It's Spring! Let The Warmth Begin!

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Photo by R. Baker taken in Highland Park, Rochester, NY April 30, 2013

Home: For What's Within

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"Headed" For Success?

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Success: Follow, Lead, or Get Out of the Way??

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Magpie Tales 166: Ambition(s)

ambition(s)


there's that 
          which is driven
          and that which
we drive, 

always but 
          never a constant
          reckoning of 
events:  that 

arrives from 
          unsolicited fetish 
          of others 

unqualified. 




Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker
Illustration by  Helen Ward  shared by Tess Kincaid.

A Meditative Thought

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City Scenes XLVIII: Beyond Darwin

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Photo taken August 2012 by R. Baker on East Main St., Rochester, NY 

Ancestor Worship: A Lost Art of Responsibility

spirit(s)
awaken 


to you who 
would be ancestor
look through 
sockets unblinking, 

drop-jaw prayer
when words fail you. 

these are the times
we forsake you, 
and for what you 
stood,

this reckoning of ages
in our hands, but not 
from your legacy:

that is OUR failure, 
and not to be forgiven.

to you who 
would be ancestor 
bury your sadness in
deeper disappointment,

for it may sustain
your efforts and 
reason for hope that 

these are but 
millimeters of ignorance
we pretend to express,
hope that your spirit
will guide and correct: 

that is OUR saving grace
if there is to be one. 

to you who 
would be ancestor
awaken us from our 
dead-of-night dream 
of self
of season
of purpose 

for reason. 


Poem © 2013 R. Burnett Baker
Photo © 2013 R. Burnett Baker  (Photo taken by R. Baker,  Cobbs Hill Park,  Rochester, NY.)

A Bit More Here, A Bit More There: Freedom?

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Magpie Tales 165: Spring Tease

spring tease 


when the squirrel
waited on haunches
and seagull flew
far from his element; 

as the neighborhood Tom
stalked hedges and 
newlyweds walked 
their dog; 

when clouds blotted 
morning sun and 
southern warmth 
roiled across my skin

I knew:  

this was a hint, 
and I accepted 
your tease.

even this temporal
portend to winter's 
end is cause for 
quiet elevation. 


Poem © 2013 R. Burnett Baker
Painting:  Monhegan's Schoolteacher, 2004 by Jamie Wyeth  Shared by Tess Kincaid.

Reflection

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Dystopia 5: Devil In The Details?

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Dystopia 4: Art Has Eyes

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Photo taken by R. Baker in Post Alley, Seattle, Washington.

Reflections of the Age(d)

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Poetry Pantry 146: 纸老虎

 纸老虎
(paper tiger) 


there is 
much luxury 
     in gaming legacy, 
claiming thrones; 

when throngs 
lend eyes 
     to your ascension
cling to the 

staff of redemption, 
beneath which 
     luxury is 

no match. 


Poem © 2013 R. Burnett Baker 
Photo Tiger Woods Masters Tournament Practice Session - 2006: Wikimedia Commons shared by Poets United.

Magpie Tales 164: Memory Springs Eternal

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Painting  Spring, 1935 by Kuzma Petrov-Vodin  shared by Tess Kincaid.

Overcast

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Photo taken by R. Baker April 10, 2013 Rochester, NY

Lily

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Wishful Thinking

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City Scenes XLVII: Retro Multi-Tasking

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Photo taken April, 7, 2013 on Park Avenue, Rochester, NY.

Magpie Tales 163: Our Drowning....

our drowning 

we're drawn to our sea-side nature 

          for healing and pleasure;  

soles on hot sand, toes dug into 

          cool layers;

waves applauding the shore begging

          bodies for recompense; 

furtive steps plashing timid, 

          as we drape ourselves

          in false modesty

clutching an ocean of eros 

          inside-out. 

Poem © R. Burnett Baker 

Photo Woman With a Towel, 1898, Edgar Degas,  shared by Tess Kincaid.

Poets United Poetry Pantry 145

Poets United Poetry Pantry 145

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Carina Nebula shared by Poets United

Poem/Photo © 2012, 2013 R. Burnett Baker

Rhetorical Question

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Grave

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Photo by R. Baker taken in the Old City Cemetery (Old Livingston Cemetery) Livingston, Texas. 

Dark Rain

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Success In the Stars.....

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Success Through Chaos?

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