tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54745664463917284322024-02-07T04:56:45.486-05:00Keeping Secretsand revealing myself one poem at a timeKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.comBlogger364125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-79700484943854021592015-05-21T18:21:00.001-04:002015-05-21T18:21:30.678-04:00Resting in the cool of dusk<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Resting in the cool of dusk </span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">under the porch <div><div>in the swing by the pool --</div><div>nothing quiet,</div><div>everything a riot of crick</div><div>and creak and whine.</div><div>Who knew such tiny things</div><div>could moan and click</div><div>so loud? The lowing cow,</div><div>the cawing crow,</div><div>that hootie hoo hoo </div><div>in the woods </div><div>over and over </div><div>until dusk itself </div><div>hovers then grows wings,</div><div>whose soft brush in flight</div><div>fills with hush </div><div>the night.</div></div></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-56263247388548572472015-03-11T06:03:00.001-04:002015-03-11T19:31:49.007-04:00Third Eye Blind<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Third Eye Blind </span><br />
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Supposedly, there's an eye<br />
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in the middle of the forehead --<br />
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third eye, chakra, blind.</div>
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I wish I could open that one</div>
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and the ones in the back of my head,</div>
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feel my way, steel myself</div>
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instead of fighting currents.</div>
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I would flow on streams of knowing</div>
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gliding forward, kicking back.</div>
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It has been a long time since I have written, and it feels like I have been just carried along blindly, letting things just happen. It's almost as if I've abdicated. Writing this helped me see that I have to find my flow...and kick back.</div>
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-85105195973538018412015-03-02T06:04:00.001-05:002015-03-02T06:08:34.394-05:00cleaning adolph's tubThis poem is inspired by the photo at The Mag, Tess Kincaid's weekly poetry prompt.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">cleaning adolph's tub</span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">what can wash </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> the grit</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">from this man's tub</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">bits of bone float </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> porous</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">but abrasive rub</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">drains fill </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> with ash </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">and teeth</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">even the pipes </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> shriek</div></div><div><br></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-78850253152431867112015-01-14T06:23:00.001-05:002015-01-14T06:30:25.897-05:00Some things I've learned about leaving<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Some things I've learned about leaving</span><br />
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If it's by choice</div>
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There is no mercy.</div>
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They'll split your chest</div>
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And cut apart your heart,</div>
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Pull out and read your guts;</div>
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Everything they look for is corruption.</div>
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A kinder method is</div>
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From sudden going.</div>
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The factory's moving to another town,</div>
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Your section's shutting down.</div>
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As long as you don't want to,</div>
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They will miss you</div>
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While they clear your things away.</div>
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Any leaving's better </div>
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than the absence of leaving</div>
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Where you are sitting there,</div>
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Your motions only gestures</div>
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Breathing air.</div>
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Every wish they have </div>
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Comes down to mercy:</div>
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Please just let you go.</div>
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They'd put a pillow to your face </div>
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If they could do it </div>
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And celebrate your passing</div>
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With a cheer.</div>
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-41695224483091658782014-12-31T06:45:00.001-05:002014-12-31T06:45:46.044-05:00My Mother's Smile<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">My Mother's Smile</span><div><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></span></font><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I don't know how, my mother says<div>When told to smile for the camera.</div><div>The truth is, she doesn't like the way </div><div>She looks, so in pictures, she mostly stares.</div><div>Somewhere, un gros chien noir</div><div>Walks across my grave.</div><div>Ghost of a smile, that shadow on her face.</div><div>Truth is, she is no laugher. Never was.</div></div></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-62746441234801472522014-12-12T20:15:00.001-05:002014-12-12T20:15:28.360-05:00Moment<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Ho65KyPDVSbinwDV6G7XNFTV_kSn5sHKm7RgtVeTYFVjZ9WO9XrrL3XceOXSntCs6yn5PBNsYu3x50EGR2FgXmGhe8cR6aoSkVKWldUEfCvzHnIFNNdqWV8JqSnmbiwqE1ZTyE9bucg/s640/blogger-image--1060092173.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Ho65KyPDVSbinwDV6G7XNFTV_kSn5sHKm7RgtVeTYFVjZ9WO9XrrL3XceOXSntCs6yn5PBNsYu3x50EGR2FgXmGhe8cR6aoSkVKWldUEfCvzHnIFNNdqWV8JqSnmbiwqE1ZTyE9bucg/s640/blogger-image--1060092173.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118);">Fractured light</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">swans along the hills,</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">Leaps and ebbs</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">li</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961); line-height: 18.75pt;">ke feathered fire.</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961); line-height: 18.75pt;">Knee deep in wooded awe, </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); 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line-height: 18.75pt;">roaring </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961); line-height: 18.75pt;">down the corridors of time</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">burning cold as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">serpent's scales,</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">Your hands, your brush,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);"> they crackle.</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961); line-height: 18.75pt;">Touch you, and we burn;</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">Look on you, we stay.</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">You charm us with your song,</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">Asking nothing for our passage </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">b</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0901961);">ut our love.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-23138165979438966922014-12-04T06:46:00.001-05:002014-12-04T06:46:14.034-05:00Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg81q10FwqlcsmHw3iIAfwmiaBepdzxj_ATHFvzqWo1-zukTkut7OCQ1q39xNlLWQylI2kaRJlVEmyYx3wO75P64_94tEJ_jfHuq_HyVeJlALdAspoVnhpYD_91o7YkbnnJj4oTQc3JA_0/s640/blogger-image--1985459256.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Under the moon of the fairy night</span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">When the days are short </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">And the stars are bright,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">On a puff of air and a sea of red</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">They rend the veil</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">From the Land of Dead.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Before, behind, betwixt, between,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">In the nether world,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">They bloom unseen --</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">A ghost, a thought, a root, a stem,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">A silent bud,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">An unsung hymn.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Shake off the veil and beat the drums!</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Let cymbals play, </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">For angels come!</div></div><div><br></div></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-4545245110253226142014-11-26T16:58:00.001-05:002014-11-26T16:58:59.414-05:00Sing Thanks<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8XF_i_m6i0QJTMpBALjkwnEHSPQWZf-_cX28G4W9vnUu0LHf_E7V3VMXumIPWpOrCeGa_uPQ2MiU2JyVJmqX9ktLEyVoxASCmN0beRwUaFgN8SkbK7P8ekBI45ush-8L60qOp5yORKo8/s640/blogger-image-214298098.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Washing dishes as I go,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Wondering when I see,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Feathered wonder on the tree,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">If you remember, if you know </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Gratitude from long ago</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">For the good gifts God does bring?</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Lift your throat and with me sing.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div></div></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-55174150972488878522014-11-24T05:35:00.001-05:002014-11-24T05:41:17.292-05:00The Long Way<div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); 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font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Today, the road is muddy,</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Rutted.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">I recall it smooth, </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">But was it?</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Always there were stones.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">I bear them in my flesh. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">See the blue </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Under ropey skin?</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">That's hope I carry with me.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Who says you can't go home?</div></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Photo prompt @magpietales.blogspot.com</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Thanks, Tess!</div><div><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-71343130130343525602014-11-16T08:24:00.001-05:002014-11-16T08:24:08.094-05:00After<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">After</span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); 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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-30107849677263156172014-08-22T05:51:00.001-04:002014-09-03T20:35:22.552-04:00If they gunned me down<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-24379227109617968072014-07-14T22:58:00.002-04:002014-07-14T23:25:44.822-04:00Prayer of the Soil<img src="webkit-fake-url://3350A926-D4BB-450F-AEC7-A00A40527CE0/imagejpeg" /><br />
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Let me not be rocky ground,<br />
parched and cracked, burned by sun<br />
green then yellowed, bitter, brown,<br />
all good intent, but fallow, shallow.<br />
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Let me not be choking weeds,<br />
grasping, climbing, blocking sun<br />
roots that run, smother seeds,<br />
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Let me, God, be fertile soil,<br />
tilled and plowed, enriched by sun,<br />
abloom with wheat, embody royal<br />
Word made flesh to flourish, nourish.<br />
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<br />The ones I know<br />sit alone in<br />separate rows.<br />
<br />We're all of us <br />alone as we come <br />and as we go<br />
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<br />all, all alone<br />as we come,<br />as we go.Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-41798184248663946912014-06-12T18:33:00.001-04:002014-09-03T20:36:14.124-04:00Morning, Royal<br />
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-9281713693439335612014-05-09T06:13:00.001-04:002014-05-11T08:37:16.801-04:00Mother's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgCc7n3qiGntSjAVoRSIwxZlmegsvd1v4Wt-bmr6IveFt4Hdza2aSX6PIicLn3sdIHwJcGJeo589NW9r8mqO3Mjzgyk3pVunt1KL1x9M9TlHJeBFHjzD9Q8DI4DOelK8IY9JQliCurUzQ/s640/blogger-image-371326765.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgCc7n3qiGntSjAVoRSIwxZlmegsvd1v4Wt-bmr6IveFt4Hdza2aSX6PIicLn3sdIHwJcGJeo589NW9r8mqO3Mjzgyk3pVunt1KL1x9M9TlHJeBFHjzD9Q8DI4DOelK8IY9JQliCurUzQ/s640/blogger-image-371326765.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Painting, Mary Cassatt</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"<i>Your children are not your children.<br>They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.<br>They come through you but not from you,<br>And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.</i>" -- Kahlil Gibran</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This poem is for my children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews, those who have flown, are testing their wings, and those still in the nest. I love you all. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><div>MOTHER'S DAY</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Your breath on my cheek</div><div>My neck, cold when you leave</div><div><br></div><div>My arms, suddenly light,</div><div>Raised in thanks and praise.</div><div><br></div><div>I learn from the birds.</div><div><br></div><div>Relentless in their task,</div><div>They feed their young until at last --</div><div><br></div><div>I shade my eyes </div><div>Against the endless sky</div><div><br></div><div>And watch you fly.</div></b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-26894904401013745522014-04-23T08:09:00.001-04:002014-09-03T20:37:27.770-04:00One More Day<div>
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you can't rinse and stack a poem.<br />
You have to let your hands <br />
slip across the page.<br />
Wrap the rhythm round your fist<br />
and plunge into the lines.<br />
Turn the words until the stains<br />
of last night's tea are gone.<br />
Get between the tines.<br />
Feel the sharp knives inside the soapy sea.<br />
Wash, rinse, and hold it to the light. <br />
Let it shine like finest crystal.<br />
I want to say<br />
a poem must be scrubbed<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rub it. R</span><span style="font-size: large;">ead it clean;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Read it, feel it, repeat.</span></div>
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