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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-2520359661151810732022-02-19T01:37:00.005-08:002022-02-19T01:43:19.028-08:00Is that a squirrel?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuXg7yBMX2qkAqVML6Sy65jBec4-qUHcqiS92YvM3j_RT4QJNRfNoh5IKtJYRvn6TtST8uDFQBfzFeKW43eSaZmvQUn2F-F4IRbyQTIa-SdowcSpY-7LfJ0t-B9NVRPFN8qu86SPie-a2KnyxQ41zHPObZSms8ajR3qle6AY63DbsXUttD0LFSBRx2=s999" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="999" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuXg7yBMX2qkAqVML6Sy65jBec4-qUHcqiS92YvM3j_RT4QJNRfNoh5IKtJYRvn6TtST8uDFQBfzFeKW43eSaZmvQUn2F-F4IRbyQTIa-SdowcSpY-7LfJ0t-B9NVRPFN8qu86SPie-a2KnyxQ41zHPObZSms8ajR3qle6AY63DbsXUttD0LFSBRx2=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> I cannot figure out how to add a photo. Nobody else can figure out how to add normalcy.<p></p><div>But evenso, there is now a photo.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-41658485835291196782021-11-21T22:20:00.004-08:002021-11-21T22:30:16.007-08:00Temples in the Underbrush<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhetSHxpY7ovZhaHbLzVIRgEzxcZNrLpmeG4HPy7_QYQfqi3tXJbWNWMv440oS8J2GJyDmtSb2w3M2GdZTQlczi6oZNi3UIuoU50Xcs0mA1Kmf4UMb9YgJGaWsPQYtkFepHZzd_0xbrIjUA/s2043/000_0006.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2043" data-original-width="1607" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhetSHxpY7ovZhaHbLzVIRgEzxcZNrLpmeG4HPy7_QYQfqi3tXJbWNWMv440oS8J2GJyDmtSb2w3M2GdZTQlczi6oZNi3UIuoU50Xcs0mA1Kmf4UMb9YgJGaWsPQYtkFepHZzd_0xbrIjUA/s320/000_0006.jpeg" width="252" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Searching for civilization. No one can find it.</div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-29416031007538900792021-11-19T23:00:00.005-08:002021-11-19T23:15:28.588-08:00Soliloquy, like Hamlet didn't know either<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh382_Xum1dAZLe_l-Y3MKfDankqoi-m-hTsfQ5Nro7RcqyYD_9UmWXj2BF6pKcVoBEtctwq-QBjjdPGeExSNIZkMaCTkAY3zTPei8Ti5lFKCsMl8tkV_zWagrbjxNfyD_0y4Am9CrgMbfX/s2048/dragon.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh382_Xum1dAZLe_l-Y3MKfDankqoi-m-hTsfQ5Nro7RcqyYD_9UmWXj2BF6pKcVoBEtctwq-QBjjdPGeExSNIZkMaCTkAY3zTPei8Ti5lFKCsMl8tkV_zWagrbjxNfyD_0y4Am9CrgMbfX/s320/dragon.jpeg" width="206" /></a></div><br /> oh that this too too <p></p><p>solid? </p><p>What is even solid what is even this?</p><p>I'm going back to the best beyond. the middle distance. the moment before day and night.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUTxJP3Y4tIjVr1U17ZSBnLKBjXlRTeOEl8OSTcm7_guP0kbF3PrQ2hTC0bx7NqQuL7U73wK59YmKH__PAKzHOFpCnBHKe-ms9joXlv69sgQ3lfACqP3L23OuTeCR-95ejWgHXvoFgvAp5/s2048/trees.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUTxJP3Y4tIjVr1U17ZSBnLKBjXlRTeOEl8OSTcm7_guP0kbF3PrQ2hTC0bx7NqQuL7U73wK59YmKH__PAKzHOFpCnBHKe-ms9joXlv69sgQ3lfACqP3L23OuTeCR-95ejWgHXvoFgvAp5/s320/trees.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>That which is not now because now is now is now is not a place anyone should have to be.</p><p>Trees are a good place to begin the journey.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-10889857575381594282021-03-21T21:30:00.002-07:002021-11-19T23:14:02.956-08:00oh oh<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6e4csYTTBE6RnVgr5qfoJd-p-IAUfQ9JM_SrIgcyQhHWI2Is2NcioAHa310RT5KBKYsuz1p-YAUypAVjrqgmYhaM64LBinFMaftPP8wnPWXSwX1glL9Sd5dLvQmDO4NV26qKqullvmwE/s2046/juggler.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="1684" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6e4csYTTBE6RnVgr5qfoJd-p-IAUfQ9JM_SrIgcyQhHWI2Is2NcioAHa310RT5KBKYsuz1p-YAUypAVjrqgmYhaM64LBinFMaftPP8wnPWXSwX1glL9Sd5dLvQmDO4NV26qKqullvmwE/s320/juggler.jpeg" width="263" /></a>what to say. I am old. The world is older. </div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-24346262859601885812020-03-11T10:08:00.000-07:002020-03-11T21:25:39.791-07:00How This is Done<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been so long, I've forgotten how to make a post here. Three years about. I'll put up a picture of the coptic blank journals I made for a while, that 'while' I was not writing, not drawing.<br />
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The colorful covers are from hand marbled silk I created in the very early 90's, when I was marbling, when I was a member of the world marbler's guild. Or maybe it was the late 80's? For the journals, I also made prints on hand made Tibetan Lokta paper with a wonderful natural permanent printing ink from Wales - Caligo safe wash relief inks, by Cranfeld. I absolutely love carving out the designs for the prints.<br />
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The dragon with the rose is one of my drawings I created for use as a label for the powdered incense I made (called "Red Dragon") and packaged in small round tins and sold for awhile during the era of shops filled with crystals and herbs. The dragon is printed on elephant dung paper<br />
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I'm not making the coptic books now. It's quite hard on the wrists. They make wonderful gifts and I now have many blank art journals with pages of lovely heavy duty hemp paper to draw and write on when I am able to do so. That's what inspired the making of the coptic blank journals - I couldn't afford the commercial bound art journals. The journals using lighter weight pages are made from paper made from sugarcane. The books are bound with hemp twine.<br />
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Charlie Gillett's Sound of the World forum is no longer accessible. It's been 10 years since he died - 17 March 2010. For nearly 2 decades he, the music he loved and shared with the world, inspired me, this blog - even influenced my travels and created deep friendships. It was in the discovery of the absence of the forum, this decade, that I looked for my blog after a long while, years even, of not looking at it to see if this blog still existed. It does. Somewhat.<br />
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It's time to find and fill my ink pens again and quit worrying that I don't (or perhaps, didn't) add color to my ink drawings. As for writing a poem, they have very little to do with time or one's relationship with time in other than cadence.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-64959175270483255252014-02-14T09:28:00.000-08:002014-12-17T21:04:24.359-08:00On Valentine's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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on a moonlit morning</div>
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we'll have a cup of tea...</div>
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(to be continued as it is continued<br />
in the morning's moonlight probably)</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-61365017877778413282013-12-21T08:03:00.002-08:002014-01-12T11:09:45.537-08:00Solstice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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here's to a</div>
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Happy Solstice</div>
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keeping warm<br />
through this longest night.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-11522094372115435192013-09-23T19:31:00.000-07:002013-12-21T08:14:22.650-08:00Deja vu<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-24827631771730694902013-06-22T13:26:00.002-07:002019-07-14T19:17:41.437-07:00scrolling <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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words rose from the page like smoke</div>
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sweet smoke from an ember tipped wand</div>
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scented smoke from a warm glowing ember</div>
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chapter upon chapter<br />
the ruby tipped wand</div>
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made light of the page<br />
in the unlit room</div>
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words curled like smoke</div>
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caressed the ceiling<br />
leaned back</div>
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kissed the window</div>
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the page turned<br />
words gripped the page<br />
like tallies of worth<br />
with talons distended</div>
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the ceiling fell</div>
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in a puff of smoke</div>
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a few last wisps </div>
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clung to the glass</div>
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of the night darkened window</div>
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the ember paled leaving<br />
an ashen tipped stick<br />
in its stead</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-64186606935662948622013-04-03T10:06:00.000-07:002013-04-03T16:11:28.811-07:00Rufous<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of a charm of Rufous Hummingbirds, blownup and blurry<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-75534541588869540952013-02-06T12:59:00.003-08:002013-04-03T16:10:37.846-07:00OOOPS!<br />
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OH WELL<br />
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Lost in the ether, probably not alone though.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-46496337308332757622013-01-29T21:53:00.002-08:002013-02-02T22:36:53.931-08:00January <br />
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January arrives portrayed by a two headed god. A new year begins and an old one ends on a calendar which follows the sun and forgets the moon. The computer faithfully registers the change by immediately eliminating the numeral two and replacing it with a three. Nature is indifferent.<br />
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More reflective of nature is the garden. It is encircled by trees and the ground beneath them grows wild and untamed. Leaves lie where they land sheltering wild flower seeds and bugs. The birds pick through them. The cat watches the birds. The dog chases the cat. The birds fly away. They will come back. </div>
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Somewhere between nature and calendar, one small corner of the garden sits outright in the sun and is cultivated. It flooded unto desolation in December. As the water receded, wind bared the carefully tended plot into gnarly swirls of mud soaked straw. January topped it with ice. It will need a kind hand to be beautiful again. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-68099490664469832202013-01-25T18:03:00.000-08:002015-01-25T11:20:13.578-08:00Spiral<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Out of the hollows of abandoned bones<br />
a liminal hand strikes on stone<br />
the silent pulse between dusk and night<br />
there carves the image<br />
of sound and light.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-33514007116782364992012-12-23T22:42:00.001-08:002012-12-25T20:24:51.230-08:00The Elephant's Room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's ten before midnight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">December's in twilight.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The cards face their falling</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in an unfinished drawing</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">near the end of this year.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's ten before midnight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">December's in twilight.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The book is recycling</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">as the tree pens the writing</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">near the end of this year</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's ten before midnight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">December's in twilight.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Time is kept swaying</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">by a waltz that's been playing</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">near the end of this year.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's ten before midnight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">December's in twilight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The cat knows who's hiding.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The doves know who's flying</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">near the end of this year.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-5222115016699127342012-12-05T11:15:00.001-08:002013-07-11T16:18:14.655-07:00Chapter Six (The Flood)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-49824121868300797942012-11-11T17:06:00.000-08:002013-07-11T16:15:54.271-07:00Few Stars Are Out Tonight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>She turns in twilight sleep</i></div>
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The trees whisper to one another.</div>
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The broad trunks flute low</div>
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It is the wind.</div>
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<i>causing her to notice we are here?</i></div>
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Branches lift and crawl.</div>
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It is the wind.</div>
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<i>It is only a matter of time</i></div>
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<i>her attention upon us deeper</i></div>
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<i>as she turns earthward</i></div>
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<i>laughing, always laughing.</i></div>
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The long grasses whistle high</div>
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It is the wind.</div>
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<i>Soon earth and sky</i></div>
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<i>will be one tonight</i></div>
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<i>boiling in her spin.</i></div>
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It is the wind.</div>
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<i>Few stars are out tonight.</i></div>
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It is the wind.</div>
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<i>Whose heart is lifted?</i></div>
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<i>Whose is afraid?</i></div>
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It is just the wind.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-67313801281945267052012-11-05T20:35:00.002-08:002013-01-25T18:04:35.361-08:00On the Eve of Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-21548880293655826552012-11-05T09:33:00.000-08:002012-11-11T17:10:43.784-08:00Without A Word<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-50436178398346899042012-09-17T12:09:00.001-07:002016-02-02T13:24:15.210-08:00Orb Weaver<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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in the warmth of the sun...<br />
her silks unbound<br />
each thread spun </div>
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from yesterday's words<br />
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to catch them flying</div>
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to catch them lying<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-71144902771369835232012-08-25T11:08:00.000-07:002013-07-11T16:20:35.017-07:00Fall Leaves And Berries<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've lost many things,<br />
my way unfound,<br />
but never far from hand<br />
that which I love.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580156129532899288.post-76777226482816264462012-08-05T18:49:00.000-07:002012-08-05T19:24:21.613-07:00Our House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In front of the door </div>
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sits a large grey cat with topaz eyes.</div>
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It has no intentions of moving.</div>
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Behind the cat </div>
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stands a small white house<br />
with a door the color of jade</div>
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guarded by the large grey cat.</div>
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In front of the house </div>
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grows a tall tree. </div>
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At its feet </div>
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lay the amber leaves of Fall.</div>
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Inside the house </div>
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before the smoldering hearth </div>
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with ruby coals</div>
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sleeps a brindle dog with eyes of onyx.</div>
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Beside the dog </div>
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a spinning wheel rests</div>
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wound with flaxen thread<br />
twisted in vermeil.</div>
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Behind the house </div>
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the sun sets in a sapphire sky </div>
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streaked in turquoise, copper, </div>
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and an unearthly rose.</div>
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Beneath the window </div>
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before the sky</div>
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sits a bed piled with pillows </div>
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covered in dreams</div>
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topped by the large grey cat</div>
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with topaz eyes.</div>
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Outside the window</div>
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in a garden of peridot green</div>
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grow potatoes, pearls of the earth.</div>
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In this garden perches the lapis jay</div>
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watched by those topaz eyes.</div>
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Beyond all this</div>
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upon the sea</div>
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flows a shimmering path of gold.</div>
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