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			<title><![CDATA[ Paradox ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ What kind of satellite is the center of the universe?<br><br>The closer and more predictable it gets over time the greater the danger of implosion?<br><br>The smoother the orbit, thou eccentric in shape...<br><br>Further and further out of sync...<br><br>Catapulted into geosyncratic propulsion into the unknown...<br><br>Destiny. <br><br>Smooth and beautiful to watch...<br><br>Impossible to achieve without periodic release of gravity's hold.<br><br>Sadness blossoms into... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Silhouette ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Tree's stark outline<br>grasped the skies<br>Steeples silhouette<br>outlined<br>cardboard cutout<br>clouds<br>panorama slides<br>silently past blue sky<br>shading<br>to dusk<br>journey's end nears.<br><br>Synthesized life<br>synthesized strife<br>red bleeding sun <br>sets painful<br>slow melding <br>into horizons<br>dark.<br><br>Smoky gray<br>sliding<br>into night<br>silent<br>sweet shivers<br>down the spine<br>anticipation<br>builds<br>crescendo<br>throbbing<br>through sinew and bone<br>as... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:10:35 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Red Sky at Night, Sailer's Delight... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ A blindingly orange sun crested the horizon this morning reflecting from the glass coated walls of office buildings in silent conflagration as blue sky chased black clouds triumphantly to the south. The smell of damp earth after a night of pouring rain mingled with the intense scent of pine from the Christmas tree lot across the street. Fresh new macadam with sparkling, freshly painted white lines divided the traffic, coming, going, repetitive journeys in an endless loop to secure home and... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:01:31 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Perspective ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Rainbow colors in the light <br>hold a candle to the sun<br>choice or fate<br>soul's debate<br>battles have been won.<br><br>Bruise dark colors, violent night<br>hold a candle to the moon<br>midnight rage <br>spent tidal wave <br>questions unanswered, passions loom.<br><br>Useless shell, pearled chrysalis,<br>seared fires blinding pain,<br>ash burnt <br>discarded, blown away<br>through the gauntlet sane.<br><br>Solitary blackness, deepest night<br>hold a candle to a star<br>limits,... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:51:14 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Backwash ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Empty<br>Body, Soul, Mind<br>Drained<br>Like the last dregs at the bottom of the last bottle in the last six pack in the last hour of the last party of the year<br>right before<br>graduation<br>except<br>it's your friends'<br>older<br>wiser... hopefully...<br>dropped indiscrimanently into time before<br>you were an apple in your mother's eye<br>or a log thrust through the eye of your fathers<br>generations<br>meld<br>challenge<br>to keep going <br>morning after morning<br>as the sun rises... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:42:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Shades of Gray ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ To see the world<br>in shades of gray,<br>bleached lifeless<br>gloom at end of day,<br><br>Sometimes it feels<br>the shadows steel<br>all hope and joy.<br>Is nothing real?<br><br>When faith and dreams<br>have fled the scene<br>takes all my strength just not to scream<br>Defiance at my fate.<br><br>I shake my fist in rage at night<br>for dawn will come and with it light.<br>The hardest task it seems to me,<br>the night outlast, the dawn to see.<div class='signature'><center><a... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2002 08:09:15 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Soul of a Poet ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The soul of a poet, <br>the memory of an avid reader and videophile, <br>the ear of a musician,<br>the creativity of an artist,<br>the imagination of a child, <br>the reflexes of a stuntman, <br>the knowledge of a technowizard geek physicist, <br>a hunger for challenge and the truth,<br>an inherent dissatisfaction with maintaining the status quo,<br>an appreciation of the subtle intricacies of implied and overt adult flirtations while maintaining contact with the adolescent psyche that is the... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:01:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Silence ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The rustle of leaves, the cool north wind,<br>metronomic clock  ticking away time as it stands solitary on the bedside table.<br>Constant background hum of late night traffic hurtling through space unseen,<br>crickets lullaby competing for continuous attention.<br>Silence complete ever?<br>Petty contrivances,  grievances, gnawing worries, huge in midnight black<br>rusted and worn  <br>down to dust, microscopic, gone with a sneeze.<br>Relativity once again breathes in, exhaling the universe in... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:42:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Quantum Reality ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Spiral orbit <br>collapsed singularity<br>spectacular fireworks <br>release of energy<br>Sucked to oblivion.<br><br>Slam down the wall dividing us all.<br><br>What once was a sun<br>Now a spinning blackhole<br>To late to escape <br>As it sucks at my soul<br>Only hope of escape<br>unrecognizable shape<br>divided by fate<br>Sever connections<br><br>Slam down the wall dividing us all.<br><br>Entwined electrons<br>Intuitive leaps<br>No longer presumed<br>the journey resumed<br>Simplicity... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:31:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ To Dare or Not To Dare, That Is the Question ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Motivation<br>Temptation<br>Captivation<br>Sensation<br>Elation<br>Misplaced<br>the dance spins out of control,<br>Reality and dreams entwined<br>a frantic search for truth<br>or at least a meeting of the minds.<br>Mental stimulation, epiphany<br>thoughts melding in a symphony<br>spiraling upward<br>faster and faster<br>to heights not yet explored.<br>Exploding<br>in reality<br>Destroyed, Reborn?<br>Gone?<br>Or left wanting more?<br>What is<br>What could never... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2002 20:28:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Through the Looking Glass ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ in a forest made of crystal ice<br>glittering diamond rainbows<br>seen by the light of the moon<br>in the middle of a field<br>with a bonfire roaring to the sky<br>out of control<br>faces seen through the flames<br>dancing as the layers are peeled<br>back one by one<br>the music providing rythmic background<br>as the beat pulses<br>in time to the words<br>taking you<br>to the core of the world<br>where you thought to find nothingness<br>to reflect the emptiness felt<br>when instead<br><br>but... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2001 14:17:59 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Safe Harbor ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Witches have no power over <br>those they can not see or feel... <br>Walls have more than one use... <br>There is more than one kind of wall...<br>The walls may be perceived...<br>what they protect is hidden. <br><br>Camouflage was put in place a long time ago, attacks against it dissipate <br>and ricochet back to the source.<br><br>There is room for more then one... <br>Hold my hand and you will be safe <br>from the witches...<br>Just believe and you will be safe, <br>They have no power to... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2001 14:14:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Duality of Personality ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The duality of personality<br>Ignorance of innocence<br>perceived as arrogance by<br>those choosing not to know.<br><br>What's once perceived as solid, real<br>Was all just in your head<br>manipulation, tribulation<br>agitation, stress.<br><br>Dancing, weaving, self deceiving<br>Spinning, singing, wining being<br>actors, playing out their parts<br>partners in unending farce.<br><br>What's hidden from perception<br>There must be no deception<br>hold the mirror to your soul,<br>exposed to help... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2001 14:12:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Demons, Warriors &amp; Little Girls ]]></title>
			<link>http://fortressoflight.yuku.com/topic/1508/t/Demons-Warriors-amp-Little-Girls.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Chains are broken <br>free at last<br>Honor served by questions asked.<br><br>Solitary warrior clings to the past<br>and guards the empty castle.<br><br>Doors without and doors within<br>Is it just life or is it sin? <br>Protected, guarded, hidden deep<br>as he sits and cannot sleep.<br>Where echoes solemnly do swear<br>to treasures lost to deep despair.<br>The warrior knows they are not there<br>but guard he must, both day and night<br>bound to his post by honor's weight<br>alert and... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2001 14:10:36 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Children Believe in Cute White Bunnies ]]></title>
			<link>http://fortressoflight.yuku.com/topic/1497/t/Children-Believe-in-Cute-White-Bunnies.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Children believe in cute white bunnies,<br>Heaven above and Sunday funnies.<br>Children believe in shooting stars,<br>Pirates gold and candy bars.<br><br>Adults dream of what could be <br>and daily face reality.<br>Adults know its not all true<br>some good, some bad, and so do you.<br><br>The pain is real, so are the tears,<br>together we can face our fears.<br>Far better one in mind and heart <br>then two alone vast worlds apart.<br><br>So give us room to fly and soar<br>No telling what's... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2001 14:07:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dialogue With A Teddy Bear ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Mutters under breath, Damn, Teddy Bear, wont let me keep my mind on my work, there are bills to pay Damn It!  I need to concentrate, get out of the damn hole I dug myself into.  I dont need to spend my time worry about stupid teddy bears.  None of my business anymore anyway.  Its not as if its mine or anything.  Cant return affection, its just a teddy bear after all.  Just another dumb teddy bear.  There are thousands of teddy bears out there in better shape then this one.  Its not as if it... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2001 07:46:04 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prepubescent Summertime Content ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ &quot;Go on, get your nose out of those books and go play outside for a while.&quot;<br><br>Walking out past the flagstoned patio, with wild blue bells aggressively lodged in the cracks, flagpole soaring, stripes and stars vivid against the light blue summer sky.  Puffy clouds wandering here and there for accent.  Up and over the low wall, pausing on top to see the mountains going on and on into the distance, hot stone warming bare feet, the silvery leaves of the birches making a natural... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2001 07:44:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Firefly Spiral ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I dance on the wind<br>and soar to the stars<br>bathed in shimmering light<br>hair wreathed in fire<br>as fireflies spiral in bright golden haze.<br>From my Fingertips<br><br>Extending my arms<br>I drink in the night<br>in the shine of the moon<br>by the forest's life light.<br>I Listen<br><br>The breeze through the leaves<br>sweeps me away<br>and the scents in the glen<br>all celebrate.<br>Life<br><br>My reach extends <br>to the heavens above<br>to the roots of the trees<br>to the sea in the... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:59:38 GMT</pubDate>
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