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		<title>Haiku &#8211; 20120127</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[snow flakes and rain drops ripple the harbor surface two love ducks huddle Filed under: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing Tagged: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=1028&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku &#8211; 20120125</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[bright blue morning sky harbor ice has split in two thoughts of the high seas &#160; Filed under: Haiga, Poetry, Reminiscing Tagged: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=1025&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20121222</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[dense cold whited air loud crashing breakers unseen bell buoy echoes near lighthouse beam my evening sun second walk to the woodpile Filed under: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka Tagged: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=1019&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx as a Duet in ‘The Soloist’ &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was amazed tonight while watching this movie: Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx as a Duet in ‘The Soloist’ &#8211; NYTimes.com. I won&#8217;t comment, because it is something that should unfold in front of your eyes&#8230;. Filed under: Reminiscing Tagged: Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=1016&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[two skating lovers twirl and twirl this winter day laughter fills the wind &#160; &#160; Filed under: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing Tagged: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=1014&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku &#8211; 20120112</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[rain ice wind and snow fox hid under bending limbs old black crows complained &#160; &#160; Filed under: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing Tagged: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20120109</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the bright full wolf moon sails the midwinter night sky while harbor lights glow through the dense rising sea smoke where fisherman’s young bride waits Filed under: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka Tagged: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=1005&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20120108</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[in fluffy feathers red bird sits high above on snowy leafless branch a cold steel gray sunless sky the old man held up small seeds Filed under: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka Tagged: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=1000&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20120103</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[oh we were all there snowy fields in the dawn light our foot prints long gone quickly covered by the wind with closed eyes i still see you Filed under: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka Tagged: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=997&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku &#8211; 20120102</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[afternoon blue sky those lazy drifting white clouds shapeshifting shadows &#160; Filed under: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing Tagged: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=994&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a quote captured my eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poking around numerous writer, poet, and reader&#8217;s blogs, a quote captured my eye on the upper left corner of  to a dusty shelf we aspire. my thoughts immediately flew back to a summer in the early 1980s when i focused on reading the great novels Thomas Wolfe had written. i&#8217;ll let you decide if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=989&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku &#8211; 20111230</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[silent winter night the glowing library lamp these old poems inspire Filed under: Books, Haiku, Poetry, Reading, Reminiscing Tagged: Books, Haiku, Poetry, Reading, Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=984&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20111225</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a new moon last night snowflakes drifting silently never heard them fall or saw how pretty each was such beauty in a dark night Filed under: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka Tagged: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=975&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011123 &#8211; Become an explorer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Become an explorer &#8211; drift through the faceless crowds observing everything all around you&#8230; don&#8217;t take notes, don&#8217;t try to remember facts&#8230; don&#8217;t memorize one single thing&#8230; those things are for learning&#8230; exploring is fun and relaxing&#8230; no iPods, no cell phones, keep all the channels of your senses wide open&#8230; your eyes are interpreters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=972&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Winter Solstice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Winter Solstice is one of my favorite times of the year. Growing up on a Maryland dairy farm, I noticed a stir in the domestic animals. While living on the edge of a wilderness, deep in the northern forests of Maine, next door to the Province of Quebec, Canada &#8211; there was a mystical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=970&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20111217</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[motorcycle ride out on the highway the sun hanging low long shadows of me and you floating in the mountain air &#160; &#160; Filed under: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka Tagged: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=965&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20111204</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[like the universe seen on a dark winter&#8217;s night uncharted limits inspire subtle story lines tower clock strikes midnight hour &#160; &#160; Filed under: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka Tagged: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=962&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20111203</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the cold frosty air melts all anger of my thoughts clear crystal symbol oh delicate white message rising sun was last to see Filed under: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka Tagged: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=958&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have You Seen &#8211; America Before Columbus National Geographic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was amazed to see this documentary and hope you enjoy it also &#8211; you can develop your own opinions. I have watched it twice! It is well documented and a must see for anyone interested in discovering an untold history of how it all began 500 years ago. The European discovery of the two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=955&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Thanksgiving Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in the United States or Canada, Thanksgiving, a historical holiday to some &#8211; a day of reflection to me. Take a brief moment, and think back to your childhood and the teachers that taught you how to read. Some of you take advantage of reading and enjoy the entertainment value, and some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=949&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In reply to: Me Against The Light….</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[oh darkest night a bright star is my desire only if i close mine eyes and imagine a spark these hopeful eyes scan far and wide for the faintest twinkle oh why not &#8211; this gloom has no power over me imagine an explosion of colors &#8211; fresh twirling flowers buzzing bees &#8211; chirping birds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=945&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Keats &#8211; focusing on the star&#8217;s steadfast and passively watchful nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bright Star &#8211; John Keats Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature&#8217;s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth&#8217;s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=939&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hymn To The Spirit Of Nature &#8211; Percy Bysshe Shelley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hymn To The Spirit Of Nature Percy Bysshe Shelley Life of Life! Thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those locks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes. Child of Light! Thy limbs are burning Through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=933&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20110820</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[earth has four seasons ocean tides two high two low moon sun tug of war rolling waves beside green field the lens captures the flowers Filed under: Poetry, Tanka Tagged: Poetry, Tanka<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=925&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Northern New England &#8211; Life in the slow lane</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I often drive on secondary highways and interstate highways through the forest to places where nature stirs creative imaginations. Years ago, I would have added gravel roads, and foot paths, but I&#8217;ll leave those days to long ago memories. Middlebury, Vermont was the destination plan for Monday. I drafted a list of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=919&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku &#8211; 20110806</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vermont mountain trail framed with blackeyed Susans twirling in the breeze Filed under: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing Tagged: Haiku, Poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=912&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I see green, You see red,  We see sunset</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting by the ocean&#8217;s edge, high up above the sea, and even higher above, is where the sea gulls play. We watch the sun slowly sinking beyond the horizon, where the sky and the water meet, with great expectation of amazing colors. This is a very relaxing moment of the day, but to some, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=904&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emily Dickinson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh so long ago, I was asked to read a poem, written by Emily Dickinson, aloud in Literature class. So, although she wrote somewhere around 1,800 poems, this one was my assignment: Emily Dickinson (1830–86) I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=897&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Day Of Reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 05:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 18th, 2009 my dad passed away &#8211; fun in the wilderness, where just being there was all that mattered&#8230; Oh, there were fields to plant, and cows to milk, between planting and harvesting on that Maryland dairy &#8211; but the move to the Maine wilderness &#8211; being surrounded by mountain forests, living by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=892&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just Imagining</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 20:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[just imagining the beach, white sand along the water&#8217;s edge crashing waves, roaring in the mist a campfire, blanket spread near by atramentous night sky brilliant with stars lighting the way to forever the campfire, with flickering flames crackling, popping, lingering with fragrant cedar warming thoughts in the cool ocean breeze just imaging, what thoughts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=890&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A thing of beauty is a joy for ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Endymion by: John Keats 1818 based on the poem on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved by the moon goddess Selene. &#8220;A thing of beauty is a joy for ever&#8220; Although I like to quote, &#8220;I stood tip-toe upon a little hill,&#8221; because I like the idea of natural surprises beyond those near-by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=886&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>muse or Muse &#8211; 9 goddesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[researching and reading for knowledge, and then being absorbed in thought, maybe one of the most valuable on-going activities of your life journey. Meet Muse (click), and become absorbed in thought, then imagine how it could inspire your own creativity&#8230; beyond Wikipedia, you can research more &#8211; it is worth it. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; muse, as a verb, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=882&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku &#8211; 20110302</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[youth cello summons let me remind you the time you inspired me &#160; Filed under: Haiku, Poetry, Reminiscing Tagged: Haiku, Poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=879&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Got Kindle 3G + Wifi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is really not an advertisement, just geek excitement. I thought about purchasing an eBook reader for the past several years. I finally decided on the Amazon Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi (third generation) and cover with light, just incase I&#8217;m am in the dark. The high contrast screen is even pleasant to read in artificial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=877&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20110202</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[snowflake jewels of white beauty oh cold winter&#8217;s day dance on diagonal winds branchless trees and evergreens mother earth magnificent Filed under: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka Tagged: Poetry, Reminiscing, Tanka<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=872&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Divine Comedy &#8211; Dante Alighieri</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[just a taste of Longfellow&#8217;s English translation. The Divine Comedy Of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Translated By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Inferno: Canto I Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=869&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words &#8211; Reflections and Echos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So often, while reading, I&#8217;ll stop to ponder a word, look up its meaning, search through a list of synonyms to even become more inspired by the meaning, experience how its sound feels to my ears, or how it shapes my mouth as I pronounce it. Even while silently pronouncing the word, or allowing it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=864&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 &#8211; the flickering flames of the old stone hearth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the flickering flames of the old stone hearth where youth and aged bygone together beheld now old ash cold gray, twinkling eyes forgot the news that stirred the hearts now deprived oh the new year, with cheerful rising sun how quickly the night sky filled with starry light, dims with the dawning of the new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=859&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best Wishes To All Filed under: Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=856&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tanka &#8211; 20101216</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[oh man in the moon romantic secrets inspired long distant lovers whispering deep lonely dreams wake at dawn &#8211; noisy blue jays &#160; &#160; Filed under: Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=852&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts of a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spend week after week, twenty years or so ago, reading Thomas Hardy novels. One day, I discovered a book of his complete poems, containing over one thousand pages. I cracked the book opened, somewhere beyond the beginning, and started reading, The Darkling Thrush. It was the first time I had read poetry by Thomas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=847&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku &#8211; 20101208</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[new phase moon gone by star beyond still there waiting kill the albatross the passing of the new moon, a distant bright star in the black december sky, stirred my thoughts back to long ago, when I like the wedding guest, listened to, &#8220;The Rime of the Ancient Mariner&#8221; day after day, day after day, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=838&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>been there</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[far off the highway you never knew existed on winter&#8217;s edge where the black raven lives heavy falling snowflakes twirling in the wind blur back, floating white, close your eyes, imagine Filed under: Poetry, Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=832&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Francine Prose</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 06:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goldengrove: A Novel Blue Angel: A Novel Imagine trying to choose between two delightful books &#8211; something I have no intention of doing. I have totally enjoyed the characters in both books, and often reflect on their fictional lives. Did you ever wish you had friends like the characters you discover in your favorite novels. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=816&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku &#8211; beaver moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; faceless shopping crowds rushing to and from markets beaver moon face beams Filed under: Haiku, Poetry Tagged: Haiku, Poetry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=809&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond My Professional Life I See&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fivereflections.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/beyond-my-professional-life-i-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel the warmth of the high desert sun drifting lazily across a bright blue sky, scattered with snow white puffy clouds. The earth, a mixture of deep dark greens and bright yellow vegetation, blending with the rich red rock cliffs, worn smooth by the long ago floods that ancient native American voices wove into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=803&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku &#8211; 20101031</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the frosty glass poet his poem vanishes quickly with the morning sun Filed under: Reminiscing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=799&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[autumn starless night the howling silent winds blow the hearth fire dies &#160; long ago, walking from farm to farm, i remember the path through the darkest woods you could ever imagine, as the swirling wind stirred the dry fallen autumn leaves, crunching and crackling, they echoed under foot, often giving me the premonition that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=797&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10-10-10</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting to watch the calendar rolling out three-of-a-kind, but it will only last two more years. If you are quick, you can even watch the clock strike three-of-a-kind during the AM and PM, but you must be quick. We went out this afternoon to top off the tank, so I didn&#8217;t have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=790&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[beyond the skilled florists and the greenhouses, where natural beauty mingles between birth and death, without fear, domestic flowers survive. my wife always seems to be transplanting domestic flowers from the garden to the meadows, where they can drink the waters of  heaven, and absorb the natural minerals of the natural soil. i often wonder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fivereflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=207330&amp;post=785&amp;subd=fivereflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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