Making a Star - Day 6 of NaPoWriMo 2015

Did you ever make a star?

Did you ever make a star?
Not possible says you, only God can make a tree.
Or a star?
Like my buddy, B. C. aptly said, it all depends.
Depends on the meaning of the word "star".
 
Well, did you?
And if you did, do you remember when, why, and how?
Tell us, tell us.
Please give us some encouragement.
 
Okay, my stars are five pointers.
God's stars are dependent upon the eyes of the seeker.
Also if a telescope is used, the power of that machine.
To tell my view, the real stars
that are made by God have no points. 
Only man with imperfect eyes
will infuse beams of light.
 
How do you make your star, tell us please.
 
Tell me yours and I'll tell you mine.

First draw five fairly equal-distant points
in circle fashion on your paper.
Then draw lines between each point, skipping one. 
Should be five.
Voila, 
a five pointed star.
Add color and decorations as you please.

I don't remember why or how I made a star like this.  But I have been proud of them ever since.  And I loved to share my knowledge.  I am sure it was at school at an early grade.  And I know my teacher was very proud along with me. 

p.s. I make 'boxes' too, when I doodle.  And my stars are drawn freehand.  The point dots are and probably always were, only placed in my mind.  As are and always were your stars like mine.

Do you remember your first?

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Photo and Poem Copyright

©  2014 and 2015 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved  

I am linked today with Outlawyer at the

Real Toads, "Seeing Stars - Sixth Day of National Poetry Month", continuing

with Day 6 of Poems in April at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads and

also Day 6 of NaPoWriMo 2015

Notes:

1.  For a scientific explanation of how a star is born to read, check this site:

  - http://helios.augustana.edu/~lc/star1.html 

2. a couple of my other "Star" posts: (you may have read these)

 - http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-game-of-star-chase-to-moon-only-some.html

 - http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2009/12/acrostic-pole-dancer-acrostic-short.html

Acrostic: Pole Dancer – An Acrostic Short Story

POLE DANCER
... (Acrostic story)

Pouting and late for work that evening, Missy Brilliant Star adjusted her makeup in the car. Responding to a hateful honk, although usually she'd honk in return to make her day, tonight our Missy Star gave a little one finger wave instead.

One finger waving she had learned from her uncle. The one who taught her to dance. He taught her to dance as if she were entwined around a pole. She had a make believe fireman's practice pole left over from when her brother was a youngster.

Lighting on the stage seemed unusually bad than night. The spots had long lost their color, the dimmer was stuck in the on position, and half the bulbs didn't light. Nevertheless Missy Star would go on. Go on just the two, she and the bitch in the little red skirt.

Everyone loved the little red skirt. Missy Star always called it a dress; to do otherwise might go the red b's head. Now Miss B did have a name to her acclaim though Missy Star never did use that. Miss B could do the contortions, bump and grind, real fine. But when it came to the pole, Missy Star was the queen.

Dance tonight she would do her best. Her best with the lingering pout. Not even the b in red could do her in tonight. For it had been rumored that a very special guest was to arrive around ten.

Around half past seven Missy Star became a little queasy in the gills. What was a gill she wasn't quite sure but people always said they would turn green with nerves. O dear!

Nervous she was. What if Mr. Wonderful didn't show? Worse yet, what if he didn't recognize her. Or, Heaven forbid, he could like the b in red. It mattered not that he was worth thousands and tipped like a trooper.

Calm down now, she told herself. We can't have the b in red finding out just how shaky she was. This had never happened before, those feelings she was having. It might have been her apoplexies for all she knew. She did know she felt as if she was turning green beneath her skirt.

Everyone hushed, the lights turned upon the door. Even the b in red had stopped her undulations, her eyes following the light. Through the door walked the most handsome man on earth. He was tall. He was dark. Missy Star could see his eyes in the light, they were blue, a bright blue!

Right to Missy Star he walked. His head moved with the motion of her small lithe body doing her dance. It dipped and hopped when she dipped and hopped doing her leaps. On to the pole she went, enticingly as was her usual. To him she was the Queen! He moved closer to the stage and watched. Up, up, and around, and around. She had beautiful long legs thrusting from her shapely body. Oh, O, O, . . .


Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

Written for Acrostics Only December, 2009, prompt 13, Acrosti Short Story: Pole Dancer

Carpe Diem ~~ Stars; new and old

Stars;

new and old

 

Star is born today *

Nebula bursting with pride

Hubble telescoped

Catch a falling star

Old song, put it in a jar

Old star fell today

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Photo and Poem Copyright, ©  2014 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Today I'm linking with 

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.se/2014/12/carpe-diem-635-stars.html 

 Kristjaan Panneman's instructions are there

and also on Open Link Monday, December 29, I'm linked with
Kerry at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2014/12/open-link-monday-grande-finale.html

 

* Notes: 

1.  For a scientific explanation of how a star is born to read, check this site:

  - http://helios.augustana.edu/~lc/star1.html

2.  We spent Christmas Day and this morning at our daughter's home with her and her family (pictured below are grand-daughters, KP and BP, karaoke for Christmas practicing to be stars-click for larger size).

 

 

 3.  New star formation:  "Astronomers searching the sky with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an odd little dwarf galaxy in our very own backyard — a mere 7 million light years away.

The findings, ... isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxies are really hard to find, in part because they're missing those telltale nebulae full of hydrogen gas that could have helped feed star formation. In fact, the only other one found in the Local Group, KKR 25, was found by the same research group way back in 1999. KKs3 seems to have an interesting life history that could shed light on the strange processes that formed it. Though most of its stars are 12 billion years old or older, there appear to have been two smaller periods of star-formation around 5 billion years ago and even more recently, around 2 billion years ago or less ..."  Source, Astronomers find 'new' dwarf galaxy in Milky Way's neighborhood at http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/astronomers-find-new-dwarf-galaxy-in-milky-ways-neighborhood/ar-BBhfCxf .

 

How Many? -- a Poem for Bob Dylan (Repeat)

How Many

How many times must a man fall down
  Before he gets picked up no more
How many times must a child get killed
  Before we take the guns away
How many times must the girls be sold
  Before we don't raise any more
The answer my friend, is not to be had
  The answer is not to be had

How many souls must come to their end
  Before motherhood stops in vain
How many graves for the little ones
  Before the earth will hold no more
How many families loose their precious ones
  Before all are rotting away
The answer my friend, is not to be had
  The answer is not to be had

How many times must a bad man kill
  Before they take his toys away
How many men will be locked away
  Before greedy men go to Hell
How many days will turn into years
  Before God makes the carnage stop
The answer my friend, He alone does know
  God alone the answer does know

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Photos and Poem copyright, © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 

Today I'm linked with Rommy at the   Friday Writings #44 at 

 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/09/friday-writings-44-to-err-is-human.html?m=1

 

In 2016, for our springboard, Kerry said: "On Thursday, October 13, Bob Dylan became the first song-writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.’ Dylan is the only artist to have won a Grammy, Golden Globe, Pulitzer, Polar, Oscar and the Nobel Prize." And more.

Notes: 

 Excerpted from a write, poem, that I wrote for October 21, 2016 (here on my Blog Search for "How Many)

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Jimmie's Got a Gun
.Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound of my gun
Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound, it's the sound...
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah....

Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Her whole world's come undone
From lookin' straight at the sun
What did her daddy do
What did he put you through

From Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun Lyrics (There's more at the link. I interpret 'daddy' to be her old man in hippy terms and the 'little baby' (later in the song) meant that Janie was very young--way too young.)

 

[For larger pictures click on to the picture, try again for larger still]

I blogged of my guns and gun experiences here.  Since most of those I have acquired a real gun that I could keep.  It is a Spanish 9mm pistol of which the manufacturer has long gone out of business.  It is a Star, M243 Model Firestar Plus, 9mm, manufactured by Star Bonifacio Echeverria S.A. Eibar (Guipuzcoa), Spain. 
It is still new, never been shot. http://star-firearms.com/firearms/

"A double-stack 9mm version (M-243) ... was commonly referred to by the unofficial name "Firestar Plus". The Firestar was produced by the now defunct Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. in Eibar, Spain until 1994. The Firestar was imported into the United States by Interarms of Alexandria, Virginia."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Firestar_M43 

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8 Comments: (from 2016, you may find an old friend here)

At Friday, October 21, 2016 12:52:00 PM,  brudberg said...

the questions are so very relevant

 

At Friday, October 21, 2016 1:06:00 PM,  Kerry O'Connor said...

You ask the hard questions, Jim.. ones we would all like the answers to. This is a powerful piece in the style of Bob Dylan.

 

At Friday, October 21, 2016 8:30:00 PM,  kaykuala said...

Great Dylan's parody, Dr Jim! Certainly must have taken lots of thinking to do so!

Hank

 

At Friday, October 21, 2016 10:05:00 PM,  Linda said...

A very powerful post, Jim. Thank you so much for sharing.

 

At Saturday, October 22, 2016 12:03:00 AM,  Teri L said...

Dylan would approve. :) Thought provoking and straight forward.

 

At Saturday, October 22, 2016 1:43:00 PM,  Helen said...

One of your finest, Mr. Jim! Dylan and I were both born in 1941 ~ I love that little fact.

 

At Sunday, October 23, 2016 6:38:00 PM,  Outlawyer said...

Wow--so terribly sad--thank you, Jim. k

 

At Monday, October 23, 2017 11:33:00 PM,  Artsy said...

So powerful. Well done, parody.- Gel

 

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How Many? -- a Poem for Bob Dylan

How Many

How many times must a man fall down
  Before he gets picked up no more
How many times must a child get killed
  Before we take the guns away
How many times must the girls be sold
  Before we don't raise any more
The answer my friend, is not to be had
  The answer is not to be had

How many souls must come to their end
  Before motherhood stops in vain
How many graves for the little ones
  Before the earth will hold no more
How many families loose their precious ones
  Before all are rotting away
The answer my friend, is not to be had
  The answer is not to be had

How many times must a bad man kill
  Before they take his toys away
How many men will be locked away
  Before greedy men go to Hell
How many days will turn into years
  Before God makes the carnage stop
The answer my friend, He alone does know
  God alone the answer does know

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Photos and Poem copyright, © 2016 Jimmiehov, All rights reserved

 

Today I'm linked with Kerry O'Conner at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kerry Says ~ It's Blowing ... [http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/10/kerry-says-its-blowing-in-wind.html]

For our springboard, Kerry said: "On Thursday, October 13, Bob Dylan became the first song-writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.’ Dylan is the only artist to have won a Grammy, Golden Globe, Pulitzer, Polar, Oscar and the Nobel Prize." And more.

Notes: 
(1) The bigger bad boys, i.e. I.S.I.S. and the like have very large toys, cannon sized and still larger.

(2) https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGHP_enUS574US574&q=boy+dylan

Born: May 24, 1941 (age 75), Duluth, MN

Full name: Robert Allen Zimmerman Spouse: Carolyn Dennis (m. 1986–1992), Sara Dylan (m. 1965–1977)_ _ _ _

Jimmie's Got a Gun
.Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound of my gun
Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done
Dum, dum, dum, it's the sound, it's the sound...
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah....

Janie's Got A Gun
Janie's Got A Gun
Her whole world's come undone
From lookin' straight at the sun
What did her daddy do
What did he put you through

From Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun Lyrics (There's more at the link. I interpret 'daddy' to be her old man in hippy terms and the 'little baby' (later in the song) meant that Janie was very young--way too young.)

 

[For larger pictures click on to the picture, try again for larger still]

I blogged of my guns and gun experiences here.  Since most of those I have acquired a real gun that I could keep.  It is a Spanish 9mm pistol of which the manufacturer has long gone out of business.  It is a Star, M243 Model Firestar Plus, 9mm, manufactured by Star Bonifacio Echeverria S.A. Eibar (Guipuzcoa), Spain. 
It is still new, never been shot. http://star-firearms.com/firearms/

"A double-stack 9mm version (M-243) ... was commonly referred to by the unofficial name "Firestar Plus". The Firestar was produced by the now defunct Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. in Eibar, Spain until 1994. The Firestar was imported into the United States by Interarms of Alexandria, Virginia."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Firestar_M43

 



Blaze -- a Write for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 30 and for dVerse Poetics #200

[dense blazing star - Wild left, garden right, settings]

 Dense Blazing Star, et al 

"Liatris spicata" 

"dense blazing star" 

"prairie feather" 

"gayfeather" or

"button snakewort"

What is in a name 

No matter what's said 

I'd recognize you 

by your blazing heads 

You're "a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to eastern North America" 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo from a googling search (see the similar Bing & AI below) 

 - Verse in quotes from Wikipedia (a similar search by Bing & AI, (URL)

 - I am linked with Mish at dVerse Poetics "200 at 

   https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/29/quadrille-200/ 

a 44 word poem, requested us to use "Blaze", or derivative, in the poem 

 - Click here to see and read what others have written

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 30 

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

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NaPoWriMo 2017-02 -- an Acrostic poem, Aquarious, Trappist-1 -- a Primer

 April is National  Poetry Month, here is my second:
 (a 55 word limit, acrostic was my choice of form)

Aquarius (Constellation)

quaint, still closest
under guise, Milky way
aquarius, Ptolemy's delight
revered long ago
imagined, Greek mythology and astrology
under guise, star clutter
stars with planets, 12

Trappist-1 (Stellar System)

runtish Aquarius star
abiogenesis* likely 
planets seven
perhaps inhabitable 
intensely heated 
star, atypic
tidal locking** 
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1.5 to 18 Earth days make a year
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Poem Copyright © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
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Picture from Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_(constellation)#/media/File:Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Aquarius,_Piscis_Australis_%26_Ballon_Aerostatique.jpg [A representation of Aquarius printed in 1825 as part of Urania's Mirror (including a now-obsolete constellation, Ballon Aerostatique south of it - Public Domain)]

Aquarius Wikipedia Article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_(constellation)

 - I'm linked with Kelly O'Conner at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Flash 55 Plus!, at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/04/flash-55-plus.html 
 - - -and
 - I'm also linked to Day One of NaPoWriMo, http://www.napowrimo.net/day-two-4/#comment-33608

*Abiogenesis is the natural process by which life arises from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds -- Reference Wikipedia Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis 

**tidal locking means one side of each planet is permanently facing the star -- Reference Wikipedia Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1#Tidal_locking

Stars, out tonight? -- a Poem for dVerse Quadrille Poem

Dubrovnik, Croatia, Two Bell Church

       Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2016

Bells Will Tell  

One bell if the stars are out 

Two bells and we'll call them back 

Will they come--one never knows 

One bell--sailors can come in 

There will be dancing galore 

Two bells keep your fingers crossed 

No bells--lamplighter's asleep 

Street-dancing canceled tonight  

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

 - I am linked with De Jackson, aka WhimsyGizmo, at dVerse, Quadrille #169, for the prompt word, "Star", at 

      https://dversepoets.com/2023/02/06/quadrille-169-a-star-poem-is-born/ 

 - I have several other writes that utilize the concept of the stars, read some here 

 - Read here some other's efforts who had similar requirements tonight 

 - We visited Dubrovnik in the Fall of 2012, our daughter and granddaughter came with us.  Some of that trip falls into these posts, Click here and here.

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One Single Impression: Stardust

Stardust

Engineer in me
won't let me tell how I feel
stardust is dreamy

Engineer in me
makes me tell it like it is
stardust is hooey

Copyright © 2008 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved

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Tag: One Single Impression Stardust
prompted today by Lirone (thank you) Words That Sing
Tag: Jim's OSI
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Dégas
The same goes for my poetry attempts (don't know how, but I enjoy it!).

Notes:
Stardust defined: (link, the Free Dictionary)
star·dust
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(stärdst)
n.
1. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being.
2. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use.
3. Minute particles of matter that fall to Earth from the stars. Not in scientific use.Idiom:
have stardust in (one's) eyes
To be uncritically or unrealistically optimistic.



Stardust, the song (lyrics) (link)

Singer: Frank Sinatra (link)
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Writer(s): hoagy carmichael

Verse:

And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that were apart
You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust
Of yesterday
The music
Of the years
Gone by

Chorus:

Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely nights
Dreaming of a song.
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you.
When our love was new, and each kiss an inspiration.
But that was long ago, and now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song.
Beside the garden wall, when stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
Of paradise where roses grew.
Though I dream in vain, in my heart you will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of loves refrain.

Stardust, the movie (link)
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Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Written by Novel: Neil Gaiman
Screenplay: Jane GoldmanMatthew Vaughn
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Starring:
Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Ricky Gervais, Rupert Everett, Jason Flemyng, David Walliams, Mark Strong, Peter O'Toole, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro
Music by: Ilan Eshkeri
Cinematography: Ben Davis
Editing by: Jon Harris
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release date(s): August 10, 2007
Running time: 128 min.
Country United: KingdomUnited States
Language: English
Budget: $70 million[1]
Gross revenue: $135,553,806