it's just terrible 

Dastardly deed--purposely 

So cute poor fat little man 

(student with white shirt) 

Every way accessible 

Sat on his wall reaching all 

Long office hours he kept 

(student with shoes that don't match)

Clever and very wise too 

Physics 102 project 

Broken eggs back together 

(with white shirt) 

Let us go back to the lab 

Make Dr. Dumpty famous 

(student with black shirt) 

Then we'll teach him--Balancing 

(in unison)

( Now I've heard it all!!)

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

 - I am linked with Magaly at Friday Writings #10,  

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

 - Magaly invited us to "create poetry or prose inspired by a conversation we’ve overheard." 

 - I left my position as an Aerospace Engineer at NASA Houston in 1980 for a second career as a Business Professor at San Jacinto College, a large two-year community college in the East Houston area. 

 - After every class I would move to the front of my desk, move the lectern out of the way, and sit on the desk as my students passed by.  Some would stop to discuss a point we covered in the lesson, maybe give a real-life example that fit, or make an office visit appointment, and so on.

 - Various times in my life I have felt folks were placing me in an older order.  My classes were no exception, starting after teaching maybe fifteen years, many of the female students began patting my legs as they passed.

 - I was well liked by the students even though I made them work hard for a good grade.  Fine with other faculty too.  But I was forced to retire due to health reasons (from which I've recovered).  

 - My working life had phases, three years working in an Elgin watch factory, five years in the U.S. Army, 19 years with Aerospace, and 22 years at San Jacinto College.   I retired in 2001, Mrs. Jim was ahead of me, she retired in 1999.

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Friday Writings - an Allegorical Poem

    "Don't judge a book by its cover"** 

 

book with a face that tells a lie 

must examine to its fullest 

horse's mouth look him in the teeth 

is it a book of fiction tales 

book of fables, nursery rhymes 

beauty lies in deceit and smiles 

delights we like breaking the rules 

those bad pennies come back to haunt 

battle scared covers bled for naught?

listen to your heart, it's your call 

         (and a Senryū)*** 

Book of the Dead 

Truth behind the lie 

The secret of me and you 

Shakespeare for the squirrels 

(My book runneth over) 

Two hunters sitting 

  in a duck blind:  

 "M.R. Ducks." 

 "M.R. Not Ducks." 

 "O.S.A.R. C.M. Wangs?"   

 "L.I.B! M.R. Ducks."  

I fail to see any value whatsoever about the above conversation which has gone ballistic years ago and still lives. [a Joke or a Poem, google doesn't know either (URL)]

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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved

 - I am linked with Rosemary for the prompt described below on the Friday Writings website,   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/search/label/Friday%20Writings 

 - Rosemary has invited us to "reinterpret a well-known saying."  I picked this one from a googled list, "Don't judge a book by its cover.  You can visit her instructions by going to the link above, also you can visit others who have posted their writings and recorded them at the bottom of her post. 

 - Notes:

    ** My answer to Rosemary's request was "Don't judge a book by its cover" which saying is my writing's title.

     *** The final Senryū I composed at our public library as a "Spine Poem" using the titles of four books found on their bindings spines.  I have not read any of them although I am thinking about checking the bottom book out to read.  

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Weekly Scribblings -- Woo woo -- a Spine Poem

The Time Between

Light over London 

Lions of Fifth Avenue 

The Paris Seamstress 

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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov  2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero at Weekly Scribblings #78, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/07/weekly-scribblings-78-micro-writings.html?m=1 

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Now We Remember

Storing up trouble 

When the lights go out 

Tell the truth, shame the Devil

The forgotten sister 

The forgotten sister 

Tell the truth, shame the Devil 

When the lights go out 

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Photo and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

I am linked with Rosemary in the Writer's Pantry #74,  at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/06/writers-pantry-74-words-words-glorious.html?m=1

 

Duck that swears;

Models Woman in Red

The Long Road Home crawled that night

So slow the duck was Going Rogue

Streams of curses "F"words galore

Not her night for sure Self Matters

Tough as They Come number one comes first

Handle with Care, Woman in Red 

Easy Money tempts, Seize the Night

Make it Last for all Angels Fall

Duck that swears like Woman in Red

 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Margaret in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/08/artistic-interpretations-with-margaret.html?m=1

Tecnically, these poems that we write are "Spine Poems" (click on the 'Label', Spine Poems, below to see several of the ones I "wrote".).  Margaret has, on that link, a picture of a woman in red in a library full of books. Margaret listed those books that she could see.  We were to use at least ten in our poem.
I used these ten:

1. The Long Road Home 
2. Going Rogue 
3. Self Matters 
4. Tough as They Come 
5. Handle with Care 
6. Woman in Red 
7. Easy Money 
8. Seize the Night 
9. Make it Last 
10. Angels Fall

 - There also is a novel, one of a series, by Louise Penny similarly named "The Long Way Home" that I had confused  with the listed book, "The Long Road Home."
 - It was a good book but I was tired of running into the pet duck with a foul mouth.   It too quacked saying the real thing for the "F"word.   After a few times reading this I quit the series.

Day 13 ~~ NaPoWriMo

The Double Cross;

 The witch; Bad when I want 

I am dying most every one knows

I've a terrible pain in my side

Its migrated to my head and more  

It isn't all bad because now I 

can be bad when I want, terribly

I can be good when I can afford 

I call it my wedding day murder

Mean guy he was dead before he died

Two days after that day I killed him

Placed the body in the piazza

Was a half hour before daylight

Almost dark as the lights had gone out

Our love had been hot real destructive

The husband's secret won't be revealed,

fake name another love perfect crime

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2014 and 2019, All Rights Reserved

 - I'm linked with Magaly Guerrero in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/weekend-mini-challenge-in-april-1-poem.html 

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 - I'm also linked to NaPoWriMo, Day 13, at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirteen-5/.  We were instructed to write of witches, either good or bad.  My little bride with can be either as she wishes.

- Magaly wanted us to "write a new poem that includes 3 book titles (each title must contain at least 3 words, and you must not rearrange or delete any of the words)."  I had used these book titles previously in 2014 with a little Senryū that is in the book picture above, http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-book-title-poem.html#comment-form.  In my poem, the book titles are underlined.

Day 10 -- NaPoWriMo

 

For this he came

 

Where the crawdads sing

 

Local Wonders

 

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019 and 2014 (photos) and 2019 (poem), All Rights Reserved

 - I'm linked with Anmol (HA) in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/open-book-poems-in-april-day-10.html 
    And
  - I'm also linked with NaPoWriMo at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-ten-7/

 
- Books in the picture:

      For This He Came; Jesus Journey to the Cross by Bill Crowder, telling the Christian story of Easter; 

      Local Wonders; Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (of southeastern Nebraska) by Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate, and Professor of English; and

      Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, wildlife scientist in Africa and Nature writer (Mrs. Jim checked this book from our library, I probable will 'leaf' through it but not read it

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Beneath a Scarlet Sky -- a Poem for Tuesday

Hell

She defied all

Did everything her own way

She defied God

Facing Fire

Beneath a scarlet sky

Whispering death

Miss you

Hell

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- Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
- I'm linked with Sanaa Rizvi  in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-tuesday-platform_20.html 
 - I hadn't composed a spine (book) poem for quite some time.  When I got to the library to pick it, Beneath a scarlet sky, up for Mrs. Mrs. Jim the title beckoned me to find three others.  Picking was easy but the last book, Miss You asked to be included.  There went my Senryū, a Haiku to some.

New Years Eve poem -- HAPPY NEW YEAR to all

A spine poem:

 

Master of the Game

 

A willing Victim

Claiming his wedding night

Last snow

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Picture and Poem Copyright, Ó Jimmiehov 2016, All Rights Reserved
 
I'm linking with  By brudberg at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/12/physics-with-bjorn-brownian-motion.html
It's a little loose on the prompt but snow, literally, is heaped with physics.
Thank you Bjorn, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
p.s. I am unavailable to return comments but I'd love to have yours.
Next week will be better.  THANKS!

A 'Play it Again poem' ~~ Street Poetry/Library Poetry

Hell Bent

Dead before dying

Slip of the knife, Devil's Peak

Down don't bother me

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Photo and Poem Copyright © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Today I'm linked with Sherry at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Play it Again, Toads.

 - Sherry wants us to choose  past prompt to write for again,  I choose Susie Clevenger's heart rendering prompt, Street Poetry.  She told of a young lady sitting on the streets she met in San Juan Puerto Rico who was selling poems that she would write while you waited.

 - Her challenge was posted as Poems In April ~ Taking It To The Streets in which I am now linking this poem.

 - I substituted 'Library' for Street' in writing mine, as I captured the lines for the lines of my Senryū form called a Spine Poem from the shelves of the Willis, Texas, public library.  Or was it the Katy, Ft. Bend Country Library, I can't remember?

 - Then I left the little stack I photographed sitting on the library shelf when I left. I doubt anyone else enjoyed my poem and I have been waiting to post it here.  Sherry gave me the chance to post it for you to read.  I do this quite often when I visit libraries, most are probably better quality than this one.

A Spine Poem again, Hornet's Nest -- Red Radish and the Beet, a Limerick

Hornet's Nest 

The house of widows 

The girl who kicked the hornet's nest 

Furiously happy 

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. - I'm linked with Marian  at The Tuesday Platform with the Real Toads in the Imaginary Garden.   

. - I chose my books from our ship (the Caribbean Princess) library.  This ship doesn't have much of a library, one row of bookcases.  The room is shared with the computer and Internet Room. Not real friendly neighbors. http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search/label/2016%20Caribbean%20Cruise

. - I hope you don't mind too very much, this one is marginal, perhaps not qualifying for a Haiku or a Senryū.  Thanks for peeking at my other poems, I try to write 'poems' of a sort most of the time.

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My entry to the current Limerick-Off Monday contest

http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/category/limerick-offs/

Red Radish and the Beet

Said Red Radish to her friend Beet

“I’m Queen Vegie here” in her tweet

Corn said “real corny”

Trumpet vine, “horny”

Mary C picked them both, to eat

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. - Photos and Poems Copyright © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved