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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:52:34 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: It Doesn't Seem Like Christmas</title>
      <link>http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?5,212993,232026#msg-232026</link>
      <author>UPMarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hmm, I remember this one too, Joe, and can't figure why I didn't comment.  I think you've had at least one addition to your family since this was written and I hope you'll be spending time with at least some, if not all, of your kids/grandkids this holiday season.

I'm listening to gorgeous piano Christmas music on Pandora radio on the PC and cooking in preparation for our meal tomorrow night.  It's nice to see your post because I always think of my e-mule friends just as endearingly as those with whom we gather at this time of year.  The mule's been more quiet than past years so I'm glad for your holiday post.

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Mary]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:52:34 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: It Doesn't Seem Like Christmas</title>
      <link>http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?5,212993,232025#msg-232025</link>
      <author>hpesoj</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Bump...thanks for the idea, Mary.

Merry Christmas to all.

JosephT]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:14:39 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Perhaps, when I speak a name</title>
      <link>http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?5,232003,232024#msg-232024</link>
      <author>marflow</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Mary
Thanks for your kind comments.  I try to achieve good artistry with poems, and sometimes it works.  It is nice to know when it does. 

all the best to you and yours,
Marflow]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:12:28 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[General Discussion] Re: Notes on the poetic process</title>
      <link>http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?4,231757,232023#msg-232023</link>
      <author>abbeytallbert</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Nice topic. Thanks for the ideas....


By
Abbeytallbert
[url=http://www.bestofcolleges.com]Bestofcolleges in US[/url]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:17:20 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Angels Sing</title>
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      <author>UPMarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks, Joe.  I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas too!

Mary]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:25:53 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Angels Sing</title>
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      <author>hpesoj</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I definitely remember this, Mary.  Why I didn't comment on it 5 years ago is a mystery.  Nevertheless, this is truly excellent and could surely could be a Christmas carol as Christy said.  You know I appreciate rhythm and rhyme and this presents both very well.  Merry Christmas.

Joe]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:34:05 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: We Never Go There</title>
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      <author>mg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[:) Thank you, Peter.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:26:07 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Laden</title>
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      <author>mg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I like that Peter. Thanks for coming by.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:00:53 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Hints</title>
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      <author>UPMarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[There is nothing about your poems that needs tolerating, Peter. Some are just more available to me as a reader than others. This is one such poem and why I would venture to comment intricately.

It is, indeed, all in the empathetic moment.

Good to hear the toe is better and all the rest.

Mary]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:10:11 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Hints</title>
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      <author>petersz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Mary,

I hope the world gets a little better each day, to offset what  makes it so bad some days.   Everything good in my life is 'gravy.'  My faith is in the grace of the universe.  Joy is always joy, even on bad days.  My toe's healing.  My friends and chilkdren are particularly good to me...and I am witness to how special human beings can be almost every day of my life.  So if I gripe once in a while in my poems, I hope people can tolerate that, take it as a sign that even the good can get better and that we always need to be vigilant against the bastards.

amo,

Peter

Not a system at all…deeper than that...meaning intuition.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:58:44 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Hints</title>
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      <author>UPMarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Peter,

I hadn't really looked closely at this piece before wicked bumped it.  I find it particularly capturing in a foreboding way. It appeals to my intuitive side and the word &quot;harbinger&quot; comes to mind.  It's a poem I could explore in depth, tell you what I like about it and what gives me a little trouble, but not sure that is always what someone wants (or needs).

Hope all is well.

Mary]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:06:02 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Laden</title>
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      <author>petersz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I wish to forget
and the effort is colored
with wishfulness,
wahing away the forgetfulness
again.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:23:19 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: We Never Go There</title>
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      <author>petersz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[mg,

You focus on the specific turn in the piece where the speaker shifts from political polemics to poetic vision.  Good work.

amo,

Peter]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:20:49 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[Lost Poetry Quotations] Re: Blake Quotation</title>
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      <author>misterF</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Marian

Blake was, I think, talking about his painting. Before the bit of the letter you have quoted, he says: 'I know that this world is a world of imagination and vision ... I see everything I paint in this world,but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser .........'

So, I imagine his point is that, in the paintings of Blake you will find the unique vision of Blake.

The context is that Trusler had commissioned a drawing from Blake,but rejected the final piece, because Blake had been too “fanciful.” Blake is defending his artistic vision and mocking Trusler’s insistence that he follow a more traditional style.

Oh, that Blake ...

As a Yorkshireman permanently exiled to Kent, I hope that you like Warwickshire - because they never let you back in you know!

Nice to see you back here.

Stephen Fryer]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:03:27 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[General Discussion] Re: After by Robert Browning</title>
      <link>http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?4,231964,232012#msg-232012</link>
      <author>misterF</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Date is around 1855 - from his masterpiece of his middle period, Men and Women.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:39:05 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: We Never Go There</title>
      <link>http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?5,231998,232011#msg-232011</link>
      <author>mg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;I heard the sparrow waiting for its turn
When the world turned away from us to
Fill itself with black water and dust in our eyes&quot;

Beautiful poem. I love this. 

mg]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:03:27 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Hints</title>
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      <author>wickedd</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Love this... 

~ 

wicked]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:16:06 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[Lost Poetry Quotations] Blake Quotation</title>
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      <author>marian222</author>
      <description><![CDATA['Blake showed powerfully that what we see in the world is a reflection of ourselves. In a letter to Dr Trusler, 23 August 1799 Blake wrote:
“To the eyes of a miser a Guinea is more beautiful than the sun.
“The tree which moves some things to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way.”
“As a man is, so he sees” '

The above is an extract from a short  online essay on the poetry of William Blake and how he saw the world – I assume that the three quotes are all from the letter mentioned, but they may be from different sources – had seen lower 2 combined in  a piece of calligraphy in an exhibition with just the attribution 'Blake'  and was trying to find ‘the complete poem’ – looks as though there isn’t one! 

If anyone knows anything more about the quote or can confirm/refute/amplify the source, I'd be grateful.

Haven't been on this site for ages, largely due to problems with access and then we've just moved across the country from Yorks to Warwickshire in pursuit of salary and pension, and had a run of minor misfortunes to keep me busy - glad that it seems to have livened up a bit in my absence.  Will try to help with a few of the new unsolved quote queries when I've a bit more time.  Best regards to the regulars

Marian]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:24:54 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Laden</title>
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      <author>mg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Mary, thank you for reading and commenting. You're right, definitely easier said than done. 

mg]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:57:45 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Laden</title>
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      <author>UPMarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Easier said than done, mg.  I can relate to the feelings of loss expressed here.

Mary]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:38:17 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Laden</title>
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      <author>mg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Laden

I must not think too much
Surrounded by colors, textures, objects... 
I must avoid the tempting triggers 
That would have me reminisce 

Must not dissect the choices
Nor mark the endings
It is all too sad, too hard 
And still too raw 

Joy clothes the simple 
And so I must look back
When feelings, old appendages 
Grow cold, numb and dead

My antidote. I will forget.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:55:27 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Perhaps, when I speak a name</title>
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      <author>UPMarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[And in going back to look at the title, wow, I love that too because it only adds yet another layer.  Super.

Mary]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:49:54 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Perhaps, when I speak a name</title>
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      <author>UPMarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[ratamacues, now that's an interesting word.  I really love this, marflow. There is  much to applaud within this piece with your vivid descriptions and how clearly you are saying something by showing it, not saying it, the contrast, the psychology, the feeling it gives off, and how it flows.  It is lovely read aloud. Really nice.

Mary]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:44:42 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Perhaps, when I speak a name</title>
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      <author>marflow</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Mine is like the rain, 
when it hits panes of glass
As taps and ratamacues
thinning out to coat the facade
and fills the world with noise
of bended light and twisted landscape.

Hers is like gently falling snow
Whispered from a warm, moist maw
when we speak a lover’s name,
Flecks that linger in the still air,
past the time when we speak it 
over and again,
accumulate until they adhere 
to the distal points of limbs and petals.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:32:21 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: Angels Sing</title>
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      <author>UPMarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Bump for the season.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:34:31 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: What I Heard When the Music Stopped</title>
      <link>http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?5,231982,232001#msg-232001</link>
      <author>UPMarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Peter,

If not for your poetry, I wouldn't have done it. Thanks for being here and thanks for the inspiration. At times it seems that without you, e-mule would be no more. Thanks again.

Mary]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:03:04 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: What I Heard When the Music Stopped</title>
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      <author>petersz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I like what you did.

Peter]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:27:21 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: What I Heard When the Music Stopped</title>
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      <author>UPMarty</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Peter, you instigated, uhem...cough, cough, rather inspired, a poem.


When the Music Stopped


I waited by the window for you-
Mumbled to myself at the cracks in the sidewalk,
at the uneven surfaces 
that are the path to my door.

The night you touched my memory
The clouds filled with promise,
I rose above the shards of regret, 
Could not feel my feet.

I was taken by that moment,
Or gave myself away-
The equation was mispelled
Or a spell, like the die, was cast.

&quot;jacta alea est!&quot;

You said you didn't want to &quot;go there&quot;
Because there'd be no turning back,
But I was already there.
It wasn't a tactile experience.

Then you changed the radio station
When I was at the wheel,
Without so much as a word
For the song I was singing....

I changed it back once,
But a thousand times
For each time I didn't.
You turned up the volume.

Your embrace went cold like the bathwater,
You kissed me goodnight under the threshold
Like tomorrow was already here-
Like today was yesterday's news.

It wore me down, wore me out
Until you said I hadn't kicked you
To the curb......&quot;yet&quot;.
I put you out with the cat.

I waited by the window for you-
Mumbling to myself at the cracks in the sidewalk,
At the broken path of might have been,
My son needs his time.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:18:56 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] We Never Go There</title>
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      <author>petersz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[We Never Go There

I heard the song of hope sung
When I was young and strong and helpless
Before the sound of the engines of war
Filled the ears of another and another generation
Waiting for the promise -- before the words
Were forgotten in preambles and death marches
And holy visions of someone else’s tomorrows.
I heard the sparrow waiting for its turn
When the world turned away from us to
Fill itself with black water and dust in our eyes.
What’s going on?  The plastic dreams
Rising through blue skies and failed accomplishments
Intended for someone else’s grandchildren…they never came.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:53:06 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>[User Submitted Poetry] Re: 939</title>
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      <author>petersz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[thanks, Mary,  hope I get there.  Hope we all get ther.

amo,

Peter]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:51:55 -0600</pubDate>
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