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			<title><![CDATA[ Thin House ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Starved full to empty<br>famished and flayed; <br>gnawed at by stark <br>egoic, &quot;ME!&quot; absurdities<br>tightening <br>round my fat.<br><br>Thin houses;<br>&quot;ME&quot; mites hollow our clay to hull<br>in the face and blaze of that third eye.<br>How much more then, &quot;Enough!&quot;<br>til it be said well <br>done?<br><br>2/17/09 <br><br> ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ My Poemies ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I am 24, am experiencing Huntingtons disease symptoms. My family is one of the few in the world who have early onset. I was a Nurse before I got sick. I made a positive, comprehensive website. It has a blog, care giving tips, ways to fight brain fog, myths, my story, my families story, history, and ways to have a positive testing experience. I also put on there the poems I got published in the horizon. I have won 13 web awards.<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Prayer Of A Writer ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Prayer of a Writer<br><br>Dear God!<br>I want the world <br>to be a better place.<br>I have so many nice things to<br>tell the world! <br>So-<br>Let my thoughts<br>turn into words,<br>let my words <br>turn into letters,<br>let my letters turn <br>into books <br>and let my <br>books be known all<br>over the world and <br>may peace come soon<br>in our times. Amen.<br><br>Aaron<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://helpwithyouressay.com/">helpwithyouressay.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Losing You ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Let it triumph on<br>Let the pain press on<br>And build it's own armies<br>Arm your heart against the evasive enemy<br>Arm it with a strong shield<br>March to the beat of your mental drummer<br>Then sound the cry<br>Lay it low<br>With the other unknowns ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:57:14 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Pen Runs Dry ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Sinking into silence wordless<br>Trapped in a solitary prison<br>Like a criminal in a hollow cell<br>Wrung out and strung out<br>Reeking of rat odors<br>Shaking the bars barely<br>Breathing<br>Clinging to a lonely sentence<br>Trembling from worn out words<br>A termite chews on my nerves<br>Flinging mad and singing sad<br>Suffering from a wilted pen<br>Chewing until the end<br>Freedom ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:17:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Unwrapping Him With Surprise ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ She unwraps him like a present<br>The ribbons seem much too gold<br>For her to ever dare to hold tightly<br>Tagged awards fly as the bright paper<br>Unfolds a judgement is celebrated again<br>Knowing that every passing holiday<br>She envelopes him like an unexpected gift... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:32:13 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Oceans Of Tomorrow's Promises ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Whipping whispering winds<br>Tossing rolling tipped spins<br>With an inundate of promises<br>That I may fly high with them<br>Gliding with the gracious gulls<br>Gallantly opening a locked door<br>Splicing waves weaving yesterday<br> Turning all that lies on the shore <br> And treasures on the ocean floor<br>Patterns of tomorrow and today<br>Always discovering what lies in store<br>For humanity's sake and the birds of prey<br><br> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:15:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Courage ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Can I really muster the courage to defy you and send you away?<br>Within my very being I know exactly what you <br>While you pursued me I feel in love with you, is this a card you played to ensure I would never stray?<br>I am not sure I have the courage to send you away.<br><br>Each night you visit me, but do I have the strength to say no?<br>When I attempt to do this I can't look into your eyes<br>If I do I will fall under your spell, then for sure I couldn't make you go<br>When it comes to... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Come With Me ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Come take my hand and I will take you away<br>To a land beyond sickness and pain<br>I will be your best friend, please let me stay<br>I will make you free as a horse's mane.<br><br>Come away with me<br>To the land beyond all logic<br>I promise you will be happy, just wait and see<br>Away from all the world's evil so thick.<br><br>Come with me ecstatic you will be<br>No more will you play life's devastating game<br>I will deliver you from life's bloody sea<br>You have everything to... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Arise My Love ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Arise my love and come back to me<br>I chant from the book of the dead from the valley of the kings<br>Five thousand years in the other world we have paid a fee<br>Together again in this life our hearts will sing.<br><br>Arise my love I chant over your wrapped body<br>Please the black chariot of death bring my love back to me<br>The soul you posses is so horrid and ungodly<br>But I would perform any sacrilege for our love again to be.<br><br>With you I shall unleash a demon from hell<br>But I... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ The Rider ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ As I leave my home for some fun and play<br>There seems to be some sort of evil stirring in the air<br>A chill is in the air so cold and gray<br>I'm saying to myself &quot;Go out if you dare.&quot;<br><br>I'm very frightened but don't know why<br>I look out the door, a man all dressed in black<br>His clothing as black as the night, I give out a terrible sigh<br>I'm trying to keep my emotions in tact.<br><br>But the feeling of death is in the moonles night<br>Making me tingle and shiver<br>Oh... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Night People ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The wind howls through the limbs of the wintery trees<br>The night people are now awake<br>To search out their naive prey as if they are saying to you &quot;Pay the fee&quot;<br>They feel any life they have the right to take.<br><br>They leave their unnatural graves<br>Excited about what they are about to do<br>To feed their appetites with blood they crave<br>Feeling justified in the evil they pursue<br>if they peruse.<br><br>A moon less night good for them<br>For now they are very hard to... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 03:03:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Stirred Passion ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I just can't believe the passion I feel<br>Two bodies intertwined as they express their love <br>Me, a creature of the night, I thought my feelings were blocked by a wall of steal<br>But I am going to let go, so I can feel as free as a dove.<br><br>The love, the ecstasy, and the fire I feel with you in my arms<br>I thought my feelings were long dead, just like me<br>But here I am getting ready to partake of your charms<br>I am on a physical high, and I don't want to come back to reality,... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:38:45 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Eve of Restless Souls for Halloween ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ So, here we are facing another year<br>The time of year, when leaves turn color, and spirits of the long dead, roam the Earth on one certain night<br>We must face this eerie night of souls without fear<br>On this one night, we pray for a moon so very bright.<br> <br>Each year, just like the last<br>Facing this eerie night of restless souls<br>The night to pay homage to those long gone from past<br>I am of the Celt, to stay away from the evil fairies, on this night is one of my major... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 02:43:12 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Freely ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Where do you come from? No one affects me the way you do<br>I didn't understand the word passion until I met you<br>There haven't been that many men in my life, only a few<br>Out of all the men in my life you are the only one to me that has remained true.<br><br>I am very aware what I must do to forever be with you<br>I made my choice unconditionally and without fear<br>I know I must die to cross over to another plane to be with you<br>I feebly make my choice no cares, no remorse, no... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:49:52 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Footsteps I Hear ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The old clock in the tower chimes as eerie sound<br>I try to hasten my walk across the bridge as it seems a fog bank has moved in<br>I walk faster as behind me I think I hear a sound<br>It sounds like distorted footsteps as they are distorted by the blowing wind.<br><br>The fog makes the street light illuminate an eerie haze<br>Making the feeling of fear and being afraid intensify<br>Now I'm at the park, that is good. because the paths here seem like an unending maze<br>Perhaps this will give... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:42:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Up Above ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I haven't lived here very long, so I'm not used to the sounds I hear<br>It sounds like screams of terror coming from the apartment above<br>I also hears thuds, what this is I'm not really clear<br>I bet the person that lives there wished they could fly away like a dove.<br><br>The sounds from above wake me from a deep sleep<br>So I am kind of groggy as I stumble around trying to find the light<br>With all this noise a corpse couldn't sleep<br>I walk into the bathroom and see the pipes are... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:49:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Depression Springs ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ It is spring in the city, snowing like a baby,<br>Laughing like a child clothed underneathe a<br>Woolen blanket blue is a fading skyline <br>The clock is set for the next feeding<br>Milk is 1/2 percent and the economy even poorer<br>A rich man leans against his camara pulling to balance<br>The scales by shining smiles so pure declining actors<br>Dressed in bagged costumes the depression sheds<br>tasteless tears as the bank teller windows evaporate<br>Before pleading pedestrian's eyes once... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:04:57 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pauline ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>Pretty Pauline<br>sits across the table,<br>painting her nails<br>pale pink.<br><br>When she is angry<br>she speaks in spanglish,<br>and paints like Pollock<br>on Benzedrine.<br><br>In love she paints<br>like Leonardo,<br>polished, patient,<br>and precise.<br><br>But today<br>she sits quietly,<br>painting her nails,<br>sad and broken hearted,<br><br>so I watch her shadow<br>climb the wall<br>as the sun sinks soft<br>inside us.<br><br><br><div class='signature'><a... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:45:03 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Secret Mantra ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>The Scarecrow sits<br>at the end of the bar<br>with five empty bottles,<br>like five empty lives,<br>drained and finished<br>without a future.<br><br>I take my place<br>before the altar<br>and recite<br>my secrete mantra,<br><br>a ceremonious <br>sigh of @#%$<br>as I shoot my first<br>shot of whiskey.<br><br>The bells of boredom toll.<br><br>The night lingers on<br>like a slow divorce.<br><br>2-3-4 shots of whiskey<br>and still the beauty<br>fails to wrap<br>its silken legs around... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:43:34 GMT</pubDate>
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