Monday, December 31, 2012

Not Quite Full Moon....



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Photo/Poem ©2012 R. Burnett Baker 
Photo taken by R. Baker in Shepherd, Texas, December 24, 2012.

Sunday, December 30, 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.  




Friday, December 28, 2012

After The Storm



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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Truth Serum II




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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Truth Serum I: A New Series....




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Friday, December 21, 2012

Post No Bills II: The Ad Men



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Photo/Poem © 2012 R. Burnett Baker 
Photo taken by R. Baker,  New York City, Sept 2012. 

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Full Moon



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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Another Perspective



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

Monday, December 17, 2012

Vines That Bind


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Sunday, December 16, 2012

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.

Friday, December 14, 2012

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



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Photo/Text © 2012 R. Burnett Baker
Photo taken by R. Baker, Park Avenue, Rochester, NY.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Hard On Yourself?




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Sunday, December 9, 2012

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 

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Perspective




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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Too Soon. Always.



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

Monday, December 3, 2012

Upon These Walls.....



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Poem ©2012 R. Burnett Baker 
Photo ©2012 R. Burnett Baker 
Photo taken 12-3-12 by R. Baker on South Ave., Rochester, NY. Mural by artist Eder Muniz, Brazil.  

Sunday, December 2, 2012

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