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		<title>stumble up &#124; voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 06:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disentangled, they stumble up, and again with eager feet, though less active, the course resume. – Richard Kelsey Broadly speaking, I&#8217;ve stumbled up over hidden secrets, shadow cants, illicit codes, cryptic ciphers; I&#8217;m some place west of dreams where it all stops &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;churning inside my head until I&#8217;m left with a fragment of a sliver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>intervention, a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The central authorities announce that time has gone into stasis; innocent observers chalk it up to another knock-on effect of that same old misdirected love. But when you put it that way, when you cite Fear and unwarranted exchange, I&#8217;m suffered to remember that there&#8217;s a cold stealing across my sluggish bones toward an obvious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>poetry is dead &#124; voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 07:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Henceforth all poetry is dead.&#8221; – Henry B. Hirst, 1850 &#8220;There is a saying abroad to the effect that poetry is dead and buried. It has become a catch-phrase.&#8221; – John G. Neihardt, 1912 &#8220;Unfortunately faith is gone, and poetry is dead.&#8221; – Umberto Eco, 1989 &#8220;But tonight, why not – poetry is dead. Let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>twilight poems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 22:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo by Christian Mehführer at fotopedia twilight poem i Meek twilight hurry across this earthly ball, fling your pale shadowy robe — I&#8217;ll stray through tangled trees, where no rude sounds dare linger, I&#8217;ll hear from the dewy spray the sounds of Philomela, her sweet, melancholy song played to the cadence of a dying saint. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rubble zone &#124; voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[rubble zone, a poem Bawdy bombs fell from the sky in great blue bursts of obscene booms, and when the men had had their flashy fun the rubble kings told their rubble women to go out and gather it all up, all the shattered bits and pieces; so as they could make rubble jewelry with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rainbow, a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rainbow dies in heaven, and not on earth; But love can never die; from world to world, Up the high wheel of heaven, it lives for aye. – Philip James Bailey, Festus: a poem. rainbow poem After his lover had left him he spent each day in his room held up and alone as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ghosts whisper secrets &#124; voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ghosts whisper secrets I listen and forget sins I&#8217;ve known on mornings after; letters on a pillow, a history lost on butterfly wings. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; – matt at shadow of iris Excellent voices from around the Internet, follow the links &#8230; Ghost Signs there, decaying ghostly recollections, once steady hand and eye, careful balance etched in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>desert girl, a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t know at first who&#8217;d done it but out there in that desert where no one ever goes anymore someone had grown a terribly small nearly impenetrable corral of cacti. That was the year that I spent out there living in an old, abandoned cabin under the shadow of a tall cliff that overhung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I wonder &#8230; &#124; voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder what sort of a place this world would be, if we had nothing to wonder at.]]></description>
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		<title>reprobate mind, a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Falling away from God while professing to be saved – sinful and weak, you&#8217;ve taken my heart away. Without trial, without error, a standard of purity that diminishes me. Rejection and abandonment of righteousness, holiness, cleanliness into a purity so white it blinds. God in my heart lost in the maze of all the guilt [...]]]></description>
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