Sunday Muse -- Flowering(??)

         

           (Photograph by Anita Sedberry 

      at Harold Ross Fine Art Photography, 

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     A Beautiful Companion; 

        an elegy poem 

Little Rose I'm so sorry you were picked 

Plucked you

Bright and beautiful 

From where you were 

Princess of the beauties 

You haven't lost your beauty 

Yet 

But your beaming color won't last here 

I gave you all the water I could spare 

Your roots and leaves 

They had to stay 

Stay where you were planted 

Here there's no soil 

Nor room for that 

Dirt we have plenty 

It's not the kind 

Kind you can use 

It's mixed with grime 

Dead bugs rotting away

Grime and flakes of skin 

Skin from us here within 

Please the think the positive 

Think of the joy every morning 

Here in the dark and dank 

Mornings while you last 

But it won't be long 

They'll throw you out 

Out with the rubbish 

Junky and poo 

Not like where your 

Kin will be 

With the other mulch to be 

So let's toast 

Toast to the joy of the past 

The sunshine and showers 

Childrens' oos and awes 

Old ladies so wise 

And the friendly gardener 

The one and only who 

Was to coddle and care 

Care for you 

Trimmed your nails 

And polished your petals 

Fed you well

Watered too 

All that you have lost 

But your beauty still shines 

The only pretty here 

Not for long 

Make the best of what we've not 

That's my plight as well 

I'll ask my keeper 

If we can go together 

Away from this cell** 

To the paupers' grave 

Out on the hill 

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**Note:   Jailed man picture: The Nicolas Fouquet replica prison cell in the Vaux-le-Vicomte  cellar where we visited in 2009.

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 - Poem and bottom picture Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022 and 2011(read my poem here), All Rights Reserved 

 - Top picture is my photocopy used as a Prompt Photo for our work by Carrie ar The Sunday Muse #195, posted here, http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/01/sunday-muse-195.html

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Museuming -- Flash 55

Museuming  

Day when he got to Albi,

Expectations running high,

Was ready to get his fill.

 

His fill of Henri Lautrec,

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Little problem, parking space.

 

Henri was to wait his turn

For want of a parking space.

Lautrec, had his fill, and then,

 

Paul Cézanne surprise for him

in Albi's Lautrec Museum

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Photos Copyright, © 2009 Jimmiehov (link) and Poem Copyright, © 2014 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Today I am linked with Fireblossom at the Real Toads, Flash Fiction 55 (link)

Monday, I am linked with the Real Toads, Open Link Monday (link)

 

Her challenge:  "write a poem (I chose this) or a piece of flash fiction (next time again), about any subject, and in any form, as long as it is comes to exactly 55 words!"

Well, with the title I am sitting at exactly 55 words.  Classified as fiction, it very well could be true.  I know.  [Scrunched face.]

You don't need to tell me, I know that museum is not a verb.  But here, using poetic license, I made Museuming to be one.  For more Lautrec posts, click here, for a little of our Spring 2009 Europe Vacation click here.
As are other museums with all museums having clasics, the old masters works, Allbi's (France) Lautrec Museum is a place to spend at least half a day (link).   I never tire of 'museuming' in Europe's old art museums.

 

Paul Cézanne surprise

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Saturday Centus: Jailed

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Jailed man picture: Nicolas Fouquet replica

prison cell in the Vaux-le-Vicomte cellar

(see at this post—click on picture to enlarge).

To whom it may disturb:

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A quick SOS:  My bloodthirsty, brutal, and barbarous captors did away with our coach around midnight last; now our opportunity for gold ribbons at Junior Olympics is minimal but a hasty dispatch of fighting corps with ransom funds could pull us away from additional harm. 

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Your pitifully off buddy, Clark K.

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Photo and Missive Copyright
© 2010, 2012 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

We visited this castle in France during our Our 2009 European Holiday. It is about 60 km southeast of Paris meaning a 60 minute drive in good traffic.
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Instructions for this Saturday Census post provided provided by Jenny. For more Saturday Census authors or how to do your own, go here to Jenny Matlock's blog.

Directions per Jenny: 

°The prompt this week is one sentence long.
°The sentence can be as long or as short as you like.
°The challenge is to write a fluent sentence without using the letter "E". E is the most used letter in the English language. Let's see how you do with an absent-e!
°Number of words: Whatever you need to write one cohesive sentence. 

°Pictures: Any number
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One Single Impression: Betrayal

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Jailed man picture: Nicolas Fouquet and replica prison cell in the
Vaux-le-Vicomte cellar. (see below—click on picture to enlarge)


Betrayal:
one crook's lament

here am I locked up
betrayed my friend Aramis
now my end reward
jail is too good for me
misuse of public moneys

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Poem and Photo Copyright
© 2011 and 2010 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

We visited Vaux-le-Vicomte castle in France in the Spring of 2009. It was constructed under order of Nicolas Fouquet (see our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday).

Aramis: fictional musketeer in novels by Alexandre Dumas, père. (Wikipedia link)

Jailed man picture: The Nicolas Fouquet replica prison cell in the Vaux-le-Vicomte cellar. Fouquet was replaced as Minister of Finance by his his cunning agent and successor Jean-Baptiste Colbert. "In early 1665 Fouquet was transferred to the fortress of Pignerol. There, Eustache Dauger, the man identified in contemporary official correspondence as the Man in the Iron Mask, served as Fouquet's manservant. The former minister bore his imprisonment with manly fortitude, and composed several mediocre translations in prison. The devotional works bearing his name are apocryphal.
According to official records, Fouquet died in Pignerol on March 23, 1680." Wikipedia Article for more.

Find more poems at One Single Impression using "Betrayal" as prompt
Prompt word "Betrayal" was suggested by Leo of I Rhyme Without Reason

One Single Impression: Chaos

Chaos

Chaos reigns they say
they must have seen my garage
not a car in sight
boxes here junk over there
Hodge Podge lives in my garage

A very clean garage we parked in on our Spring 2009 Europe Holiday;
I backed down this long alley to reach it because
it was located in the first floor of our hotel.
It was back in or back out,
no turning around.

Poem and photos Copyright © 2010 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

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Find more poems at One Single Impression
"Chaos" as prompt was
suggested by The Dark Lord of the Dark at The Dark Lord's Blog

Acrostic: Paris

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My Paris

Party all the night
Art museums all day
Rive Droite* for shopping
Île-de-France** for her
She's Paris Hilton

Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

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Notes:*Rive Droite's (The Right Bank) most famous street is undeniably the Champs-Élysées, but there are others of prominence, such as Rue de la Paix, Rue de Rivoli and Avenue Montaigne. (Wikipedia)
**Île-de-France is one of the twenty-six administrative regions of France, composed mostly of the Paris metropolitan area. Its name literally means "Island of France", maybe from ancient Frankish Liddle Franke, "little France". (Wikipedia)

Written for Acrostics Only October, 2009, prompt 11, Paris

Be Happy -- MidWeek Blues -- Windows scenes along Barcelona streets

Please scroll down one post for my Sunday poem
One Single Impression: Fog


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Some of these are blue, I used that for criteria unless I really liked the picture and thought you might like it also, and not blue.

Our son, Tim, was with us. Can you spot him?
He is sitting in the chair at the outdoor restaurant.

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And now for some street scenes.

And back to our hotel.
We were staying at the Hotel Continental (right) (link)
but would visit it's sister, the Palace Hotel on the left.

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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo here. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.
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Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.

The French like Blue -- MidWeek Blues -- Blue shutters

Especially their shutters. They have been blue for a long, long time.


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It doesn't seem to make the French feel blue. Well, maybe this is different for the artists, some get real moody or worse.

We found this original in the Lautrec Museum in Albi, France. It is by Paul Cézanne (1839 to 1906) and yes, he was pretty quirky. (Cézanne Wikipedia link)

In just a lot of his pictures you can see Mont Sainte-Victoire as in this one. It is a mountain in Provence, France. Cézanne can see the whole view of the mountain from his house near Aix-en-Provence. He drew a series of oil paintings about or using his favorite mountain of his.

The blue colour on his mountains is supposed to be an impression of air. I'm not at all knowing what that signifies. Do you?

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Even the sky is blue in France, bluer than most of the U.S. except perhaps the Texas skies. Pictured is son, Tim. Tim went with Mrs. Jim and I to Spain, France, Andorra, and Belgium on our Spring 2009 European Holiday. (link to posts so far)

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There aren't any blue shutters in this last picture but Mrs. Jim really likes these Citroën 2cv cars. She likes blue ones too and would drive one around here if I would get her one.
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I have a blue Citroën in much better shape than this one. I am saving it in case I want to do mischief with it. Have to plan my escape route carefully, their top speed is 40 mph. Mine is a 1:18 scale diecast from Solido (link for a grey one). I bought it in France back in 1992.

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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo below. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.

Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.