Magpie Tales #311 Too Much Fun!

 

Image provided by Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales

 

There once was a lass from Tallahassee

Who thought her coiffure quite classy

With dreadlocks and feathers

It holds up in bad weather

And it matches her magnificent chassis 

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Magpie Tales #310 Cheers!

Still life of grape juice and sandwiches

painting by David Ligare

 

A toast for you

Whole wheat and strawberry jam

Strawberry jam and peanut butter

Peanut butter slathered with love

Slathered with love and a sliced banana

A sliced banana with more peanut butter

More peanut butter along with a smooch

A smooch and a sweet peanut butter hug!

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Magpie Tales #308 Forgiveness

Atonement letter

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Lips imprint

Enclosed pleas of love's remorse

Forgive me

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Magpie Tales #307 Quite Bareable

Painting by Cesar Santos


There once was a lass named Nancy
Who enjoyed posing in her panties
Said she with a smile
It's easier to beguile
Wearing lacy bits that are scanty
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Magpie Tales #306 Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Christ in the Wilderness by Stanley Spencer

image provided by Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales

 

Hypocrisy

 

These so called leaders of today

Ignoring stark lessons of the past

Power and greed are their mantras

Brushing away Karma they will not last

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Magpie Tales #305 February 15, 2016

Photo by Caroline Knopf

 provided by Tess Kincaid

For Magpie Tales

 

My sweetheart easily snagged my heart

And not just by a Strawberry tart

It was his smile

That beguiled

And his splendid love menu a la carte!

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Magpie Tales #304 1-31-2016

Adolphe Valette

Provided by Tess Kincaid 

 

Somber thought

We never learn from our past

Dark days ahead

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Magpie Tales #303

Photos by Francesca Woodman

 

Oh Francesca

Like fingers snapping

Time clicked by too fast for you 

 

 

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Magpie #302 You know me

Image provided by Tess Kincaid

of Magpie Tales

 

You know me

You have seen me inside out

Yet you still love me

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Magpie Tales #301

I yelled "Go away"
But he did not listen to me
I screamed for help
But no one could hear me
And when the police arrived
It was too late for me 

 

 

Both images by Ed Ross

 

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Magpie Tales #300 Puddle Jumpers

Charing Cross Road, 1937 by Wolfgang Suschitzky

 

Puddles can be sneered at

Or ignored altogether

But the blue ribbon goes to those

Who can leap lightly as a feather.... 

 

 

Hyde Park, London, 1939 by J. A. Hampton

 

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who posts such inspiring images!

Cheers!

Magpie #299 Christmas Break

Image provided by Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales

 

Remember

Those last kisses before going home

For Christmas?

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Those were the days my friends- or were they?

 I like where I am now with my best pal.

Have a wonderful week and

Happy Happy Holidays!

Magpie Tales #298 Innocence

Playground from Getty Images

Thanks to Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales

 

 

Swinging bliss

Those memorable childhood years 

Not easy now

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Magpie Tales #295 Sharing

Magpie by Rubens Peale

Provided by Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales

 

I've never minded

Sharing with sweet birds

As long as they

Leave some for me.....
And not peck the hand
That saved them!

Rescued California Acorn Woodpecker
Look Here

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Magpie Tales #293 Remembrance Day

Image provided by Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales

Lest we forget
Take time to remember those who have died
For our freedoms

Image borrowed from the Internet

 

Magpie Tales #292 Silly Rabbit!

Rabbit by Elaine Usdin

 

I know my clothes are rather boxy

But I think it makes me look quite foxy

As for the rabbit

He's just a habit

And perhaps I will name him Flopsy.

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Magpie Tales #291 ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

photo: Daniel Murtagh

 

If only

My children would allow me

Two  more minutes.....

Of sleep.

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Thanks to Tess Kincaid who finds these

absolutely perfect images for us every week!

Snooze, snore, doze and have a lovely day.

Magpie Tales #290 October 18, 2015

No.8, Black Flowing, Jackson Pollock

There once was an artist named Jack

Whose paintings took some viewers aback

Said he while dripping

It's not art I'm skipping

They should step a few paces back....

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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

 

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can

 remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

 

 

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Magpie Tales 287 Lucky Ducks

Photo credit: Gerrit Photography

 

Men Seeking Women

 

Personal ads from the 80's 

No electronic emails then

Only newsprint pages rustling

Heard while riding on the bus 

 

I read "Genuinely nice man"

No mention of "fireside talks"

Or "walks on the beach"

Straight forward honest words

Serendipity.

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Well over 25 years ago we managed

to find each other. We are lucky ducks.

 

 

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Magpie Tales #285 Once Upon a Time

Aline Smithson

 

Once upon a time

in a land far away

A dollhouse sat alone

No children there to stay

 

The nursery was empty

Babies grown and left

And the lonely dollhouse

Was really quite bereft

 

She sits there dreaming

Waiting for that day

When little hands once again

Will come to her to play.

 

 

Aline Smithson

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for Magpie Tales and this

enigmatic image to inspire us!