tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91907715268949111222023-12-30T11:37:24.955-08:00Collateral Damn-Edge - The Creative Writing of Sam EdgeNo Humans were harmed in the production of this Blog. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-7671719692790830112015-05-11T13:51:00.001-07:002015-05-11T13:51:09.241-07:00Alchemy<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Anger flows; eyes flare at those<br />Whose words are swords in trembling hands<br />In morbid might spite grips and grows<br />From poorly composed blind demands.</div>
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My best intentions ash to dust<br />Dis-ease consolidates to Lead<br />A warm thump of power lust<br />On drum skins stretched across my head</div>
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A single droplet from a leaf<br />It’s presence ripples pure<br />Sweet clarity is my relief<br />Compassion is my cure</div>
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The frailty of others shown<br />Is Gold that sets me free<br />That's Magick from the Wise Oak grown<br />My Friend – that’s Alchemy.</div>
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Sam Edge</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-19940815077713637222014-09-26T11:20:00.000-07:002014-09-26T11:24:17.366-07:00The Secret<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today at the Pond - Herotomost is asking us to tell the universal truth of life - as seen through eyes of a child. He explains it much better<a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/2014/09/trolling-cosmos-for-breadcrumbs.html" target="_blank"> here.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Nana died </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She didn't cry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She just blinked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And asked why... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... Daddy Why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a thinking state of mind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We decided Nana lived</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kind of life you only find</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of roads travelled </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a way we both surmised</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That even God would have approved of.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nana always used to tell us </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and using them the best we can <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is what makes a life complete. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I told her Nana lived life well<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and her time had just ran out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I waited with breath bated</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fretting over if she got it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This all was a puzzle to her</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So she sat a beat to see </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">If she </span>could sort it out. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then in just the right amount of ticks </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And with a teary big-eyed look </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She turned to me and said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"If Nana died when time ran out,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dad, let's just take our time."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I knew just then she’d found The Secret<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I hoped that she would keep it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">until such a time as she would </span>need it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for a life lived to completion.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-64837461257113589172014-09-03T18:28:00.003-07:002014-09-03T18:28:42.570-07:00Back to School<div style="text-align: center;">
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are back to school.</div>
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to Labour Day.</div>
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with butterflies.</div>
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lunch box virus.</div>
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you are okay.</div>
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She reminds me just how baby</div>
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She reminds me simple things are safe and easy.</div>
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tickling the best of what's left</div>
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from the baby that I used to be.</div>
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(52 Words)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-34882834052782589642014-04-15T15:52:00.000-07:002014-04-15T20:56:24.956-07:00The Ballad of Sam and Nona<div style="text-align: center;">
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he made her tough she made him sweet</div>
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The Toads are writing Ballads today. I've been away from my poetry for a while busy working of some other projects. This was a good one to get back on tract. I think there's more here but for today that all I got.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-40539110021715839222014-04-04T10:05:00.003-07:002014-04-15T21:01:47.629-07:00Registered Mail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Shay is kicking it old school in the Garden with some old fashioned snail mail. I took a bit of a dark turn turn on this one. The last letter I got was registered mail for the Custody Agreement mediated between me and my Ex - by far my darkest hours. </div>
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I worked in my favourite song of all time Behind Blue Eyes. I posted both versions of the Song - the original by the Who and and remix by Limp Bizkit. I like the Who better. The new version is well sung but they left out the one verse that is my favourite lyric of all time in song or poetry: </div>
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<i>When my fist clenches, crack it open </i></div>
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I refuse to sign today</div>
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for self-inflicted tragedy</div>
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the evil that I didn't swallow</div>
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my hamster had a speed wobble</div>
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then Speedy had a heart attack</div>
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I had to stop and take a tick</div>
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but if I choke</div>
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who'll stick their finger down my throat?</div>
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I hate those pricks </div>
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those courthouse bricks of family sicknesses</div>
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and mortified little kids</div>
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who had to choose</div>
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and always loose </div>
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no matter what they did.</div>
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Should I sign for misery?</div>
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register my apathy?</div>
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Overseen by hatchet face</div>
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Gunna put me in my place</div>
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If I confess would you take less?</div>
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Would you feel these feelings like I do? </div>
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and I blame YOU</div>
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"Wah Wah Wah Wah Wah"</div>
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What the fuck was that?</div>
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reading mediated papers</div>
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in the the case of me and you</div>
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no adultery but we're sick </div>
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of getting screwed</div>
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nobody knows what it's like</div>
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to be jaded and so faded</div>
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but maybe there's loophole here</div>
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maybe I won't fail?</div>
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if I never sign </div>
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Maybe I can buy more time</div>
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Registered Mail.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-35656951750379537012014-03-22T12:56:00.000-07:002014-03-22T12:56:18.190-07:00My Wild Woman<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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She exploded onto the scene </div>
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with a roar</div>
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exaggerated by silence</div>
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and patiently waiting</div>
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for my Wild Man to mature</div>
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She taught me strength </div>
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by embracing weakness</div>
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with tender nipples </div>
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and mid month bloating</div>
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she showed majesty </div>
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in the face of travesty</div>
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She showed me I was too strong</div>
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to be powerful</div>
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bleeding is beautiful</div>
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true beauty moves </div>
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it bends mountains and men</div>
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Once her presence was known</div>
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she folded into gentle steel</div>
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growled quietly</div>
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at dangerous strangers</div>
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and watched with amusement.</div>
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*****</div>
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Toads are revisiting old prompts - I chose to get in touch with my <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/2013/03/sunday-mini-challenge-release-your.html" target="_blank">wild woman.</a></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-89532240497512950352014-03-20T06:09:00.002-07:002014-03-20T06:09:40.541-07:00It's Okay DayJust for today we can be<br />
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Just for today it's Okay Day<br />
It's Okay to be fat and white<br />
It's Okay to be black and right<br />
God doesn't take sides today<br />
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No stranger danger for today<br />
No bills to pay<br />
No one suffocates today<br />
No one hates today<br />
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Even the sick can take a break<br />
Break the chains of yesterday<br />
No one starves or runs from carbs<br />
We even let the bad guys pray<br />
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Just for today it's Okay Day<br />
It's Okay baby girl<br />
It's Okay to be afraid<br />
It's just Okay<br />
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Just for today we can be<br />
Just be<br />
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<a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Today the Toads</a> are celebrating our own special holiday in our imaginations - Happy Okay Day :)<br />
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*****<br />
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Seems like a lifetime<br />
since I've felt sunshine<br />
that north wind keeps blowing<br />
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I'm frozen. So frozen.<br />
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Wind blown snow angels <br />
hard crusty drifting<br />
across a dark carcass<br />
the lonely forgotten<br />
smashed jack-o-lantern<br />
and Christmas tree ashes<br />
spread solemnly calmly<br />
in deafening stillness<br />
surrounded by breath clouds<br />
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So frozen. I'm frozen.<br />
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The crack of the ice<br />
a warm breeze at night<br />
icicles trickle and drip<br />
is Mother tricking me?<br />
Roll over and dream of<br />
the sweet smell of spring<br />
out there somewhere<br />
a flickering candle<br />
Lord knows I can't handle<br />
much more of this winter.<br />
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I'm frozen. So frozen.<br />
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*******<br />
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<b><a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/2014/03/let-it-go.html" target="_blank">A Poem from a Frozen Toad</a> </b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-3362075833443110942014-03-02T15:12:00.000-08:002014-03-02T16:31:41.575-08:00Apple Happy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Inside every apple seed</div>
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is a perfect apple tree.</div>
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Pure potentiality</div>
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engineered delicately.</div>
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Inspired by the great divine?</div>
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Intelligently designed?</div>
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Happy apple accidents,</div>
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random happenings of time?</div>
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Each seed has the will to be</div>
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to manifest its destiny</div>
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to grow and bare precious seeds</div>
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achieve immortality.</div>
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Apple trees never ask why.</div>
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Can't bare pears and never try</div>
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or lay awake wondering why</div>
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branches point towards the sky.</div>
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They're just plain old apple happy</div>
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Today the Toads are inspired by the metrical verse of Robert Frost. One of my favourite American Poets.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-91398188968848672292014-02-12T08:48:00.000-08:002014-02-12T08:48:27.042-08:00The Master<div style="text-align: center;">
A jolt of joy and promise </div>
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A young man’s wicked smirk </div>
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Dough-soft and putty-pink, </div>
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Nature’s punching bag </div>
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Bullied no longer - he exploded. </div>
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This little pig went ape. </div>
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The smooth structure of night </div>
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The way we feed </div>
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The lavish consumption </div>
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The hunger </div>
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I feel that missing “o” </div>
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Hanging off of a sad moustache. </div>
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In and out and in and out </div>
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Relishing every minute </div>
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Wishing this could rattle on forever. </div>
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Silently, she shows him. </div>
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At the edge - nothing so vulgar </div>
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Life lived to the hilt </div>
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Between the sincere and insincere</div>
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The smack of satisfaction </div>
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The ratio of demons to angels </div>
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Where there can be only sorrow </div>
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Sprawled in a haze of heroin </div>
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How crushing addiction can be </div>
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A spirit from the same tribe </div>
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The flame of feeling that stoked </div>
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Inside that ordinary body </div>
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An immaculate jacket </div>
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Helplessly he stands there. </div>
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Arms flapping at his sides. </div>
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Slumming was not an option. </div>
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He joined the barn dance </div>
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His hair neatly brushed by a fussy mother. </div>
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Triggering the blind rage rough red-faced rant. </div>
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The pains that he took </div>
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To camouflage his bag of tricks. </div>
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The full-blooded swagger </div>
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Putting on a show. </div>
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A modest approach </div>
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An unexpected trait </div>
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A force of nature </div>
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The bulk and blaze of him - that’s gone.</div>
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In memory of Philip Seymour Hoffman. This is a cutout poem for the <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Imaginary Garden</a> taken from the February 11, 2014 New Yorker article <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2014/02/17/140217crat_atlarge_lane" target="_blank">the Master</a>. All the words in this poem are from this article and in the order they appeared.</div>
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Mama likes the house in order</div>
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every purpose has its place. </div>
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Every tightly tucked emotion</div>
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measured out in proper portions</div>
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simmered to perfection and </div>
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distributed in equal portions.</div>
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Inspired by the Art of Lisa Graham and prompted by Grace at the <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Imaginary Garden</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-80845937546808029702014-02-05T01:17:00.004-08:002014-02-05T06:25:26.419-08:00My Creative Space<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">In my humble opinion Hugh Dillion and the Headstones saved Rock and Roll from Kurt Cobain</span><span style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;"> and the rest of the grunge hippies wannabes in the Nineties. I know that's almost blasphemy this close to Seattle but ... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; text-align: justify;">Now twenty years later they come out with this and it's just and good as their first. </span></div>
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<i>"When something stands for nothing </i><i>a detached memory</i></div>
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<i>this ones about everything you don't think about until you sleep"</i></div>
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I never know why sparks fly no place to run no place to hide</div>
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I try to slow it down but I'm just too wired</div>
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<i>"this one's for nothing </i><i>and this one's for fun"</i></div>
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You talk too much so I double clutch </div>
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stutter step and a sucker punch</div>
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I'm a gateway drug but there's not enough </div>
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so I sobered up 'cause that's twice as tough.</div>
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<i>"and this one's for rock and roll </i><i>and comic books and bubble gum"</i></div>
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I think I'm too old to be this mad </div>
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my mid-life angst feel's a little sad</div>
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'Cause when I'm in my creative space </div>
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you can't kick the smile off my face</div>
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<i>"So this one's for the silence </i><i>and the questions that it brings</i></div>
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<i>and the smell of time and irreverence </i><i>and the possibilities."</i></div>
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I never know why sparks fly no place to run no place to hide</div>
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I try to slow to down but it's just the way I'm wired</div>
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*******</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Kerry has us writing about our "creative space" today in the <a href="http://www.withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Garden</a>. For me it comes from inside and it comes in waves. I had fun with this one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">This is their first hit from 1990.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>God knows the rocky road I chose</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>sometimes it was just too damn close </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>I'm slower now with room to grow. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>I catch my breath and take a glance </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>beyond the pomp and circumstance. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>I bend in gratitude for one more </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>second chance but every time my </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>bounce comes back I trip and get a </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>hitch that knocks me off my stride. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>At times my confidence still limps </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>from wars surrendered long ago </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b> A message from a glimpse of light - </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>A fiery sign I'm not alone. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>A spark of truth that shines on lies</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>and gives hope to a new sunrise.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>The bounce is not to give away</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>a flaming orb that must survive</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>and thrive behind the fiery eyes </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>of Men with hearts they could not hide.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Men who showed me who I am </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>and lit a fire behind my eyes.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>The bounce of pride now lives inside </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>the flames are too alive to die.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>*******</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i>In Loving Memory of Jack Hambleton and Robert Edge.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>*******</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Margaret has a cool prompt today for the Imaginary Garden. Along with the "Orb Art" of Deborah Glessner, she explains it as follows:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>"<i>For me, the word orb conjures up ghosts in the form of balls of light - life forms that are believed by some to be the human soul or life force that once inhabited a physical body here on earth. It is said they have stayed behind because they feel bound to their previous life or previous location for whatever reason."</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>I believe my Grandfathers stayed behind to look out for me - I have had many unexplainable experiences that have proven this to me. They were both powerful men who weren't afraid to tell me they loved me. When they both passed it had a profound effect on me and I felt like I became stronger.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Bits and pieces of a Border Town Judge <br />He blew up real good - better than a lawyer <br />ever could. All that's left is a gold tooth and<br />a bullet proof vest made in Russia with love </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">back in the days when Cold War was enough.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">I won a free trip to Juárez, - </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">think I'll el pass-o on that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Things can be boring around here<br />we just make babies, drink whiskey and ski.<br />But skiing is safe - except for Sonny Bono.<br />I'll take death by cirrhosis, slow and as<br />close as I can to my memory foam bed.</span><br />
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I won a free trip to <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span>Juárez<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: underline;">,</span> -<br />
think I'll el pass-o on that.<br />
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<a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Toads</a> are writing about a place we've never been and would not want to go.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-3667202675685697162013-12-28T14:46:00.001-08:002013-12-28T14:46:59.788-08:00The Missionary Man<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Full tilt sprint with the wind at my back</div>
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Booty bumping lines off my Daddy's 8-track</div>
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Slick silver tongue pierce trailer park trash</div>
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Baby got a rash from my gnarly porn-stache.</div>
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Dead rabbits, 8-balls and B-52s</div>
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My my my my my Boogie shoes</div>
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Vinnie Barbarino was Urban Cowboy riding</div>
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Fonzie and Chachi had to go into hiding</div>
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Clock struck 1990 and Nirvana set us straight</div>
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my mullet caught on fire not a moment too late.</div>
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Now we laugh at douche-bags and posers on steroids</div>
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until Christmas when mom pulls out the family Polaroid's </div>
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******</div>
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In retrospect the <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><b>Toads</b></a> are writing about living in another time. I chose a rhyme scheme to match the decade.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-67808516305443739762013-12-25T08:42:00.001-08:002013-12-25T08:42:53.394-08:00Ain't Nobody Got Time Fo' That<div style="text-align: center;">
As the wise <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Mama Zen</a> says: </div>
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"Poetry on Christmas Day??? Ain't Nobody Got Time Fo' That"</div>
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under mistletoe</div>
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mama kissed a bad santa</div>
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who's the ho ho ho?</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-82600317345095359912013-11-20T11:17:00.001-08:002013-11-20T11:17:29.529-08:00What Does the Fox Say? (PG13)<div style="text-align: center;">
Mama Zen is asking the burning question, "<a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/2013/11/words-count-with-mama-zen-sleepover.html">What does the Fox Say?"</a> </div>
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I think I found something that can shed some light on this.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Foxy 71 year-old Kelly Fox </b></span></div>
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A Foxy Lady walks the walk</div>
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and when she talks she talks</div>
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the way a Foxy Lady talks.</div>
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If you don't like it </div>
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It sucks to be you.</div>
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When she says what Foxes say</div>
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she says it all with class.</div>
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You can watch her walk away</div>
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and kiss her rock hard ass.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-59977668435614563962013-11-15T04:00:00.000-08:002013-11-14T23:17:21.838-08:00SpidersI've been told certain female spiders will eat their mates after sex.<br />
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Seems a little extreme ..<br />
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but logical.<br />
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I'll just take a sandwich,<br />
or a nap,<br />
or more sex.<br />
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I wonder what would happen<br />
if a male spider tried that?<br />
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Lucky for me I'm scared of spiders.<br />
Probably because I dated so many.<br />
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(and I have the chunks out of my ass <br />
to prove it)<br />
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On our first date my wife took me<br />
to see Spiderman the Movie.<br />
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Hmmmm...<br />
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So far she hasn't eaten me <br />
but she's bitten me<br />
and beaten me<br />
in every single game of crib we ever played...<br />
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.... and Old Maid<br />
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… but I can still beat her in an arm wrestle.<br />
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Sometime she hides behind a door </div>
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and then jumps out with a roar.<br />
She tries to make me scream like a little girl.<br />
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She's a nerd </div>
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not a spider. </div>
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So am I.<br />
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I NEVER scream like a little girl.<br />
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I scream like a man ... </div>
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a very effeminate man.<br />
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Spiders make me scream like a man too.<br />
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She laughs at me with my daughters ...<br />
and I can live with that.<br />
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(But I'd rather be a <a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/">Toad</a> - they eat spiders)<br />
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Over at the Imaginary Garden, Fireblosom has us revisiting one of our favourites from our own poetry. It didn't take me long to figure out which one I wanted to share. I was just reading this one today. It is the first Poem I posted when I started sharing with the Real Toads in June this year. (I get the feeling that there may be a few spiders in the garden.)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-37836216104930791262013-11-08T07:31:00.003-08:002013-11-08T08:26:09.373-08:00Hero to Most<div style="text-align: center;">
A Hero to most </div>
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A Villain to some</div>
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The poems he wrote </div>
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The songs that he sung</div>
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Some things he did</div>
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can't be undone</div>
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He broke a few rules</div>
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but man he had fun</div>
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Mexican Radio</div>
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and a pirated signal</div>
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singing for pesos</div>
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and dancing flamenco. </div>
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Will they remember</div>
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the bad or the good?</div>
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Oh Lord don't let him<br />
be misunderstood.<br />
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A Hero to most </div>
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A Villain to some</div>
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The poems he wrote </div>
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The songs that he sung</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The Friday Challenge is to write a poem about beloved Toad "</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" style="text-align: justify;"><span id="goog_1675652545"></span><b>Hero-to-mos</b>t</a><span style="text-align: justify;">" (aka Corey Rowley). </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I am not a Read Toad myself. I'm more of a fly on the wall. I have gotten to know his work over the nine months I have been posting in the Garden and I have visited his blog "<a href="http://herotomost.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Mexican Radio"</a> many times. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">From what I can gather he likes classic rock, mexico, drinking and he roots for the underdog. My Poem reflects this - I threw in a a cool version of a classic Eric Burden song for good measure.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-2320811398519279832013-11-08T05:44:00.000-08:002013-11-08T05:59:45.377-08:00the Edgethe Edge<br />
is about having less<br />
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the Edge<br />
is a fickle hellcat<br />
the Edge<br />
is in the house</div>
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the Edge<br />
is everywhere</div>
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the Edge<br />
is hi-ring</div>
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the Edge<br />
is there<br />
the Edge<br />
is here</div>
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the Edge<br />
is now</div>
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the Edge<br />
is not<br />
the Edge<br />
is</div>
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*******</div>
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<a href="http://dversepoets.com/" target="_blank">D'Verse</a> is all about list poetry today.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-49336265365444384272013-11-03T20:38:00.004-08:002013-11-03T20:40:33.295-08:00Footprints In the Snow<div style="text-align: center;">
Following footprints and pawprints</div>
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convinced they must know where to go.</div>
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Tracks getting deeper and wetter</div>
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No need to think when we follow.</div>
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Convinced they must know where to go</div>
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we showed no respect, forgetting ourselves</div>
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we didn't think we just followed</div>
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young and dumb having fun.</div>
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We showed no respect, forgetting ourselves</div>
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we're bulletproof and beyond concern</div>
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young and dumb having fun</div>
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our heads were too hollow to listen and learn.</div>
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We followed those footprint and pawprints</div>
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over and under and onto the lake</div>
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the snow sinking deeper and wetter</div>
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no tracks going back was our final mistake.</div>
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*******</div>
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<a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Toads</a> are inspired by <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.545454025268555px; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">Maria Wolf of "</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.545454025268555px; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"><a href="http://www.fullmoonfiberart.com/" target="_blank">Full Moon Fiber Art</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.545454025268555px; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">" a fiber artist who lives on </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.545454025268555px; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">Bedlam Farm</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.545454025268555px; line-height: 18.18181800842285px;"> with her husband, writer John Katz. </span></span><br />
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</span></span> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-85111228603983623492013-10-19T12:54:00.004-07:002013-10-19T12:56:19.975-07:00A Wise Old Owl<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>Old Poem From My Grandpa</i></div>
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<i>*******</i></div>
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<i>A wise old owl </i></div>
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<i>lived in an oak</i></div>
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<i>the more he saw </i></div>
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<i>the less he spoke</i></div>
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<i>the less he spoke</i></div>
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<i>the more he heard</i></div>
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<i>so let's be like</i></div>
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<i>that wise old bird.</i></div>
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<i>You never get in trouble </i></div>
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<i>for what you didn't say</i></div>
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<i>If you listen long enough</i></div>
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<i>the answers come your way.</i></div>
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<i>The argument I always win</i></div>
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<i>Is the one I never had</i></div>
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<i>Being wrong and happy</i></div>
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<i>beats being right and mad</i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i>If somebody disagrees</i></div>
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<i>its just their point of view</i></div>
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<i>they have the right to theirs</i></div>
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<i>just like we all do</i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i>Don't tell people they are wrong</i></div>
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<i>maybe it's just a different right</i></div>
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<i>but no one can put hands on you</i></div>
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<i>thats when it's time to fight</i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i>Sometimes its not easy</i></div>
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<i>to figure out what's right </i></div>
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<i>always ask someone you trust</i></div>
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<i>and say your prayers at night.</i></div>
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<i><a href="http://dversepoets.com/" target="_blank">D'verse are writing Children's Poems</a></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-67878346866467310092013-10-13T14:35:00.001-07:002013-10-19T03:24:03.311-07:00No EscapeI feel the sound bump<br />
bump it goes in the night<br />
night so bleak and black<br />
black as my dark heart beats<br />
beats me as I retreat run<br />
run away from the one<br />
the one that only I can see<br />
see it lick its black lips<br />
lips peeling back reveal<br />
reveal a cold steel smile<br />
smile as it pierces skin<br />
skin ripping clean from bone<br />
bones break I am consumed<br />
consumed by the one who knows<br />
knows secret debts are owed.<br />
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*******<br />
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<a href="http://withrealtoads.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Toads</a> are writing Loop Poetry today. This turned out a little dark but ....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15220312888756354357noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190771526894911122.post-51916579792134437382013-10-13T14:27:00.000-07:002013-10-19T03:24:03.306-07:00In Memoriam - Betty (Grandma) Edge<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk97k27lAVECJSO9-VTVQDi0cILESumK61SGzi6WSsVNgteS0gp1BBHdnJdCfpel2LCRs4ztLrn3vxfJvKSlzQ6tGcjCD7Ec3esSUIa4ndyD5nnIdGYLicOdVnbkN_KbTlT3RSL2PzhGJo/s1600/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk97k27lAVECJSO9-VTVQDi0cILESumK61SGzi6WSsVNgteS0gp1BBHdnJdCfpel2LCRs4ztLrn3vxfJvKSlzQ6tGcjCD7Ec3esSUIa4ndyD5nnIdGYLicOdVnbkN_KbTlT3RSL2PzhGJo/s1600/images.jpeg" /></a>Time tick tocks away each day<br />
until the clock just stops tick tocking.<br />
Every tick that passes is a grain of sand<br />
that trickles through the hourglass of life.<br />
<br />
One grain at a time life slowly passes<br />
Each grain is a stunning story or a<br />
bit of gory detail that we only dare<br />
to giggle about when we are at home alone.<br />
<br />
When a grain causes some pain<br />
you were there to tell us it will be okay.<br />
We all made our own mistakes<br />
but you stood by and loved us anyways.<br />
<br />
Now the clock has stopped for good<br />
and that final grain has tumbled through.<br />
We've said all we can say<br />
We've done all we can do.<br />
<br />
I will always remember you for<br />
the good you've said and done.<br />
The Memory of your life lives on<br />
in the happy heartbeats of my children.<br />
<br />
Love You Grandma ...<br />
<br />
*****<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 2013</td></tr>
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