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		<title>A Definition of War and a Question</title>
		<link>http://bahaipoet.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/a-definition-of-war-and-a-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haiku Violist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycle of violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[definition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[never-ending]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is war
but a cycle
of never-ending murder
over a silly prospect
introduced by humans
in the first place?
One war ends,
tension begins,
another pops up
in its place.
If people are truly
intelligent enough
to realize what war
has done to man,
why not end it
altogether?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>What is war<br />
but a cycle<br />
of never-ending murder<br />
over a silly prospect<br />
introduced by humans<br />
in the first place?</p>
<p>One war ends,<br />
tension begins,<br />
another pops up<br />
in its place.<br />
If people are truly<br />
intelligent enough<br />
to realize what war<br />
has done to man,<br />
why not end it<br />
altogether?</p>
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		<title>Nature Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haiku Violist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seasonal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autumn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bows of willow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breeze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dappled shadows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grassland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morning breeze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mountains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ocean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[river]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rustle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sunlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thunder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[willow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The leaves of willow
Wave slightly in morning breeze;
Faint rustling heard.
Emaciated,
The silent bows of willow
Bend under the leaves.
Blooms carried aloft
Cast dappled, moving shadows
On wind-swept grassland.
Willow stands silent,
A beautiful autumn morn,
Bells ringing faintly.
Drooping willow leaves
Dip slightly into water,
Ripples emanate.
Autumnal winds blow,
Colored leaves scratch on the ground:
Winter is coming.
a single tree
alone in the ground…
I’ll plant company
willows’ leaves
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>The leaves of willow<br />
Wave slightly in morning breeze;<br />
Faint rustling heard.</p>
<p>Emaciated,<br />
The silent bows of willow<br />
Bend under the leaves.</p>
<p>Blooms carried aloft<br />
Cast dappled, moving shadows<br />
On wind-swept grassland.</p>
<p>Willow stands silent,<br />
A beautiful autumn morn,<br />
Bells ringing faintly.</p>
<p>Drooping willow leaves<br />
Dip slightly into water,<br />
Ripples emanate.</p>
<p>Autumnal winds blow,<br />
Colored leaves scratch on the ground:<br />
Winter is coming.</p>
<p>a single tree<br />
alone in the ground…<br />
I’ll plant company</p>
<p>willows’ leaves<br />
glide lazily across<br />
the smooth water</p>
<p>I sit beneath<br />
the willow tree<br />
and write</p>
<p>rain pummels<br />
the ocean’s waves;<br />
o, the music!</p>
<p>the ant crawls onto my waiting finger</p>
<p>a waterfall<br />
shimmers down<br />
the mountainside</p>
<p>thunder claps;<br />
the mountains resonate</p>
<p>under the water<br />
of the river:<br />
silt</p>
<p>sunlight shines<br />
through the trees;<br />
rustling leaves</p>
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		<title>Haiku &#8211; Halloween</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haiku Violist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seasonal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autumn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wind solemnly blows
The bare, clawed branches of fall,
As Halloween comes.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Wind solemnly blows<br />
The bare, clawed branches of fall,<br />
As Halloween comes.</p>
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		<title>Of Disunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haiku Violist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disunity
Disunity is the ill of the world, as
The plague is the death of the body.
One question I ask, then, is why
These religions think they&#8217;re the one way?
The reason, I think, must be arrogance,
As surely as plague&#8217;s caused by fleas.
Yet no-one has realized it, and so
It&#8217;s been allowed greatly to flourish.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Disunity</p>
<p>Disunity is the ill of the world, as<br />
The plague is the death of the body.<br />
One question I ask, then, is why<br />
These religions think they&#8217;re the one way?</p>
<p>The reason, I think, must be arrogance,<br />
As surely as plague&#8217;s caused by fleas.<br />
Yet no-one has realized it, and so<br />
It&#8217;s been allowed greatly to flourish.</p>
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