Beauty, Friends, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 28 August 2012 @ 1:40 PM
For 30 years I searched
every face in every airport
and train station for yours.
For 30 years I waited
in cafes and grand piazzas,
on balconies and beaches.
I dipped my eyes into
every city I thought your
laughter could be hiding.
Left my smile’s shadows
in baskets on doorsteps
in Paris and Dublin.
Sometimes I’d see you
on the other side of the
glass, clearing Customs
or your airplane
would be heading
to Alaska as mine
was heading back
to The Southwest.
Sometimes you’d be
an ivory silk scarf left
on a park bench.
Or the first tinge
of yellow on the maple
at my attic window.
Others you’d be the
first snow or a strain of
“Angie” on the wind.
But you were always
the lilacs and ladders
leading to spring.
Always the lilies
I only had to open
the eyes in my
heart to see.
Posted for dVerse Poetry Open Link Tuesday.
For a dear dear long-lost teenhood friend I’ve recently been blessed to hear from again via The Net after 30 years!
He saw one of my singing videos on someone’s blog and — voila!!
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Lilacs and limes painting from a free background site.
1. Oh my god, I’m exercising.
2. Yay, I got eight bucks – not five!!!
3. There’s something weird about these pickles.
4. Oh, I wish I had a pair of stretchy shorts.
5. Why is my computer being so naughty?
6. Hey, who stole my flip-flop? (One of 4 little cats for sure. Luckily I did recover said foot rigging.)
7. Gosh, how can my armpit hair grow that much in one day?
8. I’m not gonna let it rain on my eBay parade!
9. Lord, please give me the strength to figure out the Baby Bjorn. (One Jim bought at a yard sale for me to sell.)
10. Where’d my good bra get to this time?
11. Okay, I’ve eaten entirely way too many cookies.
12. I need to cut my finger nails. (Said about 2 hours ago as I attempted the open E-Chord on my lovely guitar.)
13: editing this in Sunday afternoon… WOW, them’s some yellow flowers!!!
Pretty daisies Jim bought me yesterday.
And yes, I suppose my next post could include some “after” shots of a manicure. Good idea, thanks!!
🙂
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But wait — a bonus photo: taken about 5 mins after I brought the daisies in from the back-deck photo shoot.
The only thing I staged below was moving the 5 books on top from the spot marked “Here” to their stunning position you see…
And Friends — don’t forget! Funsterment Central is keeping up with the Free Daily Photo. Don’t be shy to partake.
We still don’t have comments on those, but one day we shall — God and the WordPress Sprites willing.
🙂
xoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo again
Everything’s good.
There is plenty.
Everything’s good.
There is plenty.
Everything’s good.
There is plenty.
~~ end of poem
🙂
Annnnd….
The reason no one on eBay bid on the practically-new Rockport walking shoes Jim bought at a yard sale (in MY exact style, size and color) is……
The Universe wanted ME to have them!!!
Oh yeah, Baby — you know I’ll be stylin’ ’round town in those!
I really like The Universe!
Do you?
I photographed the little figurine above yesterday and put it up on eBay this morning.
She (or he?) sits about 8″ tall.
See my other figure here.
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Friends, Photography, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 14 August 2012 @ 1:50 PM
Sometimes a postcard will sail into your harbor
and sometimes you’ll only watch one float along
someone else’s horizon and into their mail box.
But you can always be the postcard yourself,
splashing your thoughts and words out to places like
Montreal, Michigan, Minsk, Montana & Maine*
via The Internet like this.
Or via the inter net of love we’re
all so deliciously entangled in.
And the poems just keep on coming for dVerse Poetry Open Link Tuesday!
🙂
Yes, I sailed those 21 out the other day.
Have any made port yet, I wonder?
One day I’ll announce a give-away here for 2 packs of those uplifting cards to 2 lucky winners!
* Yes, Sara — read that puppy out loud, Girl!!
🙂
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Blogging, Photography | Posted by Jannie on 5 August 2012 @ 10:15 AM
Edit on Saturday June 21st, 2014….. I no longer do the Free Daily Photo. 🙂
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Hey, guys — you know how you all are so AWESOME and such?
And how with my family’s recent financial “downsizing,” I’m actually WORKING for $$$ instead of drinking wine up in my tree all day? 🙂
And my available blog posting and hopping time is slimmer than of yore?
Well… how ’bout a FREE Daily Photo as a gift to you! It’s the least I can do, since I take pix daily anyway!
I’ll still be posting here, but ‘tween times you can access some daily Funsterment via that “subtle” yellow button up over My Big Eye at top of this site.
Hopefully that page will eventually be a blog-within-a-blog where you can leave comments. We’ll see how it goes!
And if I ever miss a day, please don’t worry — I might just be up in that tree!!!
And how ’bout these photos I took yesterday with my iPhone!
(That table shot will make more sense when you click the FREE Daily Photo Link.)
(Kelly’s the hand-stand girl wearing pink in the poolside photo.)
And see the fire hydrant below? Was is near the flower patch above?? Nope! 🙂
With LOVE, from Jannie-Bo-Bannie of the eBaying hills.
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