Create and Imagine

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Magpie Tales 189: Benchmarks and Time

benchmarks

and time

don't consume me.

I fill voids,

take root, 

bequeath beauty, 

(at least for 

beholders) 

we made 

the perfect couple. 

now no one 

notices this flow 

of measured years.

every hour 

is memory, 

each second 

alone a clarion

call:

I won't allow 

disparaging of 

my consort  to 

weathered 

beauty. 

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

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The Prayer

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Spilling My Imagination Before Sleep...

introductions



we are fantasy and
fathom unseen. mystery,

quantities, quality absolute;
anticipation through curiosity.

expectations drive us, reign
us in to secret imaginations;

who I am is who I am not,
but will that matter? will

you see beyond a vision
of ideal and gather real?

I'll believe and revel in knowing
you as such, hold your essence

gently as I heed the call of
myriad possibilities.


Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

If You See Me

colorless 

if you see me colorless trace my outline.  

search identity between crows feet, my 

eyes begging me shut them tight;  October 

doesn't suffer dreams, so  fold my hands 

across my chest.  listen for a breeze between

stolid lips:   I'll not abandon you.  when 

silent rooms whisper me, prehend the 

echoed history against empty walls.

If you see me colorless touch my face.  warm 

my heart before the evenfall of days.  

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

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If We Were Autumn

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Shed Expectations

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