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		<title>Au Revoir &#8211; Susan Swain Tabor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Au Revoir By Susan Swain Tabor Church bells softly chiming I watch you this morning So early, up so early, Walking alone in the apple orchard Slowly looking at the blossom-laden Branches, branches so heavy with blooms. You stop, smell them, your strong arm reaches up Gently pulling them down, down towards you To breathe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divining Water &#8211; Ken Powell</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Divining Water By Ken Powell Sometimes, O God, we do not know How dehydrated we really are. Bone-dry, depleted, Parched of spirit. Show us how and where To seek your water, we pray. Give us the will to want to drink More deeply and fully of your Spirit. Thank you for the well Of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Linden Tree &#8211; Ilse Kramer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Linden Tree By Ilse Kramer I sit in the shade Of the linden tree Where I long ago lost my childhood I am back I am wearing The ladybug dress And I know that my cheeks Are cardinal-red I have pigtails With ribbons But they do not make me What I once was The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Insert Keeps Falling &#8211; Ilse Kramer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Insert Keeps Falling By Ilse Kramer The insert slides out of my program. I know this is not my day. Tom politely retrieves it. Thank you Tom. Oops. No, not again! I am going to get it myself. My head is under the pew And I miss what goes on “In the Life of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eyes Have It &#8211; Rose Dunlap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Eyes Have It By Rose Dunlap Bees are good for the country, I bet you don’t know why. Because they make honey, And isn’t it funny, They also make flowers And don’t even try. And that’s why the bees are good for the country, Hooray, hooray, hooray. And do you know what else? I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Lily Pond &#8211; Claudia Demick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red Lily Pond By Claudia Demick The lilies of the field Neither sow nor spin But The lilies of This pond This watery field Spin and twirl Dip and move In their Elegant, windy dance. No mere sprinkling of Baptismal waters for you! The ripples Immerse And baptize you In watery Splendor. Claudia Demick is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lonely Moon &#8211; Ilse Kramer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lonely Moon By Ilse Kramer All stars have fallen And the moon is lonely My Lord My Lord Upend me Pour out the bitter I am calling you Lonely moon Let us be soul mates Ilse Kramer, Central’s Poet Laureate, once visited the Grand Canyon]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Julia &#8211; Rev.Leonard Swain</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Wed. morn. Dear Julia I have just walked down to the Bible House with Mr. Clapp and while he is opening and reading his thirty or forty morning letters I will write a word to you to tell you that I made my journey with safety and comfort and am this morning quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Wrong &#8211; Rose Dunlap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 17:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dead Wrong By Rose Dunlap The lady in church with the curls Remembers me, Mama, of you. I love you, But you are so wrong sometimes. That wasn’t a sauna At the hotel. Don’t you know What a hot-a-tub looks like? And don’t tell me That we are in America, I know that we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hedge Hogs – Tom Viall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 16:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hedge Hogs By Tom Viall The Good Hedge Hogs live in a quilted spread In a nest, in a box at the foot of my bed. When the weather’s fair and my day has been bright The Good Hedge Hogs come out and stay for the night. They climb up the sheets and over [...]]]></description>
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