Past the warlock, the blacksmith,
ye olde “Ale & Turkey Drumstick”
and the jousters down the lane
we chanced upon a slumbering sprite in the wood.
Later we floated
back over the corn stubble field
to some internal combustion machine
or another, to sail home into the sunset
with the wind whipping our rigging
in 6/8 time gypsy hip-shaking tambourine.
And 5 additions to this 55 words of fiction for the G-Man…
1. 3 iPhone photos from that Renaissance Fayre — back when my pix were a mere 740px wide. 🙂
2. The boots belonged to the sleeping angel girl’s brother.
3. Fun is good.
4. Love is good.
5. Ale is good.
xoxooxoxoxoxo
Okay! 6 things…
I get to go back into the recording studio next week to sing, so…
if my blog-hoppping is sparse until then…
please know that I and the music of the leaves up laughing in the trees are writing lyrics for you.
🙂
xoxoxo
Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 6 December 2011 @ 7:35 AM
There were poets
rambling in attics
all night while
most townsfolk
were dreaming
of square-riggers
they might one
day gallivant to
new shores on.
There were poets
stashed in closets
with lamps sooting
up wool coats that
hadn’t seen the light
of day since uncles
they’d never meet
sailed to wars they’d
never return from.
There were poets
peeling potatoes.
Poets spilling out
of every coal shed
and cathedral.
Poets dreaming
in every hayfield,
carpentry shop,
and apple tree in
every village since
Cromagnon Mike
fell for the moon,
— all so content
in their gardens
of paper and ink.
Now there are poets
dancing with ghosts
in computers and
poets texting from
palaces and planes.
Now there are poets
roller skating naked
with caramel no-fat
mocha lattes in one
hand, and organic
tofu banana cashew
muffins in the other.
Poets laughing always.
Poets then.
Poets now.
Poets forever,
sure as heaven
is stitched into
everything good
we’ll ever know.
My Tuesday Open Link Night offering for dVerse Poets.
whoooohoooooo.
xoxooxxo
And oh my freaking cow — I’m number TWO on the Mr Linky this week! What a thrill, whooohooooo.
Photography | Posted by Jannie on 2 December 2011 @ 8:31 PM
1. Bob Dylan
2. Leonard Cohen
3. Paul Simon
4. Harry Chapin
5. Neil Young
6. Alice Cooper — yes Alice Cooper!!!
7. Tina Turner
8. Did I mention Paul Simon?
9. Garfunkel too, I’m sure
10. You, dear reader, you
Okay, since we’re baring all here in the blogosphere, who will YOU always be in love with?
Love, Jannie of the sunshiney hill.
xoxooxxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxooxoxoo
I photographed the 3 pecans the same day in the park with the cuties here.
[edit…] btw, the 3 tree picture is 100% totally UNphotoshopped!! All I did was resize. And sharpened just a twinge.
Bra Flinging, Photography | Posted by Jannie on 29 November 2011 @ 5:55 AM
The neighbors still rave about
how she shook her maracas.
How she flung peas into the trees.
Then her blue bra over the roof.
She still had not quite mastered
her Kodak’s indoor light settings…
but, by golly — Thanksgiving 2011,
the day she learned which camera
button to press, and how to run like
heck into position — sweet potatoes
everywhere did a happy fandango.
~~ end of amazingly deep poem for dVerse Open Link Tuesday.
Photos 1 & 2 taken with timer set for 10 seconds.
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving if you celebrated.
And if you ever roast a turkey, I hope you have a helper this cute…
Posted with love by Jannie
And yes, ZenSational Sheila — that IS YOUR basket on our kitchen windowsill!! I keep my tea bags in it.
xoxoxo
Photography, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 22 November 2011 @ 1:59 PM
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.
———————–
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.
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
