Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy New Year!




























© 2013 Rick Burnett Baker

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Waiting For Flowers


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Photo/Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 
Photo taken by R. Baker in Singapore, October 2013.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

What Do YOU Need?


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Photo/Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 
Photo by R. Baker taken in Webster, NY.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Portal - Without/Within


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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Saturday, December 21, 2013

But Not a Rose


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Friday, December 20, 2013

Discretion


 

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Ornament



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Monday, December 16, 2013

Touch the Snow



touch snow 


let winter live alone, and 
me remember alone, also. 

you want to touch snow,
as I have; as I have in your

eyes. there: there is the shadow
of a spruce on frozen ground.






















Poem/Photo © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Recall This Place of Us


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For JH 

© 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 
Photo taken by R. Baker in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia October 2013. 

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Wordless Thursday Morning...





















© 2013 Rick Burnett Baker
Taken this morning in my backyard.....

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

What Do YOU See?


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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Under Wraps





no names; no numbers



sullen is face.  hidden is motive.  
these are mysteries of projects

under wraps:  need to know basis
is operative for me.  no one needs

to know:  it's operative for the greater 
good, but not always.  keep your 

darkness, and I'll keep mine.  should 
we meet beneath the street lamp 

there'll be just enough light for salutations: 
say hello and simply leave it at that. 






















Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker
Photo © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker


Monday, December 2, 2013

Lives/Fragments


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Sunday, December 1, 2013

Magpie Tales 196: Style










style  (in)adequate 


I have my style.  
it isn't yours. 
that's ok, because
I don't always

understand your
sense of it.  often
I drink in self-critique 
over my lack of 

vocabulary.  simplicity 
doesn't linger in our 
eyes, however.   look 
into mine - big words 

swim saline oceans,
tread water, then 
crawl to the shore 
of my face to whet 

a forest of thought.  
I like the forest.  there 
is danger, but safety,
too.  in it , style glides 

beneath a canopy of 
leaves, a soothing 
balm of breeze that 
needs no vocabulary. 



Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 
Photo "Wings" shared by Tess Kincaid.