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	<title>Halpov &#187; Poetry</title>
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		<title>The Need to Learn&#8230; Anew</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USELESS, USELESS\r THIS ENTITY FEAR,\r AS ANY FICTIONAL ENTITY\r MAN HAS BROUGHT  TO BEAR,\r GIVING BIRTH TO FEAR,\r DESTROYING LIKE FIRE.
NONETHELESS,\r YOU STRUGGLE WITH FEAR,\r AS IF IN QUICKSAND\r IT DRAWS YOU,\r TO YOUR DOOM.
LAYING SCAR ON SCAR\r IN FRUITLESS RAGE,\r UPON YOURSELF,\r UPON INNOCENTS,\r NEVER KNOWING WHO YOU ARE.
UNLEARN
ENVELOPING YOURSELF IN RIGHTEOUS ANGER,\r [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She Was More Cranky Than Usual</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was more cranky than usual, 
As she rummaged through the dumpster. 
Damn people, dont throw out nuthin good no more! 
But still she rummaged 
And there, in the dumpster, 
In some old and once ritzy, uptown, and now defunct, stores sack, 
Was an old doll, the type girls played with in the late 50s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#34;Song of the Great Zimbabwe,&#34; and &#34;Silver and Inca Blood&#34; [Poems and notes]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Song of the Great Zimbabwe
Across the African, winters sky
In the Southern edge of Zimbabwe\r Looking down from the Hill Complex
From on top, of an Ancient Rock\r Oer the mountains steep:
A, vista Ive longed to see, resides
A site, Ive longed to meet;\r Thus, dwells, within this African Valley,
Among the greatest of mans feats\r The great, Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tribute to &#34;The Rape of the Lock&#34;</title>
		<link>http://www.halpov.com/a-tribute-to-the-rape-of-the-lock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rape of the lock by Alexander Pope
The Rape of the lock is not only an exquisitely ingenious example of a perfect satire, it is an exceptionally beautiful candidate contesting mans greatest achievements in intellectual capacity, for the kind of grace that is an immortal goal in every man. Rape of the lock is an uncommon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In The Midst Of All</title>
		<link>http://www.halpov.com/in-the-midst-of-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of darkness, there is light. \r In the midst of evil, there is virtue.\r In the midst of war, there is peace.\r In the midst of agony, there is ecstasy.
In the midst of night, there is day.\r In the midst of illness, there is health.\r In the midst of winter, there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Worst Enemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I come out after dark to get into my car. 
I had to park further away this time. 
The moon is new, and the night is very dark. 
The breeze makes things twitch and move, 
Just beyond my sight and all around me. 
The hairs on my arm stand up on their ends. 
I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss Lucy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We lived in Kalispell, Montana when\r I was a young child. We were poor dirt farmers.\r Daddy built us a house in the field behind\r my Grammys ranch. It seemed we were rootless,\r Daddy taking us somewhere, getting \r disillusioned and taking us someplace else.\r One day in town, at the Piggly Wiggly, I saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ballad of: Brawling Mad-dog Sergeant Rook [Now in: SPANISH and English]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[English Version
A bunch of us guys in the hut
In Nam\r Were playing cards, singing songs;\r In a solo-room, back of the hut\r Lay mad-dog, Sergeant Rook;
And watching from a distance\r Was his sidekick, Corporal Cook.
When out of the night, he wanted
To fight\r This bully of six-foot-two\r Dog-drunk, smelling like a skunk
I wanted to fight him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kafka Re-Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kafka lands resurrected in Crewe
deposited by a silvery alien craft,
And whilst he is wondering what to do
He is asked to show his pass
Or pay an instant one off fine
At a cash dispenser of his choice
And they are checking all the time
On his irises face and voice.
And of course they find that he is not,
They discover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a cat I slumber, blissfully unencumbered,\r Through eighty per cent of my allotted span,\r Occasionally awoken, when dissent is spoken,\r And I invent another cunning five year plan,\r Lately it was pensions, that were being mentioned,\r So I borrowed from the French and Robespierre,\r Scrap all that went before, saved by tooth and claw,\r [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Footprints to Mantaro Valley  (a poem in Spanish and English)</title>
		<link>http://www.halpov.com/footprints-to-mantaro-valley-a-poem-in-spanish-and-english/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Footprints to Mantaro Valley\r (English version)
In what retreat art hid?
Where falling mountains groan\r In shadow and among
The rapids of the Rio?\r Is not your name Mantaro Valley?
Beyond the footprints of the Andes&#8211;?
I can hear your voice in echoes
I can hear thy voice, divinely low.\r I do but know thy by a glance
As the clouds above [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emlyn Williams Theatre, Mold, North Wales: 20th February 2003
Clwyd Theatr Cymru commemorated the 50th anniversary of the death of the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) with a superb run of performances by a small but accomplished cast of actors.
Described in the programme as A theatrical journey through the prose writing of Dylan Thomas, the production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Regrets</title>
		<link>http://www.halpov.com/no-regrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She quickly turned the sizzling pork in the pan,
And remembered a time or two when the pop of the grease,
Was faster than her hands.
Well now, She muttered, thats good for a spell.
And down she sat in her overstuffed chair,
Next to the table with her sewing box on top.
She had buttons to sew back on and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find the Magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIND the MAGIC
Find the Magic
As you release old bondage
Come out of hiding
And see the stars
Find the Magic
As you expose the pain
Let the tears flow
And find beauty in your body
Find the Magic
As you scream from the beating
Run from the threats
And feel the warmth of a hug
Find the Magic
As the little girl is silenced
Told she is too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Fear, Then Click Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afraid of Bird Flu it is coming you know and could kill 100 worldwide? Are you worried about bank robbers like Bonnie and Clyde?
International Terrorists are coming to get your family and You? Are you afraid of lions escaping from the Zoo?
Fear the Comet that will soon hit the Earth? Are you afraid of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria: A Cry To God</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh Lord! For how long will paupers\r Remain in this horrible state?\r They get kicked around like lepers\r By political &#8220;juggernauts&#8221;\r They don&#8217;t get a fair share of anything\r Because, like the ignorant and nonchalant\r &#8220;Bigwigs&#8221; put it\r &#8216;They are problematic and deserve to be in \r A trash can&#8217;
Oh Lord! Isn&#8217;t this bereavement \r [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You For Loving Me For Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to take this time to say\rThank you being you and always making my day\rBy allowing me to be me \rAnd loving me unconditionally
I love being with you because I am allowed\rTo be open and free\rWithout any regrets or animosity\rAnd the best thing is I do not have to be phony
With you I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tale of the Brick Maker, of San Jeronimo, Peru [In English and Spanish]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tale of the Brick Maker, \r Of San Jernimo, Peru\r [A Cup of Sorrow]
1
In the Andean mountains, within the
Mantaro Valley region of Peru, \r Isolated, secluded, tranquil, is the little
village of San Jernimo.\r Near the village, here lay the fertile valley
with bent-grass, and huge\r Mountains stretching northbound,
And heading towards the oceans coast.
The old man had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Watered the Desert 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[we have a cause\r we all have a noble cause\r we had a dream,\r we all dreamt a hopeful dream
how long shall we watch \r as they bulldoze our homesteads? \r for how long shall we watch them\r destroy our farm crops and pollute the rivers?
they denied us, all that nature has freely given\r and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federico Garcia Lorca</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in Fuente Vaqueros near Granada in 1898, Federico Garcia Lorca was the son of a prosperous farmer and a school teacher mother. It was from Lorcas mother that he took most influence in early life  she taught him to play music and sing  skills that would lay the foundations for the poets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lull of Twilight [Over Mantaro Valley]  In English and Spanish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twilight, was now beginning. As for
the sun, it was downdown over\r the Mantaro Valley of Peru. The softness\r of the Valleys mist, covered everything;\r from the Andes to the Valleyand\r through
(then I noticed)
the color of charcoal blended into earth
and sky; ebbing between  this was the\r mystery of twilight (the parting of day, for\r the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Exit Poems [&#34;Iron and Fire&#34; &#38; &#34;No Heroes&#34;]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Exit Poems 
 [And Socrates]
Iron and Fire
Iron can be soften by fire
 grows hard in the cold;
 and all the gates therein
 are, as it was, closed again.
 So, often are those misled?
 by luxury and pride,
 who push humility aside:
 thus, redemption their vanity
 and perfection their virtue
 and in the end, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The King and Delka &#38; Moiromma: the Cold Planet [Parts 25 and 26]</title>
		<link>http://www.halpov.com/the-king-and-delka-moiromma-the-cold-planet-parts-25-and-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[#25
The King and Delka
 [Split Mawkishnesson Moiromma /Part V]
Sickly Sentimentality
I have sought out friends
 Only to find rawness
 Of their passion;
 And the uniformity
 Of their vision.
Who out there can know
 My cerebral verve?
(Only the long dead)
By King Moir I
[Of Moiromma]
Ah! the aimless cosmos come back to his mind as he stands on his balcony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Do You Thank?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your alarm clock went off - 
Like any other work day.
And you rose to meet the challenges 
In your own way. 
The minutes started ticking, 
And your schedule was clicking
You can get through any workday morning-
With your simple routine you know by rote-
Except for today, 
When the whole morning choked.
The shoelace on your left shoe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Ready To Yell (And Pull Your Hair Out)  Its The Terzanelle</title>
		<link>http://www.halpov.com/get-ready-to-yell-and-pull-your-hair-out-its-the-terzanelle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French form, Terzanelle, is the love child of the Italian Terza Rima, and the French Villanelle.
The Terzanelles dad, Terza Rima, thought by many to have been invented by Dante, is more a rhyme scheme (of interlocking three-line stanzas or tercets, if you want to get fancy) than a poetry form, but has been confused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daybreak at Pikes Creek [a Poem]</title>
		<link>http://www.halpov.com/daybreak-at-pikes-creek-a-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daybreak at Pikes Creek
 [Summer of 2005]

Daybreak by Lake Superior
 Rising out of the woods like:
 A swamp mist
 Im waiting for breakfast

(at the B&#038;B)
 I pace the grounds
 The scent of green shrubbery:
 Trees, flora, flowersrain
 Intoxicates me
 Branches like big brown arms
 Descend
 The embankment, to the right
 Blue eyed, like minereflect
 From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blessed Damozel  by Dante Gabriel Rossetti - An Analysis of the Pictorial Qualities of the Poem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882) was a poet and painter, and a leading spirit in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which was an attempt to bring the Romantic spirit into a realm of art still dominated by a decadent classicism. This second Romanticism he applied to poetry, highlighting the sensuous touches which had been the hallmark of Keats. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Like You Did</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the sky is blue, the air is warm,
And I kept very busy working all day.
But somehow, busy is never enough.
I still find time to think of you.
If I could trade in all these haunting memories,
For just an hour or two of your time,
So we could have an honest heart to heart talk,
Just me and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Thing Called Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I could truly turn back the hands of time, would I?
And to what point back in time would I travel?
To the days of innocence, before I knew anything?
But I think of the predators I knew,
And that knew me&#8230;
When I started to come into my own, 
I knew that there was something special about me,
And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exalted Poetry; Two poem [and commentary]</title>
		<link>http://www.halpov.com/exalted-poetry-two-poem-and-commentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bells for Belphegor!&#8230;
Where immortal veils never meet
 Belphegor, Arch devil speaks:
 In vagaries form,
 With signs and signatures not yet born;
 The Tagaririm, order of the demon:
 They come to meet, the King
 Of Hell, and Demons,
 They come from different worlds
 With scrolls, spells, untold powers
 To hell, to hell to meetBelphegor..
and ring the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Hate The Wait (Weight)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get up in the morning
And want to stay in bed
Oh, so nice and warm
Like fresh from the oven bread.
My day is oh so busy
I wish that I could stay
In the quiet of my house
If only I could play.
Relax and play like Children do
No matter where they are
Never worried about being late
Or looking ahead too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poem - Why Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the journey of my life
I find too many paths all equal in mystery
yet I cannot be compelled to follow one with all conviction.
I know not where I am destined to follow or whom I am destined to follow with
I know only what my heart is devoted to and that presents my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burning Autumn Leaves  [a poem in Spanish and English]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burning Autumn Leaves
 [1950s in St. Paul, Minnesota]
My long steel pointed rake punctured 
 And twisted through tons of autumn leaves
 (back in the 50s);
 And theres a hill yet, I didnt rake, I see
 Behind it, two embankments
 Leaves I didnt rake a day ago;
 The essence of fall sleeps on the ground.
 I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Date</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stiff as leather stretched
On a tenter frame, I feared his arrival.
Looking out my window, my legs,
Punctured by starched petticoat marks, trembled.
Tom arrived in front of my house, his
Two door sedan all silver and white.
The sound of two people not talking,
An event reserved for dry mouths,
Initiated the donable evening
Like a broken faucet gushing water.
As the door [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Old Wood Pile [a poem with notes]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old skin, once held tight
 Against her skeleton
 Rose no more, just draped
 Loosely over unpadded flesh;
 Un-tightened muscles, and tissue,
 Lost its courage, no-fortitude,
 Gone are the days and years
 That stood against the 
 Indomitable elements; 
 The skeleton, now a landmark
 Hidden under flesh and blood
 Guts and moral fiber, backbone
 Collapsed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Poems: Liberty, Death, and a Frog [with Commentary on Liberty]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frog Summer
Summer grows hot, for the
 New-blooded frogs;
 The bugs are thin, yet the
 Frogs stay fat, young and sassy.
 In these palsy timesthey 
 Only listen, as we wither away.
Night fritters-away in sleep.
 The morning brightness comes late,
 Among my pithy-jointed bones;
 Frogs annoy me, as my clay loosens.
Rain drops for the frog. The
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:07:04 +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>It Was Not Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was not me as I am now.
It was not me as I was then.
It was then when God was truly in me.
When God was in me, I was a young man.
A young man with hope, will and desire.
Desire to give my love and the gift of God to the ones in need. 
You see, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Poems and Paradise Lost [One for Hell, One for Heaven one for an Inca King]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Torrents of Hell
Hells furnace
 Likened to a chimney
 Vomits her torrents
 Of flames
 Into the air
 Through earths crust
 And the earths trembles!
Agitated, she projects
 A thick curtain of smoke
 To heat the feet of those
 Who provoke her every wish.
 Like molten iron
 She waits for the soul
(the moment)
 Then molds, into her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Girl from Huancayo  [a poem/in English and Spanish]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little girl from Huancayo
Do you really, really know?
 Just how fast those feet will grow,
On the streets of Huancayo.
Little girl with jumping jacks
On the street, looking back;
 Back to see whose watching her,
A little boy with a bird.
Little boys and little girls,
Playing in the Huancayo world
Do you really, really know?
Someday you will have to grow
Grow-up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her undernourished soul gave up and died.
Years of neglect had finally killed it.
It had been ten years,
Ten of years of hurt,
Her heart had died many years ago 
It needed warmth, needed to be loved
None of that here, 
Withered and dried, 
Here lays her soul, lost its soul mate.
Never recovered, longed to be happy,
Warm and loved.
None [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crying Inside</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way that Im feeling is hard to describe
I feel lost and alone in this unbearable life
My emotions are twisted, my stomach in knots
I wish there was something to erase my thoughts
I feel so desperately clingy I feel so free of heart
If you could please just kiss me that would be a great place to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Town of Feeling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy, Sad, Mad and Glad,
Moved in down the street
Cautious watched them, from her window,
Wondering, which one should I meet?
Confused came in with overwhelmed and said,
The Panics have come to town
Then Hopeful called the carefulls,
And said that Happy was a clown.
Anxious came in with the news,
Confident had called a town meeting
To take a vote for Mayor,
And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Walk Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walk this road alone, looking for me and searching for you.
I long to walk the path lighted by your eyes
Where I am forever led on by your voice.
I know nothing of you, yet I know you are everything,
And so I love you.
From the red of the morning sky to the deep darkness of sad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Write Poetry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its often not a matter of choice. In many instances you cant stop yourself. Its an urge - visited upon you - to render communicable a feeling that is difficult to express, but that just wont go away - an urge for knowledge, peace, cathartic purging.
Its a desire to capture pain or pleasure in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our home was warm in the shade of the trees or when the sun was not upon it.
It was built on the side of a hill, near a lake where spirits could be free.
On the warm porch  hummingbirds watched, from branches where they sit, and the cat and the dog lay sunning, as we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Unbowed  [A poem]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man Unbowed
Unbowed by sin, the world of man, stands
 Upon his feet he gapes into the sky,
 The indifference of centuries within his eyes,
 And in his heart the curse of the old world.
 Who made him dead to love and God?
 A thing that breathes only for wants and needs,
 With a lack of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballade of an Inca King</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah! Leave the gold, wealth and land
Says the Inca King;
In Spain, they leave the bustling streets,
For sail to Peruvian shores;
The murmur of the gold is sweet,
It glows and glistens like the sun
A mountain of gold, or the grave
Awaits the human, Inca-god!
Spaniards sing their songs of victory
Where breaks the green Peruvian sea;
Who now, worships the Inca [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elephants in the Sky: A Story About Timbuktu and Four Poems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elephants in the Sky[1980s, Lee Evens in Mali, Timbuktu/Africa]
Advance:  Lee was discharged from the Army in 1980, whereupon, he traveled the world, one of  those locations was in Mali, by the legendary city of Timbuktu; whereupon he found himself in the middle of a plague, a plague of locust.
[Diary-review]
There were swarms of locust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Poetry Communities - 10 Tips to Finding the Right One for You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online poetry communities, in their simplest sense, are sites you join to share poems and to meet other poets who also share an interest in poetry.  However, finding an exceptional poetry site, dedicated to its poets, is not quite that simple.  With so many poetry sites out there, how do you choose which [...]]]></description>
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