Not Quite Full Moon....

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Photo taken by R. Baker in Shepherd, Texas, December 24, 2012.

Another New Year Among Years.....

Poem © 2012 R. Burnett Baker
Photos © 2012 R. Burnett Baker

Magpie Tales 149: No Ifs. Ands. Butts.

Text © 2012 R. Burnett Baker
Photo:  Image by R.A.D. Stainforth, Shared by Tess Kincaid.

Note:  Visit R.A.D. Stainforth's website by clicking his name above.  Also hear him read many of Tess Kincaid's poems by clicking her name above.  

After The Storm

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Truth Serum II

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Truth Serum I: A New Series....

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Post No Bills II: The Ad Men

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Photo taken by R. Baker,  New York City, Sept 2012. 

Full Moon

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Another Perspective

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Photo taken by R. Baker in downtown Houston, Texas, October 2012. 

Vines That Bind

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Magpie Tales 148: Lovers and Soldiers

legions 


hadn't anticipated this 
outcome, rolling stones
notwithstanding, but 
there are reflective 
moments, realizations 
of myriad paths. 

forward, backward - 
hedgehogs and shrews 
know their place in the 
order of universes: 

"let them be," you caution, 
"let them have their path, 
eyes drawn of fire, 
legs in goose-step purpose." 

"cower beside the passive 
moss-skin of naked trees," 
you tease, "winter will 
hide you surely as ice melts 
below the horizon." 


Poem ©2012 R. Burnett Baker
Photo by Andy Magee shared by Tess Kincaid.

City Scenes XXXVII: Knowledge Is(n't) Power

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Photo taken by R. Baker, Park Avenue, Rochester, NY.

Hard On Yourself?

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From Discussion To Comment....

The first of these two epigrams is on the header of my "ranting" blog BakersTake, listed on my blog list.  

During a discussion this morning with a FaceBook friend,  I pointed out that header.  Then commenting on something she and I were talking about,  the second one was actually part of my reply to her.  I'll probably include these two in a themed exhibit I've been invited to do at the Eddy Tang Arts gallery in Seattle early in 2013.   

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Magpie Tales 147: Us, On The Horizon

horizon 


with every 
vista of victory,
tragedy, glory, 
beauty, love, 
hate, peace, 
war 

comes a 
horizon, a 
boundary beyond
the one before, 
now, 
ahead of; 

defining what is, 
from what was 
and is to 
be; 

where we are 
from where 
we were and 
are not; 

reality from fantasy. 

there are 
horizons in 
these sentences 
punctuated by 
every movement 
and fold of our 
resolve to 
action or 
inaction, 

from compassion 
to indifference: 

this, our 
common 
bond. 



Poem © 2012 R. Burnett Baker 
Photo shared by Tess Kincaid 
Photo source:  The Meta Picture 

Perspective

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Too Soon. Always.

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Photo taken by R. Baker at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, NY. 

Upon These Walls.....

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Photo taken 12-3-12 by R. Baker on South Ave., Rochester, NY. Mural by artist Eder Muniz, Brazil.  

Magpie Tales 146: Time Passages

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Object to be Destroyed by Man Ray

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Poem © 2012 R. Burnett Baker