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		<title>How to say I love you in a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saying &#8220;I love you&#8221; in a poem might sound like one of the hardest things to do; however, that&#8217;s not entirely true if you even bother to try. Firstly, simply saying &#8220;I love you&#8221; is a great place to start, especially if you are an amateur writer. Secondly, comparing love to something is possible. Thirdly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Contests Up for Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been throwing around this idea for a while, but I am now convinced, if enough interest is shown, that I will start having poetry contests. Here&#8217;s what you can do: Head over to the Facebook PoemofQuotes page and vote. There are two polls there. One is for free poetry contest and the other is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Love Poem &#8211; Poetic Images</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I would go ahead and place poems inside an image to see what sort of response it would receive. So here you are: But A Nightmare as an image source:flickr]]></description>
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		<title>Question of the Day: Who is your favorite poet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 00:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary R. Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, this is more like the question of the century, since I&#8217;ve never asked something quite like this. Nonetheless, I&#8217;m wondering who your favorite poets are. Post them here and I may just create a page specifically for your poet!]]></description>
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		<title>A Poetry Squeeze Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary R. Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been trying to find out new ways of keeping visitors on PoemofQuotes. Not only does it look good in the stats, but it also makes me feel better about the website. This is what led me to read up on squeeze pages and what DoshDosh refers to as a reference page. Anyway, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary R. Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to check in to let everyone know I&#8217;ll resume regular posting within the next few days. Things haven&#8217;t been going well, but I&#8217;m getting back on my feet and you&#8217;ll start seeing more posts on all my sites (with probably a few changes). Anyway, happy new year to everyone. I wrote a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween Poems: Sonnet 100 by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary R. Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In night when colors all to black are cast, Distinction lost, or gone down with the light; The eye a watch to inward senses placed, Not seeing, yet still having powers of sight, Gives vain alarums to the inward sense, Where fear stirred up with witty tyranny, Confounds all powers, and thorough self-offense, Doth forge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profile: Maya Angelou</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary R. Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born: April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Ann Johnson Nationality: United States Magnum Opus: Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water &#8216;Fore I Die (1971) Influences: Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Edger Allan Poe, James Weldon Johnson, Frances Harper, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Anne Spencer, and Jessie Faucet How she started: At a young age, Miss Johnson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nasty Poets Write the Best Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary R. Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that the nastiest poets write the best poetry? I noticed this first while reading through biographies of many top classical poets: Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, Lewis Carroll, and William Wordsworth to name a few. The grossness ranges from orgies to pedophilia to incest. Obviously, not all poets indulge themselves in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetic Images: With this Pen</title>
		<link>http://blog.poemofquotes.com/poetic-image-with-this-pen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary R. Hess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Paul Worthington With this pen I thee write with notes and words which are never right this paper lasts a hundred years my heart pumps a thousand tears when dusk has come and I am gone I wish for you another dawn]]></description>
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