tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70784917495281665982024-02-02T16:19:07.364-05:00Two GhostsIt's true. It's real.
It's fiction.
It's poetry.Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.comBlogger588125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-75166433754750582932014-01-27T14:01:00.000-05:002014-01-27T14:01:42.113-05:00MAGPIE...Prompt #204<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i> THE MILL, 1964/ Andrew Wyeth</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WINTER'S REVENGE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What stayed when you left?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winter's revenge,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loki's sting, an imp</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">doing handstands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on a frozen heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm tricked out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in saint's day regalia,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">spinning snow angels</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the courtyard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I find an improbable note</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in a dead sparrow's mouth,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that spring,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beyond doubt,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lies beneath drab endings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pandora's box</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sits on my hip,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">emptied and icy,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lid up, without content.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm dreaming </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that a bit of sin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is hiding in the corner,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stirring up a pinch of heat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for your return.</span><br />
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Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-55355641615677502122014-01-20T08:56:00.000-05:002014-01-20T08:56:02.063-05:00MAGPIE...Prompt #203<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">MUSICIAN in the RAIN/ Robert Doisneau</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Easy to find blue notes today,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when the sky spreads</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an electric ambiguity,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and chiaroscuro</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sketches the clouds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No shelter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">can shield me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from a pounding</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ancient god</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">singing bass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The air hums</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a Broadway melody,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tells the reason why</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">heaven chose us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to keep the beat,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to fancy a dance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the storm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I put my tongue out,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">catch a drop,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">drink the answer,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the music of rain,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the rain of music.</span><br />
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Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-80503054630942361082014-01-13T11:44:00.000-05:002014-01-13T11:44:46.995-05:00MAGPIE...Prompt #202<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>LA JUMENT/ photo/ Jean Guichard</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">FRENZY</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right into the roiling pot,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">into the mouth of the whirlpool,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pasta will meet its destiny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The water parts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like a biblical sea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A salty reception</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whips onto a frenzy,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as strands of lean beauties,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">straight as straw,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fold into a fated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">al dente perfection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-11932370761617355852014-01-06T14:36:00.000-05:002014-01-06T14:36:38.135-05:00MAGPIE...Prompt #201<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>NEW YORK at NIGHT/ Vivienne Gucwa</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">FIREFLY</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a silver drizzle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we seem the same.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some mistake me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for a Mayfly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here today, cliche' tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, no,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my wings are not yet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">curled in prayer,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in a plea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for one more dawn,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">half my life in supplication,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the rest in fancy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm a Firefly, after all,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">invisible at sunrise,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but a delight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the nightfall garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm here in the dew,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there in the rose,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and suddenly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">setting fire </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to that distant heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Caught in a jar,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">set out on the grass,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will light the way,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">become part of the parade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to a galaxy unknown.</span><br />
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<br />Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-63712917535379475982013-12-29T18:21:00.000-05:002013-12-29T18:21:48.968-05:00MAGPIE...Prompt #200<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>SELF PORTRAIT/ Francis Bacon</i></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BEFORE THE MURDER</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is me in front of the door,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the one where ghosts hesitate to glide,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and you said that was my portal of passage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Little did I know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember the day i plunged down the stairs,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and you said what more?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As if you had been hurt, not I?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't wish me bad I said,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but you laughed and whispered,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">kill you most likely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What more can befall me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">paintings building up in the corner,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stains bleeding onto the canvas,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sited where pain was lodged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You want to know </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how much will they pay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for the further torture of your eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't mean for my art to please,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't mean for my life to please.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should have embraced, "smile please,"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">instead of painting hell stinging the canvas,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the snake of Eden slithering out of the tube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now you see me with my soul intact,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before you struck your blow,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and couldn't tell that I was smiling.</span><br />
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<br />Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-5320052932671074862013-12-22T16:47:00.000-05:002013-12-22T16:47:08.317-05:00MAGPIE...Prompt #199<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>MADONNA WITH the MILK SOUP/ 1510/ Gerard David</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">FOR ME</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Virgin, make me your child,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">feed me from your cup</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so that Spirit's light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pours over me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fold my hands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">into a plea for harmony.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray that the constant storm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hums like a zephyr.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Virgin, stay near</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all the children</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teach sinner or not,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">your healing poetry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When time slips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">into darkness, Mother,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">never search for me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with the voice of mourning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seek for me only in joy.</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">THE ICE CUTTERS/ 1911/ Natalia Goncharova</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">THANK YOU, Tess....<span style="font-size: small;">for <a href="http://www.magpietales.blogspot.com/">Magpie Tales...</a></span></span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">COLD</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm so cold without you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My heart,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">no longer a red fist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">directing our traffic,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">is lying in state.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My quiver is full of shards</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">that will kill,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">if I release them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yet I pester to shake loose</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">from the ice house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Once again,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">waiting for your touch</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">to thaw my wintry blood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'll melt,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">flow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">into a wave of celebration.</span><br />
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Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-45266171435591515292013-12-08T10:17:00.000-05:002013-12-08T10:17:16.619-05:00MAGPIE...Prompt #197<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"SEAGULLS" / The Guardian/ Eyewitness</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">THANK YOU, Tess...<span style="font-size: small;">still aloft...<a href="http://www.magpietales.blogspot.com/">Magpie Tales</a></span></span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PLUCK OFF</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Part of me knows what's real,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">pain lets me know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If this plucking happens</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">when I'm awake,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">my feathers pulled,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will say stop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Cry maybe bloody murder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But in my comfort,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">when a feather</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">is yanked from my wing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">in the midst of it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will fly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Pain is a concept as yet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">unborn in my dreams.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A hand reaches</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">like a shadow,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">made of less than matter,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">making mischief,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">ruffling my feathers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm bleeding</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">in a Hitchcock chiller,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">no pain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span>Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-12875854909613089012013-12-01T11:41:00.000-05:002013-12-01T11:41:30.944-05:00MAGPIE...Prompt #196<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">COINCIDENCE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Either odd or expected, coming face to face with this week's Magpie photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I love ravens. My daughter loves ravens. We dont know why. This week's Magpie pic seems to be of my daughter. The image of her. Cannot be. But that raven wing...she might just say yes to that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So she loved my poem last week. She always loves my stuff. We do that for each other. And she comments. Thanks, Dori. She writes a blog for Huff Post. Doesn't accept comments. What class!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Last week I ended my Mag #195 with a raven eruption. My daughter reminded me of the raven that flew down our chimney, years ago, at the ski house. Once we were posh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I do that a lot, get ahead of myself, project, predict. Seems last week's poem, "Privilege", stood at attention, sort of waiting for this weeks picture to arrive. Nice trick, Tess. But I wrote that last week. This is how the poem ended..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> " I'm hoping that my wings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> will be a Raven's."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I do play a psychic game, coming up with the slightest glimpse of tomorrow. Still, after all these years. It's natural. it just is. I did it for years. For fame and fortune. Shhh. Short on the fortune part. Come to think of it, what fame?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Still like it when odd "coincidences" occur.</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> AUTUMN on the RIVER/ 1889/ John Singer Sargent</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">PRIVILEGE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Veiled within my swaddling,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I exhale a wish,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">seekng a promise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">that I become an icon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I develop my heartbeat,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">imagine what rapture I'll feel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">when swathed in spendid regalia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the offing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">a chrysalis will peel,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">thrust me out,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">hang me by a thread</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">as my blood pumps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm hoping that my wings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">will be a raven's.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">As you can see by my header, my heart belongs to JSS.</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">THANK YOU, Tess, <span style="font-size: small;">for <a href="http://www.magpietales.blogspot.com/">Magpie Tales..</a></span></span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">DEAR JOHN,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I can't imagine that you will actually receive this. Perhaps you have longevity in you as we do in our family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">By rights, we both could have passed on to our eternal rest by now. This old woman, reading your letter, little resembles the scarlet tressed girl you just proposed to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Did anyone know your mind? I didn't. We spoke rarely before you left the hospital, poor wounded soul, and yet our tiny flirtation seemed to stir within you a dream of permanence only now uncovered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Life is so odd, don't you think? I have sadly survived my sister Anne, who introduced us. And she the beauty I was sure you fancied. Yet here am I holding your letter, found neatly folded at the bottom of a faded bundle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Who unsealed it and then put it aside, for me to never see, until a moment ago, sixty years later?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I led a good life, lost much I loved. Perhaps similar to yours. At the end we are all so much alike. Looking for clues as memory fades. Was this really me?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I wonder now if you survived the war. Or gone perhaps these many years. Maybe my words will just shake up your ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Eyesight faded, I sit daily at the window of my daughter's home, wishing for life to be a dream. Today it became one. If you are still willing, I think I will say yes for you to come to call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Fondly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Maggie</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Danseus ajustant sa bretelle, Edgar Degas, 1895/96</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">THE POSE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the wings,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">away from the corps,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Degas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">whispers to me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">the way,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and the answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">An invitation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">to pose after the dance,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">a gossamer tutu,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">a promise for fame,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">as I step into a grand-plie',</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">take on an arabesque,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">spin a pirouette.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">ENTER RISING</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">They say we look alike,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">it's the pallor of our cheeks,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">the breath we gasp,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">when we enter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">rising,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">wondering</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">what is this place?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Is it meditation, sleep,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">death, exit, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">entrance?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Which chakra are we jammed at?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm heading for the crown,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">stop pining away at Plexus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My lips already flash</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">a spank of tangerine,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">yours, no question</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">need a lick of color.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">How are we alike?</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">le Jardin/ 1962/ Max Ernst</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">THANK YOU, <span style="font-size: small;">TESS...for <a href="http://www.magpietales.blogspot.com/">Magpie Tales</a>...</span></span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">AMULET</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My resolve cuts a swathe,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">thinks it is the wind,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">ceases.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I clutch a handful of detritus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">fools me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">looks like diamonds, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">really a shard of glass,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">flying,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">sculpting an edge within me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The wind stirs again,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">a cloud</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">blows its cheeks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">to comic effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Is it yesterday,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">today, tomorrow?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Same clutch, release, bleed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Demeter around my neck,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">ancient amulet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">caresses my skin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Promises engorge me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm the mother,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm a mother,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">afraid that dying will end it all.</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">THANK YOU, Tess, <span style="font-size: small;">at <a href="http://www.magpietales.blogspot.com/">Magpie Tales</a></span></span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">ABOUT TIME</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Got a minute?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There's one flying by,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">looks like a Bird of Paradise,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">just sliced itself out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">of its speckled haven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Pure before sin,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">living its first minute</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">as infinity licks it clean.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A free pass,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">then life spreads its wings.</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">THANK YOU, Tess, <span style="font-size: small;">at <a href="http://www.magpietales.blogspot.com/">Magpie Tales</a>...</span></span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">LADYBUG</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As soon as the daylight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">starts to bleed dry,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">before red and blue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">turn to purple</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and die as grey,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I catch the rim of Venus,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">reflect a gleam</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">that isn't mine to give.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Even as we hide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">in the multitude of stars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and blades of grass,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">we haggle our gifts again,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">because memory says</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">there is a dawn,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and after seizing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">the blessed boon,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I can awaken </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">as a Phoenix.</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">THE MOTH and the LAMP/ Cesar Santos</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">CONSUMED</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's the first singe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">that wounds,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">an illicit touch,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">the pretense</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">that I will endure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">past the ecstatic gasp,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">beyond nature's bribe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Obsessed, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">spent again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I keep forgetting </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">the game,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">as if breath</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">can be heaved in,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">exhaled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">in rapture forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I stay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">to be consumed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span>Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-37079080833635342502013-09-18T10:54:00.000-04:002013-09-18T10:54:47.980-04:00MAGPIE...Prompt #186<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">THANK YOU, Tess..for <a href="http://www.magpietales.blogspot.com/">Magpie Tales</a>...</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">ON THE MAP</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You put me on the map</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">so to speak,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">so good at sketching other's lives.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Lover, friend,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">life partner,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm up to date.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Gave me form and figure,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">colored me in with Crayolas,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">but you went over the line,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">let me bleed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">into undisclosed territory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Lucky me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">critics always ready to comment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">with a saving grace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Many salvaged me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">made me fit their hindsight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I became a double doppelganger,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">mirrors reflected an eternity of me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">but every karmic comeback</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">left room to be desired.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Still a babe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">knocking at the door.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Just let me in.</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">THANK YOU, Tess..at <a href="http://www.magpietales.blogspot.com/">Magpie Tales</a></span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">"Oh waiter, please, <span style="font-size: small;">I'll have some meat loaf, and some mashed potatoes. A lot please...and oh yes, ketchup, please. Thank you, sir."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">1946 MEAT LOAF & MASHED POTATOES</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">2 lbs. ground beef</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1/2 cup plain bread crumbs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 egg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 tsp. onion powder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1/2 tsp. garlic powder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1/2 tsp. ground black pepper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1/2 tsp. salt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 cup ketchup</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Preheat oven to 350 deg. F. Mix ground beef, bread crumbs, egg and seasonings in a large bowl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Shape into a loaf on shallow baking pan. Pour ketchup over top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Bake 55 to 60 minutes or until cooked through. Let stand 5 minutes before serving. Serves 8.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">MASHED POTATOES</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">3 1/2 lbs. Idaho potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1/4 lb. sweet butter, cut into small chunks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">1 1/2 cups milk or cream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Salt and pepper to taste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Cover potatoes with cold water and bring to a boil in a large pot. Cook until tender, about 40 min., and drain immediately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Use a potato ricer or electric mixer to mash the potatoes. Add the butter and half the milk or cream and mix to a smooth puree. Add more milk or cream if necessary. Season with salt and pepper. Serves 10.</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">You can have this in an hour. Butter....cream...yes!! This isn't the Orient Express.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"></span>Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-76937476191534562202013-09-01T14:53:00.000-04:002013-09-01T14:53:51.206-04:00MAGPIE...Promt #184<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My inner dove</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wakes me from a doze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I find myself up a tree,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">without an answer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and what we call thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">passes in a flicker,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">is waiting to be felled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">like kindling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This tree will fall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">by art and aim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I think to alight from a limb,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and if I land</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">elemental sea,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">pray I don't materialize</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">up the creek.</span></div>
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<br />Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-18886007389474048552013-08-26T19:11:00.000-04:002013-08-26T19:11:51.995-04:00MAGPIE...Prompt #183<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">LONG AND WINDING</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ready for cloud nine,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">instead, barren arid landscape,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">not the wrap up I'm expecting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm floating</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">like a half-formed banshee,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">asking veiled spirits</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">if this is Paradise?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Not a seraph in sight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">to bundle me across</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">the path of good intentions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Where's the tunnel of light,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">or my spirit guide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">swanning in the mist,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">waiting to take my hand?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I expected</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">at the very least,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">face of a Gothic saint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Maybe a chorus line</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">meandering up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">the stairway to heaven.</span><br />
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Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-13225072504855231942013-08-11T13:15:00.000-04:002013-08-11T13:15:59.757-04:00MAGPIE...Prompt #181<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">GLIDE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">t will never halt,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">this loop of jazz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">sheathing my pulse,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">my sweat stuck</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">to your cheek,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">a briny recipe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">for a singular hunger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I pull away, glide,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">a trickle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">bounces off my breast,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">enticing a glance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">from your smoky eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Like a butterfly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">just coming loose,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I alight on your rhythm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Out of the blue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">you're across the room,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">then back beside me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">in a stride.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Who is she?</span><br />
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Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-57213001453195692002013-08-07T19:42:00.000-04:002013-08-07T19:42:57.947-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Letting go, urged to do so by philosophers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">of opposing hues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Don't look back, never embrace your own</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">dark ages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Brush the dust off, all that earth and high</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">heaven could ever measure out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's a first-rate saintly mission to keep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">plucking those scales from our eyes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Return attachments to the ocean of cosmic broth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There in the waiting throng, ready to cool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">my fevered brow, I dream my birth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The heaviness of the burden fell into the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">black hole a long time ago. Sing: life is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">but a dream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">All is reflection, a mirror. Read this backwards,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">start in the middle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The beginning is on the horizon, the end</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">just slammed shut. Not the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span>Lynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11985979258848310351noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7078491749528166598.post-34174139616477520582013-08-04T14:44:00.000-04:002013-08-04T14:44:31.893-04:00MAGPIE...Prompt #180<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">All art steals,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">doesn't matter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">who drew that smile first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hold it this way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and I can read Vermeer's mind,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">skilled hands reaching into me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">weaving the gift anew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Pulling a Daumier</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">from an etch-a-sketch,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">perfecting my skill,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">sculpting my thumb,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">searching my hands,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">finding a fingerprint</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">that proves it's me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">not guilty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Grace is number one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Reaching for my life,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">sketching.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Figs. Gorgeous figs, never nipped at the roof of my mouth before. Last night, a bit of a tingle... can allergic reaction be far behind? Well, yes/ no, but I've been neurotic for too long not to feel a bit of panic, a bit of "what if". So I do what I usually do, suppress and start walking. Through my apartment. Because nothing can happen to me as I trip a light jog. It's my life, ya know. Sometimes even magic works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I live on the Upper Famous Side of New York. But I live for bargains. About twenty paces past my front doorman, is one of dozens of fruit and vegetable stands in my neighborhood. It's definitely like having my own green market, don't even have to cross the street. Friendly vendor, nowadays all stands seem operated by exceptionally polite young guys from the Middle East. Who needs the United Nations? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Bought a box of lovely figs, nestled in a green plastic basket. Picture perfect. You know the rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">After the false alarm, didn't die of shock, figured it's best to sort of do a compote. This AM, cut them in half...now pay attention, this is the recipe:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Small saucepan, put figs in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sprinkle with brown sugar, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">or honey. Or both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Pinch of salt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Shake some cinnamon, nutmeg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Small slice of ginger,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">couple slices of lemon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Cook, for about 20 minutes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">covered, very low heat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Uncover, cook down to syrup.</span></div>
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