Mini Challenge -- another added to my boat poems

My boat

 

My thrill started before I knew

just what a boat was.  I'd found an

old bottle from somewhere I have

forgotten now.  On rainy days

 

I'd put my little boat into

a stream of water gushing down

the hill and away.  On it's down

hill trek I'd be there acting as

 

Captain of my ship, steering, not

aware how fragile my vessel

might have been It didn't bother

that I had to go, bring it back

 

I'd do it over and over

again and again.  When I tired

the boat went in my stash, along

with my other make to do toys
 

[Taken at the Little Venice Canal Boat show, 2014, London, U.K.]

                                   [click to enlarge]

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Photo and Poem Copyright, © 2014 and 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 

 

I'm linked with  Kim Russell at The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Weekend Mini Challenge: Boats, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/09/weekend-mini-challenge-boats.html . Kim wants us to "I’d like you to write about a boat. It could be a boat you’ve owned; one on which you’ve taken a trip; a famous boat; a dream boat ..."
For the mini-challenge I have 104 words.
Some boats for me on this blog, http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/search?q=boat

 

Thursday Challenge Poem, a "Predicament"

A Monumental Predicament;

 seeing reality through distorted lens

 

"Is it permitted," she asked,

"Five second rule I dare ask

May I blow dust off my crisp

Before it goes in my mouth

 

Or should I open a new

Feed this crisp to my feline

She'd have a tad to much salt

Dust.  Another hair ball start

 

I will not sleep tonight, not

until I know the answer

Monumental problem brews

What O what now shall I do

 

We will ask the cat, she knows

She eats off the floor, sometimes

I watch her, no worries there

O dear, O dear, I will cry."
 

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Photos and Poem Copyright, © 2007 and 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 - Photo is Amber from my 2007 posting, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2007/04/cat-whisperer-and-cat-in-window.html . Amber died in 2013 at age 19. 
 - Some other of my blog posts where "cats" have come into play:
http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=cat
 - I am linked to 'Fireblossom' at The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, "The Distorted Lens", at
http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/09/fireblossom-friday-distorted-lens.html where we are asked to "write from the point of view of someone who is seeing reality through a distorted lens."
 

Hurricane Irma survivors.

 

Contented Cat, all fifty-four survived, Hemingway's cats
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[Hemingway's study over the garage -- Open to cats and public now]

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(my American Sentence Haiku/Senryū for today)
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Photos and Poem Copyright, © 2014 and 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
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   - Photos were previously posted on my "Jim's Little Blog" on December 24, 2014, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-alphabe-thursday-5th-letter-f-some.html  [Scroll down about halfway for the Key West pictures.]

  - I'm linking with Marian of The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Tuesday Platform, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-tuesday-platform_19.html

  - I'm also linking with Sandee at her Awww Monday post, https://comedyplus.blogspot.com/2017/09/awww-mondays_18.html?showComment=1505749793569#c3923382155097785627