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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Thinking of Pat and all the muse-attended writers here

This was written originally for a writer friend who had a very special relationship with her muse. MUSE Under branches reaching... for light of stars and solitary moons and wanderers across the sky... Always I am here-- another tale unfolding, a flower held in both our hands unbudding to an unexpected bloom... The light of all these skies shines-- between our eyes... Never fear-- I am here. Seek me seeking you-- in corners of your heart known but unexplored... in campfire shadows... In... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 15, 2015

new summer space

Yesterday, a tall narrow box arrived on my front porch, courtesy of Fed Ex, and it caused several household changes. Inside was a white ricepaper/wood 6-panel screen. It fits nicely across my front window with the two ends folded in. Up until this arrival, I've had a long piece of reed fencing, folded in half, in that place where its shadow helped keep the summer heat out of the living room. With that freed from the task, it could go where I originally intended it: along the deck railing. It is... Sign in to see full entry.

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This one's especially for TAPS, and all the other midnight writers

MIDNIGHT In the quiet after midnight then my artistry awakes and in the dark when others sleep, that's when the fit of writing takes my hand and mind and bids me think... It skips and tumbles down the page leaving in prints of pen-and-ink images I never thought before and thoughts never imagined-- They enter through the midnight door from moon- and star-light fashioned. ~1985 Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 14, 2015

Out of the Poetry Cache

This one was published once in a newspaper/magazine in Seattle with New Age leanings. It was quite a few years ago, I don't know if the paper still exists. This one is for Amanda, TAPS, and Nautikos. (I didn't say it on yesterday's, but that one was particularly for Kabu also TAPS.) ASCENSION Struggling, striving, yearning towards the light, our passage isn't always seen by those in passing either way. We climb, we pause, we rest... and reach again... And though we dally here and there or sleep... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

A cache of poems

So much change, so much reorganizing, which is a kind of inadvertant treasure-hunt with sudden finds of long-misplaced goodies! I came across a fat envelope containing print-outs of many of the poems I've written over the years, some in collections ready to be assembled into little chap-books and offered at local bookstores. I will be able to do that now. I will be posting a few here in coming days. Here's one now, in fact... from the Menagerie collection: THE CATS DECLINE The cats have run away... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

An unexpected visitor this evening...

https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/25nt91 Isn't he lovely? I was concerned for the local squirrel, but according to the book, this fellow prefers poultry: the house finches, sparrows and others raised something of a fuss until he left. Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 8, 2015

I have a dilemma...

I have a dilemma, and your feedback is welcome. The collective wisdom from life experience and perspective here in Blogit Village is substantial! Charlie and I have discussed this somewhat, and he blogged about his situation here: http://projectprospero.blogspot.com/2015/08/i-was-so-not-built-to-live-in.html?showComment=1439033422886#c8917338274726757952 He will be 30 soon, and he needs all the things one needs to build a stable foundation for a life: basic necessities like food, rent,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 3, 2015

What luck!

The truck might not have made it all the way to the strip mall where my bank is... I might not have been able to get it into a parking space... My phone had JUST enough juice to make arrangements for a tow, and I had not left it at home... It could have been temps in the 90s, instead of cloudy and 80s... Thunderstorms on either side could have caught me outside and didn't... The gout could have been this week instead of last week. I could have not been able to reach Charlie's dad to get the AAA... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Blue moon

Last night, she rode brightly despite being veiled in clouds, and my little camera did its best to capture the vision of it. This time, in honor of the occasion, I confess to fiddling the color balances in favor of a certain blueness. Also, there are a couple more shots of the garden. In other news... Charlie is off to his last Saturday as Ren Fest Court Drummer, probably another hot, sunny, exhausting day. Tomorrow, closing day, he will be there late as the cast and crew celebrate the end of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 31, 2015

How does the garden grow...?

Coming along nicely, my morning glories and nasturtiums, and a couple of other things. The morning glories seem to grow overnight several inches of tendril, using the water I pour in once or twice a day, I suppose. https://www.flickr.com/gp/therovingeye/C22p02 Out back, the birds have planted sunflowers as they eat so messily, and the sunflower seeds are very healthy. While the one in the photos has gone face down in the yard (I blame the high winds we had here a few days ago) others are getting... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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