Spring and young maids - a Poem for dverse Poetics

    young maids

baby boomers now young maids 

beautiful eyes all features 

double smiles they love to flirt 

Dutch masters have no feel for them 

February gold gleam gone for them

goblets have emptied, never full 

golden dawn daffodils brightly shine 

golden echos from the maidens hair 

ice follies skated to demise 

lemon beauty Florida dames 

lingerie off the lines tease 

love calls young maids come Spring 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2011 and 2023 respectively, All Rights Reserved 

 - I first used this photo on May 5, 2011  

    http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-single-impression-love-2.html

 - I am linked with Merril at dVerse Poetics for prompt word list at 

    https://dversepoets.com/2024/03/12/poetics-daffy-for-daffodils-sprung-in-spring/ ,

    where I choose the first twelve on the to be the first word or words for my poem, note the alphabetic order.  All are listed on Merril's dVerse link above

    Click Here to read what other writers have written  

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A Poem for the Tuesday Platform

Why do I travel;
for delight it brings?

Started with a bucket list
Moscow, Panama Canal
Great Wall of China as well

Those in mind, first came my son
To his wedding, Barbados
With blushing bride made their vows

While in the Caribbean
Why not visit Martinique
And St. Lucia, islands near

Learned of Napoleon's wife
Awed by their island homesite
Josephine's Statue, headless

Ate bananas in their fields
from their trees and sampled rum
from the barrel.  Shoulders rubbed 

Soon cruised Panama Canal
Then sailed from Moscow on to
St. Petersburg. Walked the Wall

Our bucket list long empty
With the highway in our veins
Now eighteen years we've traveled

Fifty states, most of Europe,
South America have been
India to Capetown next

Why do I travel
Because it's there
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
 - I am linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-tuesday-platform-questions-of-travel.html?m=1

 - I hate that this turned out sounding like a bragging write. More detail would have been more boring  But it has been much of my eighteen retired years and many summer while teaching has been on the road, sea, and air.
 - Best liked was driving literally all over Europe but there isn't one holiday travel that I have regretted. Eight have been Missionary oriented.
 - Oh yes,  Mrs. Jim has been with me everywhere except for my business
  monthlong romp in San Francisco and one trip to Guatemala.  Two of our children and three grandkids have also tagged along.

Acrostics Only: Slang (a limerick)

S L A N G

Shucks, dog gone to heck, o' phooey

Love my four letter words, Louie

A little verse for sis

Never taught me to kiss

God loves my slang—cuss all hooey




Poem and Photo Copyright
© 2010 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

Please note:
Lois (Louie) is my only sister. I don't know who this vendor lady is. I took this picture in Tallinn, Estonia, while on a holiday Baltic cruise this spring.

Acrostics Only Prompt 8: Acrostic Limerick — SLANG
(Limerick Form - a limerick is defined as “a light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of 5 anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba”. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 7 to 10 syllables and the last words rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have 5 to 7 syllables and the last words rhyme.)