<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907082693465630843</id><updated>2011-11-27T16:14:23.878-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Poetry, via Google's Word of the Day.</title><subtitle type='html'>Each day (or so) I create a poem using Google's Word of the day.  They don't make it easy. :)</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/907082693465630843/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Megadad08</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dvPIDbTxQOs/TeQGWccAdRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/0vTN-rAd5AE/s220/SB%2B-%2BSterling%2BHawkins%2BPic%2B-%2B3-24-2011.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907082693465630843.post-1525627295267961799</id><published>2009-10-12T14:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T04:41:19.298-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Inwardness</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Victimized and abandoned her emotions unkept,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;like the dust and debris under the rug are swept.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The men in her wake are none the wiser,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;neither rhyme nor reason do they have to describe her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Day becomes night then night morphs to day,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;yet unmoved is her state being slave to her way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Unable to benefit from man's inwardness she dares still pretend,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;that the problem is not that she sees through a skewed lens.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;"Inwardness" - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;the intrinsic or indispensable properties of something.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Poetry, via Google's Word of the Day&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;is one man's quest to create a poem per day using Google's Word of the Day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/907082693465630843-1525627295267961799?l=wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/feeds/1525627295267961799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/inwardness.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/907082693465630843/posts/default/1525627295267961799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/907082693465630843/posts/default/1525627295267961799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/inwardness.html' title='Inwardness'/><author><name>Megadad08</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dvPIDbTxQOs/TeQGWccAdRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/0vTN-rAd5AE/s220/SB%2B-%2BSterling%2BHawkins%2BPic%2B-%2B3-24-2011.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907082693465630843.post-395822378069798311</id><published>2009-10-10T13:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T13:52:03.177-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kindle</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;She starts the day on the highest of highs,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;her beau in the background grimaces and sighs.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;With adventure and excitement her sleepiness dies,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;"turn off the light" is the look in his eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Nevertheless she skips all about,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;all the while knowing how to remove his pout.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;She darts back and forth from the kitchen so nimble,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;with a treat for her puppy whose love for her is now kindled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;"Kindle" - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;to cause to start burning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Poetry, via Google's Word of the Day&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;is one man's quest to create a poem per day using Google's Word of the Day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/907082693465630843-395822378069798311?l=wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/feeds/395822378069798311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/kindle.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/907082693465630843/posts/default/395822378069798311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/907082693465630843/posts/default/395822378069798311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/kindle.html' title='Kindle'/><author><name>Megadad08</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dvPIDbTxQOs/TeQGWccAdRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/0vTN-rAd5AE/s220/SB%2B-%2BSterling%2BHawkins%2BPic%2B-%2B3-24-2011.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907082693465630843.post-1820874968428569428</id><published>2009-10-09T09:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T17:35:11.504-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Foofaraw</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The clouds and the skys,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;inseparable hues.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;The trees and the roses,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;become twain with the dews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Passersby engulfed,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;in the day's foofaraw.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Oblivious to the splendor,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; of life's celestial awe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Foofaraw" -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Poetry, via Google's Word of the Day&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;is one man's quest to create a poem per day using Google's Word of the Day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/907082693465630843-1820874968428569428?l=wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/feeds/1820874968428569428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/foofaraw.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/907082693465630843/posts/default/1820874968428569428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/907082693465630843/posts/default/1820874968428569428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/foofaraw.html' title='Foofaraw'/><author><name>Megadad08</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dvPIDbTxQOs/TeQGWccAdRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/0vTN-rAd5AE/s220/SB%2B-%2BSterling%2BHawkins%2BPic%2B-%2B3-24-2011.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907082693465630843.post-3848387424807331342</id><published>2009-10-09T08:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T17:32:50.132-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Habituate</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Of her eyes, of her lips,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;May my interest never expire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Mere proximity alone,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;I'm habituated to desire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;"Habituate" -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Wealth habituated him to luxury&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ital-inline" style="display: inline; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Poetry, via Google's Word of the Day&lt;/i&gt; is one man's quest to create a poem per day using Google's Word of the Day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/907082693465630843-3848387424807331342?l=wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/feeds/3848387424807331342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/habituate.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/907082693465630843/posts/default/3848387424807331342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/907082693465630843/posts/default/3848387424807331342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wordofthedaypoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/habituate.html' title='Habituate'/><author><name>Megadad08</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dvPIDbTxQOs/TeQGWccAdRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/0vTN-rAd5AE/s220/SB%2B-%2BSterling%2BHawkins%2BPic%2B-%2B3-24-2011.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
