Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings

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Magpie Tales 170: On Eons and Ego

                                                     

                                              

                                                               ego 

                             (skipping stones)

                    a delicate 

                           stone's thrown,

                      water torn, 

                        my attention 

                bruised 

                    but more: 

                        my core and 

                        afterthought 

                  of these: 

                              the ocean, lake, 

                            river, pond are 

                            water-rounded 

                          moments told 

                   complete 

                 of eons' 

                  raptured 

                           smooth deceit. 

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Photo:  Ponytail by Last Exit  shared by Tess Kincaid.

Smalltalk and Weather

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Magpie Tales 169: Answers Blowin' in the Wind?

seed 


resilience 
is played 
on the wind 
(odds for belief
unnecessary) 

our artificial 
view gives no 
consideration 
to exquisite 
creations of 

immortality. 





Poem © 2013 R. Burnett Baker
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Reaching The Top

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Dystopia 6: Politics in 3D TV

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Life Universal

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Getting To Know You?

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Magpie Tales 168: Looking Back, Looking

                                         redress 

          long ago, even, it wasn't our style 

to dress the part, but we did. 

           ageist, sexist, applied hotness with swagger 

(so bloody pointless) 

          ultimately, naked happened; it happened 

and ended in dismissive pall, 

          and waiting for a cab was about as couture 

as it got, arms outstretched to hail our  

suave superiority. 

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

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Chilly Spring Day

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In A Quiet Moment, Flashback...

intangible
(For Pak Keen 14 years beyond....)



scripted could not
have prepared reason,

for in your dying
there was none,

at least for subtle
minds collecting
thoughts -

collections we cannot
see, nor touch,

nor barter for
tangible worth:

that, I assume,
comes eventually
through my own.

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Little Bit of Heaven?

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Vision

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Healing Blue

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Song Of A Flower

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Poem For Then, Now. Hopefully Tomorrow.

then

years are full.

we, too, become so.

beneath nature's 

facade

and those structured,

we gather one another

as bundles hidden

in attics; 

under socks

in drawers; 

at bottoms of closets;

in open fields of 

now; 

reminiscing.

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker

City Scenes XLIX: Politics On The Fence

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