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		<title>The Busy World</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2011/03/20/the-busy-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the canyon I can wile away my days. The sun rises and sets, and I listen to the soughing breeze in the oaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A chapter 'On Beauty' from the Kahlil Gibran masterpiece 'The Prophet'  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry for a dark winter day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a stormy time here now. the forest around us moans like a freight train.. I heard the snap of a tree and looked up in time to see it crash to the ground. Wind and rain compel me inside.... and I looked for poetry befitting the mood induced by dark roiling clouds, and interminable howling winds.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A windy day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride." ~Charles Godfrey Leland "It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils." ~John Masefield "If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." ~Kahlil Gibran  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Door of the Morning Mist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would that I could gather your houses into my hand, and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow. Would the valleys were your streets, and the green paths your alleys, that you might seek one another through vineyards, and come with the fragrance of the earth in your garments. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/05/24/on-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 23:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That's why I keep on lovin' you I keep on lovin' you Through the baby don't leave mes And never will agains And I promise tos I keep on lovin' you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Master&#8217;s Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 13:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the room far back a gray bearded man Came forward and picked up the bow, Then wiping the dust from the old violin And tightening up the strings, He played a melody, pure and sweet As sweet as the angel sings.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please don&#8217;t let my dreams run dry&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/05/19/please-dont-let-my-dreams-run-dry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 02:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've been oranically certified since 1993.... This is one song that runs right into and through me... All I want to do is grow cactus, and live in this beautiful, quiet, remote canyon. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pickin&#8217; Wildflowers</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/05/14/pickin-wildflowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baby, what'cha say we go pickin wildflowers? Got a spot way back in the woods... sneak away for a couple of hours you and me baby, pickin wildflowers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>thousand miles from nowhere</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/03/19/thousand-miles-from-nowhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are roads, but they do not reach the world; since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts? [...]]]></description>
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