tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69395727143001662922024-02-07T06:23:55.488-08:00WOL's Poetry PlaceWOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-27067631497493561282017-01-02T18:01:00.000-08:002017-01-02T18:07:29.990-08:00<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center;">
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: x-large;">(<a data-mce-href="http://matociquala.livejournal.com/2103390.html" href="http://matociquala.livejournal.com/2103390.html">The Complaint Department</a>)</span></h2>
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<i>On silent feet, the furry folk arrive,<br />Leave paw prints all across my days,<br />Scatter catnaps in my sunshine places.<br />Oh, how their presence graces me.<br />Quicker than a winking eye, as agile as a smile, <br />they stalk the pathways of my heart<br />And what great emptiness they leave behind<br />When it is time for them to go.</i><br />
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For Maeve</div>
WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-56779252003528252942015-01-07T14:20:00.003-08:002015-01-07T14:24:12.251-08:00We Cannot Seem to Comprehend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Words ©2015, The Owl Underground, <a href="http://sunpoursdownlikehoney.blogspot.com/2015/01/end-of-day.html">Image © 2015, Sun Pours Down Like Honey</a>WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-15191513022863136282014-12-01T08:31:00.001-08:002014-12-01T08:31:24.471-08:00Building Bridges<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Building Bridges</h3>
A bridge requires two things<br />
As you should know,<br />
A place to come from<br />
And a place to go.<br />
But as to which is which,<br />
with fickle imprecision<br />
The bridge can never<br />
Come to a decision.WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-83757832080804210032014-07-26T00:04:00.003-07:002014-07-26T00:08:41.336-07:00Solitude á Deux<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Solitude á Deux</span></div>
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Now that would be a nice marriage.</div>
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A solar system of two planets,</div>
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Both orbiting the
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Necessitate development</div>
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For each to know</div>
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There was another world nearby</div>
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Full of untold wonders,</div>
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That traveling there</div>
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Poem ©2014 The Owl Underground<br />
Artwork ©2013 Michal Karcz </div>
WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-18913101337070126152014-07-25T23:37:00.000-07:002014-07-25T23:37:25.263-07:00Love and War<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wins.</div>
WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-24722597208702807292013-10-31T21:08:00.001-07:002013-10-31T21:11:54.939-07:00The Waning Moon on Samhain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Waning Moon on Samhain </h3>
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The wheel turns and the year rolls<br />
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The moon is waning like the world </div>
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In majesty the Goddess passes</div>
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The crone’s crown with its silver horns </div>
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Above her pale and unseen face</div>
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Her night black star spangled hair </div>
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Veiled in the wispy smoke of Autumn </div>
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Flows unbound and trails across the world</div>
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She has left the Sky King’s oaken bed </div>
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Where they lay together in the golden light of summer</div>
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She has risen up and robed herself in darkness </div>
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Now She passes through the Samhain fire</div>
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Trailing darkness like a train behind her</div>
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Bound now for the Sky King’s bed of holly</div>
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To lay with him at the brink of the year</div>
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As She makes her stately passage through the land</div>
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Her pale white belly is already swelling</div>
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With the green child growing in her womb</div>
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As the year rolls and the wheel turns </div>
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The Night Called</h3>
<b>And he obeyed.<br /> The silken night<br /> Subsumed him into shadows,<br /> Blotted hue and shade into greyness,<br /> Smudging outlines<br /> Into nothing more<br /> Than eyes and darkness<br /> On paws <br /> As soundless as the fog.</b><br />
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<b>The night exhaled<br /> A sweet, soft sigh<br /> And watched him<br /> With a single pearly eye.<br /> He was<br /> A moment's silhouette<br /> Atop a fence,<br /> An eye-blink's worth<br /> Of chiaroscuro,<br /> Not quite glimpsed<br /> Then gone.</b><br />
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<b>He insinuates himself<br /> Through charcoal dusted grass,<br /> Freezes motionless in midstep<br /> Whiskers quivering,<br /> Subsides into a crouch.<br /> And in a heartbeat,<br /> One less mouse.</b><br />
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poem © 2013 The Owl UndergroundWOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-43370464982641734752013-04-17T03:08:00.000-07:002013-04-17T03:14:16.707-07:00They Call the Bees Melissa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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They Call The Bees Melissa</h3>
<b>The thing about<br />
The busy bees<br />
Is all the bees<br />
That are busy<br />
Are she’s.<br />
There’s only he’s<br />
When they’re<br />
Moving house.<br />
But other than that,<br />
There ain’t no he’s<br />
Among the bees<br />
To put up with<br />
and please,<br />
Just lots and lots<br />
Of busy she’s,<br />
Which proves<br />
That bees<br />
Is smarter<br />
Than we’s.</b><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoide">AOIDE</a> CROWNED WITH ROSES SANG. </div>
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I dreamed that you were Greek</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaea_%28ancient_region%29">Achaean</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Citharoedus">Apollo Citharoedus</a></div>
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In a<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix_%28drinking_cup%29"> kylix.</a></div>
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Clean limbed and beardless,</div>
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With terra cotta skin,</div>
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Dark, sea-seeing eyes,</div>
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And dark hair </div>
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Falling to your waist</div>
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In raven corkscrews.</div>
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And would I watch for days</div>
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Upon some rocky promontory,</div>
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Wind ruffled </div>
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In my yellow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiton_%28costume%29">chiton</a>,</div>
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<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skrying">Skrying </a>the line</div>
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Between sky and sea,</div>
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Waiting</div>
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For you to wade ashore,</div>
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Sandaled and sun-bronzed,</div>
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Onto the white sand beach?</div>
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And would your dark eyes</div>
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<a href="http://www.memidex.com/rifle+search">Rifle </a>through the rocks<br />
With longing?</div>
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And would your heart</div>
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Surge forth like breakers</div>
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And your wave wet feet</div>
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Take wing</div>
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To see a yellow chiton</div>
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Scrambling down the rocky path </div>
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To the beach below?</div>
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WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-41485396834242346292012-04-29T11:41:00.000-07:002013-04-17T03:08:58.004-07:00The Hare and The Moon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Photograph © 2010 The Owl UndergroundWOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-27261105517718893962011-02-23T17:07:00.000-08:002011-02-23T17:09:17.445-08:00Samhain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf19w11XWlk1Ql217M2SUfxtrJmJUyyRGjQS6H1mnb2mHMtKR0XmnSzlaN_8s-7C0ETRN5y3tMJt4B4ZJWrYIf2L3KjENZkHl3bxSpmsxya1gyEZIrxbnmhjFgBD7I7Up1UQ5qcfawd9s6/s1600/Samhain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf19w11XWlk1Ql217M2SUfxtrJmJUyyRGjQS6H1mnb2mHMtKR0XmnSzlaN_8s-7C0ETRN5y3tMJt4B4ZJWrYIf2L3KjENZkHl3bxSpmsxya1gyEZIrxbnmhjFgBD7I7Up1UQ5qcfawd9s6/s1600/Samhain.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-1740867714159922802011-02-23T16:09:00.000-08:002011-02-23T16:52:26.439-08:00Poem For The New Moon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpN0z-pe01rC9QejCk3oEY-HQcB6toKA4SKlEvcEMxzhNhIlq37VArOL_UKJKOJSzMh4OKEfWoNeohGEVtsKkxPFBEaZkykcy8HZGxSib7awnvrlJdQrpo_q6maJ1hjw-QuUJQ7-oSSv7/s1600/Poem+to+the+new+moon2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqpN0z-pe01rC9QejCk3oEY-HQcB6toKA4SKlEvcEMxzhNhIlq37VArOL_UKJKOJSzMh4OKEfWoNeohGEVtsKkxPFBEaZkykcy8HZGxSib7awnvrlJdQrpo_q6maJ1hjw-QuUJQ7-oSSv7/s1600/Poem+to+the+new+moon2.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Photo © Wikipedia CommonsWOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-48175083299011687102011-02-22T18:49:00.000-08:002011-02-22T19:28:43.768-08:00Shadows On A Wall I and IIShadows on a Wall I<br />
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Shadows on a Wall II<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix47JQtVC3c7sY5RMlqQy9VSWL5fPjPdOCcxO5jxV4yorg6yXOpADmQPkcTcKJ7DVf0T_aTSASXtA1D4l6SJs1R7LUU_f4JUh1UuG5ItEGKQlPHCsnZ8rIetxka_AcBe04ooUDRaxkCXy7/s1600/The+sun+practices+caligraphy+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix47JQtVC3c7sY5RMlqQy9VSWL5fPjPdOCcxO5jxV4yorg6yXOpADmQPkcTcKJ7DVf0T_aTSASXtA1D4l6SJs1R7LUU_f4JUh1UuG5ItEGKQlPHCsnZ8rIetxka_AcBe04ooUDRaxkCXy7/s640/The+sun+practices+caligraphy+2.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTi9ZuW_2ZV4ABh6MT22TTbWkQCmz5wQEwdOuVhWFJdJsx_PlH4PHfJyFMSKVzIb0TnN9ZVwcMmP1FHb6IDi0ZU32tLOjOtBJQssT39gBbgmrCNramqe2EnD66tjts_n8RpcTupzdPBTrJ/s1600/The+sun+practices+caligraphy+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div>Haikus I & II © 2011 The Owl Underground<br />
Both Photos Cropped From Photograph © 2011 <a href="http://sunpoursdownlikehoney.blogspot.com/2011/02/shadows-study.html">Sun Pours Down Like Honey</a>WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-14865116710419942612011-02-22T18:12:00.000-08:002011-02-22T19:29:59.204-08:00This Is The Way The World Is<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg47-U3iuxdlXFgBpyLKKX8YyKTdkNF5tSd1MVZ04g0sMXD-GJS2trprAbuRs0DzT30eExsaA9W9GsjShgdbUIwUBkWp5KumKkuhgDxC-WryiOgvpMsF3DzJS_XBe5veJCffWt9t6BAoQ4f/s1600/This+is+the+way+the+world+is+II.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg47-U3iuxdlXFgBpyLKKX8YyKTdkNF5tSd1MVZ04g0sMXD-GJS2trprAbuRs0DzT30eExsaA9W9GsjShgdbUIwUBkWp5KumKkuhgDxC-WryiOgvpMsF3DzJS_XBe5veJCffWt9t6BAoQ4f/s640/This+is+the+way+the+world+is+II.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
Poem and Photograph © 2009 The Owl UndergroundWOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-31849331449206151162011-02-22T17:05:00.000-08:002011-02-22T19:45:04.833-08:00What If, By Some Sudden Shift of Scale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVAB4UOoU-KXPQndhPk0LIqTk-_50z4w-qIitzWsfFMbnOGRxJWPJQ8gAdkOWg2AtWylPLU_XddGsJmHu2WtOCWtKA3F2Vf_HqfMb378089o1KWmTr_7ui-EHZh8lC0OxS4GARhPtnd6GP/s1600/Iris+Shift+of+Scale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVAB4UOoU-KXPQndhPk0LIqTk-_50z4w-qIitzWsfFMbnOGRxJWPJQ8gAdkOWg2AtWylPLU_XddGsJmHu2WtOCWtKA3F2Vf_HqfMb378089o1KWmTr_7ui-EHZh8lC0OxS4GARhPtnd6GP/s1600/Iris+Shift+of+Scale.jpg" /></a></div>Photograph and Poem © 2009 The Owl Underground<br />
Iris cultivar <a href="http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/34455/">"Chickasaw Sue"</a> from my front yard.WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-5077520191868134412011-02-22T16:55:00.000-08:002011-02-22T19:32:41.366-08:00On the Eve of Cold Dark WinterVersion 1, autograph.<br />
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Version 2, typeset.<br />
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Poem © 2011 The Owl Underground <br />
Contrast Enhanced Version of Photograph © 2010 <a href="http://sunpoursdownlikehoney.blogspot.com/2011/01/sunday-quote_09.html">Sun Pours Down Like Honey</a>WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939572714300166292.post-79413922011904201832011-02-22T16:13:00.000-08:002011-02-22T18:40:00.291-08:00The Wood is Still Good<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEQZRk5UV3idV781A-9cbfBQIwx3tZZcnjqgUDNCeDQh2KcKal94z6PYCf5Lq5X2gv_QtIo3hg0PdeAmOtHGhip-gaKc1-Y97yDbit6bEF7cmMh7qeAl8pZ395pF3zlpJxjH8_Ptdynez/s1600/The+wood+is+still+good.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEQZRk5UV3idV781A-9cbfBQIwx3tZZcnjqgUDNCeDQh2KcKal94z6PYCf5Lq5X2gv_QtIo3hg0PdeAmOtHGhip-gaKc1-Y97yDbit6bEF7cmMh7qeAl8pZ395pF3zlpJxjH8_Ptdynez/s1600/The+wood+is+still+good.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Haiku © 2010 The Owl Underground <br />
Photograph © 2010 <a href="http://sunpoursdownlikehoney.blogspot.com/2011/01/and-everything-emptying-into-white.html">Sun Pours Down Like Honey</a>WOLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775462248193876148noreply@blogger.com0