Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
13 May 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: abs, Ahab, cabs, crown braid, dabs, drabs, E-Firefox Tabs, fabs, gabs, grabs, jabs, labs, mind links from the crown, Moab, nabs, Punjab, scabs, slabs, stabs
from the mind
links from the crown braid
glimmer tabs
muscled abs
furtive grabs
dissect slabs
circuit cabs
precision stabs
painted dabs
graying drabs
comment gabs
social jabs
karmic labs
hidden nabs
ancient scabs
ante-fabs
Ahab
Moab
Punjab
12 May 2014 2 Comments
in Family Tags: Adobe Go Live, art shows, blink, delete, E-superhighway, Facebook, family wink in video, Firefox, Macbook, off road, sitting on the shoulder, snow days, too much info, universe
science and circuits
I blink
Off road
Sitting on the shoulder.
Facebook waves.
My friends and family wink in video
Art shows
Snow days
Comments, likes, and links.
Try to choose
A video.
Mac-book wants to upgrade Flash.
Firefox wants to upgrade next.
Mac-book wants me to help the download to an app on my hard drive.
I choose Adobe Go Live.
Get a delete button.
Whoops!
I’m thrown out of the turning lane!
Too much information!
I leave the room.
Wander off.
Turn away from the super power
super cables
firewires
passwords
updates
downloads
commands
options
preferences
electronics
mobile devices
plug-ins.
Watch the rain.
Count puddles.
Ocean waves.
Become a grain of sand
Evolving.
Minerals in action.
Observer of the universe.
11 May 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: blinks, chinks, E-links, high jinks, inks shrink forty winks, sphinx thinks, spotted lynx
spotted lynx
spotted lynx high jinks
blinks chinks ‘n kinks like sphinx thinks
inks shrink forty winks
10 May 2014 3 Comments
in Family Tags: April Poetry Month, April Poetry Month Prompts, Boo-Peep, E-Poetry, elegantly pulling the whole thing together, Great Barrington, Hillsdale, Jan Hutchinson, laugh with absurdity, lyrics, modestly, NY, played and sang, poems bloomed, Poetry Reading, rocking with their chants, Roe Jan Library, shared secrets, sheep
Who came to the Poetry Reading?
Every April, Jan Hutchinson stages a poetry reading of her April Poetry Month Prompts
with the help of Cecile at the Roe Jan Library in Hillsdale, NY.
From 230 writers, we gleaned some 30 who shared their work with us.
Some of them played and sang,
some strummed and intoned,
some recited lyrics hankering for a melody,
some read, carefully rocking us with their chants,
some made us laugh with absurdity.
Some shared secrets,
some tweeted scant phrases that fit in the cracks,
some whispered; some shouted,
some wrote; some didn’t,
some gestured in polka-dotted tights.
Jan read too, modestly,
elegantly pulling the whole thing together,
a wide track from Great Barrington to Hillsdale,
from meadows to ponds, from hills and vales,
reaching even to Armenia’s 16 year old bards.
Three years in a row:
seeds planted
poems bloomed:
poetry’s Boo-Peep
and her sheep.
10 May 2014 1 Comment
in Family Tags: 3 year old, bare feet, diagonal thrust, different, E-fashion Show, e-fashionista, letters of his name, overalls, reading workbook, ruffles, run-way, Same, same time and place, skirt
Circle the Pose That is Different…
I have been working with 3 year old Oliver
in a reading workbook which has him circle DIFFERENT and SAME.
Meanwhile I discovered he can print all the letters of his name.
Especially, he prefers them rocketing in a diagonal thrust toward the stars.
He likes to swirl his sister’s skirts on top of overalls, sporting bare feet.
Seems he’s the model for “different” or aren’t all 3 year old brothers, enamored of their older sisters, the “same”?
Here they are,
in the same place,
at the same time each Thursday,
walking the run-way
swirling the fabrics
strutting the ruffles:
e-fashionista!
05 May 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: Apple's throne, condones no errors, corrections, E-spell-check, flown in on punctuation, intones funny-bone texts, rosetta stone spell-checker, spell-checker, spell-checker Joan
There is a spell checker who lives in my phone…
In my phone
lives Joan
spell-checker clone.
on loan
from Apple’s throne.
flown in
on punctuation
condones no errors
intones unknown
funny-bone texts
overblown
overthrown
corrections
combat zone
rosetta stone
spell-checker Joan.
03 May 2014 4 Comments
in Family Tags: african violets, clouds, dining room table, ears are helmeted, heart, in-boxes beep, incognito, independence, plugged in, praise, scatterbrained, song, song of praise, surround sound, thumbnail size, tiny screens, watercolor box, Watercolor Pattern
Jeanne’s Watercolor Box
Surface Watercolor Pattern
Used to be
I had one
in-box
on the
dining room table.
It was
housed
between
the salt
and figs,
pansies
and african violets.
Now
some fifteen
in-boxes
beep
blink
and
boss me
at home
and abroad.
While I
discern
“right of way”
in car
or crosswalk.
Their icons blink
and jostle
for space
on tiny screens…
thumbnail size.
They
claim to
reach the clouds.
While,
really,
need to be plugged
into a wall
each night,
lest screens
go dark…
incognito.
They sing
and gyrate
and pull
my pockets down
’til dress
comes off
shoulder
and drags its hem
in dust.
Some won’t work
unless my ears
are helmeted
and I look
astronaut,
antenna swinging
in the air.
Most of all,
these in-boxes
take me out of balance.
They act so
all-important
as to knock me
Off my feet,
scatterbrained,
heart bleeding!
I’m turning
inside out!
Taking fifteen
in-boxes
in, to turn
to one.
I’ll send
them out
together
in a song
of grace.
A song of praise.
Out to you.
Hear the music!
Surround sound.
Take calm.
Be at ease!
30 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: birds eat bugs, feeder, God's the Breeder, hummingbird, red fluid, The Meaning of Life, wasp trap, which hangs first upon my deck?
Which hangs first upon my deck?
Wasp trap or hummingbird feeder?
Same red fluid in both……..
Birds eat bugs; God’s the Breeder!
29 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: animates, Birthday Greeting, define symbolisms of flowers, E-greeting, in split seconds, Jacquie Lawson, punctuates colors, requires no housekeeping, serenades, snap captures on screen, wax poetic, whooshes to Utah
E-Greetings
serenade
define
wax poetic
animate
require no house-keeping
In split seconds
the Birthday Greeting
whooshes to Utah
to serenade
animate
wax poetic
define symbolism of flowers
punctuate colors
requires no housekeeping!
Completely amenable to being snap captured on the screen and shown to you!
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 