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Castle | Fortress

 

For Art Journal Caravan w/Tangie Baxter – Adventure Quest in Cartography #03 March: Castle Fortress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday Cat Blogging: Belle

 

 

White, for Collage Obsession

 

 

 

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do not grieve (poem)

 

 

 

take off your boots
your socks

stand on the wet ground

feel it
something waking

net the dead koi
from the pond

do not grieve

 

 

 

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Collage Challenges

 

 

Spring, for The Three Muses

"Spring is here. Why doesn't my heart go dancing?" ~ Lorenz Hart

 

 

House Tag, for The Three Muses & Green, Blue, Pink for Soartful

 

 

Hats, for Take a Word

 

 

 

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broken wing

 

 

 

 

 

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give me your eyes (poem)

 

 

 

give me your eyes 
though i hide from them 
though they burn me 
i want them

give me your words 
though they are bullets 
though they wound me 
i want them

give me your arms 
though they close like manacles 
though they imprison me 
i want them

give me your eyes 
your words, your arms 
you have mine 
i want them 

give them to me
i want them back

 

 

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memory

 

 

 

“. . . memory is less like a movie, a permanent emulsion of chemicals on celluloid, and more like a play—subtly different each time it’s performed. In my brain, a network of cells is constantly being reconsolidated, rewritten, remade.”  The Forgetting Pill, by Jonah Lehrer at Wired

 

that trickster 
fickle * elusive 
sometimes appears 
on cue * sometimes 
not * he forgets 
his lines * he ad-libs 
he ignores 
the script * the plot 
the point * the dramatic 
arc * he saws me in 
half * reassembled 
i am out of order 
that rabbit * that dove 
are not what 
they seem * those 
mobius scarves * ever- 
changing colors * pulled 
from his magic hat 
sleight-of-mind * illusion 
deluded * i reappear * 
disassembled * confused 
hypnotized * i am that 
rabbit * that dove * un-
knowing i am not 
what i seem

 

 

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Friday Cat Blogging

 

 

 

 

 

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I don't want to talk about it.

 

 

Art Journal Caravan w/Tangie Baxter: Itinerary #07 {Historical Marker: Today I really DO NOT want to talk about...}

 

I don’t want to talk about it. 
The phone does not ring. 
Mail is piled up on the table.
I don’t open it. I don’t want

to talk about it. I pass 
through my days, oblivious, 
caught between that dream 
and this one. I don’t want to

talk about it. I’m a fly, snared 
in a web of my own making. 
I don’t answer the phone. Mail 
piles up on the table. I don’t

want to talk about it. “If you 
were a hallway, hungry mice 
couldn’t fit through it.” Don’t. 
I don’t want to talk about it.

 

 

 

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Collage Challenges

 

 

For Soartful: Harlequin and/or Black & White and Sunday Postcard Art: Feathered Friends

 

 

 

Collage Play with Crowabout: Week 142-143 and The Three Muses: Couples

 

 

 

For March Wordart Challenge

 

 

 

Art Journal Caravan w/Tangie Baxter: Itinerary #04: RANDOM COLOR THEME (CREATE A MONOCHROMATIC PAGE WITH THIS COLOR): CHARTREUSE.  Also for Take a Word: Green, and Collage Obsession: St. Patrick's Day/Green.  I knew I was saving all these flower buttons for something ...

 

 

 

 

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