Blogging Poems
Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 11 February 2009 @ 6:58 AM 35 Comments
Blog Promise
As the first janitor is arriving,
the first CEO tightening his tie,
the first cook tying her apron –
I will be here writing, getting
a jump on the blog day, setting
up my stall of jpegs and words,
unfurling my awning of songs
and thoughts to see us through
another day of joy and sorrow.
Think of Me
Think of me as I yearn to surf 300 blogs daily.
Think of me as you go about your art and work,
as you turn your eyes to clocks and fine pastries.
See me in my attic room with my coffee and candle,
hunched over my golden guitar, fingers pressed to
strings and frets to spin some melodies and words
to make us both smile or laugh or cry — or all three.
Think of me in afternoons when planes go humming
towards dying stars as you are heading homeward –
I’ll be the leaves rushing past you in a tune of green.
Timeline
The Big Bang.
Earth cools.
A Roman slave
breaks a new
crystal glass.
I write this,
which a girl
2000 years
from now
may read.
(Or not.)
On 11 February 2009 at 7:30 am Lance said,
Hey Jannie!
I’m thinking of you! And I’m missing the fine pastries…can I come over?? I’ll bring extra coffee!!
Lance’s last blog post..So Much More Than A Football Game
On 11 February 2009 at 8:13 am Lynn said,
Blog Promise puts me in mind of the businesses I pass on my way to work just before 7am. Trucks unloading in front of the pizzeria and liquor store getting them ready for pizza for the day and selling adult beverages. And at the same time you are unfurling your awnings of songs and thoughts. I like that imagery.
Lynn’s last blog post..Winking, a visit and forever young
On 11 February 2009 at 8:33 am Glenn Buttkus said,
Jannie, you foxy wordsmith, you. My favorite of the poetic trio is THINK OF ME, with bitchin lines like
/Think of me in afternoons
when planes go humming
toward dying stars
as you are heading homeward–
I’ll be the leaves rushing past you
in a tune of green./
Now THAT is some fine writing. The jocular nature of the rest of the poem is also wonderful, of course, topical yet personal. I hope to join your late night creativity club one day soon….well in a little over a year when I retire. Thanks to the cyber gods for you, your blogsite, and many more that will keep my interest peaked and my creative juices flowing.
Glenn
Glenn Buttkus’s last blog post..Blogging in Funsterland
On 11 February 2009 at 9:12 am Jewel/Pink Ink said,
Love the last poem, especially. That some books would “live” that long is an amazing concept.
Jewel/Pink Ink’s last blog post..Second Hometown
On 11 February 2009 at 10:42 am K said,
I am also in love with blogging. Best hobby ever.
(And yes – Fawty does rock.)
K’s last blog post..Today’s Guest Post – Here’s What Let’s Do
On 11 February 2009 at 11:05 am Retro Heather said,
Lovely! You are a true wordsmith. I like your poems, and I’m not just saying that. I hate it when I read a friend’s poem and it’s Godawful and I’m forced to choose between honesty and a carefully crafted lie to preserve the friendship. This is one of the reasons my husband and I are going to truck it up the mountain and live off the land.
Retro Heather’s last blog post..Great green Valentine’s Day gift ! The LOVE ebook for charity by Julie Roads
On 11 February 2009 at 11:42 am Csquaredplus3 said,
Look at you go! Three poems in one day. They’re all great!
On 11 February 2009 at 11:59 am Jannie said,
You all are so sweet and I’ve already showered, done my hair, put on decent duds and done my dishes.
But I gotta get to the gee-tar after my munchies.
I’ll Be back!
xo
On 11 February 2009 at 1:56 pm Dot said,
Nice! I like the first one the best.
Dot’s last blog post..A Good Post Soon
On 11 February 2009 at 1:59 pm Alik Levin | PracticeThis.com said,
A breath of fresh air!
Blog poem…… COOL!!!!!
Liked reading it.
It’s different.
On 11 February 2009 at 2:44 pm Susan Helene Gottfried said,
The first one conjures such a mental image… of solitude and reaching out to the Internet to solve it, even though there are people around.
That sums up so much of blogging, doesn’t it?
Susan Helene Gottfried’s last blog post..Awarded: Lots more
On 11 February 2009 at 2:55 pm Mad Cat Lady said,
haha – you appear to have started your day all organized and efficient *yawn* – you inspire me – I think I shall go brush my teeth
(I’ll be the leaves rushing past you in a tune of green – is lovely)
Mad Cat Lady’s last blog post..ARGH
On 11 February 2009 at 3:27 pm belle bamford said,
I love your poems Jannie and I love you. The last one is my best.
belle bamford’s last blog post..DR STRANGELOVE
On 11 February 2009 at 4:26 pm Liara Covert said,
Create self-expression is a road to deeper self-understanding. Your plays on words and innovative word designs invite readers to take life less seriously. Composing poetry empowers people to get-to-know themselves in new ways. You inspire people to get creative and take a different kind of plunge.
Liara Covert’s last blog post..6 Strategies to leave your comfort zone
On 11 February 2009 at 4:36 pm Jannie said,
So here I am back in all my glory. Went as far as I could on guitar for a while. Hope to get a lesson Friday with my former teacher Michael who doesn’t let me get away with any crap, as well he shoudln’t.
Lance: Do you liek pastries too? I absolutely LIVE for them. Yes, come on over and bring EVERYONE else too! Coffe sounds swell.
Lynn: Thank you, it kind of came out of nowhere. I considered inserting a line about sweeping off the sidewalks but it didn’t work. So there it was. Is.
Glenn: Thannk you, my wonderful freindly fan! You’ll be retired before you know it. Will you drive your wife crazy then? Just the thought of having another human around here all day with me (albeit one I love dearly,) makes me think I’ll hole up in Kelly’s treehouse for my artistly me time.
Jewel: It always amazes me when I put up a few poems at one time, which ones will speak to different people most.
K: Whaat in the heck did we ever do before blogging???
Heather: Thank you. I must admit poems come to me pretty easy now, when I’m in the mood. Luckily I only read the poetry site of poets whose writing I really really like, so I get to always be sincere in my praise.
CSquared: Funny how they all came to me at once yesterday morning. Oh, except the third one. I wrote that a couple weeks ago.
Dot: That’s my favorite too! Thanks.
Alik: Really, even thoough they all seem to deal with dying, they are refreshing?? Yay. I’m not making everyone slits their wrists over my poems!!! Freaking-A!
Susan: What a beautiful synopsis and comment, most philosophical! Thank you.
Mad Cat Lady: I did the exact opposite of how I usually spend my days – I got the harder stuff out of the way FIRST! I’m totally going to think about making that a habit.
Sweet Lovely Belle, thank you. You are dear to my heart too, all your naughty blog posts aside.
Liara: Much obliged. I usually cloak myself in funstering around here, so my poems are my deeper “real” thoughts. I’ve always been so in love with poetry and something lately has happened that I can write some. Peace, I think.
I love you all.
On 11 February 2009 at 4:56 pm Danifer (Jennifer) said,
I like them all – good job. My favorite is Blog Promise.
Danifer (Jennifer)’s last blog post..Facebook – A Place To Meet Friends I Never Had
On 11 February 2009 at 7:32 pm Caity said,
Funsterland! I want to go there! It sounds totally awesome!!
Lovely poems. It inspires me to write poetry again. I do miss it.
Caity’s last blog post..Every diet story has just that – a story.
On 11 February 2009 at 7:59 pm Patricia said,
Oh Jannie, I have attempting to write a poem or be funny all this week and I should have given up sooner. Your poems are just the best and such good word play…your music is lovely and fun and energizing and and and
so Jannie…
You are just busting out like spring!
Thank you
On 11 February 2009 at 9:06 pm Jannie said,
Danifer: Thanks for popping in again. (Me too, that’s my fav, I get a bit tingly just thinking abouat rolling down my blog awning.)
Caity: It’s mostly in the mind, so access is 24 / 7!
Patricia: When I try to be funny or try to force a poem, they usually don’t come out right. Thanks for the lovely words. xo
On 11 February 2009 at 11:03 pm Talon said,
“Funsterland” is the type of stall I always hope to be able to vist.
Talon’s last blog post..Passages
On 12 February 2009 at 12:07 am VeRonda said,
Wow! Love the words… sounds like a place I’d like to spend time.
VeRonda’s last blog post..Hear Me Out…
On 12 February 2009 at 1:10 am robbi said,
frumpster;
was never a thought
that never ought
to be thought,
never a write
that was ever so trite
that couldn’t be writ
with some sort of wit,
and in the end
never a word
that should
never be penn’d.
robbi’s last blog post..ink marks on a blank page Sun 8th Feb
On 12 February 2009 at 3:01 am Barbara Swafford said,
Hi Jannie – Surf 300 blogs a day? Yikes. I don’t think I could do that in a week.
Barbara Swafford’s last blog post..Patricia Times Two
On 12 February 2009 at 6:12 am sheila said,
LOVE that last one Jannie. So true. And I often wonder the same thing.
sheila’s last blog post..3 Word Thursday ~ It’s like losing a little piece of yourself.
On 12 February 2009 at 6:22 am Shay said,
which a girl
2000 years
from now
may read.
(Or not.)
I hope the silly cow at least leaves a comment!
Shay’s last blog post..Sunny
On 12 February 2009 at 7:16 am Jannie said,
Talon: I’ll do my best
VeRonda: Dittoes to what I just said to Talon!
Robbi: Ooooo – that’s good! Really good.
Barbara: Alas, that is the reality of the human capacity, isn’t it.
Shay-Bo-bay! I think by then perhaps everything will be telepathic anyway, or something futuristically strange to us
And now, a child needs her schoolin’…
On 12 February 2009 at 7:51 am debbie said,
Oh how well I know that 300 blogs a day feeling. And I feel like I am getting further and further behind!
debbie’s last blog post..Love in the Suburb
On 12 February 2009 at 9:35 am Glenn Buttkus said,
Oh Robbi, and Jannie, you make me want to join in and whip out a blogging poem:’
Addicted to Bra-Flinging
I rise bleary-eyed to the eerie sounds
of the night birds squawking,
flying wing to wing with the bats,
in order to drive fast deep into the arms
of brown icy fog, on isolated roads
through sleeping suburbs, with only barking dogs
and randy raccoons serenading me as
I scurry like a shadow midst tall firs
and scattered adobe structures, pale white beneath
the harvest moon scowling down, moonbeams
dancing with the winter’s breath that proceeds me
into a my dark building, along black hallways,
only to sequester myself alone in my office,
anxiously activating my computer in order
to stroke my horny blog, and several others
for delicious hours before others stir around me,
before sweet old blind men gather
at my door, needing my expertise, my knowledge,
my compassion, and most of my attention;
yet even mired in teaching, deep in explication,
behind my twinkling corneas I treasure
the everlasting joys of Jannie
out there in the cyber void
of Funsterland.
Glenn Buttkus February 2009
Glenn Buttkus’s last blog post..X-Files Redeux
On 12 February 2009 at 10:30 am wade said,
I have to fully agree with those who think that the last three lines of “Think of me” are magic.” Better than Willie. “Remember me, when the candle lights are gleaming
Remember me, at the close of a long, long day,
And it will be so sweet when all alone I’m dreamin’
Just to know, you still remenber me.
On 12 February 2009 at 10:58 am Tess said,
How could we forget you?!? I love pastries and poems! Write on…
Tess’s last blog post..Bold Love for February 14th
On 14 February 2009 at 2:40 am SnaggleTooth said,
Sounds like you’re a booth at the County Faire!
I do think of you very often.
I’d like to thank you for adding zip to my blogday which had been lacking- you are indeed fun to know!
I hope all this stuff is here in perpetual space for all the ages too!
A little poem can travel a long ways-
SnaggleTooth’s last blog post..Wind Jette
On 14 February 2009 at 4:15 pm Jannie said,
Debbie: I suppose in reality 50 blogs a day would be fun to keep up with but that would probably take 4 hours if one wanted to really read and comment properly. So 350 a week, whoa!
Glenn: Alas, a cybervoid indeed is what I’ve got here for in the end all shall pass away, except for the Kingdom of God. Really a great poem you’ve submitted here. You must be up very very early. The line “Sweet old blind men gathering at my door,” is so touching. And I can tell behind your cyper nuttiness you are indeed one fine hooman bean.
Wade: The one-same Wille of On The Road Again is a many-splendored man indeed. Thanks for your kindness of word, thought and deed.
Tess: I am deeply and humbly thankful for such positive feedback. Cooincidentally, I had a Danish for breakfast. And a pastry too, hee, hee.
Snag: You are often in my thoughts too as I meander about my path on this planet. You really are. And I feel the fullest depth of your artistry has yet to be revealed, for deep runs the well-spring of your undeniable talent and you shall find your best times yet ahead of you.
On 21 February 2009 at 3:05 am Jo said,
I love the speeded up sense of time in the last one…….very simple and effective.
Jo’s last blog post..Protected: Progress
On 23 February 2009 at 9:40 am Rhett said,
You know I thouroughly enjoyed this one. This is my vote to the poll at the top of this page. the second poem was very poetic — loved the images.
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Rhett’s last blog post..Just Like That
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