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Laid out in rows,
spiralling in towards the centre
In order and orderly
spoons, chillies, forks, chillies, knives and chillies
A pattern we do see
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Not quite as neat
but orderly just the same
thousands stand in line each day
to view the remains of Ho Chi Minh
who kept order in his land until his death
well- respected and well-loved.
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A competition number
gives an order as it crosses the line
Perhaps a first, a second or third
to number 58, please its mine.
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In the animal kingdom
biologically speaking an order of animals is given when classifying
The order dinosaur differs just that bit from the coelusrosauria although
the kingdom and the Phylum are the same.
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When operating technical machinery
It helps to know in what order to hit the buttons, pull the stops and work the pedals.
Thank god I thought
It is not me that has to fly this jumbo jet.
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Ahhhh!
Quiet order. Peace prevails.
The books are in order and easily found
The desks are ordered
and those that sit and read are also well ordered obeying the order
Silence please.
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For those not so easily controlled
The tourist police are tough.
With truncheons raised they will react
Lack of order will not be tolerated
So obey orders, stay on paths
Take no relics from the site
And you will find you are fairly safe.
© irene waters 2017
And in a well ordered world
Some have to live in chaos
but few perhaps are as cluttered
As Margaret Olley,
Australian artist well known for her art and her total disorder.
In response to the Weekly Photo Challenge
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
I really like the silverware in a pattern. Nice. Cheers
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Thanks. It must have taken someone ages to get all the chillies facing the same direction.
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Great series of photos! I particularly liked the cutlery/chillies spiral and the one of the library…
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Thanks. My mind boggles at the patience of he/she who created the chilli/cutlery spiral and I love the library. Absolute order which gives me a feeling of peace and calm.
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Great photos, all, but I especially love the library. Our local library has turned into computer stations labeled with “Quite” signs, and no-rent tables for after school tutors to work with kids. The books? The few remaining on the shelves are dirty and torn, the titles I want rarely to be found. New books can be rented – might as well buy them. But then why worry about books when there are so many other ways to distract oneself, like playing video games, texting, watching TV, gambling at casinos, shopping for stuff we don’t need, and buying lottery tickets.
Oops, off on a rant again. I’d love to sit in your beautiful library, perusing books all day.
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Your library sounds like my local library but at least we still have books to borrow and they are good because if we don’t have the book ourselves they will source it from somewhere within Australia free of charge. The noise in the local library gets me though. It is no longer a place of calm, a place you can escape to. Like yours, there is so much going on. The state library however is what I consider a library should be. The only excitement is from inside when you discover something in a book that thrills you.
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I really like your last sentence.
And I did mean “Quiet,” not “Quite.” I’m the worst typist in the world.
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At least your spelling was an error. I wrote leach the other day where I meant leech but I wrote it on purpose with only a momentary attempt at an aha moment.
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Loved your opening capture – where on earth did you find it?!?!
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Yes it’s great. I found it in the Brisbane gallery of modern art. For installation artists it must be heart wrenching to spend hours lining each chilli up the correct way and getting the spiral just right (or whatever their installation involves) only to have to destroy it when the exhibition closes.
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