my Poodle Dog -- a Poem for dVerse Poetics, NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 17 and Friday Writings

[Tree just off our back yard (then) click on picture for larger size viewing]

My Beagle Dog 

You were a puppy 

when we first got you 

You grew fairly fast 

got set in your way  

Chasing squirrels 

you loved to do

Up the trees where 

squirrels were safe 

Walks you hated 

going the worst 

Coming home best 

that you would walk 

You are old now 

and can't respond 

Ashes I'll keep 

bury with me 

 - Photo and Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2024, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Sanaa of dVerse Poetics  

https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/16/dverse-poetics-maggie-smith-and-conversational-mode-of-address/

   where she instructed us to write form poem as she described.  Write first person with the listener cannot respond.

 - Click here to read other's works to answer Sanaa's request. 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 17, 

      

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And tonight I am linked with Rosemary at Friday Writings #123 

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

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ROCKS with IMAYO form ~~ a poem for dVerse MTB

  Toto's Rock Garden

 

'Cause my dog loves a garden -

I made one for him 

with pretty rocks but there's no -

not one, cockle shell 

but only rocks, pretty rocks -

painted bright colors 

and now we're looking for him -

a wee white fairy 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2017 (bottom picture) and 2023 respectively, All Rights Reserved -- Bottom picture of Katrin credits here

 - I'm linked with Laura Bloomberry at dVerse MTB Rocking the IMAYO , 

https://dversepoets.com/2023/07/13/mtb-rocking-the-imayo/  

 - Click here to read other writers' works with ROCKS and using the IMAYO form's one long sentence poem

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My Puppy Dog - a Poem for Friday Writings

Adi has retired from Pet Partners (URL) 

       I loved my dog  

I loved my dog, we had a bond 

I loved my dog, she was my pal 

I loved my dog, she was a gift 

A gift to me from my daughter 

A gift to me making happy 

A gift in time of puppy need 

Puppy needed some daytime care 

Puppy needed her nerves be soothed 

Puppy needed to live with me 

I loved my dog, she was a gift 

A gift in time of puppy need 

Puppy needed to live with me 

Her name was Adi, I miss her 

Adi died 2012 

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A Notice:  Now that Thanksgiving has past, I am now posting Christmas Tree stuff on my Christmas Tree Farm blog.  See it at 

https://jimmiehov7.blogspot.com/ 

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

 - I'm linked with Rosemary at Friday Writings #57, at     

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/12/friday-writings-57-repeating-oneself.html

 - Rosemary has invited us to use repetition in our writing.  

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In the sun, in the shade - a Shadow Shot

Dog walks in the sun 

I'm walking in cooler shade 

Shadows of the trees 

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Haiku Writing Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with MMT for  my Shadow Shot Sunday2 of the week, 

    https://magicalmysticalteacher.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/shadow-shot-sunday-2-spines/

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Walking - Cinquain

 

  The Call

Mail call 

Me and my dog 

We went out a'walkin' 

Walkin' on the streets for our mail 

Walking

Walking 

Walking the dog 

The dog did her business 

And then was kicking her hind feet 

Kicking 

Kicking 

Kicked up some dust 

Her dust scared up a skunk 

The skunk came running after us 

Running 

Running 

Running full bore 

Didn't know friend or foe 

Came after us--turned rear our way 

Squirting 

Squirting 

Terrible smell 

Quick dog she stepped between 

She took all the smell, we went home 

Walking 

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

 - I am linked with dVerse, hosted by Laura Bloomsbury,

https://dversepoets.com/2022/05/05/mtb-crowning-crapsey/  , 

for the prompt, a 'challenge to write a Chained/crown Cinquin poem.

Chain/crown cinquain is:

 a series of 5 [entire] Crapsey Cinquains, 25 lines totalsyllabic count: 2-4-6-8-2 in each stanzawritten with a break between each stanzalast line of the previous cinquain repeated as first line of the next cinquain

Note: The final line of the last cinquain does not have to equal the first line of the first cinquain, but it is an option.(I did this, "Walking".) 

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Friday Writings -- 13 Words, a List from Mag

           [Click on picture once or twice for larger versions]

    [photo courtesy of Texas Children's Hospital and 

                 T h e   H o u s t o n   C h r o n i c l e]

  Give the dog a bone 

  and he will love you forever 

  Just before come night 

  bone has tell-tale scent 

  He'll lick with his tongue 

  exchanging your scent for his 

  Then bury quickly 

  hides bone from oncoming storm 

  Wolves in the forest 

  and coyotes too there abound 

  By light of the moon 

  they'll come in to find his loot 

  Packs of predators 

  commotion, chaos erupts 

  Winter coming fast 

  wind howls echo through the hills 

  Dog will sing a rhyme 

  his stash safe beneath the dirt 

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

 - I am linked with Magaly at the Friday Writings 13, 

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2022/02/friday-writings-13-13-words-on-13th.html

 - Magaly has invited us to share poetry or prose which includes at least 3 of the following 13 words: bone, night, tell-tale, rhyme, tongue, storm, forest, moon, chaos, winter, echo, howl, dirt. 

 - Underlined, I used all thirteen. 

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Seven - Another Fib(onacci) Poem - Weekly Scribblings

[my 2006 photo, click pictures to enlarge]

My love, my Adi Beagle Dog

Good

Dog 

My dog

My Adi 

Adi Beagle Dog

Adi was a therapy dog 

Registered tested we were a pet therapy team 

[my 2007 photo, Adi ready for work]

Old folks were her faves, loved Alzheimer's especially 

Visited folk with me couldn't wait 

Didn't flaunt her breed   

Pure Beagle 

Adi 

My

Love 

Adi is retired from Pet Partners
.

Adi's working life link

Lot's about Adi link

.

Dear Jim,

Thank you for notifying us. We will be sure to honor Adi's past contribution to our Pet Partners Therapy Animal Program in our Interactions Magazine, and "Pet Partners, Retired" on our web page.

Warm Regards,
Kelly Schnitzmeier

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 - Poem and Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021 (Poem), 2006, 2007, 2012 (Photos), All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Seven (National Poem Writing Month 2021), https://www.napowrimo.net/day-seven-7/ 

 - And also linked with Rosemary Nissen-Wade at Weekly Scribblings  #64,  https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/04/weekly-scribblings-64-beloved-companions.html 

 - I am attempting to write at least one poem a day for the National Poem Writing Month.  Today is Day Seven of the 30, you can see my progress here, NaPoWriMo 2021.

 - NaPoWriMo guidelines for today were:  ". . . the Fib is a six-line form, the syllable count is based off the Fibonacci sequence of 1/1/2/3/5/8. You can  link multiple Fibs together into a multi-stanza poem, or even start going backwards after your first six lines, with syllable counts of 8/5/3/2/1/1. Perhaps you remember the Fibonacci sequence from math or science class – or even from nature walks. Lots of things in the natural world hew to the sequence – like pinecones and flower petals. And now your poems can, too."  [I broke rules slightly, as I went the seventh line with 13 syllables, I still call it a Fib(onacci) poem.]

Fibonacci Number (per google search)

In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted Fₙ, form a sequence, called the Fibonacci sequence, such that each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting from 0 and 1. That is, and for n > 1. The beginning of the sequence is thus: Under some older definitions, the value F₀=0 is omitted, so that the sequence starts with F₁=F₂=1, and the recurrence Fₙ=Fₙ₋₁+Fₙ₋₂ is valid for n > 2. 

My Fib poems of the past, https://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/search?q=fib  

My "Adi" poems of the past, https://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/search?q=adi 

Adi died in 2012, I miss her sooo very much still. Click here, Link to Adi's Meme .

Poem -- Mustangs and Beagles

"Seeing Black and White"

Photo by Susie Clevenger with permission 

 

Seeing

 

I sat on my perch proud as a peacock

Driver in another world of his own

Tooling along the road in the fast lane

Just passing another pretty Mustang

 

Tell me please you like ours the very best

Sure I feel better here we go faster

That girl eats our smoke every day we race

Not what I mean you silly pooch--you know

 

I mean ours is racing black hers is red

Right then I wished I could appreciate

The pretty colors of that proud peacock

Colors of the rainbow--not "hers is red"

 

My ears are flying--day in the fast lane

Beagle Dog, they say I'm black white and brown

 
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 - CLICK ON ANY PICTURE FOR LARGER VIEW

 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved

 - I'm linked with Susie Clevenger at the Sunday Muse # 116, Picture and Theme prompted by her, at http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2020/07/sunday-muse-116.html
 - Adi Jane was my loving Beagle dog, we were a registered Pet Therapy Team.  Adi died at age 17.  You can see more of her  here or at the Adi label links below.
 - Dogs are color blind  / [ hashtag   #14daysnonewcases ]

A Poem for Midweek Scribbling

     Dog and squirrel

New Tricks 

The kid was happy happy 
Happy over the new book 
Given by an aunt and read 
Read over night ready now 

Titled One Hundred New Tricks 
Next off to show eager friends 
Is there a kid in the world 
One that doesn't like new tricks 

Called the dog on the way out 
Would be the helper today 
Kissed Mom in passing.  She winked, 
"Dogs are slow to learn new tricks" 
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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2014 and 2020 (photo first at https://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2014/10/dog-and-squirrel-games-challenge-writing.html?m=1
 - I'm linked with Rommy, Weekday Scribbles at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/01/weekly-scribblings-4-new-tricks.html?m=1

- the topic for our Weekly Scribblings is “New Tricks”. Rommy would like us to consider the phrase “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, and express any thoughts we might have on it in either poetry or prose form.

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]

 

Puppy Love ~~ a Thanksgiving Day (Thursday) Poem

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL !!!

Photocopy by PrintScreen
of a Picture by Karin Gustafson at
at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/11/giving-thanks-with-love-poem.html?m=1 
Karin "Reserves all Rights" to her picture.  
Please do not copy it for further use.

They named me Toto

God blessed the day

The day I found them

They were walking by

I crawled under the fence

And followed them

until they noticed

They picked me up

Took me in their arms

That made me happy

Could it be they'd take me

My sisters were gone

Girl puppies go first

But I was left

No one wanted me

Was there a chance

Could they take me

Sweet little girl

Her mother seemed kind

They took me around

My front door loomed

I was trembling

Would they ask my folks

Please please I want to go

Go home with them

Ask they did, they did

Can this wee puppy

Come home with us

We'll take good of her

We'll name her Toto

Feed and love her well

Start of new life for me

Happy family I'd found

And every day I felt

their love for me

Wag my tail Thank you God

for our loving home

Toto is my name

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 - Poem Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Outlawyer, aka Karin Gustafson in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/11/giving-thanks-with-love-poem.html?m=1 

 - My poem is true. Toto had a nice, happy long life with us. Eventually she died but went blind before that. I almost cried as I was reading Mrs. Jim the poem.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL !!!

The Last Ride ~~ a Sad Day for Adi

     Today is World Suicide Prevention Day 

(That was September 10, 2018.  The link at the bottom here still is valid,  probably updated by the time you read this.)

Her Last Ride

It would be her last ride
One of many she'd been before

Going to her doctor
It wasn't her favorite ride 

Getting old is not fun
Seizures were her worst, eating next

Wasn't her idea
Going that day not a fun ride

Being with her lover
That made it some better for her

No more fun days she'd have
For her, assisted suicide 

But I've been thinking how 
It's Doggie Heaven she is in 



Adi Jane was my constant companion.  She and I were a registered Pet Therapy Team and made many, many visits together, adding pleasure to kids and shut-ins. 
Adi died September 17, 2012 ............ (read my tribute to her here)

Adi Jane
Born September 1, 1996
Died September 17, 2012
Adi's Life Meme
Some of the 125 Posts with Adi label
Eight YouTube videos starring Adi

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright © 2018 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 
 - I'm linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-tuesday-platform_11.html?m=1

International Assocation for Suicide Prevention link,   https://www.iasp.info/

Reconstructing my Totem Poem ~~ a Poem of my Heritage in a new and strange way

Lollipop Pole [link] .. . . .

Building a pole today;

  a totem pole

Different than those you've seen

Starting with a base, Daddy, where?

Where did I come from, what country?

Isle of Man/England - Corkill clan

Corkills were from the Isle of Man

Country where the cats have no tails

Married a fine English lady

Germany/England - Hufendiek

Germany, Prussians, old Habsburgs

Came on a boat to New Orleans

Married English, Fletcher and Cram

So now you have it son partly

There are royalty rumors floating

Mayflower cousins Holland too

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Those are basic foundation blocks

Your aunt has written much of this

Now let's build a pole family pets

 

Two dogs while I was growing

Von a German Shepherd and then

Von was our German Police dog

Two carvings up now your puppy

Border Collie name forgotten

When we moved she stayed El Paso

Next followed by a Lassie Dog

With a goat and rooster crowing

All met with unfortunate ends

Wife had Pebbles jealous of me

Growled if I got in bed's wrong side

Pebbles got so very old died

Came Toto runt of her litter

She crawled under her fence followed

Allowed to live with us new home
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Inherited pets asked for not

Missy naughty dog unwanted

Gave son and DIL some fits

Daughter brought Adi Beagle Dog

And Amber her old tiger cat

They would stay until they both died

One more dog Katrin toy poodle

Her mother our friend had died

And willed prissy Katrin to us

Now our last, famous words "There'll be

no more."  But then our granddaughter

Her tiny Betsy fish lives here

 

Well Dad, you're a teacher of such

There's a lesson here to be learned?

 

Family ties build the foundation 

Family pets set our memory marks 

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 - Photo and Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2018, All Rights Reserved

 - I'm linked with Brendan MacClendan in the Imaginary Garden at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/08/weekend-challenge-totems.html?m=1