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		<title>ask any child</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a quiet neighborhood a simple philosophy: FUN MAKES LIFE WORTH LIVING ask any child ___ a response to WP&#8217;s Weekly Photo Challenge: Simple Filed under: photo, poem Tagged: children, fun, living, philosophy, poetry, simple, simplicity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=turtlememoir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14399455&amp;post=10397&amp;subd=turtlememoir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>borders? what borders?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[between the chain links of this fence where none may enter save hard-hatted men press knotted branches on which ride snow-white blossoms of an ornamental pear ___ for dVerse, combining today&#8217;s Poetics prompt with Thursday&#8217;s Raising the Bar; after William Carlos Williams Filed under: poem Tagged: between, borders, boundaries, fences, man-made, nature, poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=turtlememoir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14399455&amp;post=10381&amp;subd=turtlememoir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>that was then, this is now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in vain I dotted eye&#8217;s, crossed t(oe)&#8217;s kneeling at pews, reciting crisp evening prayers I mouthed resolutions to be good, be better soul dormant, half willing god to reel me in like any other fish, I feared to rise to bait, to surface, to make a spectacle of frag- (de-)mented self &#8230;but that was then, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=turtlememoir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14399455&amp;post=10318&amp;subd=turtlememoir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>aurora dances</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 early days&#8230; behind our silent house vast prairie night sky visible, heaven hosts a distant stage for children &#8211; temporary statues naming northern constellations: ursa major&#8217;n minor, cepheus, draco, cassiopeia, and suddenly that scene&#8217;s eclipsed &#8211; backdrop abandoned or, redimensioned but painted over by some nouveau artist in fluorescent pastels&#8230; and the colours jump [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=turtlememoir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14399455&amp;post=10094&amp;subd=turtlememoir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a thatched hut beside a bubbling stream a solitary gate forgotten by the crowd large rocks to sit on yogi-style or dangle legs in air or water small stones I gather in my hand and finger like a rosary that slows my breathing shorebirds by the fluttering thousands swoop, grope sand for evening&#8217;s meal a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=turtlememoir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14399455&amp;post=10223&amp;subd=turtlememoir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>journey into now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[and I remember how she gathered rose petals from the brown burial ground, small hands carrying them gently to their new resting place to lay them with a mother&#8217;s care on the grassy verge between their individual beds I remember she fashioned them then into a great huge heart, alive with colour&#8230; and how the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=turtlememoir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14399455&amp;post=10158&amp;subd=turtlememoir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[an image bedded in my consciousness: a long wall reaching far as I can see, electrical receptacles near either end at child&#8217;s knee height, a life-long stretch of cord between, pre-plugged at left and as I watch, right plugs in too, effortless, as if by invisible hand my eyes pop open to morning sun, mind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=turtlememoir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14399455&amp;post=10060&amp;subd=turtlememoir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>aubade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the thought of solstice nudged me out of bed with hours to spare before the dawn yawned, cracking open heavy shutters of the night at hint of light a solitary gull&#8217;s cry sped across the sky and wintering sparrows sang sweet te deum&#8217;s to their waker entranced, I hummed along (a Haydn version) then dressing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=turtlememoir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14399455&amp;post=10019&amp;subd=turtlememoir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ghosts of future past</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ghost figures discoursing in the square did you read the news today, see that poster hanging there&#8230; it&#8217;s time we had a care for our kids&#8217; future they stand there still, but shiver now in winter winds that robbed the elm &#8211; this huddled mass of branches bare of life two doors from the corner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=turtlememoir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14399455&amp;post=9997&amp;subd=turtlememoir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>dreams of purple</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In dream states I revisit Christmas past, still troubled by your unexplained departure No longer citizen, no longer hindered by earth&#8217;s stringent bonds, no longer prisoner you fly (or do you? I lag behind in knowing, not knowing quite what happened or why your luck turned sour&#8230; or is not knowing just a ruse, like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=turtlememoir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14399455&amp;post=9993&amp;subd=turtlememoir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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