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			<title><![CDATA[Grief at Lenten Season, poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1086.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Repenting and coming back to the Lord in Lent...Imaginary Churchgoer&#039;s story...a poem... 

Welcome to another in my imaginary group of Churchgoers. For a moment, consider this middle aged woman in Lent who during her lifetime, repented of acts and other matters during this season to return to...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:24:47 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Clock by the Square, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1072.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by aspiring poet Peter Menkin. A pastoral poem about visiting the Clock by the Square in Mill Valley, CA USA after Church.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:15:12 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[When I prayed with Sisters of Charity, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1070.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by aspiring poet Peter Menkin. This story or poetic recollection of praying with the Sisters is about impetuousness, or else the Holy Spirit. The church is a living place. I sometimes wish I had not done something, or said something. Then I try to find a way to make it b...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:45:43 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mr. de Wolfe&#039;s Hope, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1069.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by aspiring &quot;Parish&quot; poet Peter Menkin. Imaginary People in the imaginary Church--poems...

My file name for this small set of poems, fictitious Church attendees, reads &quot;People for blog poems.&quot; This unusual construct leads the reader to recognize th...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:50:06 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Prodigal Return, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1068.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by aspiring poet Peter Menkin. Again, the Sunday experience; about returning throughout the week to God...

This is a good place for me to post a poem about returning to God. Notice I use the word &quot;prodigal&quot; to explain the sense of returning to self and God t...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:05:51 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tenth Commandment: Coveting, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1067.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. This series of revised poems on The Ten Commandments shows I am working on the great words of God. (Note that all three words, &quot;The Ten Commandments&quot; are capitalized. That was a problem with the first version. They were like The Ten Commandment...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:43:51 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Do no Murder: Sixth Commandment, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1066.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. Thou Shalt do no Murder: Sixth Commandment

What to say about murder? The newspaper where I live, and the internet, tell of murders of various kinds. I am surprised that there are so many murders. It is frightening. This poem is part of the series on t...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:36:56 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ascension Day No 2, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1065.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. The second of two poems in a series written about Ascension Day trip to Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA USA. The trip, made in 2000 and the poem started that same year, saw the final revise 2008. Deacon Susan Reeve and I sat in the Choir area of the C...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:01:56 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Colored streamers move in the Wind, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1063.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. Colored streamers move in the wind: a poem This may be more a series of notes and reflections, a journal entry, more than a poem. It is about the colored streamers representing the Holy Spirit that I viewed in 2000 at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, Cali...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:12:46 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[On Retreat (revise), a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1062.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. Thursday, August 03, 2006

On preparation and entry to contemplative prayer: a Poem...

Welcome to a more personal poem, written at an urban monastery, the study house of Camaldolese Monks. I wrote this poem with the thought of following the preparat...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:10:10 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thursday vigil, night time, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1060.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin.This simpler poem tells of Easter Vigil, at this end of the Easter Season, after the Ascension, a return to the beginnings of the Easter of this year. Now five years old, I rediscovered this older poem on my c...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:55:15 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Epiphany brings News, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1031.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. These notes from Peter Menkin blog:

This poem was just written, and is the result of my coming towards the end of Rowan William&#039;s book, &quot;On Christian Theology.&quot; I visited a monastery today, and it is also part of my thinking about ways ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:49:50 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Easter Poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1028.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. Saturday, April 07, 2007 A poem for Easter: Happy Easter! One fascinating fact about Easter that is telling, is the wonderful role women play in the Easter story. I wanted to emphasize this wonder, so this poem.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:44:52 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Winds of Youth, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1025.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Poem about youth, and the coming of older years, by Peter Menkin. An aspiring poet, Peter lives in Mill Valley, CA USA in a smallish apartment. He has been writing poetry for about 9 years. 62 in the year 2008, Peter is known to revise works done at earlier dates, long as 8 years ago. &quot;Perhaps ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:59:50 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A man yearns for God, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1024.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin.

Friday, December 15, 2006

Here is a good reason to go to Church -- to find God...


Lately, and by that I mean the last six months, I have been reworking poems. Here is one I workshopped on Blueline Poetry. My visits there have been helpful. Thi...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:13:42 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Colors in a Room, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1023.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem about a room by Peter Menkin.

Known as &quot;Parish Poet,&quot; Peter Menkin is published in his Church newsletter and audio readings by him of his work appears on his Episcopal Church website (Mill Valley, CA USA).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:20:21 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Love mysterious Ours, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1022.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Love mysterious Ours by Peter Menkin
Description: 	Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. Friday, September 15, 2006 God\&#039;s presence is known to man, in quiet ways...a poem... This is another of my poems written a few years ago, revised. It talks of that quiet voice of God. A voice we k...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:12:05 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fall is Here, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1018.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin.

Short, zen like--an arrow to heaven.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Fall is Here
by Peter Menkin



breakfast
good morning

sunrise
wash bowl and spoon

anticipation
morning prayer.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:29:44 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sacrifice of Praise, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1017.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem about Communion.

The text:

Monday, May 28, 2007

&quot;A Sacrifice of Praise&quot;
by Peter Menkin

As I prepare, I am
praying in new understanding,
How there is a deeper union.

Illuminated prayer, you reveal to me
That I am received. How wonderful Chris...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:53:43 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Apophatic Prayer (transcription), a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1016.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin, Obl Cam OSB.

Spiritual &amp; religious poem about contemplation and prayer, a narrative about living the life of an Oblate whose focus is Christ. A transcription, revised numerous times, the ideas and words set in poetic style are those of Novice Mast...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:35:10 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Summertime talk in Color, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1015.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. These notes from Peter Menkin blog:

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Summertime Conversation in Friendship

What&#039;s this poem (?), but a conversation in summertime with experimental sentences and the idea of friendship. Yes, that&#039;s it. A poem that shows friend...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:15:02 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[To know something about God, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1014.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. These notes from Peter Menkin blog:

Poems of the spiritual and religious experience... about Saturday after Good Friday...

When I first posted this poem on a workshop site (The Atlantic Writers Workshop) there was more discussion than I could imagi...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:55:37 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Engaged in Le Milieu Divine, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1013.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. From an entry on Peter Menkin blog (part of a homily in which the poem appears): A reflection on the Eucharist as central part of my worship experience: A way of Communion, certain Church of Our Saviour, Mill Valley, California, USA Wednesday Eucharist, ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:46:47 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Seeker &amp; Doubter, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1012.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin.

Notes from Peter Menkin blog:
Friday, August 04, 2006

Here is a statement, as a poem, about size and mystery...

Welcome to this statement about God, his immensity and the largeness of his creation. The poem is from 2001 and an overlooked poem b...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:36:54 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Unfolding in Silence &amp; Sound, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1011.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. These notes from Peter Menkin blog: Friday, August 04, 2006

Poem about Lent unfolding during the season...

Each Lent has been different. This year my penitential practices are light. A friend of mine, who is in her eighties, suggests a light Lent. ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:47:46 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Advent Candle, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1010.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem preparing for Advent, the season of the Church year before Christmas. Written, read, images compiled by aspiring poet Peter Menkin.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:39:38 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reading Buddhist Thought, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1009.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Some words about Thich Nhat Hanh, a poem My poem is about a spiritual teacher named Thich Nhat Hanh, the result of reading a book of his writings. As you may know, I am an Oblate of Camaldoli, a monastic order interested in the meditative and contemplative practices of Buddhism. It is a Christian mo...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:37:41 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book Report, a Poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1008.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Spiritual and religious poem about reading a work on God by a monk. The book tells of the relationship of man to God in Christ by a Benedictine. Images by Rick White of Mill Valley, CA USA, Terry Peck of San Rafael, CA USA, Hubble Telescope, USA, Peter Menkin, Mill Valley, CA USA.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:35:31 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Christ&#039;s Enveloping Charity, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1007.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Poem reflecting on gifts from Christ, by Peter Menkin.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:31:23 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hospitality of Communion, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1006.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem: Poem about Communion: Another one that reflects the experience... It appears that I have a number of poems on the Communion experience. This one is like a prayer. I hope you like it. My experience with Communion has been a refreshing one.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:27:43 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Waiting Engagement in Contemplation, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1005.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem: Musical sound reminding the listener of contemplation, an experience... This is a more unusual poem, hopefully worthwhile. I wrote it more than five years ago, in 2000. It speaks of the melding of music in the cathedral and the experience of contemplative prayer. There ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 19:23:52 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Conversation, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1004.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem: Talking to the muse, Conversations with the Holy Spirit By Peter Menkin - Jun 20, 2001 Edited October 27, 2007. Part of a series called, &quot;Conversations with the Holy Spirit.&quot;

This poem is dedicated to my Spiritual Director, The Reverend Doctor Alex Blair, A...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:32:12 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Portents, More Winter Days, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1003.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem. Sunday, February 03, 2008 I have Ash Wednesday on my mind this night. A solemn service, I note these words from The Book of Common Prayer: Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth: Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and pen...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:26:34 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Grace, Affection, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1002.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem. Monday, May 14, 2007 I attended a Bible study at an acquaintance&#039;s home, and there were about six of us there. I learned people come to Christ many ways. This seems a cliche, but my eyes were opened to the sincerity of my new friends. I found others who had a like ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:22:01 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Easter Sweetness, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1001.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem. A common theme in all my poetry is reverence for the Eucharist. It is fact for me. Eucharist is central to worship and I consider it at the same time a focus on Christ, as we are encouraged in this reading from John. John is a &ldquo;mystical&rdquo; writer of Gospel, an...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:15:32 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Crooning Lamentations, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view1000.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Secular poem (with a religious sense) about a homeless woman who lived in the backyard of a house in Marin County, California (Town of Larkspur). At the time the aspiring poet lived in a very rundown rooming house, and in the backyard lived a woman who told her tale to the poet Peter Menkin. These w...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:12:28 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Visit to Veterans Hospital, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view999.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Though this is not strictly &quot;Christian,&quot; it does make the statement as Christian that God in His mercy aids and supports the soldiers injured in wars. There is comfort in religion, and it is the &quot;parish poet&#039;s&quot; intention that Christ does comfort the sick and injured, regardl...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:53:42 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Christmas, 12 days, a Walk, poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem about Day 10 of the 12 Days of Christmas. This poem by aspiring poet Peter Menkin is about God, the manifestation of his inner Christ sense, the awakening to the Spirit and the morning.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:44:19 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Apartment on the Third Floor, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
			<link>http://deepwater.crossmap.com/view997.htm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem. One of a series on contemplation. The &quot;parish poet&quot; says, &quot;As an Oblate of Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, CA USA, I am part of a Benedictine and contemplative order. Hence, my interest in contemplation.&quot; Peter has been an Oblate for 14 years. H...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:39:07 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[In Thunder and Stone, a poem by Peter Menkin]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Religious and spiritual poem. Friday, June 22, 2007 The first of the Ten Commandments A few years ago I began work on the Ten Commandments, which I have paid attention to as a series of Ten poems from time to time. One book I read on the subject of the Ten Commandments noted that the first set of te...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:23:43 EST</pubDate>
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