by LR Patton | Oct 8, 2018 | Art/poetry, Fairendale
(By Oscar of Fairendale) You can keep them by your bed— at your makeshift kitchen table— by your boots beside the door. You can read them for entertainment— for information— for traveling to worlds you’ve never known. You can give them to friends— share them with your...
by LR Patton | Jul 30, 2018 | Art/poetry, Fairendale
Love is stoking a fire without being asked Love is sitting at a bedside, remaining present through sickness Love is searching every corner of a kingdom for the one who is missing Love is reading all night to find a solution Love is surrendering a life to the pursuit...
by LR Patton | Jul 16, 2018 | Art/poetry
It doesn’t take a dungeon to be held prisoner. There are thousands of cages, waiting for the unobservant, the desperate, the unaware, the unmoored, the gutted, the ambitious, the greedy, the curious, the wandering. One has only to step out one’s door to find a cage,...
by LR Patton | Jun 9, 2017 | Art/poetry
Some Fairendale blackout poetry: the creative kind. She was no ordinary blackbird She flew Far away
by LR Patton | May 26, 2017 | Art/poetry, Fairendale
Here’s some more Fairendale blackout poetry. The funny kind this time. Such magic gathered over dinner The children found full bellies
by LR Patton | Apr 24, 2017 | Art/poetry
In my spare time lately (that’s a hilarious statement if I’ve ever heard one), I’ve been working on some blackout poetry. Sometimes my boys help me, sometimes they just watch. Here’s the first poem I created, using old Fairendale books that...
