Happy Fathers Day, Y’all
Just Good Stuff | Posted by Jannie on 19 June 2011 @ 12:08 AM (16) Comments
The Pea 4 days old, with her daddy.
Have a good one.
xoxoxoxo
Even The Hearst Castle — a poem in 55 words
Flash Fiction 55 | Posted by Jannie on 16 June 2011 @ 6:55 PM (48) Comments
Even the Hearst Castle has
its junk piles way waaaaay back
behind the farthest potting shed.
I saw some with my own blue eyes as
I slipped along the purple petunia path,
away from the guided flock a while.
We all have junk, some in the trunk.
Some hidden behind grape leaves.
It’s our clean-up attitude that counts.
55 words for The G-Man, Prince Of Petunias.
Wait, did that have a plot?! A main character!??
🙂
xoxoxoxoxoxo
What If Everything’s A Poem?
Flash Fiction 55, Photography, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 10 June 2011 @ 11:21 AM (33) Comments
What if everything’s a poem?
— the sky in your eyes?
— the leaves of light in your hair?
— the swirls in your lollipop on a Central Park afternoon?
— the shirts on your clothesline smelling like balconies of hope?
— the dance of umbrellas on your miracle of misty morning?
— this moment here in the heart of time?
Okay, Dudes and Dudettes, I believe that was 55 words of flashy fiction for His Excellence, The G-Man.
Posted with love, by Jannie who Highly Recommends the 55 word experience!
xoxoxoxooxoxoxoxox
The Funniest Kid I Know
The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 4 June 2011 @ 12:42 PM (22) Comments
Sometimes in the car the funniest kid I know and I play “Definition,” where I say a word and she guesses the meaning.
For instance, as captured via my iPhone’s voice recorder recently…
EDIT — Yes, SHE really did make these up. Jim didn’t believe me, but it was The Pea indeed.
Rosacea: An African dance in Mexico, also a type of food in Indiana.
Philately: A name they use in Kentucky for boys who are 17 and 1/2 months old.
Symbiotic: A type of car built only in Africa.
Filigree: A type of musical instrument in Georgia made from 4 tortoise shells, 1 tree, 2 lamposts and a Subaru.
Phylum: A cloth made for jackets in India, but was discovered to be very poisonous and set off the disease of the Malaguayas. But in 1949 they found a cure which was oak leaf tea with a spice of gingerale and cinnamon.
Fenestration: A math test you take when you are 13.
Ingenue: A lamp post that is 5 feet tall, 4 feet wide, 2 feet diagonal and only works on the 4th of July every 100 years.
Sequester: To put sequins on something then test it.
Fibrillation: Kind of like a celebrating, but you’re not celebrating — you’re going to jail.
Anticipatory: A special way you decorate your Christmas tree with gold garland in the south of Montana.
Dogma: Is like magma but is melted dog.
The funniest kid I know is also into The Far Side these days.
And wearing 3-d movie glasses and my black UV SunStop arm covers everywhere.
She cracks me UP!
Posted with love by: Jannie of the Moonlit Mist.
xoxooxxooo
Tonight I Am Up — a poem recently at 2:00 a.m.
Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 1 June 2011 @ 2:13 PM (27) Comments
Tonight I am up while the world sleeps,
this hour my own special secret.
My hounds would love to run with me
across the windy moor above my castle.
But I am more inclined to sit here
at my table piled high with songs.
I am barefoot and wearing cut-offs,
the pant legs long — skimming my patellas.
(I was going to write scapulas.)
Glad I remembered the correct word,
and averted embarassing
myself in a poem again.
I am still quite young!
Tho today I told myself not a few times.
(It’s best not to listen to the self
when it’s feeling cranky.)
My legs are strong, many miles left in them.
My arms are totally HOT these days!!
🙂
(I guess the arm thing sounds like bragging
but I have been working out with my 3 lb weights
on The Trail many mornings,
the most magical place I know.)
My name is Jannie.
I am up late.
All the world is sleeping.
Except for the ones dancing.
— end of poem
Kelly took those 2 pix at our final Friday morning school concert last week.
See my raging biceps!?!?
🙂
🙂
🙂
Posted with love and semi-buffness of upper limbs by: Jannie of the dumbell dell.
xoxooxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxo
Oh and here is totally an iPhone pic I took this morning.
The little fuzzy guy (or gal) is called a Nutria.
I had never in all my days in 21 years here in Texas heard of one of those, let alone seen one.
He (or she) is kind of like an otter / small beaver but with a long rat tail.
Was so cute sitting up cleaning itself like a bunny does.
And seemed quite tame, let the bread tossers get close.
Bye now!!!
xxoxooxoxoxo
