MAGPIE...Prompt #157

 

 

Venus de Milo with Drawers/ Salvador Dali, 1936

 

 

 

 

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MUST DO HAIKU

 

Dali gaga ov

er Dada, Venus pleases,

releases her drawers.

 

 

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MAGPIE...Prompt #156

  
                                                   WIND OF HISTORY/ Jacek Yerka


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SYMMETRY

I ran away from symmetry,
the impression of perfection.
I never cared for bits
and pieces
to line up perfectly.

Before I saw you,
my breath was too tranquil.
I slept in my ennui.

Morning surprised me.
Out the door and hell bent.

You baptized me with that name,
blushed my face.
I countered with tall stories,
reddened the rainbow.

You swallowed thunder,
slammed doors,
rearranged scraps,
deepend ruts,
turned the earth.

Our hard breathing
suddenly flowered.
Roses, a lotus,
cherry blossoms,
settled in my folds.
Now that's more like it.


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MAGPIE...Prompt #155

 

   Degas

 

 

"Oh waiter, we'll have what they're having!"

 

 

 

 

 

Artwork/ Joseph Lorusso

 

 

 

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Happy St. Valentine's Day

 

 

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MAGPIE...Prompt 154

                                     Central Library, Manchester, U.K./ Robin Gosnall


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Love's Leap

A word,
love,
leaps past my heartbreak,
trips at the rim of the scaffold,
tumbles over the edge.

A singular undoing
to erase that tiresome word,
that cliche',
that "love".

Without "it"
anywhere in sight,
a taste in my mouth,
like bitter tea.

Maybe honey in the comb
will sweeten my acceptance
of an ancient banality.

I thumb through the dictionary
to find another word to say,
if ever again
I find myself
in....

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MAGPIE...Prompt #153

                                                    Charlotte Gainsborg, AnOther


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OLD MUSIC

I'm thinking of my green self,
of slipping into that yellow tee,
jeans sitting low,
dancing with everyone
but mostly alone.

Of tasting a coke
and licking the lemon.

Of spinning out across the floor
at the Sea Turtle Bar,
my glass slippers
kicked into the blink
of a purple strobe,

bare feet tingling as I levitate
to the Velvet Underground,
a downbeat away from The Dead.


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MAGPIE...Prompt #152

 

 

 

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HOLD ON

 

Don't pull away,

we'll be alright

if you hold on.

 

That way

you can press my hand

and even

if you have to touch

your itchy nose,

 

I know how important it is

to scratch an irritation. 

 

 

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MAGPIE...Prompt #151

                                                    Body Sock/ image/ Tess Kincaid


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COVER UP

Once and for all
the farce of my attachment
to a notion of beauty
is exposed
as the entrapment
of conceit itself.

What was I thinking
so many years ago
with that
outburst of allure?

An old image,
smile and say cheese,
proves me a fool.

Nothing speaks
the truth of absurdity
like the shape
of my appearance,

my mind's eye now
rolling with derision
at "how could I"?


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MAGPIE...Prompt #150

                                               Image/ Daniel Murtagh       

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 Well, as you can see, I was finally able to post the photo...angels must have helped, certainly wasn't Blogger!!



THE DOOR

Strung together,
like cheap pearls,
my moment,
my heart,
soul a grain of sand,
powerless
in the grasp of vanity.

Pride opens the door,
the breach unguarded,
transient details unfold.

Always an inner fee
when I was the wine,
when I was the rose.


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MAGPIE...Prompt #149

                                                    Image/ R.A.D. Stainforth


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I WANT

I want to open the windows
in every room,
let the stench
of last year's corruption disappear
in a blur of smoke.

I want to suddenly feel
the promise of springtime in January.

I want my children to be underfoot,
my daily sneezing
to be the worst of it.

I want to forgive all art,
to have poetry
dancing through my wits,
to kiss a prince,
have him stay a day or two.

I want to go through the new year
lead by last year's angels,
and if I'm no longer here at the end,
I want to come to you in a dream
and tell you I'm alright.

                               
                                     
                                                          Happy 2013  


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WELCOME...Merry Christmas..happy holidays!

Enter and enjoy...can't think of anything nicer than to share some luscious, simple recipes.  I'll do the hors d'oeuvres, the veggies, and the dessert.  You can do the main course!  And the good cheer...


Pears with Blue Cheese and Prosciutto
 



 

2 ripe pears, cut into wedges

2 tsps. lemon juice

1 bunch arugula

3 oz. blue cheese, cut into small pieces

6 oz. thin sliced prosciutto

 

In a bowl, toss the pears and lemon juice.  Layer a slice of pear, an arugula leaf, and a piece of cheese on a piece of prosciutto, and roll up.  Serves 8.

 

 

 

Roasted Vegetables  

 

 

                           

1 1/2 lbs. beets, peeled and cut into wedges

1 1/2 lbs. parsnips, peeled and cut into 2" chunks

1 1/2 lbs. baby carrots, peeled.  Leave 1" of tops on

4 tbls. brown sugar

4 tbls. olive oil

2 tbls. apple cider vinegar

1 lb. shitake mushrooms, cleaned and stemmed

 

Heat oven to 400 deg.  Place vegetables in roasting pan. 

In a bowl, whisk together brown sugar, oil, and vinegar.  Pour over vegetables, toss to cover.

Cook until tender, about 1 hour, stirring halfway.  Add mushrooms last 10 minutes, and toss well, finish roasting.  Season with salt and fresh ground pepper.  Serves 8.

 

 

 

Apricot Crumble

 

2 sticks unsalted butter, cold, cut into pieces
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 egg yolk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
3/4 cup apricot jam
1 tsp. grated fresh ginger.

Heat oven to 375 deg.  Coat an 8 inch square baking dish with 1 tbls. butter. 
In a food processor, combine flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt.  Pulse to combine.  Add remaining butter and pulse till crumbly.  Add egg yolk and vanilla and pulse till mixture just comes together, but is still crumbly.
Take 1/2 cup of dough to a small bowl, cover with plastic wrap and save in refrigerator.  Press remaining dough into baking dish, and push sides up about 1/4 inch around edge.
Combine jam and ginger.  Spread evenly over crust.  Crumble remaining refrigerated dough over the top. Bake until golden brown, about 35 min.  Cool on wire rack for 20 min. before cutting.  Serves 9.


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        A great holiday to all!

                     RIP...Lee Dorman/ 70/ Sept.15, 1942-Dec. 21, 2012

                                  Iron Butterfly/  In-a-Gadda-da-Vida
                                       
                                                                                  
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