by Susan Budig - Mindful Poet
Member since:
February 16, 2006

Diary of an Exercise Novitiate

April 24, 2012 03:42 PM UTC
views: 0 | 10 people recommend this | comments: 40

Everything must be exactly right
If you expect me from my bed to jump
First, have I found slumber all the night?
Next indeed, I cease to be a grump
Then up I hop to lessen all my plump
I am determined: I shall exercise!
I jiggle, try to joggle off my rump
Hoping to expunge my oversize
Blotting out my dreams of hot French fries
On the scale I stand; I analyze

 

 

This decuain uses the rhyme scheme below.

ababbcbc c c

 

Comments: 40

KittyKutabare aka Candy Pole Apr 24, 2012, 3:46pm UTC
Thanks for sharing in the Triple Name Club.
Kathryn Flynn Apr 24, 2012, 4:10pm UTC
I'm having a hard time getting back to cardio after dislocating my shoulder - months ago. So I stretch and stretch and stretch and my muscles feel tighter, then I walk and a very slow jog.
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 24, 2012, 5:06pm UTC
My knee went out last September and I'm only NOW under doctor's direction beginng to rebuild the muscles in order to improve knee function.

I have been dancing and biking and walking, but paying a HIGH price for those activities. Now, with these exercises, I hope the pain fades and my aerobics increase.

It gets harder as we age, doesn't it? I truly thought it was laziness that kept some middle aged folks from exercising. Now I know better. It's hard to contain and relieve pain.
I walk my dog twice a day and tell myself that that is my excersise. ;p

I'm afraid that I messed up (missed) the "prompt word" again--and this time I even looked for it ! ;p
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 24, 2012, 5:08pm UTC
Exercise, as a specific word, needn't be IN the poem, but it should be used to inspire your decuain today. If you didn't use it, it doesn't disqualify you from participating. I won't get out my red ink pen and mark you with a big letter (which letter would I use, anyway?). ;-)
Sigh...I know. It's just the thought of something being there and my missing it--not once, but twice! Maybe I'm starting to have "senior moments" early....;p
Granny Janny Apr 24, 2012, 4:57pm UTC
I can truly rlate to this one, Susan.
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 24, 2012, 5:10pm UTC
:-)

I actually like to exercise a lot. I wish it had greater impact on my physique, but oh well. It's my heart that concerns me more than my curves. And I know aerobics help my heart.
A. F. Stewart Apr 24, 2012, 5:01pm UTC
Ah, the looming exercise routine. A great poem.
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 24, 2012, 5:11pm UTC
Now I'm picturing what a "Looming Exercise Routine" might look like? A sort of bend and fold and shuttle, perhaps?
A. F. Stewart Apr 24, 2012, 5:25pm UTC
And a lot of back and forth movement.
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 24, 2012, 5:46pm UTC
yes. :-D
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 24, 2012, 5:47pm UTC
I know! Like running back and forth from one wall of the gym to the other. Or swimming laps in the pool.
Kerry Dexter Apr 24, 2012, 7:10pm UTC
and you'd have to choose waulking songs for your music for a looming exercise routine, I'd think.
Janet "Jax" B. Apr 24, 2012, 5:35pm UTC
And then I do need to go run screaming....LOL
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 24, 2012, 5:48pm UTC
you're so silly :-) :-)
Kerry Dexter Apr 24, 2012, 7:07pm UTC
making me smile that you chose novitiate in your title, as that's a whole group of novices. I can hear this in many different voices, sort of like that video that Reba did, each line with a different actress in the frame.
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 24, 2012, 7:36pm UTC
I didn't realize it was the plural. I looked it up in two places and didn't see indication that it was the plural of novice. But I didn't want to use the word "novice;" I wanted newbie, but more stylin'.
Kerry Dexter Apr 25, 2012, 7:02am UTC
no, you wouldn't find it listed that way, as a pulral form. it's rather what many religious orders call the group of those in that stage of the religious life at any given time -- sort of like a class. not an exact parallel but rather like freshman year, sophomore year = postulancy, novitiate. you'll also find it in medieval architecture -- when they had bigger religious orders -- used to refer to the building where the novices lived. it really works well as a title, I think.
Angie O. Apr 24, 2012, 7:21pm UTC
LOL love the jiggle joggle line. I share the feeling of "exercise.". Can't even right about it yet. LOL
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 24, 2012, 7:38pm UTC
I love the outdoors and this year again I've committed to my husband to do most if not all of the outdoor yard work because he has terrible allergies.

I just finished mowing our first mowing of the back yard. Front yard tomorrow.
elizabeth evans Apr 24, 2012, 8:59pm UTC
I love doing yard work...which I do at home. But here in Oz, Mag has a gardener. Sigh.
stephen berwaldt Apr 24, 2012, 11:02pm UTC
Susan...you got suckered. If a woman can fake an orgasm, a guy can fake allergies!
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 25, 2012, 1:17am UTC
:-P

We don't fake in our house, sir.


;-)
elizabeth evans Apr 24, 2012, 8:58pm UTC
I need to get back to my exercise routine once I get back to Mass....I've been rather lax.
stephen berwaldt Apr 24, 2012, 11:03pm UTC
I have a new routine. I exercise until I start to sweat...then I quit!
Katryn D. Apr 24, 2012, 9:06pm UTC
ahhh...just eat the fries ;)
stephen berwaldt Apr 24, 2012, 11:04pm UTC
They say there is no sin in it if you don't enjoy it. :)
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 25, 2012, 1:18am UTC
Truth be told, I don't like french fries. I don't like most deep-fried stuff. I know, I'd be a bad Southern gal. I just don't like it.
Kerry Dexter Apr 25, 2012, 9:05am UTC
calling you on those southern stereotypes, Susan...
Ms Lee P. Apr 24, 2012, 9:19pm UTC
I don't do any scheduled exercise but maybe I should .... okay, I just did .... I thought about it and now I'm tired.

Nice poem Susan it's making us all think ..... LOL!
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 25, 2012, 1:18am UTC
You're a fun one, too, Ms. Lee!
Angie O. Apr 24, 2012, 10:41pm UTC
I do love to garden even though I would rather plant the veggies than eat them. LOL
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 25, 2012, 1:22am UTC
Seriously, Angie, I love roasted root veggies. Have you ever tried them? I only finally did this past Thanksgiving when in desperation, gave my son something to do. He peeled, cut, tossed with olive oil and stuck 'em in the oven. Yum!!

He's 12 btw. :-)
stephen berwaldt Apr 24, 2012, 11:07pm UTC
Why kill yourself? Just find a guy that like a woman with curves. There are millions of then that do. Problem solved. :)
Nice poem, BTW.
Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 25, 2012, 1:20am UTC
I already did find that kinda guy. :-)

But seriously, I have a wonky heart and heart disease took my dad's mom, two of her children and it'll probably take my dad. Bad genes. Gonna bike away from them.
JOHN BECK Apr 25, 2012, 12:12am UTC
Well done, Coach.
Mustafa Demiri Apr 25, 2012, 12:29am UTC
I, too, love the french fries... and the french toast... and french cruller too, for that matter.
Angie O. Apr 25, 2012, 8:07pm UTC
Never had them Susan, they sound good.
Kim Simpson May 28, 2012, 11:49am UTC
Happy Memorial Day Susan - as always, love your work. Yes, I still pop in and out. Work continues on I Resolve To . . . it's like filling a swimming pool with an eye dropper. Onward! :)

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