Don't Dos a Few - a List Writing (of sorts) for Friday Writings

The older we're getting the more lists we should make 
Top of the List of Lists would be our grocery list 
The older we're getting the more we will forget 
The lists tend to remind carry them where you go 

I've Quit 

People growing older and older 

Then items disappear from our list 

We even name that list, "Bucket List"

It means that when we kick the bucket 

Those things we want to have accomplished 

List shows those and things I've quite doing 

 

a. Dropped from my Bucket List was to touch the South Pole 

b. Dropped off my Bucket List was to replace my pet that died

c. Don't smoke anymore, been 47 years 

d. Don't drink alcohol, maybe a glass of wine socially 

e. Don't teach Sunday Bible School anymore 

f. Don't have my motorcycles anymore 

g. Don't drive much at night, especially on major highways in town

h. Don't drive so fast, for sure not over 100 mph for very long, hardly over eighty's my top now 

i. Don't eat so much fatty foods and carbs 

 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Revived 

 - Photos Copyright Jimmiehov 2006 as marked and 2011 Here

 - I am linked with Magaly for the prompt idea at The Friday Writings #40, at 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/search?q=Friday+Writings+%2340 

 - Magaly has invited us "to write poetry or prose that includes a list—of things we love, of things we hate, of things we want, of things we’ve lost, of people we miss… of anything we wish."  I chose "Things I don't do or want anymore."  There are more but still boring!

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Nine - The To-Do Bucket List

I'm making my list 

It won't be my last but it is for my last.  My list has oft been revised but here goes afresh.  

My 2021 Bucket List to date (Listed in order of enjoyability and necessity combined and sometimes is  contradictory):

Travel 

 - plan cruises (Amazon River, Suez Canal, Caribbean, Trans Atlantic or Pacific) 

 - visit relatives in Iowa, Nebraska, Louisiana, Tennessee, possibly Oregon (??) 

 - Noah's Ark in Kentucky and/or Turkey

Medical

 - finish healing as possible my broken toe 

 - hearing assistance 

 - new upper teeth bridge 

 - health maintenance appointments 

Professional 

 - start and complete my CLE 

 - visit and/or join local bar association 

Pleasure 

 - start playing golf again 

 - start playing chess again 

 - get my Ford Mustang on the road again 

 - schedule grandkid activities 

Major spending 

 - keep estimates of other items on this list 

 - keep good records of all large item expenditures 

Family 

 - update our will

 - help the Misses with get-together plans 

 - try to involve family members in other items 

The Home 

 - possible downstairs A/C component replacements 

 - complete landscaping because of the major February freeze 

 - repaint where needed

Cars 

 - get the 1998 Ford Mustang GT Convertible  going again 

 - get the 1974 Ford Mustang II Ghia going again or sell it 

 - find replacement for the family car or keep it for a while longer -- it has lasted for 145,000 miles so far 

Organizations 

 - attend lodge meeting or 

 - visit local lodge 

 - volunteer for three more years church duty (or not)

 - find and participate for golf, possibly chess, senior groups 

Miscellany 

 - check with the state the if's and how's property in escheat

 - consider and plan for downsizing $$$'s and living arrangements that some seniors do 

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This sounds like plenty "To-do" for old retired folk, one is far past OBE.  I hope you've enjoyed reading my Bucket List.  You may wish to formally make your own.  

Oh yes, over the years my list and things to consider have changed.  Example, I've dropped visiting the South Pole, Antarctica, we were close enough by sailing around the Cape Horn and then up to The Falcon Islands.   Also Ireland and Italy already frown on my age visitors for driving.  And we've been to all 50 states already here at home.

See you all, call me, we might visit you or go along cruising with you.

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 - Writing here Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo Day Nine,  https://www.napowrimo.net/day-nine-7/ 

 - Our writing assignment for today was to write a To-Do "List Poem".   For me that verges on an Oxymoron as for sure my list isn't very poetic sounding.  

My Garden - How does it grow? - a Prosery Write for dVerse

 

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The older we're getting the more lists we should make 
Top of the List of Lists would be our grocery list 
The older we're getting the more we will forget 
The lists tend to remind carry them where you go 

Don't Quit 

People growing older and older 

Then items disappear from our list 

We even name that list, "Bucket List"

It means that when we kick the bucket 

Those things we want to have accomplished 

List shows those and things I'd like to be doing 

Today is Mourning Day for 9/11 disaster 

  

- - - > My piece of Prose for dVerse today: 

Bucket list garden 

My bucket list is mostly fun things to do. Things I've not done*, that can't be done, or that I'd like to do. So here goes. They all are growing, wilting, or dead for you, to be pretty for you I have dropped two seeds of turnsole in the dark of both eyes.** 

a.Strawberries, hardest on my Bucket List is to touch the South Pole* 

b.Onions, dead, was to replace my pet that died 

c.Beans, don't smoke anymore, I've quit, been 48 years
d.Carrots, drinking alcohol no more, maybe a glass of wine socially 

e.Spinach, stopped teaching Sunday Bible School  

f.Sold my motorcycles 

g.Asparagus, driving less at night, especially on major highways in town 

h.Cucumbers, driving not so fast, for sure not over 100 mph for very long, hardly over eighty's my top now 

i.Corn   

Made yours? You may be better than you think.

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 - Writing and Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - ** I am linked with Sanaa Rizvi at dVerse Prosery, 

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/09/11/prosery-through-the-eyes-of-isabel-duarte-gray/ for her prompt line, "from the Poem Garden" and is written using 144 words not counting the title 

 - Click here to read other writer's prose writing efforts 

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These things make the Mrs. Happy -- A Poem for dVerse Poetics Day

Mrs. Jim at the school--for Grandparents Day 2015 
[grammar school, KP now starts High School in August]

     Things that make the Mrs. Happy

I asked my wife to tell me SOME things 

Gave her little pad and a pen 

and asked her to give me a list 

"a list of things that make me happy" 

Was I surprised?  Was I? 

Well, not exactly, they were all things,  

things that I DO now, Me.  

I am so very privileged, 

That list alone makes me happy and

I am glad that I faired fairly well 

I'm going to show you the list now 

p.s. if she thought of some more just tell 

(an Aside:  When I first started writing 

my other blog, one of the things I told 

my readers was that I gave my wife 

an ANUAL EVALUTATION. Woo Hoo) 

Here is her list:

 - Time together 

 - Walks 

 - Cuddling at night and good night kisses 

 - Remembering over fun things, or times

    we enjoyed together 

 - Courtesy of a gentleman 

 - Helping to make up bed in the morning 

 - Watching TV of show we both like 

Wasn't that nice, she had decided to involve 

me with everyone--I hope she didn't  

misunderstand that just list SOME THINGS 

You can tell that number one on her list 

is the very first thing that she listed, "together"

All the other fit it well, her saying since 

COVID came along, "We are joined at the Hip"

Which are my THREE FAVORITES of these?  Any one 

could be, I enjoy our walks the most, we have 

a pleasant parklike place to walk complete with 

paved walking trails, streams, water throughout 

with ducks, cranes, and birds of all sorts.  And 

then there's the turtles and walking bridges, lots 

of trees, small playgrounds with swings and slides 

along the way.  And of course, WE TALK. 

Next I'll tell of the making of the bed 

Generally one of us gets up first, that person 

starts the coffee if she or I think the other might 

arise fairly soon.  IF SO, that person last up MAKES. 

(p.s.  Some times the first up gets up at a terribly 

early time.  I generally make a cup of hot chocolate 

and a piece of raisin bread with creme cheese and 

strawberry jam to tide me over until coffee time 

She makes hot chocolate with a graham cracker 

and perhaps some peanut butter 

and the Third HAS TO BE cuddling and stuff 

I wasn't told the birds and bees from my parents 

I learned it all in high school and perhaps a little of 

what comes naturally and morally around a girl with 

mutual likes 

That started in the first grade, we didn't have

kindergarten, when the other girl in first grade 

invited me to sit down in the storm cellar steps 

Well, the Mrs. and I have very mutual likes!!!

I love my wife dearly, I pray to for my life to 

be as long calendar wise as hers, I'm sad and almost tear 

to think it won't 

We are old 

All this and more walking trails are 

within three-mile radius our home:

Pictures if we walk to the east of our house 
Cinco Ranch, Katy, Texas.  They are for flood
water retention, we can walk to the west, north, 
or south also [click picture for larger size]

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2015 and 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with in Sara [sarahsouthwest in ]Poetics

 Poetics at dVerse Poetics, for her prompt, she did also allow for us to write our own wishes or of someone else's -- I chose Mrs. Jim's 

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/06/20/what-colour-is-hope/ 

 - Click here to read what others have written 

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Word List - Living (??) Well

Sleeping Cats

Kitten mine looks half asleep

really he's sound asleep but 

He sleeps with one eye open 

Kat learned this from the feral 

and catches mice in his sleep 

Sort of like his master is 

With one eye open looking 

both looking for food or prey 

He's tough gypsie type alright 

But gentle as a kitten 

when I'm around always was 

We are one of a kind, us 

I kissed them both, feed them now 

Carousing and prowl all night 

After breakfast sleep all day 

Life in the fast lane is good 

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YouTube found here, lyrics too. 

At the end I found a collage of goodies on screen.

I chose "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice," her bio 

on video at 1hour 33 minutes, it was well worth it to me.

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

 - I'm linked with Shay for her word list, it's posted below from her Word Garden #9 below, at  http://fireblossom-wordgarden.blogspot.com/2022/01/word-garden-word-list-9-joan-colby.html?m=1 

 - Granddaughter KP's new cat does not like being left alone.  We think he might be missing his former owner.  Named Dutch, he is an adopted four-year-old male Russian Blue.   He was a one-owner never taken out in the rain; pretty boy belonging to a little old lady, an LOL. 

 - Shay introduced us to Joan Colby, and specifically from her collection Joyriding to Nightfall. Read about her writings at the link above.  Also, others have left a link there to their writings on this and the word list.  - "Colby writes about nature, animals, aging, and the angels and devils in everything around us. 

 - What Shay wants us to do here is simple: use at least 3 of the 20 words on the list in a poem of any length or style. Then link up and visit others. The prompt stays "live" through Friday."

 - And now her list of words!

    anesthetized         breakfast            casseroles

    climb                    clocks                 coffin

    deaf                      feral                   glissade

    gypsy                    jeans                   kissed

    radio                    ribbon                  scorn

    skull                     shillelagh             starlings  

    stitched                tempted 

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A Random Generated Word Order poem

Student Wisdom

Unsightly things will muscular eye and 
stocky month make.  Scruffy day but 
a glamorous student, look magnificent. Life
with a flabby book, hand chubby stories.
Plain groups question the gorgeous cases.
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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved 
 - I am linked with Magaly Guerrero in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/06/weekend-mini-challenge-exquisite-corpse.html?m=1
 - For the Mini-Challenge I have used 33 words including the two for the title.  The title words were NOT in my generated list.  After reading it a few times I chose these two as a summary for the gist of the story.
 - This poem was crafted with the help of List Randomizer, a form that allows users to arrange items in random order.  Magaly supplied the list and the Randomizer rearranged  the words.  As requested, I used in order adjective, noun, verb, adjective, and noun five times from the new list for each line.

 - List Randomizer: "There were 129 items in your list. Here they are in random order:
(Adjectives):
(I used the first five)
shapely
live
unkempt

(Nouns):
(I used all five that I pulled out)

(Verbs):
(I used the first five)
vex
state
behold

(Adjectives):
(I used the first five)
elegant
attractive

(Nouns):
(I used the first five)
coffee

(Unsorted remaining words which I could
have used in order to produce more lines):
slay
fit
fact
arise
cast
beautiful
job
burst
long
dazzling
world
short
bald
quaint
time
feels
link
undulate
word
study
home
fancy
plump
place
night
skinny
drab
problem
people
year
clean

IP: 2601:2c2:600:6837:4f1:a5f2:ee8f:326e
Timestamp: 2019-06-15 18:47:53 UTC"

Needs be, before I die? -- Poem for Friday Writings

This KP, my youngest grandchild at
age seven, she'll be fourteen this July 
Picture Copyright 2016, Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 

      I'm a dreamer

I'm a dreamer, I've always been 

When I was young, had a wish list 

Now I am old, its name has changed 

Bucket list now, that's what it's called 

There're things I want, and stuff that needs  

Climb the South pole, buy a Corvette 

Outlive my wife, 'tend her funeral 

Things like those, a hill of beans 

So when I stand, tall on the pail 

Have no regrets, give it a kick 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2016 and 2023, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Rommy for the prompt, at Friday Writings #80  

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

 - Rommy's Bucket List Stuff: 

Rommy has invited us to write about something on our bucket list (either something we have done or still have yet to do).

 - Back in 2012 I also had written about my then diminishing Bucket List, read of it, click hereclick here 

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Word List Easter Poem -- NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Sixteen

   One day in May 

Passover had come late that year 

It was Friday, her friend was killed 

This third day was going to be 

the saddest day in her short life 

Sunday morning without breakfast 

Moonlight, Mary trudged to his grave 

Crazy guy, said he'd live through death 

Slowly, with tears, tomb she approached 

Really bad, twas vacant!  Empty!

Angel sitting near gave the news 

"He has risen!!" 

NOTE:  This is a modernized true poem according to Christian, of which I am, beliefs which we celebrate on Easter Sunday.   Jesus, Son of God come to earth in form of a man, died, was killed by Crucifixion but rose from his grave three days later. 

In your Bible, Luke 24:6-7.  

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Sixteen for form, the Curtal Sonnet, prompting suggestion, 

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-9/ 

 - I am also linked with Shay at the Sunday  Muse for her Garden Word List prompt with 20 word from which to choose, 

http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/04/word-garden-word-list-19-

aehousman.html?m=1

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 - Our NaPoWriMo 2022 prompt today is to write a Curtal Sonnet. It has eleven lines, instead of the usual fourteen, and the last line is shorter than the ten that precede it. 

 - Shay's words for us, "our aim here is to use these words as a starting point for work of our own.  Please use at least 3 of the 20 words on the list in an original poem, then link, and visit others. Enjoy. 

 Now, your list: 

 altered;  breakfast;  church;  dreary;  fetch;  garland;  grave;  harness;  humming;  laurel,  May;  moonlight;  rainy;  sheep;  shiver;  sloe;  slough;  stem;  vacant; and willows." 

 - The five words I used are breakfast, grave, May, moonlight,  and vacant.

 - According to "Britannica" the Curtal Sonnet refers specifically to a sonnet of 11 lines rhyming abcabc dcbdc or abcabc dbcdc with the last line a tail, or half a line. 

 https://www.britannica.com/art/curtal-sonnet 

According to modern technics I did not use rhyme, but I did use eight syllable lines for Syllabic Form. 

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Word List -- The Birds Came -

    Lady visits the Penguin Flock* 

       [Photo by Jimmiehov 2017]

    The day the blackbirds came 

I was sitting on my porch that day 

That horrible day the blackbirds came 

Hundreds of nasty birds came to light 

                                In our back yard 

They scared all other creatures away 

Porcupines and rabbits were the first 

Even I ran in the house from them 

Though they purported to scratch for worms 

                                Worms and bugs 

In reality they'd come to raise cane 

Every three steps they pooped nasty stuff 

Practiced diving with unwilling Cat 

What to do what to do-called the cops 

                                Came and left 

Put on my boots and gown, water down 

Scare the birds away 

                                Their smell remains                                                                    

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

 - * Note:  My Photo is of Mrs. Jim with a flock of Penguin birds taken in 2017, 

 - I am linked with Shay at her Word Garden List #16, 

 http://fireblossom-wordgarden.blogspot.com/2022/03/word-garden-word-list-16-donald.html?m=1 

 - Shays 20-word list from which we were to choose at least three:   

 actors, avoids, blackbirds, bodyguard, cops, first, gaped, gowns, heroic, interview, Natasha, necessarily, peculiar, porcupines, saddened, shockingly, streamers, submarine, welter, wonderful 

I AM ON SABATICAL AND MAY NOT RETURN YOUR COMMENTS.  PLEASE DO COMMENT THOUGH, I'D LOVE FOR YOUR SAY.

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Word List -- Gingerbread, an Acrostic Flash 55 poem

g i n g e r b r e a d 

gingerbread, not your 

imitation plate 

nor is liked by all 

gingerbread tasty 

even if it kills 

radio man screams 

blaring TV howls 

ripening odor 

electric hatchet 

autopsy slow 

dizzy dead cows smell 

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

 - I am linked with Shay for her Word Garden Word List # 8

at http://fireblossom-wordgarden.blogspot.com/2022/01/word-garden-word-list-8-russell-edson.html 

  - My write is 55 syllables not counting the title, hence a Flash 55 poem

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Shay's Word List:

autopsy            gingerbread 

bravo                hatchet 

cellar                imitation 

clogged            postponed 

cows                 radio  

discussing       scar 

dizzy                 tasty 

electric             tusks  

funny                vicarious 

ghost                 years

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Word List -- Declaration Enforced

   [Photo Copyright 2022 by Jimmiehov]

  The Announcement 

Angel's were beckoning 

The choir was singing 

Violins played the tune 

Unmuted trumpets blared 

loudly, 

announcing the news 

Good news -- 

Peace on earth was declared 

All the gods in the world 

Together melted swords 

Froze the guns, dulled the knives 

Best of all they Declared 

The Golden Rule to be 

ENFORCED 

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

 - I am linked with Shay at her Word Garden List #18, 

http://fireblossom-wordgarden.blogspot.com/2022/03/word-garden-word-list-18-leonard-cohen.html?m=1

 - I am still on Sabbatical but my gracious  jailer has now allowed me to have some limited Wifi.  Still under lock and key though. That said I'm hoping to be able to return comments. NO mail though and one phone call a day.  Guess who I call. 

 - Photo taken at one of the String Band's daily performance contribution by parts of the Prison Orchestra.

 - Shay's Word list with words pilfered from one of Leonard Cohen's songs:  

.45, angels,  avalanche,  blizzard,  choir,  curious,  heroine,  kitchen,  meter,  Motown,  oranges,  peacock,  Phoenix,  reviews,  revolution,  robin,  sorrows,  strategies,  tempted, and  violin (under scores are the three words that I used).

Word List - Dithery

Dont be dithery 

when indecisive 

fills the bill better 

Tis like maundering,  

when squandering flakes 

clattering in snow

Gloomy haunted pomp 

suffers needlessly 

All papier-mache

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 - "Write" Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Shay for her Word List #10 choices from Wallace Steven's' poetry, http://fireblossom-wordgarden.blogspot.com/2022/01/word-garden-word-list-10-wallace-stevens.html?m=1

 - Shay's Word List #10: 

 blackbird;  book;  catastrophe;  chimera;  clattering;  dithery;  fragrance;  gloomy;  haunted;  lilacs;  mask;  maundering;  papier-mache;  police;  pomp;  postcard;  snow;  song;  suffers; and witching