You Are Thankful

Photography, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 22 November 2011 @ 1:59 PM 51 Comments

Thankful

You are thankful for the smoke of stars

that twirled itself into the ones you love

and whirled itself into the sun that rises

daily to yodel at the blue plumbago.

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You are thankful for the rivers of pancake batter

pouring from the Big Dipper into your frying pan,

then thru your veins to the leaves of your hands

tapping out fortune cookie whispers on the wind.

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You are thankful for these miracles of molecules

dog paddling happily from friendship shore to

shore, to alight on sunset beaches where we all

will be dancing and laughing together forever.

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You are also thankful for photoshop to prettify your pix…

🙂

for your poetry angels at dVerse — Open Link Tuesday, week 19 now…

and for all your other blogging and Real Life loved ones.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, Friends!!

I’ll be back posting here next week.

Jannie

xoxooxoxxxoooxo

5 Things It’s Best Not To Rush

Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 18 November 2011 @ 2:45 PM 43 Comments

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Kids.

Cats.

Computers.

Songwriting.

& Love.

 

— end of poem

 

What would be on YOUR list of things not to rush?

Kelly was 4 when she was a flower girl at Jimbo and Terri’s wedding.

(My old camera was dying then and had taken to turning all light pink.)

Friends, have a Grrrrreat weekend.

Love, Jannie

xooxxoxoxoxoxo

You Will Have Friends

Just Good Stuff, Photography, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 15 November 2011 @ 1:48 PM 51 Comments

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You will have friends who carry you.

And times when you will carry them.

 

You will have friends who drift away,

allowing new friends to draw closer.

 

You will have friends long after

I am but wildflowers in the woods.

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Cherish them. But most of all,

cherish you. And the love ever

reigning over and under and

 

in and on everything, like the

oceans of your father’s eyes and

the music in my heart for him.

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My dVerse Open Link Tuesday thoughts.

xoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxooxox (and such)

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And thinking I’ll add a 4th photo to this post, sometime in the next coupla days!

A picture you’ve never seen before of Kelly’s ocean-eyed dad.

So, come back, if you wish!

xoxo (agin)

When She Wakes

Photography, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 8 November 2011 @ 1:23 PM 47 Comments

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when she wakes

to find a snow

of comments

 

has fallen

on her blog

in the night,

 

she dances

a little dance

in the castle

 

of her heart

where angels’

guitars are

 

storming

the morning

with waterfalls

 

and mountain calls

that make the

sunshine sing.

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That’s Jannie’s (my) submission for Open Link Night, week 17, at dVerse Poetry.

And here’s fresh snow on a castle…

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Never been there but I did enjoy other beautiful parts of Germany in 1999 with my AWESOME penpal Doris,

who mailed me this photo of herself years before we met in person. She’d been to Australia…

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5 guitars…..

The Beach Guitar was Kelly’s class’ fund raiser project at her school when she was 6.

Twinkles & Sprinkles y’all…

xoxooxoxoxo

What Could A Writer Of Flash Fiction Say…

Flash Fiction 55, Photography, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 4 November 2011 @ 2:53 PM 28 Comments

sans_poop

about 3 yellow cars in 55 words?

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That when she took

the photos she was

wearing her $18 hat

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and had just shared

a strawberry rose

with the child she

marvels at daily?

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That she photoshopped out

the bird poop from photos 1 and 3?
 

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That poop does sometime happen?

But fertilizer is the stuff of growth.

And love is ever at the helm!

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G-Man is ever at the helm as our Friday Flash Fiction 55 host.

Write a 55, post it and let G-Man know.

He WILL pop over and comment.

xoxoxooxoxoxxo