Time to Juggle...

" The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together." ~ William Shakespeare

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Project 365 - A Photo a Day





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Haiku Heights- The April Heights - Day 28 

 - #140 - CLARITY

I See

heartless clarity
thrust upon a Mother's eyes
the butchers clothes burn

Written By; Patricia Sawyer
4-28-1012

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Acrostics Only-

Rhythm

rise and fall
harmonize
your beat
throbs and thumps
hands keep time
measuring life's sweet melodies

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
4-28-2012

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Spade

some fellow the white coats call spade
perceived a great fortune be made
as a new day arose
drew great birds on his toes
escaping the white coats dismayed

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
4-20-2012

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Paella

pan sizzle.. open air
add peppers..garlic..snails.. beware
extra herbs.. boil to a broth
lemon squeeze on rice.. no froth
lots of beans.. hare if you wish
Aha Paella.. a tasty dish

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
4-28-2012

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Haiku My Heart- "spring flowers"



Spring Flowers

verdant vines stretching
lift sweet scents into the air ~
blue birds build a nest

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
4-26-2012

One Single Impression #217- verdant

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Haiku Wednesday- conversation

Confessions

trusting confidence
a conversation prayed ~
darkest clouds relieve

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
4-27-2012

Tuesday Trifecta - confidence

3 a: a relation of trust or intimacy
b : reliance on another's discretion
c : support especially in a legislative body

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Have a great day!
Patsy

Yes I Heard a Drizzle...

" And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. " 

     ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Project 365-  Week 3

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Quotography- Sadness

" They say it's better to bury
your sadness in a graveyard or
garden that waits for the spring
to wake from its sleep and
burst into green. "

~ Conor Oberst

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Sunday Citar ~ Right Now..  

" With the past, I have nothing to do;

nor with the future. I live now."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Magpie Tales 101

Duties

carefully folded

she scrubs floors with tattered rags ~

sandalwood smolders

slave to his passions ~ 

beneath her silken sari

burning hatred grows

Written By: Patricia Sawyer

1-23-2012

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Haiku My Heart-

Faith

tiptoe through the rain

arms flung wide open ..  eyes smile

all things possible

Written By: Patricia Sawyer

1-23-2012

Weekend Wordsmith #325- open

Haiku Heights #103 Tiptoe

Sunday Scribblings #303- Possible

One Single Impression #204- smile

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Have a great day!

Patsy

Monday.. a Good Day..

" Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everyone wants to save the earth, nobody wants to help mom with the dishes. " - P. J. O'Rourke

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Project 365-



Dave wonders how much this big guy eats in a day.. I wonder if Dave will let me have one?
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Magpie on Monday




Enduring

sweet passions fleeting
no seed of love to take hold
hourglass obsessions

life is good to me
your dream is my command
till all chairs empty

hate quick to muster
from the fountain I have drank
unhitched from grace

grains of sand timing
desperate souls dance with joy
sweet passions fleeting


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
11-14-2011

Haiku Wednesday- fleeting
Sunday Scribbling #293 - life is good
Haiku Heights #94- obsession
One Single Impression #194 - Hourglass
3 Word Wednesday- drank / hitch / muster

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The Ride

waking bruised and weary
a nightmare on my mind
I had peddled all night long
as Grandma perched behind
up and down the hills we flew
to places far and near
I’d just set down to ponder all
when the Telephone bell I hear
My Grandma had favor
and asks me please please please
to check my new banana seat
for what had had skinned her knees..


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
11-08-2011


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Patsy

Happy Halloween..

" We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. " - Daniel J. Boorstin


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Project 365..  A Photo a Day!

Dave Sawyer- Tree Surgeon!

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Lily's Friday Prediction - girdle/ Spanish/ ruin

While The Bonfires Burn

Baby Pumpkins coo
ghost and goblins worry Mom
sunset rises slow

Photographs and boos
Operation Halloween
blackest ghouls rejoice

Over and over
vulnerable figments cry
ogres dance with bones

One eerie howling
echoes the blood inclined
Spanish ruins shudder

Scarlet girdle falls
frowns drip from ancestor's eyes
wall tapestries creak

Evil seeks a host
resting with the innocent
sweeping holy space

chocolate clown smile
vicious darkness swallows whole
Pandora cries out

the defiled feast
disguised behind empty eyes
nothing pure remains

A tassel of hay
gripped tight in her pale hand
soulless eyes staring

Daylight brings no joy
virtuous one befouled
with bonfires burning

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
10-31-2011

One Single Impression #192 -  sunset
Sunday Scribbling #291-operation
Haiku Heights #92- ghosts
Weekend Wordsmith #223- worry
3 Word Wednesday- Figment/ inclined/ vulnerable

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My Tricksters!

 Phoebe and Dani

 Grayson

Althea 

Dorie

 Emily, Kirstin'
and Luke

Caleb


















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I have always loved Halloween.. every person in my life.. who was younger than me..
and might have had the misfortune to be close to me at Halloween knows that I will dress
you as an old person.. a fat person.. a pirate.. or a clown.. or maybe even a wild combination of all of those things in a skinny minute and drag you out the door and then follow youfrom house to house until you have enough candy for both of us..  for years.. I love to decorate and have even been known to throw a wild Halloween party for both kids and adults..This year and for a few before.. I tried for a quiet night with just my very own tricksters..I love to see the kids come and love to make their photos.. I give each of them a load of candy as if they are going no where else and always have a little left over.. just in case a strange child shows up.. I thank you for stopping by tonight and for sharing the spooky night with me..  I can hear the coyotes howling across the fields and  have had a few shivers at the lonesome sound.. I welcome both comments and followers.. I hope you have a Boo-tiful Night.. Happy Halloween!
Patsy

One Rooster On the Run..

" To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do would be to be a god. "

 ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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Project 365~ a Photo a Day..

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3 Word Wednesday-  Gasp- mute- viable


Mimic

mute derelict gasps
viable employment found ~
"young parrot wanted"


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-17-2011

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Haiku Heights #56 - whisper

Trapeze

awed watchers whisper
afraid to break the silence ~
flyer leaps forward
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Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-17-2011


Sunday Scribblings #280-  forward

One Single Impression- silence

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Release

rising through the air
eyes closed - arms stretched open wide
knees flexed -  trucks touch down

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-17-2011


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Spectre

four masted schooner
eerily drifts on the waves
smugglers sip on rum

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-17-2011


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Patsy

Another Monday.. The Hottest One in a While!!

" Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. "
  - William Shenstone

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UPDATE- Did you make a what is it guess yesterday? ? I did have a few guesses and some of them were very close..  thanks for playing along and keep looking for my next what is it.. Look close at the following photo.. this is where you find yesterday's  What is it.. I personally couldn't swear to what this thing is called.. I was told by a friend..  who knows a lot of stuff..  that it is called a guard rail turnbuckle.. I would just call it a nut and a bolt with lots of flat washers..   But whatever it is called..  it's function is to hold the guardrail on bridges tight.. thanks for stopping by my blog.. I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a great night..
Patsy

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What is IT?

Every once In a while I find something that I am interested in seeing how many of you know what the thing is..  this is certainly one of those things.. Do you know what the pictured item is.. where is it found?.. what is it used for.. ? Do you have any idea..? I stumbled onto this while trying to get close to another subject I wanted to photograph.. I bet all of you have passed one of these recently without even noticing it.. Have you seen one of these things lately.. someone out there knows what this is.. is that someone you?.. Please take a guess at what this thing is.. WHAT IS IT?? I will update tomorrow with the truth about what it is..

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Magpie Tales #77-


Sunday 160 Challenge-

his distant dreams
no pleasure brings
as braced against the porch rail
she whispers- what about the child
kissing her silently  he hears the trap slam shut


Sunday Scribblings #279 - pleasure                    One Single Impression #180- dreams

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Project 365-  Week 32-



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Brothers

on the fence.. roosters
each out crowing the other
hens sunbathe nearby

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-23-2011

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Thanks for visiting my blog today.. I hope you enjoyed your visit.. I welcome comments and followers.. Please remember to leave a guess on today's "what is it?"

Have a wonderful day..

Patsy

Tuesday Morning I Welcome the Rain.....

 " Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen
as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy. " ~ Tom Robbins

" It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. "
 ~  Charlotte Brontë

 
 " A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent

doing nothing. " ~ George Bernard Shaw

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Project 365- A Photo Every Day-

 

 
 




Turks Cap
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Saturday Centus- Before I die....
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Before...
 
Before I die
I want to
climb the mountain..
walk the wall..
forgive the man..
and last of all
free fall!
 
Written By Patricia Sawyer
7-23-2011
 
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Weekend Wordsmith- inferno
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Inferno


Intense incineration
No Way to escape
Fierce flames surround me
Everlasting embers
Rain upon my soul
Netherworlds nightmare
Only God can help me now...

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-24-2011

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Made Kane's Limerick~Offs

 
 
 
 
 
Never More


a woman I tried to ignore
continued to pound on my door
a red brick in my hand
I made one final stand
she pounds on MY door never more

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-26-2011

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Haiku Heights #53-

Evening Prayers

summer sun sets with
lavender and gold streaked skies
distant Church bells chime


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-26-2011

Sunday Scribblings #277- Distant

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One Single Impression #178

Needs

dolls and birds
of every hue..

plants and dogs
I like them too..

friends who laugh
and talk me blue

but most of all
what I need is YOU!

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-24-2011

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I welcome comments and followers.. Have a great day
Patsy

Tuesday.. Hot.. Hot.. HOT!

"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. But given the state of the world, is it wise?" ~  Iris Murdoch

"We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?" ~  Jessamyn West

" That's hot. " ~ Paris Hilton

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Project 365- a Photo Every Day!

last week we had visitors.. this week we miss them a lot!!



















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Acrostics Only-


Old

odd opinions on
living and loving ~ loudly
delivered daily

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-19-2011


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Haiku Heights #52- String


In The Nest

bits of string become
colorful decorations~
blue bird babies chirp

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-19-2011

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Weekend Wordsmith- darts

Empty Elation


a banter of stinging darts
cast with no remorse

a phantom of love slipped away
pierced by hurtful words

the smirk of the perpetrator
will captivate no hearts

indecision is not an option
for fate shall have his way

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-19-2011

Sunday Scribblings #276- captivate
One Single Impression #177- Phantom
3 Word Wednesday- indecision- option- fate

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Patsy

Rain Rain I Know We Need You... But Did You Have to Wet My Stuff...

"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away,
it's best to let him run."   ~ Abraham Lincoln

"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant;
 but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured."
~ Indian Proverb

"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it."
 ~ Denzel Washington


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Project 365- Every day a Photo..

  

 Joy

delightful sprinkles
rain down on summer sidewalks
quenching our thirst for joy

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
6-28-2011



Haiku Heights #49- quench
Sensational Haiku Wednesday - Joy






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3 Word Wednesday - gag-maintain-omit

Weekend Wordsmith- Elephant

Sunday Scribblings- give

One Single Impression- seven sins

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Riding Pink Elephants

I thought I saw a pink one.
my head upon the bowl

a gag  a gaze a grunt or two
my belly how it rolled

I only though to omit
just one of seven sins

I was trying to remember which
when the room began to spin

a pretty pink pachyderm
my pride I must maintain

for every gift I give this night
is loss and never gain

a mouse of blue called me out
he told me I must stand

I hopped upon the pachyderm
and from the mouse we ran....

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
6-28-2011

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I hope you have a wonderful day!
Patsy

Hello Monday! You Always Show Up On Time...

" The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. "    
- Benjamin Disraeli

" There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself,
for what we see is what we are. "
~  Ernst Haas

" It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. "
~ Man Ray

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Project 365- a Photo Every Day.... I make so many photo's that I can only post my very.. very.. most favorite ones.. I am always tangled up about what day I am supposed to post on..  I am pretty sure it was Saturday so I am late again.. I do thank anyone who visits me from there and them from here..

My Mom and  My
Great Nephew.. I think he looks like her...
check out their cheeks...

family fun - playing "Strut Miss Lucy"...

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Magpie Tales- #69


The Next Step- ( a haibun)


next step altered
tiny shell missing fondly
tranquility reins

one misstep and I knew I'd be eating sandy spam on wheat and lemon cookies...
Lila was telling tales of rice plantations and slavery... pirates and skeletons all jumble together..
I was pondering wee spiraled cones..

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
6-13-2011


3 Word Wednesday- alter.. fond.. tranquil

Weekend Wordsmith- skeleton

Theme Thursday - 6/9/2011- spam

Haiku Heights #47 - slavery

One Single Impression #172- miss.. ( to long for)

Sunday Scribblings #271- The Next Step.....

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Oh what a long and busy day.. I had a house full of nearly teens.. three girls and one boy.. they all wanted to play Sims at once and we all know that won't work.. they played rock band once or twice but this one would all but squeal over the others choice of song.. finally I said .. "I have had enough...." .. well.. actually I didn't say that.. but  I said some other stuff.. and ordered them to the dining table to write me a story... they draw a scrap of paper with a prompt on it.. I have to have at least five sentences... and when everyone is through they stand one at the time and tell us their story..  nothing too hard.. but I do want an illustration of some kind.. ok so I'm mean..  we are learning reading and writing skills.. spelling and art... they also help cook.. and toss corn at critters....  play hide the penny... and swim..
I gotta tell you.. kids think deep.. they claim I am making them keep a journal cause I'm mean and making them learn all summer.. the truth is that I do hope they learn something this summer..  they are really talented and I want them to know that..  but every time they present their stories I learn from them.. and that is worth every second of getting up early and listening to ... "she looked at me... she touched my phone.... she texted about me to Em"... all day.. I also made and canned 4 quarts and 7 pints of salsa and 20 quarts of squash today...  time now to rest and cool off..   Thanks for stopping by to read a few of my words today.. I welcome both comments and followers... I hope you have a remarkable day..
Patsy

Wednesday... I Saw a Haiku...

"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."
~ Aristotle

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. "
 ~ Helen Keller

"The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. "
 ~ Jimi Hendrix

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Project 365- a Photo Every Day!

A head of cabbage in our garden... these plants are huge! I figure at the rate they are growing I will need about twenty heads like this for the whole year..

I can almost never resist a flower shot.. and I am always grateful for surprises..



I Saw a Haiku

delicate scent draws
the eye closer to surprise
awed...  I shutter

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-18-2011






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One Single Impression #168- Exhibition

Eye to Eye


exhibitionist
yearning.. grandstanding.. peacock
ecstasy echoes

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-18-2011

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Monsoon
sixteen miles upstream
traffic jams in flooded streets
sticky rice fills me

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-12-2011

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Thanks for stopping by my world today.. we were cleaning and dragging furniture around all day.. Tomorrow I may strike.. I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a great day!
Patsy

Monday.. I'm Ready For a Fresh Start!..

" I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." ~ Lucille Ball

" Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. "
~ Norman Vincent Peale

" I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money. "
~ Josh Billings

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Magpie Tales #64 ~  A Haibun

Enticed

It was foolish of me to follow a stranger south of the border in search of a story ... The half-masked bandits were taking no mercy on any of us.. and though I had never expected a cake walk.. I surely didn't relish becoming just another missing American.. Straddling the scratchy back of a stubborn mule .. I fingered my secret box of matches and prayed that my children would remember me...

ancient photograph
a glimpse of innocence lost ~
forest fires smoulder

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-2-2011





Haiku Heights- innocence
Sunday Scribblings- cake
One Single Impression- border
3 Word Wednesday- foolish-mercy-relish

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Project 365- A Photo a Day!

we had a great day at the beach!                                                                      

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 May Day

cherry blossoms burst
blue feathers line a new nest
Madam pens haiku


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-2-2011

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Patsy

Wednesday... Yes I Wrote That!.. I'm Not Just a Pretty Face!!

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles. "
  ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau


"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. "
  ~ Henry Ward Beecher


"If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. " ~ Keith Richards


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One Shot Wednesday Week # 42~

Old Guitar

strings pluck out a lonesome tune
from the musty eaves above

couples who just met at noon
will tonight believe in love

sweetest shackles bind her heart
to them she's forever true

old guitar sure does his part
when her soul falls into blue


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
                                                                             4-20-2011



 One Single Impression- Shackles


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I welcome comments and followers..
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Patsy

Sunday .. Mr Tom Broke His Wives' Eggs..

" There's time enough, but none to spare."
- Charles W. Chesnutt

" The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!"
- Plautus

" We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."
- H. G. Wells

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- Weekend Wordsmith #193- Carpet


Low Tide

carpet of hot coals
ancient villagers chanting
healers pound kava

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
3-1302011

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Project 365 - Week 11-

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Sunday Scribblings #258 - Big


Ceremony

Big time walked proudly
his pride and joy had earned wings..
Little Buddy jumped

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
3-13-2011


Haiku Heights #34 - Wings -

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One Single Impression -
Prompt 159: Passionate


The Spirits Whisper

Heavy purple plums glisten
sumptuously tempting
the deep shade inviting
yet the viper wavers not...

Promise of wisdom her lure
she trails the serpents path
climbing and winding.. winded
His promise her greatest desire

figs.. rosy sweetness bursting forth
she ignores.. following mindlessly
jagged rocks and itching vines
surround her.. clinging.. impeding

The beast crawls on
never looking back
trusting that she follows
unwavering into temptations snare

eyes blinded to all treasures
passionate only for knowledge
of all evil.. her goodness set aside
she stumbles to paradise's heart

thunder welcomes her shame
thorns climb.. separating sin
as mankind finally.. knows
all possible Immorality...


And the Spirits whisper...
You poor unfortunate souls

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
3-13-2011

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Patsy

Tuesday - Sunshine We Welcome You!

"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."
- Luther Allison

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
- Morris West

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman

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Project 365- Tuesday

Cooper and a box of new chalk!

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One Single Impression- # 154 Humility

Humility

devoted comrade
your allegiance an honor-
innocence buried

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
2-8-2011



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Writer's Island Prompt #6 for 2011

Beguile

charming deceiver
a delightful distraction~
intoxicate me

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
2-8-2011

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Carry On Tuesday #91

"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. "
~ Arthur Rubinstein


Love life
unpaid bills.. wars and rumors of wars..
soup kitchens.. the splash of raindrops falling..
and the laughter of children in the park.. dancing daisies
in a chain.. love life and life will love you back..
Love People
the crying baby at two am... the ten year old
with a pudgy hand on her hip.. snarling.. crying..
desperate.. Happy to be free.. twenty year old..
Grandma and the lost soul with the sign on the corner..
just waiting for a chance.. to show.. to love.. to steal.. to hurt or kill..
Love people and they will love you back... sometimes..

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Thanks for stopping by my blog today.. I hope you have found something here today to encourage thought or to make you smile.. I welcome both comments and followers..
Have a wonderful day!
Patsy