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            <title>To My SoulMate</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To My SoulMate<br /><br />Posed to me one Summer Eve, was what I believe was a SoulMate to be<br />Mine pen set down, I found, what my mind believed this meant to me<br /><br />Through the ages of men we have thus been pondering this very thought<br />And I can do not better, not surpass what wise men know and I was taught<br /><br />A SoulMate is that person you trust and must decide for you what is best<br />Feel as though they know enough to choose for you, put your mind at rest<br /><br />A SoulMate listens to your heart, is smart about your most amorous desires<br />And so directs you with a love of their own, is strong in this and never tires<br /><br />This person can be but a friend, not bend in the time of your worst days<br /> Knows that you are there for them also and so defends your personal ways<br /><br />They are also your confessor, not your lessor, but a confidant of your mind<br />Advocating those things and slings alternatives at you most relative, most kind<br /><br />A SoulMate cares not of your shortcomings and what you have not got, have not attained, have no inclination to do or overcome, but stands by you in the face of adversity, with fealty, loyalty and devotion to your emotion, your spirit and your being, never fleeing from your side and does abide by your wishes when all around you chide for your penitence and submission and does this willingly with no thought for payback or lack of their own no matter what the price, what the pain or what the gain.<br /><br />A SoulMate is said to be your significant other, and further compliments you<br />Fits in your life by your side, and does reside in your heart making you two<br /><br />He or she shares your pain, doesn&#8217;t wane with the deed of this suffering<br />Makes big things small, short things tall and heartily makes the offering<br /><br />I now say this with all the emotion and devotion and fidelity that is due<br />And for all the world to hear, lovers far and near, My Soulmate is You]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Life In Sevens</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Life In Sevens<br /><br />Our Lives are divided into times of growth, learning, independence and family<br />I can count these precious years by sevens and catalog them most equally<br /><br />Joyful can be these times, ever-changing down the winding life highway<br />Sometimes we notice, but it is not necessary, that today is not yesterday<br /><br />From birth to seven is the most innocent, most precious of these years<br />We wind up as fairy princesses and cowboys when we started off in tears<br /><br />Up to fourteen we heed the council of our parents and teachers, continue learning<br />Ever growing, conditioning our minds and bodies, filled with adolescent yearning<br /><br />Till twenty-one we embody that which our parents have dreamed about<br />We embrace the horizon of our destinies, some with confidence, some with doubt<br /><br />Then the time comes when all for what we have prepared then comes to bear<br />We set off to test our preparedness, leave childhood behind, start our career<br /><br />In our twenties there are new mothers born among us, new fathers are proud<br />The jobs we take, the tasks we accomplish are testaments to promises vowed<br /><br />A group of years is now upon us when we our apex of abilities will arrive<br />Weathering tempests of competition, setting new standards, around thirty-five<br /><br />The beginning of our middle-agedness brings thoughts of our final goals<br />We tighten our belts, settle into our lives and future, fill in the holes<br /><br />The next seven years are somewhat like the previous, our lives are at their crest<br />During this entire decade we make our history, affect the most, become our best<br /><br />This is when we are in control of our lives, producing a body of work that will bind<br />Make us realize life&#8217;s most important priorities, from thirty-five to forty-nine<br /><br />Oh, but now comes a time that can be most dreary, compromise our vision, or be so sweet<br />Till we are fifty-six we are watched soaring with the eagles or drowning in defeat<br /><br />The importance of each of all the sevens is now quite evident, their flags will rise<br />At this junction we can be most disappointed and broken or confident and wise<br /><br />The end of our life&#8217;s work is then upon us, what we can do is done, what will be will be<br />These are the most gratifying years, good or bad, we stand back and reflect at sixty-three<br /><br />In the Winter of our lives it is the time of grandchildren and imparting remembrance<br />And we have weathered the storm, fought off all those dragons and gone the distance<br /><br />With our loved ones around us, at seventy we cry as we stare into the Heavens<br />And reflect most appropriately, most passionately at our Life in Sevens]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>I Am For No One</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I AM FOR NO ONE<br /><br />I Am For No One &#8212; These Words Issue from My Lips &#8212; It Is No Lie!<br />Daily I Process This Doom and Walk A Path of Gilded Remorse<br /><br />Ever and On and On This Statement Stands As My Battle Cry!<br />Consuming My Being and My Heart &#8212; An All Powerful Force!<br /><br />What Man Am I? &#8212; What Being Is This? &#8212; Why Should I Be Cursed?<br />There Has To Be A Reason and History For This Kind Of Existence!<br /><br />Ah! There Are Scoundrels and Rapscallions Galore! - I Am NOT the First!<br />But As Sure As I Am Living This is My Punishment! This Is My Penitence!<br /><br />So Hear My Decree! Find Me Fluent In My Blameful &#8212; Shameful Lament<br />Send Forth Now I Will This Song Of David &#8212; Shall Snake A Smile As I Do!<br /><br />As I Launch Into the Cosmos of Amorous Fervor This Simple Statement:<br />&#8220;I Have Loved And Lost and NOT ONCE &#8212; But Did This Deed To A Few!&#8221;<br /><br />Was A Time When Love Came New &#8212; Life Was Gold &#8212; I Was Vital!<br />Once Upon A Time I Had In My Grasp A Woman Meant For ME!<br /><br />And I Was A Husband And A Father &#8212; A Lover &#8212; SoulMate Was My Title!<br />But I Faltered &#8212; A Turn Of The Head And It Was Gone &#8212; So Was She!<br /><br />And I Woke One Day To Find A Rage Burning Inside Me That Knew No Quenching And No End - For The Pain I Was Suffering Was The Pain I Had Reaped As A Result Of My Mindless and Shortsightedness As A Person That Could Be Trusted To Handle The Emotional Baggage That Comes With Responsibility &#8212; Civility and Human Emotion When Applied To The Congress That Binds Two Souls Together and Like A Diamond Bullet Through The Middle Of My Head I Was Immediately Outcast In The Grand Scheme Of Love! Take All The Rocks In The World And Send Them At LightSpeed To The Known End Of The Universe &#8212; Then Double and Triple The Deed &#8212; Then &#8212; THEN! Will The Depths Of My Remorse Be Felt &#8212; Then The Pain Will Be Evident &#8212; And I will Surely Reap This Justice To The End Of My Days!<br /><br />So I Will Love No More! &#8212; Never Again Will I Cast My Spell Or My Net!<br />I Vow To Live My Life Alone &#8212; Die A Broken Reminder For Hearts Everywhere<br /><br />I Owe A Lot To LOVE &#8212; I Offer A Down Payment Of My Heart On This Debt<br />I Will Talk And Not Be Heard &#8212; Look And Not Touch &#8212; A Burden I Gladly Bear!<br /><br />So I Am Now Brought To &#8221;&#732;This Is The Hour &#8212; This Is The Day &#8212; This Is My Song!&#8221;<br />I Humbly Offer My Services As &#8221;&#732;MisFortune&#8217;s Fool&#8217; &#8212; Accepted Most Willingly<br /><br />I Promise To This August Body Of Lonely Hearts To Work To Right My Wrong<br />But I Say Again And For All Time &#8212; &#8220;I Am For No One And No One Is For ME!&#8221;<br /><br />Dave &#8212; 06 / 05 / 2009 &#8212; 32yrs To The Day &#8212; After Meeting &#8221;&#732;The One&#8217;]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>My Love Is A Tree</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[My Love Is A Tree<br /><br />In the Garden of My Heart There is A Tree<br />Planted in My Earthen Soul by You Long Ago<br />It is Green with Memories of Your Youthful Grace<br />The Boughs Whisper Softly of the Girl I know<br /><br />My Trees Limbs Reach Up and Ever Skyward<br />Winding Towards the Meadows of My Mind<br />It is Nurtured by the Fond Remembrance<br />Of a Beckoning Fruit that I Could Not Find<br /><br />Its Leaves are Verses of Things Said and Unsaid<br />And Wishful, Wonderful Thoughts of Days Past<br />They Can Not be Raked and Long to be Set Free<br />And Tell the Tale of a Love that Will Evermore Last<br /><br />A Passionate Fruit Makes its Boughs Turn Low<br />Sweet and Bittersweet, Ripened with Time<br />A Prized Possession Garnished with the Dew<br />Made it Slip from My Grasp in My Youthful Prime<br /><br />And My Tree has Flowers, Beautiful, Stupendous<br />That Reflect Your Face, Your Smile, Your Loving Manner<br />And from These are Spawned the Seeds of Happiness<br />That Nestle the Ground &#8221;&#732;neath This Majestic Banner<br /><br />My Love is a Tree Still Growing and Ever Strong<br />With Roots Embedded in my Heart as a Cost<br />I Will Forever Bask in the Shade of Memory<br />And a Love that I Think of as Lost<br /><br />Dave 04 / 19 / 2009]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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