Wandering through (long-gone) mall, many moons ago,
I happened on two hippies; upon their velvet
cloth morphology of jade, many-hued polished
carvings, reasonably priced; one fish swam away.
Laura is today’s host of dVerse’ Meet the Bar. Laura says (here paraphrased:)
Write an Imayo form poem about a rock in celebration of International Rock Day.
Tao Talk 
Nice catch.
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Thank you, Ron!
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wonderful! Powerful words!
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Thank you :)
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Lucky fish😊
Nice one
Thanks for dropping by my blog.
Much💜love
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Thanks Gillena and you’re welcome <3
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Very interesting, Lisa. Love the stones.
Now that we are on rocks, how did you come by Jade as part of your blog name?
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Thanks, Dwight, and thanks for asking. My nickname has been Li for a very long time, as dubbed by a friend. Way back when I used to be quite interested in jade, as a rock as much as a metaphor for human attributes. I like the attributes of jade and adopted it as my own for a pen name.
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I was going to ask the same thing. 💙
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I love it Very interesting!
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I’m glad you think so :)
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Wow, I’ve never seen such a huge chunk of raw jade! I love jade and wear one every day. Love your catchy poetry! 😊
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Chu, anyone who wears jade every day is on my wavelength. Isn’t that an amazing boulder? You know who acts as guardian of the jade in the hall at the Field Museum? A Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass panel called The Mermaid. I’ve been mesmerized by her and her fishy friend ever since. Thank you on the poetry :)
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I looked it up. Omg, gorgeous!!! Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to make it up there one day to see it in person.
And you’re welcome, my jade sister! 💚
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Once seen never forgotten. I hope you do!
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Good work Li, you really presenced the old mall and the hippies. And of course the beautiful jade
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Eric, thank you. Seems so long ago but a pleasant memory to recall for the occasion.
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Never heard of International Rock Day… I always learn something…morphology.
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I hadn’t heard of it either until today :)
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Oh so nice. And Jade is your favorite 💚
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Thanks much, Sadje. If truth be told, I never met a rock I didn’t like :)
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You’re always welcome my friend
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Of course, you had to pick up the jade for your poem… My father’s name was Sten which literary means rock… my own name, Björn means bear… both old Nordic names.
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Both names with character. And yes, on the jade, although I have a very nice collection of rocks arranged around one arc of the driveway that I’m quite fond of.
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Have you found the fish that swam away? :)
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:)
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I’m glad you captioned that photo of the jade rock. It looked to me like some kind of prehistoric bread. What is jade, by the way? I assumed it was something like amber but marine.
I have a jade amulet my sister brought back from China. Lotus flowers. It’s a fertility symbol. My husband asked me to get rid of it :)
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Read more about jade here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade
There are two kinds of jade, nephrite and jadeite. Nephrite is more expensive (rare) and jadeite is more common. I believe that jade is a power stone that protects. LOL on the lotus fertility amulet with your husband. Doesn’t he know that fertility takes many forms?
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Thanks! So the green/marine link isn’t so far fetched if it’s found in river deposites.
My sister gave me that amulet when we were geting a family started. I had several miscarriages before the first baby. When we got to four, he suggested I maybe give it to someone who needed it more. I didn’t, and we ended up with five…
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Jade is in the mountains and washes down in the rivers, so very accurate.
A precious sharing, Jade, and I bet your 5th child is an extraordinary human being (along with the other 4 of course :) ).
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Number five is a beaut :)
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Your Imayo reminded me of a lovely jade pendant I used to have, but it disappeared a long time ago. Those velvet-clothed stalls are always so tempting. There’s a little shop in Norwich that sells all kinds of crystals and stone, it’s been there for years next to the Guild Hall, and it cries out to me whenever I’m in the city. I wonder where that fish swam emerged.
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Thank you for sharing your memory of your jade pendant. I do think you should stop in to the Norwich shop and see what calls out to you.
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Next time I go…
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a catchy Imayo , Lisa
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Laura, now that you have the rocks rolling, I want to write about all of the rocks around here.
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what a great idea
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I like your personal history interwoven with the rocks and jewelry, Lisa. I have some jade jewelry, too.
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Thanks, Merril. I think everyone should have at least one piece of jade in their home. Good protector. Happy you have some.
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You’re welcome, Lisa. 😊
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Beautiful goldfish, Lisa! I always thought jade was green but there are other shades as well?
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Thank you, Lynn :) There are two kinds and I think one is usually green, but the other one comes in all colors.
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International Rock Day sounds like music to my ears! :-) Malls. I will never forget my first time visiting a mall in the US many moons ago. Malls always were packed with people. Many of them had the same stores. As such, they oftentimes felt interchangeable. Nowadays, they look like a relic of the past. There’s one close by my house and it’s mostly empty. I don’t even know how the stores there still can exist!
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I know the kind of rock you’re talking about, Christian. Rolling Stones type? You’ve described the universal (or 90%+) trajectory of every mall ever built in America. They tore down architectural and historic buildings here to build our 2-bit mall :( It has since been razed — only to build another 2-bit mall out in the ‘burbs. Still standing but like you I wonder why d/t no traffic. I blame online shopping for most of it but not all.
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No doubt online shopping has played a huge role in the decline of malls. And superstores like WalMart, which are very tough to compete with.
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Oh this jade ! 🤲💕
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:)
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Oh sure, swam away did the one hippie? I have an affinity for the hippie even today at my age. Back when I was free and lived two lives, one was a straight NASA Aerospace Engineer and on weekends and some weekday evenings, my fangs and long hair came out and loose. I blended well with either group.
Then after those three years of freedom I became married again and never joined in the hippie lane again, well, perhaps a few times when my work took me to a hippieland, I remember well San Fransco and Huntsville , Alabama. Otherwise, I even parked my motorcycle forever and never agajn toured with the Highrider “club”.
Mrs. Jim and I have been married 50 years.
Sorry for the TMI, see what your rock poem AND Hippie charactor brough out.
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Jim you’ve led an interesting and amazing life haven’t you. I admire your adventurous spirit. Happy to get to know more about you.
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