Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 30 August 2011 @ 1:50 PM
Welcome, dear blog traveler!
Come in from the blizzard of potholes
that have probably been spanking your eyes
and your mis-matched luggage for years.
Here, let me shake the time zones and the
tangle of dishwasher salesmen out of your hat.
Fling your shoes and worries wherever you wish.
You look thirsty. How ’bout a nice tall glass of
waterfall I’ve been stirring meadows of lemon into
since the evening you published your first post?
You look hungry. Here, help yourself to my famous
sand castle soup, followed by motherboard a la mode.
(All seasoned with hints of violin string, of course.)
Are you tired? There’s a beach on the sofa.
Are you cold? There’s a fireside chat in my heart.
Are you lonely? There are friends waiting
always
for YOU
in my lobby
and over at dVerse Poetry.
You need only knock on their door.
Talkin’ about dVerse’s Tuesday Open Link night. LOVE it! Week 7 already.
Tremont House in Galveston, TX. Book rooms for 50% off via Priceline.com.
Please note, no salesmen were harmed in the production of this, or any other of my poems. 
Edit… please stay as long as you wish!!
Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 23 August 2011 @ 1:57 PM
If love has a library of every book you’ll ever read
starting with great-uncle Cromagnon Mike’s hunting
yarns passed down to cousins Billy Bob and Billie Sue
in caves where bear flesh sustained the future you,
through the years when printing presses clacked
where you apprenticed in growing up and growing
towards museums about men walking on the moon
and men stirring glowing cauldrons of binary code,
all the way to the final pages your eyes will read
in print so enormous you think of it as Jupiter now,
consider my name swirled into each chapter’s art
and my heart the light that’s shining on each word.
This is my post for Open Link Night, Week 6 over at the dVerse Poetry blog.
Got poems?? Check dVerse Out!
Photos from our recent day at NASA in Houston.
THANKS for commenting I’ll be over soon to read your poem, whooohooo.
xxoxoxoo
when poems vacation in Hawaii
they check into the best hotels
of course, and order up bottled
fresh air to pour into the sea.
When the margaritas begin to
flow right after breakfast, the
vacationing poems are usually
found swinging from the earrings
of ladies surfing in the ocean and
ladies surfing blogs on laptops
while lounging beneath palms.
That was 55 words for our favorite fictional flasher — G-Man.
Hula day photo from Kelly’s preschool when she was 4.
Poolside photo I took in Galveston last week.
I’ve never been to Hawaii. Have you?
Cloudia lives there. I love her beautiful blog!
And in parting, a Kauai Beach Hilton photo off Google. Meet me there some day?!
Toodle-oodle-oodle-ooo.
Kootchie-kootchie-kootchie-koo.
xooxoxoxox
Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 16 August 2011 @ 1:50 PM
when angels finally sweep down to this
attic where we wait with our boxes of snow
and our avalanches of stale corn muffins
when we take to their ship and we sail
our feathers and our rags into tapestries
of golden silk and silver chandelier
when our boomerangs of hope return
on wings of chocolate cake baked by mothers
who smell sweeter than Easter morning rain
when we fly free from this rusted turret,
our cardboard tiaras and nametags forgotten,
love at last will be only song that sings us
One weird little poem for you, linked to Open Link Night over at dVerse Poetry.
(The orphan out front was our Kelly playing the role of Molly in a KidsActing “Annie” production a few years ago.)
Photography | Posted by Jannie on 13 August 2011 @ 11:52 PM
If you’re going to Galveston, TX you might find the rainforest pyramid one cool little spot.
A big spot, actually – 10 stories high.
With room to grow.
We wandered habitats on three levels — floor, water cloud and canopy.
I was totally captivated.
I drank 2 beers and danced with the monkeys who asked to remain unphotographed.
Even saw rain!
Mist too.
Pretty camera-shy birds.
Flying free.
Apparently over 1000 species of tropical flora and fauna call the pyramid home, but I only spotted 999.
REAL butterfly, not photoshopped.
(Both children in this post are real too.)
Much to see and do in Galveston, but the Moody Rainforest was my fave spot.
Highly recommended for all that ails ya.
Posted with love by Jannie of the blogging hills.
xoxoxoxoxo
