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		<title>Human Plus Being - Combining Outer and Inner Experience for Heightened Awareness &#38; Pleasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human plus beingOh my, can we try?Combining outer and innerIt truly might feel swellJolly good Dr. GladwellA momentous increaseFor optimum experienceHeightening awareness Maximizing life\&#8217;s pleasuresGloriously opening withinLife\&#8217;s untold treasures.I know skeptics will frownBut life within does aboundIn the cares of this worldMany do flail and drownHowever as for little meI choose to dwell happilyTo celebrate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ain\&#8217;t No Cure This Ill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man has walked on the moon,
Yet we cant cure the sickness of the spoon.
We live in a society that thinks fixing our ills-
Is hidden in the magic of all sorts of little pills.
If you are tired, cold, hungry or depressed 
Grab some liquid courage, &#038; get those feelings repressed!
I see broken souls walking our streets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Winged Angels Meet the Light, Tiny Angels Sigh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There\&#8217;s a sail that meets the storm.\rThere\&#8217;s a cure to the other side.\rThere\&#8217;s a melody I sing\rwhen I feel lonely.
There\&#8217;s a cure to this fine line.\rThere\&#8217;s a song I fall back on.\rSweet fairy in the dark\rbreathe on me.\rPlay the violin\rmusical musician begin\rI draw their note\rand I dance to their melody.\rI step out and hold that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Langston Hughes - The Most Influential African-American Poet In History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1902 but was raised primarily by his grandmother, Mary Langston, after his parents separated. When not living with his grandmother, he traveled with his mother from town to town and lived in such places as Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Indiana and New York. He also lived part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Placebo Please</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pass me the placebo please\rI once felt minimally depressed\rMy wife wouldn\&#8217;t let me rest\rPass me the placebo please\rWhenever I cough or sneeze\rIn the presence of a smoker\rI am bound to grossly wheeze\rSuffocate and fall to my knees\rNevertheless if you can kindly\rPass me the placebo timely\rI will consume it most blindly\rBelieve in it wholeheartedly\rIgnore the effects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live For Today&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn\&#8217;t that what they say?But what does that mean?There\&#8217;s no definition that mayanswer that question&#8230;
For everyone everywhereBecause it\&#8217;s all about what youfeel in your heart and sharewith the important people in your life&#8230;
I honestly believe it meansyou should make choicesthat will never let you seemto wonder \&#8221;What if&#8230;?\&#8221;
Or ask yourself questions like\&#8221;Why am I not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shakespeare\&#8217;s Sonnet XVIII, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer\&#8217;s Day?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shakespeares sonnets require time and effort to appreciate.  Understanding the numerous meanings of the lines, the crisply made references, the brilliance of the images, and the complexity of the sound, rhythm and structure of the verse demands attention and experience.  The rewards are plentiful as few writers have ever approached the richness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Only Really Love, Be And Do It When You Get As Much As You Give, Otherwise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This composition is about a relationship burning out, and the result of one side caring more than the other. The terrible feeling of helplessness.
I\&#8217;m standing on the crossroads of time\r frozen by how you said what you said\r you sure know how to make my soul cry\r as my higher self begins to watch me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tired Of Trying</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried to catch the wind \r But instead the wind caught me, \r It raised me to great heights before\r I landed in a tree.
I tried to catch my shadow\r But I failed at all my chances, \r For my shadow is quite eloquent\r At eluding my advances.
I tried to catch a falling star\r [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Poems from Huancayo, Peru (from the book: &#34;The Road to Unishcoto&#34;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[15)
Intense Sunset over Huancayo
Why did I smile to-day?\rNo heart will tell,\rNo response from heaven or hell.\rHeart! I say, Here I am\rAlive and alone, say,\rWherefore did I smile?  \rMy fancy is to the mountains\rThe colors of: white, orange and red, it\rSpreads its blisss along\rIts rimas I watch the sunset\rFading over Huancayo.
Fame, beauty and verse, are\rIntense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems of our Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost in Time
We seem to be lost in time
busy with our commerce;
making money and building towers,
waging wars and reaping flowers.
What did our old folks do
in their lazy old lifetime
to bring forth such a generation
of humanity that seems to be
totally lost in time?
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SHIPS\r Just a brief\r conversation, over dinner;\r Two Worlds had spun!
Two hearts, spoke\r across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Unicorn, My Legend of Pegasus and Dolphins That Fly - I Have Come To Know the Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Have Come to Know The Rain.
My unicorn, my legend of pegasus\rI climb on your back \rmy hands reach for your mane\rthe voyage is set.
I bring flowers \rand fairies for comfort \rfor when my dream feels cold.
I\&#8217;ve come to know the rain.\rIt is not enough to know that I am cleansed by it.\rI want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Illusion of I, My, &#38; Me - Your False Sense of Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don\&#8217;t like you\rWhen you\&#8217;re not around\rI talk bad about you\rI steel from you\rI spit on your stuff\rI clean my fingernails\rWith your new toothbrush\rThe flat tire you recently got\rIt was me who let the air out\rYou think of yourself quite often\rBut what are you going to do about?\rYeah, you know your deep secret\rThose skeletons in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What could I say at the close of the day\r when this set back jeers at the thought of our years\r and I realize our time had not been so sublime\r from so much we\&#8217;ve hacked and just couldn\&#8217;t take back
I sit upon this rock where I now take stock\r perched above the shore where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rainfall - A Poetic Tale of Prose About Quilcas, AD 1799</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(A story about Faith)
One among them walked close to the Lord, whose little farm village stormed often with dryness, and the lack of rainfall, which the farmers often complained of such, as they\&#8217;d often say, \&#8217;Unkissed by God,\&#8217; then you\&#8217;d find them in the local bar; the sharpness of their tongues came blazing out, \&#8221;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing of Scorpions and Printable Gifts - A Goddess Post and Mysterious Symptom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drawings of scorpions\rI found them on your desk.\rI stood there for hours\rwondering from where they called you.\rI wondered where you found the strength\rto not reach around and bite your own tail\rtaking the devils gifts to you.\r\rThe river seems to need you back\ra mysterious symptom\rdoes that surprise you?\rI know it surprises me.\rThere are mysterious symptoms growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections Concerning the Translation of Poetry
Thinking about various modes of translating poetry it occurs to me that a translation that respects the rules of grammar must [inevitably] be a false translation of the original [the matter of originality will be discussed below] because a poem &#8212; a true poem &#8212; is a poem [the repetitiousness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Autumn Quotations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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\&#8221;Autumn\&#8217;s the mellow time.\&#8221;  &#8211;William Allingham
\&#8221;Autumn.. the year\&#8217;s last, loveliest smile.\&#8221;  &#8211;William C. Bryant
\&#8221;Autumn is a second spring when every leaf\&#8217;s a flower.\&#8221;  &#8211;Albert Camus
\&#8221;No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.\&#8221;  &#8211;John Donne
\&#8221;I\&#8217;ve never known anyone yet who doesn\&#8217;t suffer a certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scattered Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Divided and scattered soul\rBroke, busted, disgusted\rWill you ever be made whole?\rFrom you, much has been stole\rLife certainly isn\&#8217;t a cherry bowl\rNevertheless we do our best\rUnder each and every circumstance\rPressing on ahead to get out of bed\rMake the most of our fragile lives\rTry to minimize unnecessary strife\rBy every means keep happy the wife\rFor if she\&#8217;s upset [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Read Poetry And How To Get A Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epiphany and revelation don\&#8217;t just bless the poet. Considered reading can also result in \&#8217;new, improved\&#8217; ways of seeing and feeling, thinking and oh! behaving for the reader&#8230;just like watching ads can&#8230;so be careful&#8230;a better life doesn\&#8217;t always mean buying stuff you don\&#8217;t need&#8230;it means cluing in to what truly makes you happy, not what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poets &#38; Poems Part XV: Are the Dead, Dead? Two Poems and a Sonnet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sonnet for Old Age
I will be deep, buried below the ground
Asleep, a ghoul in a shadowy grave\rLike you, beside your table turning gray!
Oh mother, your eyes never did regret;\rAh, yes, me, me! We may be happy yet,
Travel afar, but not yet, to-day.
When you grew old, youd often say:
Youll get old like me, some far-off day!\r(I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Poems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poems have different cores, or so I believe, and can only be structured well for certain figurative languageheart beats; like all counselors are not made for all clients, so all poems are not made for the same person, or purpose; when we read we all have our likes and dislikes; I do not necessarily know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry - Two Poems By Turgut Uyar - &#34;One Day, Early In The Morn&#34; And &#34;By The Thousands&#34;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of gratitude to the masters that have gone before us, and in the hopes of helping inject a moment\&#8217;s worth of tranquility and reflection into a world that desperately needs some, I hereby present two poems by Turgut Uyar  one of the best poets who ever wrote in Turkish.
ONE DAY, EARLY [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary and Martha - A Christian Bible Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[\&#8221;Hurry now, get that quick.\&#8221;
\&#8221;He\&#8217;s coming soon, here the clock tick?\&#8221;
Martha scurried all about, to everyone her orders shout.
\&#8221;Put fresh water in that vase!\&#8221;
\&#8221;Oh no, that chair is out of place\&#8221;
\&#8221;Sweep the floor, do the dishes, fix a lunch of bread and fishes.\&#8221;
Martha ran, to and fro, making everything just so.
\&#8221; I see a mud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illumination Above Germany, A Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(1970-76)
Long I watched your light arrive, from east to west, now enmeshed \rfrom dark to dim to  light! Your arms no longer severed from your body.\rO Munich, Munich!  Evermore dancing on your wooden floors\rdrunker than a skunk, young men, young punks, young everyone\rOktoberfest tents, tents, tents, echoes everywhere with bronze horns;\ra taste of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Way - Wrong is Wrong and Right is Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wrong is wrong\rNo matter if\rEveryone is doing it\rRegardless of how\rA politician spins\rOr window dresses it.\rUnnecessary war and killing\rIs undoubtedly Bushit\rThough hawks and neocons\rSomehow embrace and buy it\rKnow certainly God is not for it\r\&#8221;Thou shalt not kill\&#8221; (Exodus 20:13)\rIs still a divine commandment\rI guess Bush &#038; Co misinterpreted it\rAnd thought they should do it.\rThere are never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legend of the Turron and The Beggars Legend (two Poems))In Spanish and English))</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[11)	Legend of the Turron
Legend has it: in the land of the Incas,\r In the fields of the Incas: in their great\r Harvests, so came the Turron: formed in the \r Shape of stepped Gardens (with eggs, yest
And flour))and a rainbow of sweets on top,\r For flowers)): now celebrated in October; this \r Once Inca Thanksgiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He Knew Exactly Who I Was&#8230;. Our Story Unfolds From There:  A Love Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 1996
\&#8221;Aloha\&#8221; said the male voice over the phone.
\&#8221;Hello?\&#8221; I said with anticipation. \&#8221;Is this Dennis Magnusen?\&#8221;
\&#8221;Yes\&#8221;
\&#8221;Did you graduate from Such and Such High School in 1965?\&#8221; I asked.
\&#8221;Yes\&#8221; said the voice hesitantly.
\&#8221;This is Kathy\&#8221;
\&#8221;Oh Sweetheart!\&#8221;
He knew exactly who I was. Our story unfolds from there, inside a little window in time that gave us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[07/01/2004 
Her sunflower colored, caftan blew gently in the breeze.
Her long golden hair almost glittered in the warm sun.
Summer had turned the landscape into a warm pallet of colors,
All yellows, and ambers, and burnt umber colors,
And she blended right in, with her honey colored skin.
Her blue eyes, almost matched the summer sky.
She walked silently, slowly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dark Wanderer in a Free Obituary Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think sometimes I\&#8217;ll discover me\rdark wanderer\rin a free obituary search.\rI\&#8217;ll find that I have gone past here\rand found a different now.
Drawings of scorpions\rand grim reaper drawings\rgothic angel art?\rI forgot to list their names.\rI think it is because they sang\rso darkly.
Neon Blue slept here\rI feared she would.\rShe got tired of all those noises. \rShe got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By Invitation Only  [a poem on death]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis\&#8217; Aunt died yesterday (at 80-years old), and this is the poem he wrote for her; she was always a helpful woman to him, with many fond memories.  Rosa
The Poem:
BY INVITATION ONLY
(Dedicated to my Aunt Rose)
So she has gone to that mystic country, which we all will visit some day, a different kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A squealing sound
Soft cry-murmur
What? Where?
Please help

Shallow I breathe
Deepness, gasping
Inhale  withdraw
Pressure, expanding

Rhythm, rapid
Altered image
Flashing pictures
Hot, raging
Fire

Clearing, easy
Everything is fine
Smooth, beating
Still, calm

It has gone
Passed timelessly
Fearless me
Once more
Same pattern
Continuously


Biography

Poetry

I have been writing poetry for many years and regularly have it published in print. My poetry is published by Forward Press and in many other publications. So I\&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crippled Bird  [a poem: now is Spanish and English]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Crippled Bird
I
And Zaneta heard the wind shifting outside
the car window, then I parked the car
We stood outside the car and talked
as if it was a birdcage.
She was a crippled bird, slow she
was to learn, as many heard,  as if her mind
Was in a box utterly locked
for her mind skipped, like lifting fog,
Slow to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Academic Liberal is Always Correct</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know from the TV who is right,
The academic of course has the insight.
With a degree in hand able to mind map the sole,
He is ready to mold his students from a lump of coal.
Do as I say, not as I do,
Oh and you must buy this text book too.
He is right so hear his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play Can Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Play can work \rDon\&#8217;t be a jerk \rAll boring and about \rNever ending business \rA stoic stick in the mud \rInterpersonally a dud \rUnable to deeply connect  \rIncapable of communicating \rYour employees alienating \rBound in fearful isolation \rThere cannot be igenuity \rNeither profound inspiration \rA paycheck is the height \rOf their personal satisfaction \rContained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hour of Death (Commentary - in English and Spanish)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without warning, death comes to thousands of earthlings each day, every second of the day, for a variety of reasons. People die in natural disasters as well as in war, we see this in the media, the newspapers, television, radio, in all forms of reporting, it comes to us daily.  Rich and poor alike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cruel World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Azra, Azra,\r Wake up Azra.\r Wake up Azra,\r It is time to go.\r Go where you must \r But hate to do so.\r Azra, it hurts me to say,\r But you are the way.\r Wake up Azra,\r You have to go.
Azra, Azra, \r You are made of gold, \r But the gold, I cannot hold.
Wake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Time Has Come and Buzzing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of my poems are written late at night, often, as this one was, after I have turned out the lights to go to sleep.  It seems that is the time when I am most creative.  I hope you enjoy these two poems that talk a little bit about where my ideas come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Goat and the Rope [a Poem: in Spanish and English]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Goat and the Rope
where there were devils I saw none.\r nothing. the air is hot. milky substance.\r I am and we are looking at this  deep. \r souls lost. we are looking at this terrain.\r the moon is dead. over my head. like\r a shadowy curtain. hanging. most of\r the kings in westminister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#34;Acceptance&#34;  We Are Our Own Worst Enemy Sometimes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a song about judgments, that we make on each other and our own selves.  We accept other judgements of us and find ourselves feeling less about ourselves because of those accepted judgements.  Those judgements then become our own.  Ever read \&#8221;The Four Agreements\&#8221; by Miguel Ruiz?  Be Impeccable With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirits de Copan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part one
I see them in the skies\r I hear them in their hells\r They whisper and they moan
And never are alone\r The Spirits and the Ghouls\r The Spirits de Copan!
They are shadows in my world\r Echoes in my dreams\r A mystery and a force\r To a cosmic happening!\r The Spirits and the Ghouls\r The Spirits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lotus Demon of Mercury [A Poetic Mytho]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lotus Demon:\r Born from the Horns
Born from the horns\r Of a wingless archangel\r With the pulse\r Of perpetual night\r Immortalities jagged creatures\r Was the Lotus Demons of Mercury?
[Or so I was told by an old seer\r From Quito, Ecuador, who lived in \r A volcano just outside the city.]
The Lotus Demon:\r Mercurys Demise
Mercury! Such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems to Remember Missing Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gone
Little children play in the street, \rLaughing as they hide and seek,\rBut none of them are you.\rWith sparkling eyes, smiling faces,\rNone of them are you.\rNo, none of them are you.
Other children\&#8217;s arms may hug me,\rTheir tender lips kiss me on the cheek,\rBut no more embraces come from you.\rOthers come to visit me at home,\rOr I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lune: The English Language Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My interest in the Lune is due to my interest in the Japanese Haiku. I adore trying to come up with eye- and brain-catching images in a few words.
SAY WHAT?
The \&#8221;u\&#8221; is pronounced like the o\&#8217;s in the word boo; or pronounced loon, like the aquatic bird.
BRIEF HISTORY
There are two variations of the Lune, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burned by Supernatural Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ouch! Sounds painful. Third degree burns?\rNo, it is by far deeper and better than that\rThis is that which Joel foresaw and prophesied\rThe unquenchable flames of fire from up on high\rComing down in power to break and make men cry\rMelt their hard hearts and give them reason why\rTo believe, love, and live for their Creator in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandaddy\&#8217;s House</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a poem I was inspired to write after reading other good work on the interet.  It is my desire to keep writing each day, and to keep trying to perfect my work. I have been published on ezines such as Poetic Voices and other sites though I feel my work is still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life By Divine Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unforgettable life by design\rNot a done in moment in time\rBut patiently and strategically\rPurposed, planned, and pursued\rLiving your dreams is soul food\rNurturing and most nourishing\rAs you come to destiny discovery\rDelight in the day to day journey\rLive and work wholeheartedly\rMove forward with fiery passion\rEngage and interact most happily \rUplifting people with utmost sincerity\rCommunicating with heart cheerfully\rListening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Misty Poets [three Poems]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desolation\r [Dedicated to Poet Bei Dao of China]
We are only Free\r Because the hunter\r Is far away,\r (but he is coming)\r The sun used to blind\r His eyesused to!\r Should the prey, think\r He is not pray\r He will be bellowing\r Over dray corpses\r Trembling as the hunter wipes\r The sun from his face.
Evil comes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law of Attraction Rich Science Secret and Skulls of Crossbones Artwork - All Wear White Wings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My never going back remains on my menu.\rSkulls crossbones artwork\rtrying to fight back.\rThat end will always be with me.\rSomething we made fun of at times.\rSo close to laughing \ryet too much pain remains\ralong with wasted time.
I still write poems.\rHope for wealth I guess.\rI lie in wait.\rThat law of attraction rich science secret\rpeeping in these days.\rI [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dose of Laughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I\&#8217;m not well. Can\&#8217;t you tell? \r Kinda low, so,\r give me a dose of laughter.
Mirth will heal my every ill\r and give me rest from my distress.\r Now, give me a dose of laughter.
Glee can revive, keep me alive\r and give me chance to happy dance.\r So, give me a dose of laughter.
I\&#8217;d crawl [...]]]></description>
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