I love
Peroni pint glasses
Ohio
Blue Tip Matches
& the waifs of light
the sky at sunset snatches
I love a cutting comment
but not at my expense
I love Jabberwocky
though it doesn’t make
much sense
I love the nonchalance
of cats
who’ve mastered
the art
of just getting on with it
& not giving a fart
I love the lilt & lift
of ‘a brown-eyed girl’,
the ballet of a kite
& how we enter
the world
in a rush of light.
*what things do you love?
John Malone 
My wife Kristine’s ocean blue eyes, a great bread pudding, John Prine’s best songs, particularly Hello in There, and the open road when the land and sky are breathtaking.
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beautiful — and congratulations on your wedding anniversary. I don’t know John Prine’s songs but will check a few out after brekky. thanks 🙂
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Thank you John. The other two for John Prine are: I Remember Everything and Angel From Montgomery.
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that will help me choose: I’ll hop across now 🙂 the Bonnie Rait version popped up and I already knew her from a few songs that made it over here — so I went with that, and that was pretty awesome, then I read the lyrics: so much living in them —
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Her version of Angel From Montgomery is good, but the version with John and Emmy Lou Harris, I think is even better.
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okay; I’ll skoot over now; just been listening to ‘Sam Stone’ that another comment recommended 🙂
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you’re right; it’s terrific; many thanks — it’s lifted my day —
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I love the way the trees interlace without touch and the millions of ways to experience love. I’m enamored with the sway of a new song, and the way I learn the most by getting everything wrong.
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hahah; thanks, K: wonderful— and that killer last line; so true 🙂
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Very lovely, John. You really captured the essence of some of those things. The waifs of light and the cat were a couple of my favourites. I will think on your question and may use it as a prompt. Will definitely reference you if I do. 🙂
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thanks Worms: look forward to it; I couldn’t reference everything — like kids, grandies,friends: they will find their own poems; I too fell in love with the phrase ‘waifs of light’ 🙂
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I’ve quite enjoyed watching my brown eyed girl’s hair change from blonde to grey
I love how every dog that comes into my life is “my favourite dog”
I love to change the words of poems I wrote before… before I knew the things I know now… before, well just before
If you’re checking out John Prine make sure to listen to his song “Sam Stone.”
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it’s lovely you’ve grown older together; I loved all my dogs too; I changed the words to this poem a few times over the last two days; then changed them back again 🙂 thanks, will check out ‘Sam Stone’
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reads like a personal ad, remember those? 😉
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ahh yes; the first stanza certainly does 🙂 will have to keep a close watch on this tendency 🙂
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Things I love… long walks and coffee from my bialetti moka maker. Well done John, I really enjoyed this one.
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I like these things too: really good coffee, long walks and poems that work 🙂
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I love your poetry!
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thanks Becky; that’s lovely 🙂
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I love that line, the lilt and lift of a brown-eyed girl; I also love my four-pawed pal, oh,and Mrs H but if you tell her, I shan’t speak to you again!
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LOL. my lips are sealed, Hobbo 🙂
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Phew, thank goodness!
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I love being lost between what’s real and what’s imaginary. At times, I think the imagination is the most wonderful place to be. Love this warm and light-hearted poem. 🙂
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thanks Terveen; thank goodness for the gift of imagination; do animals have it? guess we’ll never know —
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How ironic that you’ve mentioned this, John. I think you might want to check out the latest post at MasticadoresIndia. I think animals deserve more credit than they get. Haha. 🙂
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thanks Terveen; I will be onto it this evening; about to get dinner organised; sounds interesting; is there a link I can click on or will I find it via your blog?
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I love making up stories, I hate writing them down.
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hahahah; yes, that’s the hard part; I usually allow each post a few days to germinate before I put it up
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