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2012-01-24T11:24:00.000-04:00

MAGPIE 101

Photograph courtesy Tess Kinkaid, Magpie Tales

All wrapped up

With nowhere to go

Except to sleep

Barbara M Lake ©

Trinidad, WI
January 2012

It Is Dark

2012-01-04T17:51:00.001-04:00

MAGPIE 97

image: Bert Stern

Photograph courtesy Tess Kinkaid, Magpie Tales

It’s dark

Very, very dark

Let me sleep

Off the pain

The feeling of gloom

Of hopelessness

That embraces me

It’s light

Very, very light

Let me sleep

Continue to sleep

To stave off

The pain the doom

The hopelessness

Still embracing me

The dark

Of the night

Brings no peace

The light

Of the day

Is not enough

To quell

My uneasy spirit

In the dark

Should I sleep

And hope for

Dreamless peace?

In the light

Should I wake

And hope for

Soothing calm?

Barbara M Lake
Trinidad W1
10 June 2009

To Those Who Thought of Me in 2011, Thank You.

2012-01-04T12:19:00.000-04:00

As 2012 opens, I'd like to send my heartfelt appreciation to all of you who during 2011 took the time and trouble to help me to feel safe, secure, blessed, and wealthy via 'advice' e mails.

Extra thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat poop in the glue on envelopes 'cause I now have to go get a wet towel every time I need to seal an envelope. Also, I scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.

Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains. I no longer drink Pepsi or Dr Pepper since the people who make these products are atheists who refuse to put "Under God" on their cans.

I no longer use Saran wrap in the microwave because it causes cancer.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone might drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer receive packages from nor send packages by UPS or FedEx since they are actually Al Qaeda in disguise.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, and Uzbekistan.

I no longer eat KFC because their "chickens" are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers.

I no longer have any sneakers -- but that will change once I receive my free replacement pair from Nike.

I no longer have to buy expensive cookies from Neiman Marcus since I now have their recipe.

I no longer check the coin return on pay phones because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS.

I no longer worry about my soul because at last count I have 363,214 angels looking out for me.

Thanks to you, I have learned that God only answers my prayers if I forward an e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl who is about to die in the hospital (for the 1,387,258th time)

I no longer have any money at all - but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special email program.

Yes, I want to thank you so much for looking out for me that I will now return the favor!

If you don't pass on this message, preferably in an e-mail, to

at least 144,000 people as soon as you have read it, a large pigeon with a wicked case of diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 PM (CDT) this afternoon. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next-door neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician.

Happy New Year 2012

2012-01-03T15:05:00.000-04:00

I know that we are already on the 3 January but I haven't been near a computer for days. I am sending warm wishes to all my friends on Blogger and the visitors who pop in at various times.

May 2012 be a wonderful year in many ways for each and everyone of you. I wish you all a year filled with good things including love, joy, peace, good health and prosperity together with abundant blessings.

Age Is Just a Number!

2011-12-28T15:14:00.002-04:00

I made it! Yipee~!!!

Season's Greeting to All

2011-12-28T14:51:00.000-04:00

I haven't been around with one thing and another - a crazy work schedule prior to Christmas, then deciding on the 23rd that it really was time to do something about the holiday. My family had a beautiful Christmas together and I hope y0u all did too.

To each and everyone of you who come to my page I wish you and those close to you a warm and beautiful season filled with love, laughter, joy, peace and abundant blessings.

MEMO

2011-12-15T17:21:00.001-04:00

Memo to God:

This is very, very serious. Too much to do and too little time in which to do it.

Please, please, please make each day at least 25 hours and each week, at least 8 days!

With love anyway from an overworked, frustrated, non blogging at the moment due to lack of time, Barbara

Capital Punishment - What is Your Stance?

2011-12-12T00:18:00.001-04:00

This post is not pretty.

I am tired, so tired of the crime in this country.

Less than a week of the Sate of Emergency being lifted, I learned from the tv news this evening that the husband of a friend of mine was murdered in his own home yesterday in broad daylight. The rest of the family were tied up and beaten. I'm not an advocate of capital punishment but I am seriously beginning to wonder if I have the right attitude. Add to that another couple I know well who live in the same area, being attacked by intruders whilst sleeping at 2am even though the downstairs of their home is burglar proofed. I have attended too many funerals of people I know who have lost their lives brutally and some I couldn't attend because it was too overwhelming.

God help this country where life has become so cheap, where we allow criminals to rule and literally get away with murder, where school children carry knives, where innocent people are losing their lives, where people believe the world owes them a living so take instead of earn, where corruption is rife, where we live behind barbed wire, burglar bars and gated communities with guards at the gates, where rapes are every day occurrences, where one doesn't feel safe in an open car park and where people who care and those who are affected are crying for justice and getting no answers,

The Forgotten

2011-12-10T16:32:00.003-04:00

MAGPIE 94

Lunch, George Tooker, 1964, Columbus Museum of Art

Photo courtesy Tess Kinkaid, Magpie Tales

Deep concentration

On the victuals provided

By people who care

And those willing to give

Of their time

No conversations

Or smiles between diners

Just emptiness etched

On deeply lined faces

That have lived

No interaction

Or pleasantries exchanged

In an attempt

To make a friend

Or two here

Underlying suspicion

That others will see

Ice cold fear

In the blank stares

Of the forgotten

Trinidad, WI

December 2011