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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 20:11:18 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Eternity</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/34346.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:50:55 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Phyllis Belden</creator>
			<hits>88</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ Soft light at the end of a tunnel.
Sleep like I have never known.
A storm of weeping and shouting.
Pain strikes at every part of me.
  

Darkness. Someone holds my hand 
And cries out my name.&...  ]]> 
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			<title>A Thanksgiving  Letter</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/25341.html</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:43:59 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Phyllis Belden</creator>
			<hits>157</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ I'm glad there is an official day, but I'm a fan of living

every day grateful for my blessings.

So to start, here is what I am NOT grateful for...
  


I'm not grateful for the things I own,...  ]]> 
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			<title>The Hermit</title> 
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:04:16 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Lee Parent</creator>
			<hits>164</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ &nbsp;
High on the top of a towering hill
The hermit solemnly meditates in the cool still
Quiet of twilight. The stars begin
To appear in abundant splendor as the old sage ends
His silent prayers...  ]]> 
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			<title>My Song For You</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/22166.html</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:44:22 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Lee Parent</creator>
			<hits>164</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ Well I've always wanted to write a song
But I never thought it would take so long
Or be so hard to do.

I had to wait till I was thirty-seven
Till I had done everything between hell and heaven
T...  ]]> 
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			<title>Keep The Fizzle In the Champaign</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/22123.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:18:45 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Dr. Billi Dixon, DD</creator>
			<hits>350</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ You'll have to woo your wife again,
And then again, and then again,
As many times as there are times
A well-worn silence tells you when. 

You'll have to play the lover new,
All hot to touch and...  ]]> 
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			<title>A Love That's True</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/22120.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:05:40 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Dr. Billi Dixon, DD</creator>
			<hits>358</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ â€œA LOVE THATâ€™S TRUEâ€

If loveâ€™s not always there for you,
Then thatâ€™s a love thatâ€™s never true.

Though words may often say a lot-
If not put to action,-
Then truth-theyâ€™re not.
...  ]]> 
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			<title>Best Friends In Love</title> 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:50:45 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Dr. Billi Dixon, DD</creator>
			<hits>424</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ â€œBest Friends In Loveâ€

Joy is in the simple things: touching,
Embracing, chattering on for hours about nothing,
Sure of your place within another's heart.

Simple things: like coming home k...  ]]> 
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			<title>Everyday Blessings in Color</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/21974.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:13:55 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Phyllis Belden</creator>
			<hits>171</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ Everyday Blessings in Color

by: Phyllis Elaine Belden

The Yellow Sun rising over the Azure Blue Lake.

Red Cardinals feasting on Black Sunflower Seeds.

Gold and Purple Finches,
 
joining ...  ]]> 
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			<title>My first poem in English when I did not know how man comes to earth..</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/20519.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:20:25 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Schanie Khanna</creator>
			<hits>159</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ This was my first poem years back when as a child I was desperately looking for a clear answer to how man comes to earth. Unable to ask seniors or lay my hands on a book that will explain clearly, I a...  ]]> 
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			<title>Sacrament</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/19558.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:36:11 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Jill Davidson</creator>
			<hits>180</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ Two become one with heartfelt vows;
Two souls unite to share one life.
They make as one a blessed home
In the eyes of God, as man and wife.

Two paths become one destiny;
Two sweet longings now ...  ]]> 
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			<title>Tell Us A Story</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/18721.html</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:09:25 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Lee Parent</creator>
			<hits>102</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ My grandma was a teller of stories.  As a young child she would spend what seemed like hours telling stories to my cousins and me.  We were greatly influenced by her stories.  Years ago I decided to t...  ]]> 
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			<title>Memories</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/10207.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:02:23 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Phyllis Belden</creator>
			<hits>171</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ MEMORIES



Mom, washing clothes by hand.

Dad, he thought he was a bear;    

And inside he "" was ", a teddy bear.

Church, where my soul was saved forever.

Mamaw, with her bear hugs.
...  ]]> 
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			<title>Congratulations!</title> 
			<link>http://www.apsense.com/subject/10197.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:17:37 GMT</pubDate> 
			<creator>Cindy Bolley</creator>
			<hits>145</hits>
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			<![CDATA[ Good Job Phyllis,
Please post your poem here so we can all see it

Cindy  ]]> 
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