tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69287567014751068272024-03-19T02:34:09.820-07:00a wild patienceDreams, floaters, peripheral visions, third eye sightings, almost theres, ghosts, cherished illusions, flotsam, table scraps and little dancing particlesJoan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-59835923607297320262015-11-24T13:09:00.001-08:002016-06-22T10:45:12.848-07:00Pine Dancers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">change the blood</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">change the characters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">they want to do think something else</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">love the fire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">love the heat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">use the day gut to navigate</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: arialmt; line-height: normal;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">find your invisibles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">listen carefully mindfully</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">use their lessons as quilts</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: arialmt; line-height: normal;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">courage- have heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">vulnerability-wholesomeness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">believe in your lovability</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: arialmt; line-height: normal;" /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">treat your stories with respect</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">no trashing motives</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">they are as honorable</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arialmt"; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">as the time you wrote them</span>Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-25999792030176192612015-11-15T07:12:00.003-08:002016-06-22T10:45:50.334-07:0011/13/2015<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">joy, music, food, dance, games,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">street life, families, community</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">fear, horror, killing, terror, evil,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">rage, silence, endings,violence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">empathy, compassion, healing, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">calm, thoughtful, resilience</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Paris, Beirut, Kenya</span></span>Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-50779629275580450752015-08-04T18:28:00.000-07:002016-06-22T10:46:27.464-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hidden away in the recesses of my own self is a wild ancient crone who has been gathering materials and messages for a grand dance. Within my woven wicker trunk are the totems developed over the years, the masks worn for so many occasions, the sacred texts and songs of seven decades. In the trunk also resides a cache of magic known only to me, cards, feathers, bags of potions, vessels, and bits and pieces of crow collections these include pretty paper, old candies, photographs, songs, silver rings and a poem or two.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">it is easy to find fault in other humans, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">harder to find their core;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">easy to criticize and be clever, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">harder to have compassion;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">easy to be smart and hip, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">harder to be real;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">easy to dismiss the object of our fear, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">harder to understand differences;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">mockery is easier, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">love is harder.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">but love trumps hate every time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">we are all just dancing particles.</span></span>Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-42914213357074321692014-10-28T09:40:00.000-07:002016-06-22T11:32:44.912-07:00Turn Left<div style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Turn left or right?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">this road is frozen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">slippery and there's fog</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;">like life <span style="line-height: 1.4em;">never clear </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.600000381469727px;">enough </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.600000381469727px;">to always choose </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">sometimes shadowy figures </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">stuff happens just happens </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">it seems</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">meanwhile we are moving forward always</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">no choice in this fog or no fog</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">we travel making slight corrections </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">but always wanting to choose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">landscapes coming and going</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">but always forward</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">maybe now a left turn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">maybe not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint like a mad woman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint like a sprite</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint with fear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint the towers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the darkest secrets</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the tundra</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint spirals and flowers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and saints</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint the dark and unknown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint the sacred and sublime</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint for yourself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint with love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint like a baby</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint like a crone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but above all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">touch the surface</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with your heart</span></div>
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Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-59996784227415060872014-01-16T14:06:00.002-08:002015-10-24T07:54:18.255-07:00Moon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">moon, searing into the soul</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">illuminating the hidden path</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">challenging the weakened will</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she who shines with boldness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">daring us to reach to grow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">no excuse no darkness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">dreams stand up and be counted</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she who enlightens</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">watches</span></div>
Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-16922923510786294822014-01-16T07:57:00.003-08:002014-01-16T07:59:30.067-08:00A wish...Read " The Safety Pin Cafe" by Moihana Calizar<br />
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http://thesafetypincafe.blogspot.com/2012/12/it-begins.html<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a13700; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">A wish...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a13700; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a13700; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">I wish for the medicine to heal the sad and lonely, to soothe the minds that race and distort. I I wish for a salve to quiet the anxious and the sick and a tincture for the delusional and disquieted. I wish for a medicinal pouch to bring peace and serenity to those shaken and harmed and a secret blessing for those facing losses. I wish the Safety Pin Cafe would lead folks to a better place and heal their souls like the apple pie healed the faceless lady. the gypsy</span>Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-71878267231507001812014-01-02T15:33:00.000-08:002014-01-02T17:35:58.948-08:00This Age<br />
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<br />
she was a library<br />
a jump drive<br />
an old photo album<br />
<br />
she remembered<br />
meals from her youth<br />
and her favorite boots<br />
<br />
she dreamed of old Chevies<br />
summer trips to NYC<br />
her first pineapple<br />
<br />
she could smell<br />
the old lilacs and<br />
cider freshly milled<br />
<br />
she lives in the here<br />
and now only rarely<br />
falling into the past<br />
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she hopes to live to<br />
be an old crone<br />
hoarding the memories<br />
<br />Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-75271549103197404822013-12-30T08:26:00.001-08:002013-12-30T08:26:14.048-08:00Happy 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-87679492688490045292013-12-19T16:22:00.001-08:002013-12-19T16:22:09.206-08:00Happy Holidays to all!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-9461048720525744232013-12-05T14:50:00.001-08:002013-12-05T14:50:23.617-08:00RIP Nelson MandelaJoan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-46354325825988173912013-10-27T09:02:00.000-07:002013-10-31T11:42:57.756-07:00The Sixties<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Sixties</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she laughs as she tells the story,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">little irish catholic girl,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">drove west from Boston,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">arrived in the Haight,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pink dress, pink shoes, pink purse,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hair curled just right,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from rollers at night,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">friends pull up a mattress,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pass her a joint,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">San Fran the city of love,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">oh my goodness,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this is going to be,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">quite a trip,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for kt with hoots of laughter</span>Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-46864235525371575062013-10-27T09:01:00.002-07:002013-10-31T11:44:07.333-07:00Plate<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Plate</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">johnson brothers,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">blue and white,</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not flow blue,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not old,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not imported,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but in any case,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">treasured,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">kept in the antique cabinet,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">used for Easter ham,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and Thanksgiving bird,</span><br />
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<br />
imagine my surprise<br />
when I saw<br />
the real thing<br />
all crisp and creamy<br />
blue slightly off<br />
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<br />
many miles and<br />
antique shops later<br />
I still get a chill<br />
when I come upon<br />
some hidden<br />
on the back shelf<br />
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blue and whiteJoan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-24881827198608904622013-10-27T08:27:00.000-07:002013-10-31T11:47:30.047-07:00Magic<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Magic</b></span><br />
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<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">girl scout meeting,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wearing the uniform,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">world's my oyster,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">everything is green,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">small town sounds,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">long sidewalk route,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">spring maples,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mist on the hills,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">about supper time,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">being twelve,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and feeling magical,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">only time,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">can change that</span>Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-53088479452629395922013-10-23T14:50:00.003-07:002013-12-11T08:47:38.088-08:00The dye pot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Dye Pot</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the couch</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the hotseat</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of my own choosing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yearning to live</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">leaving red hot drive</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for slow motion</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wanting intimacy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and stories</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and joyful peaceful walks</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">needing to cry away</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the past the legacies</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the dictums</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cast out a lifetime</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of struggle and miseries</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for grace and ease</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">needing to steep my self</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in walnuts and euco leaves</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stain my very soul</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">need to cover my self</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and make silk dresses</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from the same dye pot</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is time to stop and feel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stop and live</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">slow down and ramble</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">get lost in parking lots</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">talk to cows and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">answer back my crows</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is time to peel off the armor</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lay naked in leaves</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">feel the earth leach into my skin</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is definitely time for change</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Oh Tree Mother wrapping your arms around the birds and squirrels and frogs , please continue to support us with your life giving oxygen. You filter and clean our air and slow the winds and bind the soil and give us shelter. We thank you for your being. You are our family and when you are cut we feel the pain as we should. Please continue to whistle in the wind and sway with the breeze. We are healthy and joyful in your presence.</span>Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-39414574558578242292013-09-27T17:26:00.003-07:002013-10-31T11:56:16.691-07:00Crowmother Dance<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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away in the recesses of my own self is a wild ancient crone who has been
gathering materials and messages for a grand dance. Within this woven wicker
trunk are the symbols developed over the years, the masks worn for so many
occasions, the sacred texts and songs of 7 decades. In the box also reside a
cache of magic known only to me, cards, feathers, bags of potions, vessels, and
bits and pieces of crow collections these include pretty paper, old
candies, photographs, songs, silver rings and a poem or two.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of magic and totems also has a crow drum, a gourd, an ipu, embroidery, and many
glass items all sanctified and incensed ready for the day the dance commences. The
trick of it all is to time it just right. The right night, the right moon, the
right season, the right place and the right reason. When all is set and the
stage and all the trappings and regalia are in order.. the beginning will be
announced by the cry of crow. The wild dance of life, death, and the spirit
will commence with bells, and drums, and lots of swirling purple and black. The
dance will ease away the cover of the gardens and reveal an ancient stairway to
the mother of us all. This will be repeated as I am called upon by the
Crowmother.</span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">off to camp tomorrow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an art camp with grownups</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">remembering ashfield lake</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">muggy hot and wildly humid</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bed rolls hitched with safety pins</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">list of duties posted on the fridge</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Girl Scout songs and s'mores</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">canoe classes, fearful of water</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hanging out at the store</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ogling tough guys and a jukebox</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eleven, skinny, and shy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hopelessly unaware of the big life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she would soon fall into</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">far away from the maple covered hills</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and their seductive magic</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dreamy pink and sleepy blue</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">calling all to the garden</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sniff the mint</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">caress the basil</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">count the baby zukes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">steal some raspberries</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">watch the bunny</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">measure the climbing purple beans</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ah yes, summer in the Northwest</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dreamy, short and magical</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like a line to infinity</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like the memory of a dream</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stretching past the humdrum</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">entering the mystery of story</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where does the road go?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what is possible now?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the white line calls out</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beckoning the willing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">seductive siren of tar</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">magician of time and space</span>Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-2116525977191634352013-07-06T09:38:00.002-07:002013-12-11T08:39:55.315-08:00Wax<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">colors, lines, marks, scrapes</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">burning, smoothing, removing, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">adding, layering, dividing</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">excited, delighted, transformed, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">surprised, enchanted, relieved</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whew art</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Somewhere Else</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a glimpse, a peek, a slice</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of life outside</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the normal state of affairs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">craving to be</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">somewhere else,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">longing to travel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">somewhere else,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hoping to feel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">something else</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wanting to imagine</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">something else</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yearning to create</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">something else</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">exploring this lust</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for somewhere else</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Running Away</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">van all packed and prepped</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">little green tent loaded</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">longing for escape</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">windy beaches, hard sand</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">away from computers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">phone calls,the news</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">only childlike exuberance</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">telling stories, humming tunes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some days need to flee</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">away away sad bad mad</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">let's gas her up and roll</span><br />
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<br />Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6928756701475106827.post-6714760253395617622013-06-28T08:40:00.003-07:002015-11-28T18:51:50.719-08:00Poinsettias in Paradise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Poinsettias in Paradise</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">growing wild, uninhibited</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">down the hillsides, as hedges</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">red waves triumphant</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />
not crowded in green pots</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pinched and hothoused</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">controlled decoration</span>Joan Tuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12969249085510950816noreply@blogger.com