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  <title>Mining the Mind</title>
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<updated>2003-11-07T02:38:26Z</updated>
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  <name>User 262</name>
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   <title>To: today</title>
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   <summary type="text">Blending the Medley  A top performer. More than meets the eye. Psychic Transformer. Optimus Spry.  Frequency modulator. Epiphic moderator.  Spinning the top. Setting the bottom. Painting the stop. Fall into Autumn.  Ohm, so you hear A female dear. J, a drop of  Golden son.  Tic...</summary>
   <content type="html" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[<a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v262/__show_article/_a000262-000020.htm"><img src="https://newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic-sm/262/000262-000020.jpg" title="Category: Thoughts" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0"  alt="picture" /></a><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Nun in the Habit (a Looney tune)<br/><br/>Hey diddle doddle!<br/>The frog and the bottle,<br/>My smokes drifted up by two loons.<br/>What a piddle of cash,<br/>In a puddle of poor,<br/>And the price'll go up again soon.<br/>]]></content>
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   <published>2003-11-07T02:38:26Z</published>
   <updated>2003-11-07T02:40:13Z</updated>
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   <title>Note to Self</title>
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   <summary type="text">I am trapped fire Self-contained Unleashing myself upon you  I am an enigma Scatter-brained Oh what am I gonna do?  I see the light In, out, in, out A mission to misconstrue  Smoke is a'rising Staring woodenly at logs I breathe the whispers true  Aiyee! Wake UP! If you steeped in ...</summary>
   <content type="html" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[<img src="https://newciv.org/pic/nl/catpic/262/4.gif" title="Category: Thoughts" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" alt="category picture" /><br/><br/><br/>Crazy Today<br/><br/>A skeleton of an idea<br/>Talking in bones<br/>Legal visitation<br/>Expanding homes<br/><br/>A nation arisen<br/>Resonation<br/>Compass points<br/>Communication<br/><br/>Chiddy Chiddy<br/>Bang bang<br/>Knock knock<br/>Who's there?<br/><br/>A vesper<br/>Ai vested<br/>Invested?<br/>Aye!<br/><br/>Hump d' Dump<br/>Jump or fall?<br/>Truth that lies<br/>On the wall<br/><br/>Pink or Freud?<br/>Black or white bull?<br/>Soda Fresca<br/>Yoda light full<br/><br/>I think writing poetry has much akin to gardening. Sometimes you must prune your ideas to promote the growth of your expression.<br/>]]></content>
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   <published>2003-11-06T04:01:49Z</published>
   <updated>2003-11-06T06:49:14Z</updated>
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   <title>The Soldier</title>
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   <summary type="text">I don't know what inspired me to write this poem all of a sudden. It is about a friend I once had. He returned to London after a few years of active service in the U.S. military. I saw him again about two months ago, for the first time in over a year. I lost him. I don't know if he'll find himself. </summary>
   <content type="html" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[<img src="https://newciv.org/pic/nl/catpic/262/4.gif" title="Category: Thoughts" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" alt="category picture" />Waning Shoulders<br/><br/>Beach ball knee'd<br/>An iron tree<br/>Train'd diving in<br/>Insanity<br/><br/>Faces in the dirt<br/>Bullets in his back<br/>Who in hell'd involve him in<br/>Chasing an attack?<br/><br/>Friends have fallen far from him<br/>Uniform the grave<br/>Against hot-leaded harbringers<br/>The struggle theirs to save<br/><br/>Swearing thousands lying there<br/>Lies that, which he still clings to<br/>Choking back on all his fears<br/>The black, black honest truth<br/><br/>I'm no good- I'm not no more<br/>I am the one who I abhor<br/>With blood-stained intentions sore<br/>I'm sealing up my door<br/><br/>Swords to plowshares<br/>Guns to grain<br/>Come back! Come back!<br/>Don't die in vain!<br/><br/>I pushed him through a window once<br/>Or twice I don't remember<br/>Shattered friendship cutting deep<br/>The fall into November<br/><br/>Oh dear world forsake him not<br/>A herring in the rain<br/>Cheer bring cheers upon chi ears<br/>Rejuvenate from pain<br/><br/>Forgive me now<br/>He battles still<br/>Fight me no more<br/>Forever will]]></content>
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   <published>2003-11-05T02:43:01Z</published>
   <updated>2003-11-05T02:43:01Z</updated>
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   <title>Meditating</title>
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   <summary type="text">I was named Godfather to Benjamin Behrens Maurice Nault on Thursday, October 23, 2003. I am slightly overwhelmed; completely at a loss for words to express everything I am feeling. I can only try. I am struggling to grasp an entire array on new ideas and thoughts while plunging my being into an ol...</summary>
   <content type="html" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[<a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v262/__show_article/_a000262-000016.htm"><img src="https://newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic-sm/262/000262-000016.jpg" title="Category: Thoughts" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0"  alt="picture" /></a>I was named Godfather to Benjamin Behrens Maurice Nault on Thursday, October 23, 2003. I am slightly overwhelmed; completely at a loss for words to express everything I am feeling. I can only try. I am struggling to grasp an entire array on new ideas and thoughts while plunging my being into an old perspective of innocence. Who am I? I am lost. I am not confident in who I am or I wouldn't be aware of my faults. Of course, this leads into an opening as to what I can do to change. However, I am so unsure of how to employ myself in this world to manage my debts and be clear of the past. Sometimes the things I say may SOUND intelligent, but I assure you, I have an outer dullard who is numb to this reality. But then, moments of clarity, shortly burning away as my awareness connects with something greater...]]></content>
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   <published>2003-10-26T05:39:43Z</published>
   <updated>2003-10-26T05:39:43Z</updated>
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   <title>In Case of Emergency, Remember 911</title>
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   <summary type="text">A Universe divided. Two sides to hijacked planes. With three dimensions of the wreckage To tribute the insane.  Borne forth, it's time that you return, Embracing all your senses. I've got five upon the sixes, Erasing the dementia.  Both our twins died on the pyre, Where the blinded ragi...</summary>
   <content type="html" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[<img src="https://newciv.org/pic/nl/catpic/262/4.gif" title="Category: Thoughts" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" alt="category picture" />A Universe divided.<br/>Two sides to hijacked planes.<br/>With three dimensions of the wreckage<br/>To tribute the insane.<br/><br/>Borne forth, it's time that you return,<br/>Embracing all your senses.<br/>I've got five upon the sixes,<br/>Erasing the dementia.<br/><br/>Both our twins died on the pyre,<br/>Where the blinded raging crashes;<br/>And set the unaware on fire,<br/>Moving forward from the ashes.<br/><br/>Wake up! Arise! Realize!<br/>The moment is the season.<br/>Sit your ego in the back seat now,<br/>While I speak to your reason.<br/><br/>The past encroaches on us now,<br/>Let's reclaim our innocence.<br/>Guilt is cleansed by love of life,<br/>Let the lies lay in past tense.<br/><br/>Made captive once within a word.<br/>An idea inside a frame.<br/>Yet freedom dwells throughout the core,<br/>Where we are all the same.<br/><br/>Are you aware of what you are?<br/>Or wonder who am I?<br/>Whose eyes do you drink in the flames through<br/>The bitter tears you cry?<br/><br/>I transcend ideas of nothing,<br/>Stripped bare without a form.<br/>Where all once was unified,<br/>We ride the eye of the storm.<br/><br/>We're all in the well with the dreamer,<br/>Drawing up identity. <br/>I share with you these thoughts of mine,<br/>While focus here is lent to me.<br/><br/>Our purpose here is to create,<br/>Joy empowers what she sells.<br/>Ever since time here began,<br/>Hatching shells inside of shells.<br/><br/>Existence does in fact exist,<br/>In the presence of the now.<br/>As always, so it ever will.<br/>The question though is how?<br/><br/>If you wish to see the heavens,<br/>Just take this little pill.<br/>Luck will always turn up sevens,<br/>Once we've journeyed up the hill.<br/><br/>No one else can rescue you.<br/>Or save you from your cell.<br/>But those who care may help you there.<br/>Our sharing transforms hell.<br/><br/>Please do not go back to sleep,<br/>Before you fully wake.<br/>Eternal promises to keep.<br/>The future is at stake.<br/>]]></content>
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   <published>2003-10-14T02:17:37Z</published>
   <updated>2003-10-14T03:29:38Z</updated>
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   <title>Gaze</title>
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   <summary type="text">The hidden watcher's eyes appear....</summary>
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   <published>2003-10-01T19:36:49Z</published>
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   <title>The Exchange</title>
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   <summary type="text">In the twilight hour, The sun fell in love with the earth. A new day followed in their wake.</summary>
   <content type="html" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[<a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v262/__show_article/_a000262-000013.htm"><img src="https://newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic-sm/262/000262-000013.jpg" title="Category: Inspiration" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0"  alt="picture" /></a>In the twilight hour,<br/>The sun fell in love with the earth.<br/>A new day followed in their wake.]]></content>
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   <published>2003-09-30T15:46:59Z</published>
   <updated>2003-09-30T19:58:12Z</updated>
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   <title>A Candle on the Rocks</title>
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   <summary type="text">Profit  If I could sell my thoughts, To your understanding, I'd will to build you a bridge. If I could sell my vision, To your awareness, I'd will to light up the dark. If I could sell my sense, To your reason, I'd will that all was made clear. If I could sell my love, To your heart, ...</summary>
   <content type="html" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[<a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v262/__show_article/_a000262-000012.htm"><img src="https://newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic-sm/262/000262-000012.jpg" title="Category: Inspiration" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0"  alt="picture" /></a>This painting is for sale :)]]></content>
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   <published>2003-09-29T14:29:35Z</published>
   <updated>2003-09-29T19:10:28Z</updated>
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   <title>Centering The Eye</title>
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   <summary type="text">Real Eyes  I have real eyes Dimension I see Upon the planes In time.  Real eyes My senses see Aware on the planes My reason.  Real eyes Beauty I see Shares dimension with sense And love.  </summary>
   <content type="html" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[<a href="https://newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v262/__show_article/_a000262-000011.htm"><img src="https://newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic-sm/262/000262-000011.jpg" title="Category: Inspiration" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0"  alt="picture" /></a>Real Eyes<br/><br/>I have real eyes<br/>Dimension I see<br/>Upon the planes<br/>In time.<br/><br/>Real eyes<br/>My senses see<br/>Aware on the planes<br/>My reason.<br/><br/>Real eyes<br/>Beauty I see<br/>Shares dimension with sense<br/>And love.<br/> ]]></content>
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   <published>2003-09-29T01:06:10Z</published>
   <updated>2003-09-29T20:31:55Z</updated>
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  <entry>
   <title>The Subject</title>
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   <summary type="text">I was attempting to draw something else when I started. Perhaps I will paint it instead.</summary>
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   <published>2003-09-28T17:53:20Z</published>
   <updated>2003-09-28T17:54:04Z</updated>
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