Day 17 ~~ NaPoWriMo

[Istanbul dog # 1, click picture to enlarge]

 

The Mind Is Its Own Beautiful Prisoner; 

not all thoughts are of humans 

Walking the streets of Istanbul

I was feeling sorrow tugging 

for the many dogs sleeping nearby

Dare I take action there and then

The first was tied a grimy rope

Took him away gave him some food

Biscuits only, he gobbled three

Rest was easy six dogs in all

Unaccustomed to best of care

Became their master in a day

While they ate some pangs I would feel 

Did their former owners await

Waiting for their pets to come home

Guilt, mind prisoner to canine souls

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 - Poem title first used by e.e. cummings, his poem in Sanaa's link below

 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2013 (photos) and 201 (poem), All Rights Reserved

  - I'm linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/04/poems-in-april-somewhere-in-midst-of.html 

 - also I'm linked with NaPoWriMo, Day 17, at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-seventeen-5/

 - Dogs of Istanbul, all the dogs posted are from my blogs.  Several of the dog pictures were taken from the streets of Istanbul.  A blog search post link.    This post of our 2013 Istanbul visit has reproduced from my copy of Mark Twain's "Letter # 22" found in my book, his "Letters from the Holy Land...". http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-ebay-bargain-six-word-saturday.html  In it he commented of the many dogs he found sleeping on the streets of the then Constantinople.

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[Istanbul dog # 2]

 

[Istanbul dog #'s 3 and 4] 

 

 

[Istanbul dog # 5]

[Istanbul dog # 6]

[Italian dog near Mt. Vesuvius]

 

[Dog at the Dubrovnik, Croatia,  airport]

[Street Dog to be (moving out kid's,) 

outside grocery store, Conroe, Texas]

[Adi, my deceased (2013) Beagle Dog buddy]