Kids Need Discipline!

"The school board Tuesday night unanimously approved
the death penalty for dress code violations."




~ by Russ Allison Loar
~ Photo by Paul and Lora Guajardos
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# 267:

You can't put a website on a bookshelf.

~ Russ Allison Loar
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Before I Barely Knew Anything

Before I barely knew anything
I awakened each summer morning
To the cawing of crows
And thought,
How very tall these trees
In which they gather to ruffle their feathers
In the morning breeze,
How tall these trees
And how much these crows must see.

I climbed an orange tree,
So frightened by the height,
So amazed at the sight of neighboring houses
And city streets
And thought about what the crows must see
From the tops of the sycamore trees
And from higher still
As they rise into the sky,
Knowing I would never know
What they know,
Before I barely knew anything.



~ Poem and photograph by Russ Allison Loar
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# 271:

The older I get, the more clearly I see

the artifice of so many human endeavors.

~ Russ Allison Loar
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One Small Candle

When we decide to love,
To fall in love,
We luxuriate in our love,
Our precise, exquisite love,
Denied to so many.

We light one small candle
In a dark room,
Believing the whole wide world
Is ablaze.


~ Russ Allison Loar
~ Photo by Christopher Andrew Loar
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# 45:

A prayer speaks to the one who prays.


~ Russ Allison Loar
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Living In A Tree

I f the world were filled with people like me,
I’d likely be living up in a tree.

~ Words, photograph and rat by Russ Allison Loar
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# 100:

So many writers with nothing to say,
who nevertheless say it very well.


~ Russ Allison Loar
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Heaven

You must find heaven right where you are.







~ Text & artwork by Russ Allison Loar
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