Beauty, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 7 April 2010 @ 10:49 PM
Sail a poem
and a child
out to sea.
Launch them
with lifeboats
of laughter.
Free them
with anchors
of compassion
and cravings
for goodness
in all things.
Fill their sails with hugs.
Marvel in their
masts, catching
the sun, just so.
Surrender to the violins
of their creaking decks
and snapping rigging,
as the horizon grows
and the wind
is skipping rope
in your salty hair.
Away, always away.
Sail a poem
and a child
out to sea.
Sail them
well and
true.
Let them dip
and dive on the
farthest swells,
to sail home
smiling and safe,
with armfulls of
bluebonnets
and heartfulls of
adventures to tell.
I wrote that poem in honor of Jingle’s THIRTEENTH Thursday Poetry Rally!!!
Lately I have been gifted with the following poetry awards from Jingle and Shakira… Thanks, Ladies!
And I would like to pass the awards on to the list of THIRTEEN random awesome poets below, who can choose either or both awards. Some of these multi-talented bloggers also publish other creative fare — so get all their goodness at their one-stop shopping locales!
The following recipients may fling these awards with joy to the moon, or wherever!
1. Joaquin
2. Joy Leftow
3. Paige
4. Talon
5. Snaggletooth
6. Davina
7. Ana Goncalves
8. Glenn
9. Fireblossom
10. Sara Healy
11. Mama Zen
12. Thomma Lyn
13. Mad Cat Lady
I look forward to meeting more poets and reading great poems over this weekend!! And maybe even to linking up new poets in future posts, if I do the Thursday Poetry Rally again. Thank you.
About the three bluebonnet photos above… I got lucky with the iPhone again. Actually, just point your iPhone at something nice, make sure strong light is coming over your shoulder onto the subject, stay as still as possible — and you’re pretty much there with the photo. Oh – be sure to tap the little button too! 🙂
Kelly dyed those eggs all by herself!
Your Ever-Loving Jannie
xoxo
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Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 26 March 2010 @ 11:54 AM
The March Of The Penguins
Raise your beer to the Emperor daddies
this summer, and toss that steak on the grill,
as they’re simmering their unborn
between their toes and the fat
of their dwindling bellies,
taking turns on the outside of
a windchilled minus 100 huddle
— their wives 70 miles away, haggling
with the grocer over bacon and beans.
This has been a Flash Fiction Friday 55. Exactly 55 words!
Skip on over to the G-Man’s lair to check out who else posted a 55 today.
huddle photo credit: gov.australia
And now 3 important announcements….
1. Mumford, the stuffed penguin above, was a surprise recently mailed from that Wise Patricia Woman to the child above. How that’s for some sweet bloggity love??!!!
2. I am about to head to the woods until Sunday with a tent, a jumbo box of chocolates and a cooler full of bacon and beer. I have no idea if my iPhone will work in them thar hills, so…
3. If you are a new commenter here, your brilliance will sit in moderation until I either get back from the semi-wilderness, or realize my beloved iPhone does work out there — at least until the battery runs down. 🙂
Oh — actually 4 announcements…
4. I have not peed my pants in WEEKS!!! Whoo-hoo!!!
Have you seen The March Of The Penguins, and if so, what did you think of it?
xoxo
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Just Good Stuff, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 16 March 2010 @ 12:32 AM
Twitter For Dummies
I still have zero clue most of the time
what I’m doing on Twitter, so please
forgive my unknowing ways and wish
me roses and rhubarb and to never
get my Internet service chopped off.
And please come over to our house, so
I can grill you a steak how you like it!
Unless you’re vegetarian or vegan, in
which case I’ll whip you up my famous
tofu-almond-squash surprise, served
with herbed-roasted red potatoes and
salad. And as much wine as you want!
Just don’t puke on the carpet. But even
if you do, I’ll still love you more than I
love two cold beers on a hot Texas night.
— end of poem
Now that I’ve got that out of my system…
Dudes! Remember when I wanted a Chris Edgar “Inner Productivity” book, and for my friend to have one toe? Well, I did buy me one of Chris’ AMAZING books, and another for my friend who so far has blessedly kept all her toes. And fingers! (She did lose her head once, tho. But haven’t we all?)
I’m offering a third copy of “Inner Productivity” on give-away here today. So, who wants it? And why? Persuade me in a comment below!
“Inner Productivity, A Mindful Path To Efficiency And Enjoyment In Your Work.”
Item number 2 on give-away today… “Twitter For Dummies.” Who wants it today? And why?
Speaking of poetry, here is another item on offer today. Who wants Billy Collins’ “Questions About Angels?” And why?
And don’t worry! I still have 5 more Billy Collins from my personal book collection to offer this week too — so, please don’t give up commenting to win them! Many of your comments will touch me, but alas I can pick only one person per gift.
And the final item I’ll be giving a persuasive commenter today — my “I Need A Man” cd!
I still have 5 more of my cds to give away here this week, too — THREE of them on Friday, so — please, please keep commenting as to why you’d like to give my songs a home, and a cd may soon be yours!! )
Okie-dokie.
Hope you guys will have a great day. I know I will, deep in Songwriting Zone, weaving and breathing all those snippets of tunes into complete ones.
xoxoxo
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Friends, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 5 March 2010 @ 5:50 AM
photo by: Jannie — May, 2006 (for those of you new here, mine’s the middle kid.)
Do you have fleas you can’t get rid of?
Nothing but bread crusts twice daily?
A board bed? One thin blanket?
Neither do I!! So let’s dance.
And write letters. And sing songs.
And fling our love to the stars!
(The alternate last line is, of course,
And fling our “bras” to the stars!)
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Friends, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 2 March 2010 @ 5:03 PM
photo credit: midcoast- images
One by one the guests
stagger from the stars
into my comment box,
some bundled up in
garlands of little birds
laughing and dancing,
some robed in oceans
of late summer sunset.
Others in sepia scenes.
Some wear hats made
of rainbows, and socks
knit from lilies and lace.
Some smell like lilacs.
Some smell like lemons.
Some smell like the light
of the newlywed moon.
Two or three smell like
full length leather coats
not worn since 1975.
Some carry trays packed
with pies and maps and
freshly baked dreams.
Some carry only a rose.
Some flounce in early
with explosions of lupines
dripping from their hair,
to sway by the fire, then
float through the crowd and
slip out my music-room door.
Some limp in after midnight
soaked in beer, to swirl into
my heart and my soul and my
coffee mornings forever.
Others drift away in the fog.
But whoever the sweeties
— from whatever planet,
the more the merrier here!
— The End 🙂
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(If you liked this poem, why not hug somebody today?)
And friends, all these new poets linked below are hereby blessed with the “Jannie Funster Lucky Lupine Poetry Award” … Whoo-hoo!!!
I hope the honorees will leave a new poem on their blogs, linking Lupine Loving Jannie in the post, then pass the “Lucky Lupine” award on to as many poets in the universe as they can find!!
And the awards go to…
Jingle!
The Doubtful Poet
William’s Poetry Blog
Art Is My Religion
You Are Never Alone
Way Station One
Jaymie Thorne
Chocolate High
The Book Of Noha
Beyond The Blog
Fiveloaf
imaGINAtions voice
Poems For All Occasions
the wisdom of gavroche
Moon’s melancholic mumblings
(I may be adding more poets to this list over the next few days (edit: decades) as I discover them!)
xoxoxoxoxo
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