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parrots confer, magpies croon, honeyeaters skip between the branches. miraculous life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-1146407666611396051?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/1146407666611396051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=1146407666611396051' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1146407666611396051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1146407666611396051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/02/soft.html' 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/&gt;but the cat is slow to rise today.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5368005397691674619?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5368005397691674619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5368005397691674619' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5368005397691674619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5368005397691674619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/01/reconnaissance.html' title='reconnaissance'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-4546250082613489073</id><published>2012-01-29T09:10:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2012-01-29T09:10:04.430+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>heat</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;inspired by &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2012/01/159122320"&gt;morning porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are melting. Last night's heat&amp;nbsp;dissolved&amp;nbsp;in a torrent of rain.&lt;br /&gt;Today,&amp;nbsp;grey dappled clouds and close hugging humidity.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-4546250082613489073?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/4546250082613489073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=4546250082613489073' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/4546250082613489073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/4546250082613489073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/01/heat.html' title='heat'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-8513509003247313335</id><published>2012-01-28T17:08:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2012-01-28T17:09:38.402+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>jumbled</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fmSf0M0j_JQ/TyOXvqfOk9I/AAAAAAAAArc/yijhGNbZhXY/s1600/answers1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="273" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fmSf0M0j_JQ/TyOXvqfOk9I/AAAAAAAAArc/yijhGNbZhXY/s320/answers1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqgVmH6L1lk/TyOX050mO6I/AAAAAAAAArk/De8aVcbHLWQ/s1600/answers2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="228" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqgVmH6L1lk/TyOX050mO6I/AAAAAAAAArk/De8aVcbHLWQ/s320/answers2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-8513509003247313335?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/8513509003247313335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=8513509003247313335' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8513509003247313335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8513509003247313335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/01/jumbled.html' title='jumbled'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fmSf0M0j_JQ/TyOXvqfOk9I/AAAAAAAAArc/yijhGNbZhXY/s72-c/answers1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-9022506475346437031</id><published>2012-01-26T13:05:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2012-01-26T13:05:15.884+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden'/><title type='text'>thirst</title><content type='html'>inspired by &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2012/01/159122313/"&gt;morning porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A spiralling pair of white butterflies search the soil for moisture. A sparrow is the first to find the water bowl. In January irrigated greens are surreal.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-9022506475346437031?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/9022506475346437031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=9022506475346437031' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/9022506475346437031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/9022506475346437031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/01/thirst.html' title='thirst'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-8297972632211478873</id><published>2012-01-24T20:58:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2012-01-24T21:05:02.746+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='image'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden'/><title type='text'>january</title><content type='html'>&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LoilZDG8_GA/Tx6GNb4aVWI/AAAAAAAAAqM/OVV2h9MjKAA/s1600/2012-01-24salvia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="salvia" border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LoilZDG8_GA/Tx6GNb4aVWI/AAAAAAAAAqM/OVV2h9MjKAA/s200/2012-01-24salvia.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WO8_UAnEzkU/Tx6Ge34kOwI/AAAAAAAAAqc/lgktcNI3ONQ/s1600/2012-01-24begonia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="begonia" border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WO8_UAnEzkU/Tx6Ge34kOwI/AAAAAAAAAqc/lgktcNI3ONQ/s200/2012-01-24begonia.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f5j3CqifU7g/Tx6Gyb0HAvI/AAAAAAAAAqs/bXZudjNUDmE/s1600/2012-01-24lilly2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="lilly" border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f5j3CqifU7g/Tx6Gyb0HAvI/AAAAAAAAAqs/bXZudjNUDmE/s200/2012-01-24lilly2.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FDwV2Uudmt4/Tx6HEG9cu1I/AAAAAAAAAq8/jIY-qIMnrHw/s1600/2012-01-24cuphea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="cuphea" border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FDwV2Uudmt4/Tx6HEG9cu1I/AAAAAAAAAq8/jIY-qIMnrHw/s200/2012-01-24cuphea.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kL8mX7IcFzM/Tx6HZdKMe8I/AAAAAAAAArM/2t_FJJAhDIs/s1600/2012-01-24sgarlic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="society garlic" border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kL8mX7IcFzM/Tx6HZdKMe8I/AAAAAAAAArM/2t_FJJAhDIs/s200/2012-01-24sgarlic.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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&lt;br /&gt;three sizes of black and white watchfulness patrol the grassland. &lt;br /&gt;Simmering heat; rounded shoulders and burnt leaves. &lt;br /&gt;Crickets celebrate a watered garden. &lt;br /&gt;The evening closes with a faded denim sky.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5429087727563965742?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5429087727563965742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5429087727563965742' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5429087727563965742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5429087727563965742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/01/dark.html' title='dark'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-4810286461385243884</id><published>2012-01-21T20:36:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2012-01-21T20:38:08.547+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;inspired by &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2012/01/159122302/"&gt;morning porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gold—long necked pumpkin flowers stretch upwards, crowding the wide green leaves. Tendrils curl tight against the wire. Beans flower red and climb higher with exploring fingertips. Soft earth under my feet. Sunshine.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-4810286461385243884?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/4810286461385243884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=4810286461385243884' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/4810286461385243884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/4810286461385243884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/01/garden.html' title='garden'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-7404761291349976982</id><published>2012-01-18T21:51:00.004+10:30</published><updated>2012-01-18T22:10:00.742+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>grace</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xqWQcT4x1rQ/TxagZOwr49I/AAAAAAAAAqE/ChhjTm7HPMk/s1600/taylor%252C+jason+decaires.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="136" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xqWQcT4x1rQ/TxagZOwr49I/AAAAAAAAAqE/ChhjTm7HPMk/s200/taylor%252C+jason+decaires.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.underwatersculpture.com/"&gt;Jason deClaires Taylor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;exhaling a last breath, a last resistance to elemental translation&lt;br /&gt;eyes closed falling into this deep mystery, i am held effortlessly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gentle currents entwine their stories, threads of life and warmth&lt;br /&gt;this frozen stasis, those impossible weights are lighter here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&amp;nbsp;already the alchemy begins, invisible life finds genesis&lt;br /&gt;streaming surfaces, intricate erosion, new solutions, unfurling change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;a &lt;a href="http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2012/01/mag-100-hippity-hip.html"&gt;Magpie Tales&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;ekphrastic poem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-7404761291349976982?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/7404761291349976982/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=7404761291349976982' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7404761291349976982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7404761291349976982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/01/by-jason-declaires-taylor-exhaling-last.html' title='grace'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xqWQcT4x1rQ/TxagZOwr49I/AAAAAAAAAqE/ChhjTm7HPMk/s72-c/taylor%252C+jason+decaires.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-2131529924294966747</id><published>2012-01-15T18:56:00.003+10:30</published><updated>2012-01-15T20:52:13.500+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>visit</title><content type='html'>inspired by &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2012/01/159122289/"&gt;morning porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;after hours, sunlight and shadow, &lt;br /&gt;ferns, pink roses and white daisies. &lt;br /&gt;a smiling crescent of blue flowers and violets. &lt;br /&gt;i walk among the ankles of the trees.&lt;br /&gt;a stream winds slowly under Monet's bridge &lt;br /&gt;amber tea on a warm day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the garden &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnRGDO7k3aQ&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;waits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-2131529924294966747?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/2131529924294966747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=2131529924294966747' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2131529924294966747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2131529924294966747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/01/visit.html' title='visit'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-3070946211694735878</id><published>2012-01-06T08:13:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2012-01-06T08:13:11.775+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>chill</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;inspired by &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2012/01/159122264/"&gt;morning porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the dark the first rooster crows,&lt;br /&gt;magpies answer, tonight I am cold&lt;br /&gt;I thaw in the steam of the shower.&lt;br /&gt;Kettle hums. Light finds the sky.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-3070946211694735878?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/3070946211694735878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=3070946211694735878' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3070946211694735878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3070946211694735878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/01/chill.html' title='chill'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-9178918888040253497</id><published>2012-01-04T13:21:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2012-01-04T13:21:35.294+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>arcana</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;inspired by &lt;a href="http://chromapoesy.com/2012/01/03/savannah-serenade"&gt;chromapoesy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lifetime journey, testing time and trust&lt;br /&gt;patient oaks are tangible oracles and shells&lt;br /&gt;a step into floating emptiness, suspension of disbelief&lt;br /&gt;a persistent dream, the path to resolution&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-9178918888040253497?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/9178918888040253497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=9178918888040253497' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/9178918888040253497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/9178918888040253497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2012/01/arcana.html' title='arcana'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-8933328670924466590</id><published>2011-12-31T16:39:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-31T16:47:06.674+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>deserted</title><content type='html'>inspired by the &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/12/159122255/"&gt;Morning Porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shadows stretch a healing embrace across the shimmering earth. Heat. Light. Dust. Birds, pant. Life stands still waiting for the half-dark. Evening celebration. Night's reprieve.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-8933328670924466590?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/8933328670924466590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=8933328670924466590' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8933328670924466590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8933328670924466590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/day-star.html' title='deserted'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-4570274951679980766</id><published>2011-12-30T22:12:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-30T22:12:17.021+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>dream</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Inspired by Dave Bonta's &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/12/159122253"&gt;Morning Porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Each second lasts a week, the toc tic trembles&lt;br /&gt;for a day through the earth. This earth falling&lt;br /&gt;between my fingers. The garden is my hourglass.&lt;br /&gt;Leaves stretch, a flower opens and folds.&lt;br /&gt;A breath. A season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peaceful trees, branches meeting, so far away.&lt;br /&gt;Will I ever reach you? I can fly, arms reaching,&lt;br /&gt;sugar glider sails, flying upward, spiralling.&lt;br /&gt;Exhilaration, air and adrenalin, but time still&lt;br /&gt;pins me in place. Intractable dimension.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-4570274951679980766?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/4570274951679980766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=4570274951679980766' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/4570274951679980766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/4570274951679980766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/dream.html' title='dream'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-1316101892549086237</id><published>2011-12-26T15:01:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-26T15:01:58.698+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>light</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Inspired by Dave Bonta's &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/12/159122243/"&gt;Morning Porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bright heat fills the senses.&lt;br /&gt;Leaves, green flags answering.&lt;br /&gt;Scarlet flowering beans hold close.&lt;br /&gt;Parsley pollen dust like fine snow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tree, your form follows life in honest congruence,&lt;br /&gt;a fibonacci elegance written incrementally, &lt;br /&gt;in amber-red blood and grain. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunlight blesses you, telling your story &lt;br /&gt;to the bleached swarf of drying grass.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-1316101892549086237?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/1316101892549086237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=1316101892549086237' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1316101892549086237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1316101892549086237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/light.html' title='light'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-7099931003784112648</id><published>2011-12-25T20:43:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-25T21:34:13.100+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zuAPUHwh8AA/Tvb2ejOXzUI/AAAAAAAAApc/otLmccg9QUo/s1600/magpie.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zuAPUHwh8AA/Tvb2ejOXzUI/AAAAAAAAApc/otLmccg9QUo/s320/magpie.jpg" width="302" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;by Meredith&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;between the curling grace &lt;br /&gt;the form and fabric&lt;br /&gt;light and shade branching&lt;br /&gt;i sat to speak my mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;borrowed eloquence and&lt;br /&gt;my friend the tree.&lt;br /&gt;perfect lines join, folding,&lt;br /&gt;jumbled enscriptions read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;flowing water moves like a rumor&lt;br /&gt;bridging continents, tides and tidings&lt;br /&gt;rain and reflection. a pulse.&lt;br /&gt;a shared silence.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-7099931003784112648?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/7099931003784112648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=7099931003784112648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7099931003784112648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7099931003784112648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/perfect-lines-join-folding-jumbled.html' title=''/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zuAPUHwh8AA/Tvb2ejOXzUI/AAAAAAAAApc/otLmccg9QUo/s72-c/magpie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-327649756286497027</id><published>2011-12-23T14:22:00.004+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-23T15:39:56.959+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>blue afternoon</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Inspired by Dave Bonta's &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/12/159122237/"&gt;Morning Porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Parrots sing of the Summer in a bleached blue heat.&lt;br /&gt;Beans wave their first fat flags above the earth.&lt;br /&gt;A crowd of melon seedlings push for sunlight. &lt;br /&gt;Curtains breathe slowly. The kitchen smells of mango.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-327649756286497027?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/327649756286497027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=327649756286497027' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/327649756286497027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/327649756286497027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/afternoon.html' title='blue afternoon'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-7542434662264151884</id><published>2011-12-22T19:36:00.003+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-22T22:39:17.663+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>traffic</title><content type='html'>heat haze, &lt;br /&gt;winding through the trees&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;orange, black folding leaves&lt;br /&gt;butterflies cross the road&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;grey shoulders, tall and strong&lt;br /&gt;a koala crosses the road&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-7542434662264151884?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/7542434662264151884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=7542434662264151884' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7542434662264151884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7542434662264151884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/traffic.html' title='traffic'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-1713811941688301952</id><published>2011-12-18T11:40:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-18T11:40:18.895+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>rain</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q9hhd34nKMY/Tu08RJ4safI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/JqZmCRNc_6U/s1600/rain-dance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q9hhd34nKMY/Tu08RJ4safI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/JqZmCRNc_6U/s320/rain-dance.jpg" width="232" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://olivehuedesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;Tera Zajack &lt;/a&gt;via &lt;a href="http://dversepoets.com/2011/12/17/poetics-out-the-sketchbook/"&gt;dverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;rain, misty blessing&lt;br /&gt;avian celebration&lt;br /&gt;imagine flying&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-1713811941688301952?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/1713811941688301952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=1713811941688301952' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1713811941688301952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1713811941688301952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/rain.html' title='rain'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q9hhd34nKMY/Tu08RJ4safI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/JqZmCRNc_6U/s72-c/rain-dance.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-3512177086459559055</id><published>2011-12-18T11:10:00.006+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-18T12:39:49.738+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sound'/><title type='text'>sound</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Inspired by Dave Bonta's &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/12/159122226/"&gt;Morning Porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rain misting across the park in drifts.&lt;br /&gt;A rich mayhem of songs, but I don't know them all.&lt;br /&gt;Galahs saw away at the top of the trees. &lt;br /&gt;A sulphur cockatoo trumps them with his gravelly rasp.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes there are colourful rosellas.&lt;br /&gt;Honey eaters dance in the bottlebrush&lt;br /&gt;and Willie Wagtails skip and swing over the grass.&lt;br /&gt;We have blackbirds and sparrows.&lt;br /&gt;A crow calls, and a rooster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;*****************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;A dutch website on &lt;a href="http://leou.home.xs4all.nl/ausbirds/oldindex.html"&gt;Australian birds&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;This is a great website with a lot of Australian birds and their sounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://birdsinbackyards.net/feature/top-40-bird-songs.cfm"&gt;Birds in backyards&lt;/a&gt; also has some audio samples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Here are some sounds or images from the above sites: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/images/stories/birds/magpie.mp3"&gt;magpie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://pool.abc.net.au/media/magpie"&gt;magpie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://leou.home.xs4all.nl/ausbirds/lv/html/8888.htm"&gt;magpie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pool.abc.net.au/media/galah"&gt;galah&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://leou.home.xs4all.nl/ausbirds/lv/html/7716.htm"&gt;galah&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pool.abc.net.au/media/crow-and-crickets"&gt;crow&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://leou.home.xs4all.nl/ausbirds/lv/html/9032.htm"&gt;new holland honey eater&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://leou.home.xs4all.nl/ausbirds/lv/html/7719.htm"&gt;crested pigeon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://leou.home.xs4all.nl/ausbirds/lv/html/8211.htm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;willie wagtail&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://birdsinbackyards.net/images/audio/rhipidura-leucophrys.mp3"&gt;willie wagtail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://leou.home.xs4all.nl/ausbirds/lv/html/7302.htm"&gt;sulphur crested cockatoo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://pool.abc.net.au/media/vandal-cockatoos"&gt;cockatoo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://leou.home.xs4all.nl/ausbirds/lv/html/7505.htm"&gt;ibis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://leou.home.xs4all.nl/ausbirds/lv/html/7411.htm"&gt;little egret&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://leou.home.xs4all.nl/ausbirds/lv/html/9276.htm"&gt;rosella&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-3512177086459559055?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/3512177086459559055/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=3512177086459559055' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3512177086459559055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3512177086459559055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/sound.html' title='sound'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5237986883686134780</id><published>2011-12-17T16:05:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-17T16:06:06.057+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>waiting</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SEyoQ2vav4E/TuwobqvYm4I/AAAAAAAAAoI/hUiDQUTEFlk/s1600/habibi+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SEyoQ2vav4E/TuwobqvYm4I/AAAAAAAAAoI/hUiDQUTEFlk/s200/habibi+1.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;image by Mostafa Habibi for &lt;a href="http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2011/12/mag-95.html"&gt;Magpie Tales&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Stasis stretches as far as I can see, perhaps beyond.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pinned. Embedded. Mind screaming rebellion in &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;jagged iterative images of sharp red escapism.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Tender dreams compressed to diamond grit&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;between my teeth, under fingernails.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blind faith and desperation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Rain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5237986883686134780?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5237986883686134780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5237986883686134780' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5237986883686134780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5237986883686134780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/waiting.html' title='waiting'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SEyoQ2vav4E/TuwobqvYm4I/AAAAAAAAAoI/hUiDQUTEFlk/s72-c/habibi+1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-3841596066785221825</id><published>2011-12-17T11:23:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-17T11:23:59.728+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>silver</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Inspired by Dave Bonta's &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/12/159122224/"&gt;Morning Porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;rows of cubed earth , unsifted, wet &lt;br /&gt;puddles, ringed with rain, glow.&lt;br /&gt;beans curl through wire, new seedlings stretch &lt;br /&gt;birdsong, without shadows&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-3841596066785221825?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/3841596066785221825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=3841596066785221825' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3841596066785221825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3841596066785221825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/silvery.html' title='silver'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-7335476891926745420</id><published>2011-12-12T13:50:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-12T13:51:59.781+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>sweet noise</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Inspired by Dave Bonta's &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/12/159122212/"&gt;Morning Porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;Still grey and gentle. In spring, birds contest everything; top knot pigeons practice competitive folk dance, galahs celebrate dinner with a shout, honey eaters orbit the bottle brush and wagtails swing over the grasses. A first locust investigates my seedlings. Shy sunlight. A soft shadow falls over my hands; sifting grass roots for a new garden.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-7335476891926745420?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/7335476891926745420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=7335476891926745420' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7335476891926745420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7335476891926745420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/sweet-noise.html' title='sweet noise'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5617750634434200375</id><published>2011-12-11T09:52:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:26:44.468+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Inspired by Dave Bonta's &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/12/159122210/"&gt;Morning Porch&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;White daisies and oregano are bursting with lush green overconfidence. A carrot waves lacy flowers. Bees search the salvia and lamb's ears. Thyme is still woody, more conservative, anticipating dry Summer heat. Clear, silvery globes like alien plums, contrast the red and rusty leaves of the prunus, for Christmas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5617750634434200375?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5617750634434200375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5617750634434200375' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5617750634434200375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5617750634434200375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/humidity.html' title='christmas'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-3099981377007143010</id><published>2011-12-09T19:39:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-09T19:39:19.330+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>splash</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Inspired by Dave Bonta's &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/12/159122206/"&gt;Morning Porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Softly raining, grey and warm. A blackbird dances over the close shaved earth, counting worms. Magpies sing waterfall melodies, invisible suits in tall trees.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-3099981377007143010?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/3099981377007143010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=3099981377007143010' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3099981377007143010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3099981377007143010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/splash.html' 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href="http://img3.etsystatic.com/il_fullxfull.203179327.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://img3.etsystatic.com/il_fullxfull.203179327.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;nautilus shell photography print by &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/48162871/nautilus-shell-art-geometric-art-print"&gt;Allison Trentelman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-6976613501461699036?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/6976613501461699036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=6976613501461699036' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/6976613501461699036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/6976613501461699036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/12/spiral-of-life.html' title='spiral of life'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-2102048150487403554</id><published>2011-11-27T23:35:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2011-11-27T23:35:52.375+10:30</updated><title type='text'>blessed</title><content type='html'>a bird at my window&lt;br /&gt;a breath&lt;br /&gt;shadows marking time&lt;br /&gt;and transition&lt;br /&gt;day, night&lt;br /&gt;celestial machinery&lt;br /&gt;a blue wonder&lt;br /&gt;in the shifting dark&lt;br /&gt;home&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-2102048150487403554?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/2102048150487403554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>palimpsest</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;a found coastal landscape&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;wind works surreal arias, dreams, fugues,&lt;br /&gt;familiar riffs twisted through ti tree, out of tune,&lt;br /&gt;carefully sharp visuals glide unexpected&lt;br /&gt;across a contrary void.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;signs raise a hand free, steel faces caught darkening,&lt;br /&gt;drawn to serve a quiet campaign, small smiles jacked up at the corners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;an empty pearl chamber feels grey, a drift of them,&lt;br /&gt;a quarry of skeletal expressions, defences, accommodations&lt;br /&gt;waiting for tenants or to join the surrounding diaspora&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;rings of shell, like wood,&lt;br /&gt;shone bright, with taste and tenderness&lt;br /&gt;convex curves and fine wrinkles,&lt;br /&gt;a coppery gleam of salty dialogue&lt;br /&gt;round velvet weeds inhale ocean,&lt;br /&gt;softly spoken bubbles of danger&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ivory, agape, a fish face remembers&lt;br /&gt;currents and pulses, birds attending&lt;br /&gt;on limbo breezes, held in place&lt;br /&gt;unflapped and watchful.&lt;br /&gt;blood ran proud on thirsty dunes.&lt;br /&gt;easy wine branches, like a magnolia&lt;br /&gt;rusting into the moss,&lt;br /&gt;withdrawn masked petals reconsider and&lt;br /&gt;shift their weight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;against salty leaves a silk caesura&lt;br /&gt;a soft consumption, retreat, compression&lt;br /&gt;a life pressed against prior knowledge&lt;br /&gt;and precedent, reflective. &lt;br /&gt;reforming. a busy intermission&lt;br /&gt;individually wrapped revolution&lt;br /&gt;a crowded occupation,&lt;br /&gt;becoming.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-92836010860033018?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-2190769816298275790</id><published>2011-11-20T18:20:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2011-11-20T18:23:01.198+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden'/><title type='text'>reflection</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;inspired by &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/11/159122165/"&gt;the morning porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watering the forest of parsley. Roots loosen in soggy soil and are removed to show fresh bare ground.  A carrot flower remains a pretty irregularity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seedlings are waiting for a chance in the sun. Beans, pumpkin, capsicum, chilli, coriander, and carnation. Jerusalem artichokes are lush and tall already.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The herb bed is crowded with expansionist perennials. Oregano reaching upwards in spires, silver thyme thick and scrubby like a city of frost, mint imitates the march of the viaducts, heading steadily up the hill beyond containment. Forgetmenots spread softly, small blue flowers with yellow centres. Slaters, snails and slugs crowd against the woody garden edge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Down on the verge the native plants test their mettle against the drying soil and early heat. Wagtails dance and crows drawl, the sound reflecting through the park. The steam train calls, hollow, ethereal.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-2190769816298275790?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/2190769816298275790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=2190769816298275790' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2190769816298275790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2190769816298275790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/11/reflection.html' title='reflection'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5440818448842549557</id><published>2011-11-18T21:53:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2011-11-18T21:53:32.386+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='image'/><title type='text'>rose for jae</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zN72FV875R8/TsZAGHI3ihI/AAAAAAAAAn4/8QfidZ2GqFY/s1600/rose2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zN72FV875R8/TsZAGHI3ihI/AAAAAAAAAn4/8QfidZ2GqFY/s320/rose2.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5440818448842549557?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5440818448842549557/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5440818448842549557' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5440818448842549557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5440818448842549557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/11/rose-for-jae.html' title='rose for jae'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zN72FV875R8/TsZAGHI3ihI/AAAAAAAAAn4/8QfidZ2GqFY/s72-c/rose2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-617084121649214313</id><published>2011-11-13T18:36:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2011-11-13T18:36:03.836+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='image'/><title type='text'>semaphore dawn</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-50RfC8_zBwc/Tr96AdyMHOI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/JZfrXF-AK4c/s1600/jetty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-50RfC8_zBwc/Tr96AdyMHOI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/JZfrXF-AK4c/s320/jetty.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PtlkYfWSAtw/Tr96H7YZt-I/AAAAAAAAAnY/wtC0yH97rvA/s1600/fishing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PtlkYfWSAtw/Tr96H7YZt-I/AAAAAAAAAnY/wtC0yH97rvA/s320/fishing.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nQvlcTNFRzg/Tr96PV3lyeI/AAAAAAAAAng/IQWxq59EBNA/s1600/beach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nQvlcTNFRzg/Tr96PV3lyeI/AAAAAAAAAng/IQWxq59EBNA/s320/beach.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-617084121649214313?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/617084121649214313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=617084121649214313' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/617084121649214313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/617084121649214313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/11/semaphore-dawn.html' title='semaphore dawn'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-50RfC8_zBwc/Tr96AdyMHOI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/JZfrXF-AK4c/s72-c/jetty.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-254583631376067398</id><published>2011-11-08T00:48:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2011-11-08T00:56:01.673+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>petrichor</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;Let us care for each other.&lt;br /&gt;Let us care for this earth.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;by &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://kathleenkirkpoetry.blogspot.com/2011/04/poetry-sunday.html"&gt;kathleen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we stand in this ecology, in this gentle rain&lt;br /&gt;breathe the flowers, and the piquant tang of eucalypts&lt;br /&gt;magpies acapella through the afternoon&lt;br /&gt;and at night a crystal voice cuts through the darkness&lt;br /&gt;it is a wonder to be here, even amongst&lt;br /&gt;the crowded chaos. but especially in the quiet spaces&lt;br /&gt;the earth feels alive and hopeful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2518/3976647798_0849e32728_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2518/3976647798_0849e32728_b.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/41864721@N00/3976647798"&gt;evan leeson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-254583631376067398?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/254583631376067398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=254583631376067398' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/254583631376067398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/254583631376067398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/11/petrichor.html' title='petrichor'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2518/3976647798_0849e32728_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5496594963622997135</id><published>2011-10-30T09:54:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2011-10-30T09:59:47.829+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>places</title><content type='html'>rainy afternoon fills with a beautiful oblivion,&lt;br /&gt;soft, silent mystery, the world is unsaid&lt;br /&gt;trees coalesce and dissolve around me&lt;br /&gt;individually wrapped in white sky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;inspired by Dave Bonta's &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/10/28/159122106"&gt;morning porch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=== &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;last night the earth rumbled, walls shuffled and creaked.&lt;br /&gt;tonight it is just the traffic mumbling on the freeway.&lt;br /&gt;a cricket calls, a bird.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5496594963622997135?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5496594963622997135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5496594963622997135' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5496594963622997135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5496594963622997135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/10/places.html' title='places'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-7516905870256673197</id><published>2011-10-17T20:35:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2011-10-17T20:35:16.297+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>isabel's tree</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dyp2pFPPcAY/Tpv7OzJNgII/AAAAAAAAAm4/FC8z7T2LJwo/s1600/isabeltree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dyp2pFPPcAY/Tpv7OzJNgII/AAAAAAAAAm4/FC8z7T2LJwo/s320/isabeltree.jpg" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;sunlight, oxygen, earth&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;years ago a seed dropped&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;the rings ripple outward&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;a splash of timber&lt;br /&gt;a reflected tower of life&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;sweeping radial curves&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and new seeds&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;for &lt;a href="http://writteninexile.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunday-trees-experimental-tree.html"&gt;isabel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-7516905870256673197?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/7516905870256673197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=7516905870256673197' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7516905870256673197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7516905870256673197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/10/isabels-tree.html' title='isabel&apos;s tree'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dyp2pFPPcAY/Tpv7OzJNgII/AAAAAAAAAm4/FC8z7T2LJwo/s72-c/isabeltree.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-8907735243656929737</id><published>2011-10-16T22:28:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2011-10-16T22:28:46.401+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>release</title><content type='html'>“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds &lt;br /&gt;on the heel that has crushed it.” &lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;imagine escape&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;from the mechanical weight and noisy tides of this body&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;to an emptiness, acorporeal, safe. a listening mind, &lt;br /&gt;simply integral, without self.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;leaving behind the confusions of skin,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;proprioceptive and sensory negotiation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;for the other side of mindfulness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;an inversion, beyond presence, contention and doubt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;the politics of life exhaled&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;into a universal whole.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;a step which dissolves into fragrance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-8907735243656929737?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/8907735243656929737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=8907735243656929737' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8907735243656929737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8907735243656929737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/10/release.html' title='release'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-1694676657509832047</id><published>2011-10-13T16:00:00.002+10:30</published><updated>2011-10-13T16:04:06.900+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>study</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Inspired&lt;span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author"&gt; by&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_954288555"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="author vcard"&gt;Dave Bonta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ambitsgambit.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupation.html"&gt;A.B.Casuga&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vianegativa.us/2011/10/landscape-with-a-glimpse-of-the-soul-as-it-leaves-the-body/"&gt;Luisa Igloria&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author"&gt;and &lt;a href="http://liv2write2day.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/wordsmith-wednesday-sensory-description-hearing/"&gt;Hearing&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;       &lt;span class="entry-date"&gt;&lt;abbr class="published" title="2011-10-12T10:36:12-0400"&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="entry-content"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New seedlings, white stems soft with thirst on a sunny day. &lt;br /&gt;Water mists against the cloddy earth. Irises stretch their blue wings.&lt;br /&gt;Sparrows, brown with a shrill chatter, scold the crows, dogs, me.&lt;br /&gt;Tall trees in the park are resonant with other songs I don't recognise. &lt;br /&gt;No magpies today. A hawk circles for quarry over the open grass.&lt;br /&gt;Kids pedal for speed laps, counting their supremacy out loud.&lt;br /&gt;Time and light drain from the day.&lt;br /&gt;A four-day deadline presses home its point. Assignment waiting,&lt;br /&gt;I close my curtains. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Iris_graminea110.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="199" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Iris_graminea110.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-1694676657509832047?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/1694676657509832047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=1694676657509832047' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1694676657509832047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1694676657509832047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/10/study.html' title='study'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5626822662401024976</id><published>2011-10-08T19:12:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2011-10-08T19:15:12.005+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>I’ve nothing else—to bring, You know</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://poetry.poetryx.com/poets/45/" title="More poems by Emily Dickinson"&gt;Emily Dickinson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="poemText"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;I’ve nothing else—to bring, You know—&lt;br /&gt;So I keep bringing These—&lt;br /&gt;Just as the Night keeps fetching Stars&lt;br /&gt;To our familiar eyes—&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe, we shouldn’t mind them—&lt;br /&gt;Unless they didn’t come—&lt;br /&gt;Then—maybe, it would puzzle us&lt;br /&gt;To find our way Home—&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5626822662401024976?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5626822662401024976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-4712669085971735652</id><published>2011-10-08T12:13:00.000+10:30</published><updated>2011-10-08T12:13:39.709+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>morning</title><content type='html'>Scattered thoughts spiral, steaming coffee.&lt;br /&gt;Two ducks exploring new wetlands after rain.&lt;br /&gt;Morning sunlight stretches to the west.&lt;br /&gt;Two yellow dogs push close for attention.&lt;br /&gt;Tension unravelling, unweaving, untangled.&lt;br /&gt;I take a deep breath of cold air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;inspired by the &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/10/06/159122067"&gt;morning porch &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-737294439521241397</id><published>2011-10-06T12:02:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2011-10-08T12:17:57.660+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>song</title><content type='html'>in the still of night a small bird calls 'wait for me, wait for me'&lt;br /&gt;syncopated sonar, a daytime sound transposed to a darker key.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;reflecting the &lt;a href="http://morningporch.com/2011/10/04/159122059"&gt;morning porch&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.vianegativa.us/2011/10/dear-solitude/"&gt;via negativa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;smith&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yMeUkme0mrE/ToGnhj6r1qI/AAAAAAAAAm0/TE5YF7SdcNo/s1600/spin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="170" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yMeUkme0mrE/ToGnhj6r1qI/AAAAAAAAAm0/TE5YF7SdcNo/s200/spin.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;spin&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-1656013126719873919</id><published>2011-09-22T16:38:00.014+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-22T22:48:17.117+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>journey</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;choosing a seat, &lt;br /&gt;the trees behind me&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;a quiet flow of people&lt;br /&gt;television chattering&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;my turn&lt;br /&gt;finding another seat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;explaining myself, &lt;br /&gt;raw, awake, balancing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;careful of the edges&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;negotiating equilibrium, &lt;br /&gt;quiet passage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-1656013126719873919?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/1656013126719873919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=1656013126719873919' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1656013126719873919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1656013126719873919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/journey.html' title='journey'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5722744027462287074</id><published>2011-09-19T19:45:00.001+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-19T19:50:26.090+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>between</title><content type='html'>stillness in dance, &lt;br /&gt;the valley of a pulse&lt;br /&gt;silence in music, &lt;br /&gt;anodyne euphony&lt;br /&gt;light through closed eyes, &lt;br /&gt;a busy emptiness&lt;br /&gt;between&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;inspired by&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;due dates and studying&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5722744027462287074?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5722744027462287074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5722744027462287074' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5722744027462287074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5722744027462287074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/between.html' title='between'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-6755081478256669758</id><published>2011-09-18T16:50:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-18T16:50:54.050+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>sundays</title><content type='html'>i often walk matching my steps to the bleached hardwood beams following the twin curves of polished steel, it feels like childhood. once i heard the call, but it was not for me, we did not cross paths.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sometimes i am at home and she passes, gracious engineering, stormy majesty, measuring wide arcs to the coast. young and old all wave from the windows, sharing their joy and wonder, belonging for a moment, to our living treasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;for &lt;a href="http://dversepoets.com/2011/09/17/poetics-trai_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_s/"&gt;dverse &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-6755081478256669758?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/6755081478256669758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=6755081478256669758' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/6755081478256669758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/6755081478256669758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/sundays.html' title='sundays'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-6929997171262033161</id><published>2011-09-11T17:49:00.002+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-22T19:29:26.367+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>trees</title><content type='html'>i begin the same journey&lt;br /&gt;again from the first step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;along the road&lt;br /&gt;i make offerings of trees&lt;br /&gt;and pretend they are&lt;br /&gt;small destinations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and begin the same journey&lt;br /&gt;again from the first step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at least this looping path&lt;br /&gt;is safe and offers something&lt;br /&gt;to our living landscape&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;perhaps that is the best of me&lt;br /&gt;an avenue of thanks&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-6929997171262033161?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/6929997171262033161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=6929997171262033161' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/6929997171262033161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/6929997171262033161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/trees_11.html' title='trees'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-6344519941453058713</id><published>2011-09-10T20:27:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-10T20:27:33.679+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>mary</title><content type='html'>a few weeks old&lt;br /&gt;her first grandchild&lt;br /&gt;asleep in her arms&lt;br /&gt;small hands curled.&lt;br /&gt;radiant happiness &lt;br /&gt;fortune smiling.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-6344519941453058713?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/6344519941453058713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=6344519941453058713' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/6344519941453058713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/6344519941453058713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/mary.html' title='mary'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-2704665891010037997</id><published>2011-09-10T12:31:00.016+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-10T16:59:16.750+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>light</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x2WWG6N6zhA/TmrpxTXjNZI/AAAAAAAAAl4/upAyJttDYzg/s200/cosmos.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;cosmos by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/74122471@N00/233472093"&gt;jim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;all colour gently untangled, released&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;from subjective shadows and contention &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;returned to the whole, signals quiet&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;reconciled, learning to find peace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;in any context, trust in life&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;as it emerges, prismatic reversal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;rainbow strands fold into white&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XC10bIhUPpo/TmsRb8DgkDI/AAAAAAAAAl8/7yjdZLEEgoc/s1600/dandelion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XC10bIhUPpo/TmsRb8DgkDI/AAAAAAAAAl8/7yjdZLEEgoc/s200/dandelion.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;dandelion by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecstaticist/6058400496"&gt;evan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k-kCobqSI0Y/TmrpPkgr1jI/AAAAAAAAAl0/oIfM7BE_I2I/s200/sunrise.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;sunrise by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/41864721@N00/4299366855"&gt;evan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-2704665891010037997?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/2704665891010037997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=2704665891010037997' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2704665891010037997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2704665891010037997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/light.html' title='light'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x2WWG6N6zhA/TmrpxTXjNZI/AAAAAAAAAl4/upAyJttDYzg/s72-c/cosmos.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-7975725358132145256</id><published>2011-09-10T11:55:00.001+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-10T11:57:24.954+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>trees</title><content type='html'>satsuma plum soft in pale green&lt;br /&gt;freshly planted pear tree stretching&lt;br /&gt;a mulberry crowded with broad leaves &lt;br /&gt;fresh fig buds on woody branches&lt;br /&gt;a pineapple quince finds a new life&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-7975725358132145256?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/7975725358132145256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=7975725358132145256' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7975725358132145256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7975725358132145256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/trees.html' title='trees'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-7860567492085660003</id><published>2011-09-09T01:59:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-10T12:32:23.329+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>presence</title><content type='html'>earth and sky&lt;br /&gt;here and everywhere&lt;br /&gt;now and then&lt;br /&gt;i stand and breathe&lt;br /&gt;as best i can&lt;br /&gt;thankful&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-7860567492085660003?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/7860567492085660003/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=7860567492085660003' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7860567492085660003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7860567492085660003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/presence.html' title='presence'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-15068402254416630</id><published>2011-09-08T21:21:00.001+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-09T06:29:50.950+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>arrival</title><content type='html'>finding my way through city crowds&lt;br /&gt;wintery trees and traffic lights&lt;br /&gt;slate and silver pigeons watch&lt;br /&gt;an irregular anomaly on a busy street&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;one day i might walk in a leafier world&lt;br /&gt;open skies and restless wilderness and feel&lt;br /&gt;less like some improbable oddity&lt;br /&gt;resolving element in a flow of life&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-15068402254416630?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/15068402254416630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=15068402254416630' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/15068402254416630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/15068402254416630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/arrival.html' title='arrival'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-7968468998997828652</id><published>2011-09-08T20:07:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-08T20:07:26.743+09:30</updated><title type='text'>gentle things</title><content type='html'>i like the illustrations of &lt;a href="http://www.shauntan.net/"&gt;shaun tan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i think they are sadhappy whimsical&lt;br /&gt;surreal. gentle and hopeful.&lt;br /&gt;the arrival is a silent book&lt;br /&gt;about journeying to a new country.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-7968468998997828652?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/7968468998997828652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=7968468998997828652' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7968468998997828652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7968468998997828652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/gentle-things.html' title='gentle things'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-6665673003507234665</id><published>2011-09-07T09:36:00.002+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-07T18:37:46.307+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>still</title><content type='html'>in a harmonic world&lt;br /&gt;nothing can be known&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;every space, every word,&lt;br /&gt;every path, every smile&lt;br /&gt;speaks duality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i feel happydanger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;damning transaction&lt;br /&gt;and sweet resolution&lt;br /&gt;sing like sirens.&lt;br /&gt;and so i stand&lt;br /&gt;in the present moment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;time at least is an&lt;br /&gt;honest friend&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;transparent life&lt;br /&gt;raised by the silence&lt;br /&gt;deadly pond&lt;br /&gt;and living river&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;astigmatism hopefully&lt;br /&gt;correcting&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-6665673003507234665?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/6665673003507234665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=6665673003507234665' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/6665673003507234665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/6665673003507234665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/09/still.html' title='still'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5695676602532597458</id><published>2011-09-05T21:39:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-09-05T21:39:28.778+09:30</updated><title type='text'>squirrel</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WxMVkx_terQ/TmS7ht2aVdI/AAAAAAAAAls/OCl6Zcar71s/s1600/squirrel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WxMVkx_terQ/TmS7ht2aVdI/AAAAAAAAAls/OCl6Zcar71s/s1600/squirrel.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div 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title='squirrel'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WxMVkx_terQ/TmS7ht2aVdI/AAAAAAAAAls/OCl6Zcar71s/s72-c/squirrel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-2569055057294037026</id><published>2011-08-29T19:09:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-29T19:09:19.625+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trees'/><title type='text'>city</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a 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href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=2569055057294037026' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2569055057294037026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2569055057294037026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/city.html' title='city'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fAcKuZB7AXQ/TltdFdI2USI/AAAAAAAAAkA/-5DPDL5zQD4/s72-c/2011-08-25+13.37.35.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5094426902377720427</id><published>2011-08-29T15:38:00.002+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-29T15:38:37.010+09:30</updated><title type='text'>jack layton</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"My friends, love is better than anger. &lt;br /&gt;Hope is better than fear. &lt;br /&gt;Optimism is better than despair. &lt;br /&gt;So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic, &lt;br /&gt;and we'll change the world."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5094426902377720427?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5094426902377720427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5906268473622087792</id><published>2011-08-28T20:18:00.001+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-28T21:00:10.612+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trees'/><title type='text'>mangrove</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3388/3343188281_7a072cd592_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3388/3343188281_7a072cd592_o.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;mangrove by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31533886@N00/3343188281"&gt;garry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5046/5371034689_804105dcf1_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5046/5371034689_804105dcf1_b.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;mangrove by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42937777@N00/5371034689"&gt;tim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;i feel as though mangroves are salty morton bay figs&lt;br /&gt;they both have aerial roots and broad leaves&lt;br /&gt;and create habitat within their reach&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5906268473622087792?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5906268473622087792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5906268473622087792' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5906268473622087792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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up</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/01FE9cPXE3M/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/01FE9cPXE3M&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/01FE9cPXE3M&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i like that he sings a love of humanity&lt;br /&gt;of the world as a whole. another voice&lt;br /&gt;of holistic proprioception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he also sings cheeky happy songs &lt;br /&gt;but i most admire the ability to offer&lt;br /&gt;love simply and without judgement&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-1175810261331020666?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/1175810261331020666/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=1175810261331020666' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1175810261331020666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1175810261331020666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/dont-give-up.html' title='don&apos;t give up'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-9122523405045068972</id><published>2011-08-28T09:55:00.004+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-28T12:09:34.557+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>trees, communities, growing leadership</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/tqfvUA2vRAM/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tqfvUA2vRAM&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tqfvUA2vRAM&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;dverse asks for poems of alternate vision, of intent. i have no words in me better than these perspectives from people who understand all life as family. rights as responsibilities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;holistic proprioception.&lt;br /&gt;sometimes listening&lt;br /&gt;is the best kind of speaking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-9122523405045068972?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-1407561853743641138</id><published>2011-08-27T01:02:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-27T01:02:23.377+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>dark</title><content type='html'>fractured perception&lt;br /&gt;small chairs with gothic shadows &lt;br /&gt;looking for light relief&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-1407561853743641138?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/1407561853743641138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=1407561853743641138' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1407561853743641138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1407561853743641138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/dark.html' title='dark'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-1558237571088163621</id><published>2011-08-25T14:34:00.001+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-25T14:35:33.773+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>salvia</title><content type='html'>﻿﻿ &lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IN6mFdcYr3Q/TlXVFF-mEdI/AAAAAAAAAj4/n2BcAxw-ye4/s1600/blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" qaa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IN6mFdcYr3Q/TlXVFF-mEdI/AAAAAAAAAj4/n2BcAxw-ye4/s200/blue.jpg" width="176" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/378247428/"&gt;aussiegall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿ &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and after all the world &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;is still wrapped in blue&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;beautiful emptiness&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;primary, elemental&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and so we breathe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;our stories into the ether&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;a mesh of imaginings&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;curiosity, wonder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-1558237571088163621?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/1558237571088163621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/white.html' title='white'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KDXl__Es6nI/TlSEe05K6iI/AAAAAAAAAjg/B8KMJCTqkBk/s72-c/2011-08-24+14.20.34.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-7859592918396495042</id><published>2011-08-22T09:52:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-22T09:52:12.478+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trees'/><title type='text'>trees</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-faJwOjqmnKc/TlGe2G76bbI/AAAAAAAAAjU/qqVoW39HQRg/s1600/sheoak1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-faJwOjqmnKc/TlGe2G76bbI/AAAAAAAAAjU/qqVoW39HQRg/s320/sheoak1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-odL0p_jgfuA/TlGe4aU5eJI/AAAAAAAAAjY/kPe2dUxf_34/s1600/sheoak2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-odL0p_jgfuA/TlGe4aU5eJI/AAAAAAAAAjY/kPe2dUxf_34/s320/sheoak2.jpg" width="306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;two small sheoaks&lt;br /&gt;safely in the creek bank&lt;br /&gt;out of the way of the tractor.&lt;br /&gt;a wish to heal this&lt;br /&gt;beloved earth. i hope that&lt;br /&gt;they live to give happiness&lt;br /&gt;to others.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-7859592918396495042?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/7859592918396495042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=7859592918396495042' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7859592918396495042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7859592918396495042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/trees.html' title='trees'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-faJwOjqmnKc/TlGe2G76bbI/AAAAAAAAAjU/qqVoW39HQRg/s72-c/sheoak1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-8370552129411984578</id><published>2011-08-21T09:43:00.001+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-21T12:21:02.634+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>peace</title><content type='html'>i am my own hell&lt;br /&gt;while round me the world is beautiful&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i need to turn around &lt;br /&gt;leave these shadows behind &lt;br /&gt;light and laughter are possible&lt;br /&gt;this journey of life is a gift&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i can float within this river&lt;br /&gt;beautiful&amp;nbsp;universe of&amp;nbsp;refracting colour &lt;br /&gt;and not be afraid&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chinesestoryonline.com/idiom-story/543-cong-shan-ru-liu-.html"&gt;cong shan ru liu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-8370552129411984578?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/8370552129411984578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=8370552129411984578' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8370552129411984578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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tree&lt;br /&gt;shouting duality, life and death,&lt;br /&gt;violence, remembrance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://chineseculture.about.com/library/extra/idiom/c/blyrhchongdaofuzhe.htm" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank"&gt;chong dao fu zhe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;another&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54tRcKFEUlY" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank"&gt;road&lt;/a&gt;&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/30681443-1093486651440819996?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/1093486651440819996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=9149714802406307231' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/9149714802406307231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/9149714802406307231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/family.html' title='family'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4ky25yvPfQU/TkhlE1KQxUI/AAAAAAAAAio/KAnp_YZ-mnI/s72-c/2011-08-13lindaandysuemike.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-7490577050261137095</id><published>2011-08-14T03:01:00.004+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-14T09:54:52.372+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>Mary's poem</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Thought this was a lovely affirmation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;of how blessed I feel. I am surrounded&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;by good people. =)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary's blog: &lt;a href="http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/"&gt;In the Corner of My Eye&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary's poem: &lt;a href="http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2011/08/if-i-should-die.html"&gt;If I Should Die&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4905399713313340450"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I should die, think only this of me&lt;br /&gt;that I lived&amp;nbsp; the best I could,&lt;br /&gt;that I loved you, never wanted more&lt;br /&gt;than to be with you each day, &lt;br /&gt;that I tried to live an honest, authentic life&lt;br /&gt;as that is all I knew. If I should die,&lt;br /&gt;know that I will die a better person&lt;br /&gt;for knowing you.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="post-author vcard"&gt; Posted by &lt;span class="fn"&gt;Mary&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="post-timestamp"&gt; at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" href="http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2011/08/if-i-should-die.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"&gt;&lt;abbr class="published" title="2011-08-06T20:47:00-05:00"&gt;8:47 PM&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="post-timestamp"&gt;&lt;abbr class="published" title="2011-08-06T20:47:00-05:00"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="reaction-buttons"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="star-ratings"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="post-comment-link"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="post-icons"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-7490577050261137095?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/7490577050261137095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=7490577050261137095' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7490577050261137095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/7490577050261137095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/marys-poem.html' title='Mary&apos;s poem'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-530789160929357120</id><published>2011-08-12T20:36:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-30T20:37:59.258+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>peace</title><content type='html'>eyes closed, listening&lt;br /&gt;i can no longer hold or release pieces of life, it all flows&lt;br /&gt;through my fingers, the good, the bad, the wonder of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but i listen to that gentle formal pattern &lt;br /&gt;counting me out and bringing me back again&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/jdt4Y2fNXOI/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jdt4Y2fNXOI&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jdt4Y2fNXOI&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;like a tide. and that is enough.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-530789160929357120?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/530789160929357120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=530789160929357120' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/530789160929357120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/530789160929357120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/peace.html' title='peace'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-802725196808933640</id><published>2011-08-08T18:36:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-08T18:36:09.445+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lobethal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mosaic'/><title type='text'>video</title><content type='html'>Kim Jordan of the Lobethal Community Association has put together a groovy &lt;a href="http://lobethal-projects.blogspot.com/2011/08/making-mosaics.html"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; of the mosaic project. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-802725196808933640?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/802725196808933640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=802725196808933640' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/802725196808933640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/802725196808933640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/video.html' title='video'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-1877689998916788514</id><published>2011-08-08T00:22:00.002+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-08T19:12:03.855+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>tides</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/oyVJsg0XIIk/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oyVJsg0XIIk&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oyVJsg0XIIk&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;ocean&lt;br /&gt;transient life&lt;br /&gt;dust&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://history.cultural-china.com/en/38History1215.html"&gt;cang hai sang tian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-1877689998916788514?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/1877689998916788514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=1877689998916788514' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1877689998916788514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/1877689998916788514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/tides.html' title='tides'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-8414776882391367887</id><published>2011-08-07T20:30:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-30T20:32:02.934+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>turtle</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ts2_O2tD1Ic/TlzC_yAN7rI/AAAAAAAAAkk/ptJMEBUchGE/s1600/chiroco.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="287" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ts2_O2tD1Ic/TlzC_yAN7rI/AAAAAAAAAkk/ptJMEBUchGE/s320/chiroco.jpeg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"&gt;Horses, Giorgio de Chirico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;a thousand miles to paradise&lt;br /&gt;six horses plan their journey&lt;br /&gt;the turtle, in three years,&lt;br /&gt;arrives and waits for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;bo bie qian li&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dversepoets.com/2011/08/06/poetics-giorgio-de-chirico/" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;dverse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-8414776882391367887?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/8414776882391367887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=8414776882391367887' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8414776882391367887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8414776882391367887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/turtle.html' title='turtle'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ts2_O2tD1Ic/TlzC_yAN7rI/AAAAAAAAAkk/ptJMEBUchGE/s72-c/chiroco.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-2660818552240802898</id><published>2011-08-04T20:30:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-30T20:32:51.582+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>receipt</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W_ZXU1WF7Tc/TlzCXdNyIiI/AAAAAAAAAkg/NqlwgHZGzh4/s1600/receipt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W_ZXU1WF7Tc/TlzCXdNyIiI/AAAAAAAAAkg/NqlwgHZGzh4/s200/receipt.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;another donkey receipt from &lt;a href="http://www.twitpic.com/m3oie"&gt;@erin_elindsay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;velvet nose with wiry whiskers&lt;br /&gt;narrow shoulders and hips&lt;br /&gt;with a rounded belly&lt;br /&gt;a simple life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;traders watch the elegant sweep of his receipt&lt;br /&gt;graceful forms shimmer across creamy paper&lt;br /&gt;no hint of donkey&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;meanwhile&lt;br /&gt;small dark hooves&lt;br /&gt;find their own path&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;bo shi moi lu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-2660818552240802898?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/2660818552240802898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=2660818552240802898' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2660818552240802898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2660818552240802898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/receipt.html' title='receipt'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W_ZXU1WF7Tc/TlzCXdNyIiI/AAAAAAAAAkg/NqlwgHZGzh4/s72-c/receipt.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-8741671246599233665</id><published>2011-08-04T20:11:00.002+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-30T20:21:32.616+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>war</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/ktW43nEqcDg/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ktW43nEqcDg&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ktW43nEqcDg&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nothing is too deceitful in war. &lt;br /&gt;win, &lt;br /&gt;the pen of history follows; &lt;br /&gt;virtue, cut to suit. &lt;br /&gt;everything is too deceitful &lt;br /&gt;where is the edge? &lt;br /&gt;the toxic cleverness of the golden flower &lt;br /&gt;where even the tea has a dark harmonic &lt;br /&gt;unfolding in immaculate horror &lt;br /&gt;imagine them all &lt;br /&gt;beyond war &lt;br /&gt;peaceful, floating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://chineseculture.about.com/library/extra/idiom/b/blyrhbingbuyanzha.htm" target="_blank"&gt;bing bu yan zha&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;this idiom reminds me of this &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Golden_Flower" target="_blank"&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;exquisite, dire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-8741671246599233665?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/8741671246599233665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=8741671246599233665' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8741671246599233665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/8741671246599233665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/war.html' title='war'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-2688235353446015568</id><published>2011-08-02T11:41:00.003+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-04T14:24:03.927+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>void</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/upload/2009/04/earth_day_from_space/apollo08_earthrise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/upload/2009/04/earth_day_from_space/apollo08_earthrise.jpg" t$="true" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;image from &lt;a href="http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html"&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;'s 7th expedition, via &lt;a href="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/"&gt;Starts with a Bang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;disconnection&lt;br /&gt;floating backwards&lt;br /&gt;colours compressed &lt;br /&gt;into&amp;nbsp;blackness&lt;br /&gt;stark otherness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;encapsulated&lt;br /&gt;all the mess of life&lt;br /&gt;in discreet bubbles&lt;br /&gt;vacuum wrapped&lt;br /&gt;eternity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://english.cri.cn/739/2003-10-24/17@54493.htm"&gt;bie kai sheng mian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;for &lt;a href="http://dversepoets.com/2011/08/02/openlinknight-3/"&gt;dverse &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-2688235353446015568?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/2688235353446015568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=2688235353446015568' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2688235353446015568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/2688235353446015568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/void.html' title='void'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-3259980889986245720</id><published>2011-08-01T20:35:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-01T20:35:52.400+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mosaic'/><title type='text'>thank you</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RPRaoe_4gEs/TjaHYFO4O6I/AAAAAAAAAgw/d7Ji_fLUFyE/s1600/2011-08-01+12.45.34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RPRaoe_4gEs/TjaHYFO4O6I/AAAAAAAAAgw/d7Ji_fLUFyE/s320/2011-08-01+12.45.34.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IhgWHzV-Lx4/TjaHfpw6_SI/AAAAAAAAAg0/1amc-9pFUjI/s1600/2011-08-01+12.45.49.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IhgWHzV-Lx4/TjaHfpw6_SI/AAAAAAAAAg0/1amc-9pFUjI/s320/2011-08-01+12.45.49.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you to the lovely crew in Lobethal.&lt;br /&gt;Kathryn, Kim, Paul, Val, Lisa were there today.&lt;br /&gt;Difficult to say goodbye.&lt;br /&gt;j&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-3259980889986245720?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/3259980889986245720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=3259980889986245720' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3259980889986245720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3259980889986245720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/08/thank-you.html' title='thank you'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RPRaoe_4gEs/TjaHYFO4O6I/AAAAAAAAAgw/d7Ji_fLUFyE/s72-c/2011-08-01+12.45.34.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-6118594788869735908</id><published>2011-08-01T19:17:00.002+09:30</published><updated>2011-08-04T13:43:11.008+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>ash</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xhQShVtvUNE/TgPl70zjUmI/AAAAAAAABh4/I-ojMYHyDlk/s400/IMG_6966.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xhQShVtvUNE/TgPl70zjUmI/AAAAAAAABh4/I-ojMYHyDlk/s320/IMG_6966.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;image by &lt;a href="http://franticpuppydesign.blogspot.com/2011/06/fire-dance.html"&gt;D.C. Lutz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;rough hewn writings&lt;br /&gt;and simple timberwork&lt;br /&gt;burn as sweetly&lt;br /&gt;to ash&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;elemental letter&lt;br /&gt;of new life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chinesestoryonline.com/idiom-story/257-ban-meng-nong-fu.html"&gt;ban men nong fu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-6118594788869735908?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/6118594788869735908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=6118594788869735908' title='1 Comments'/><link 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width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-8946294447039739627</id><published>2011-07-31T21:18:00.001+09:30</published><updated>2011-07-31T21:19:14.366+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>leaf</title><content type='html'>willow leaves spin&lt;br /&gt;sunlight marking every leaf&lt;br /&gt;a restless river&lt;br /&gt;stretches the story&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chinesestoryonline.com/idiom-story/249-bai-fa-bai-zhong.html"&gt;bai bu chuang yang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dversepoets.com/2011/07/30/poetics-the-watering-hole/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;dverse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="110" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y55LVvYDfbk/Thqc4k0qLqI/AAAAAAAAAdg/luLw7KOCpiU/s320/2011-07-11wunderleafruit.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A mosaic for Wunderlea Day Care Centre, Mount Barker Hospital.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to David and Pam for help. =)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5908229449301015437?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5908229449301015437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5908229449301015437' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5908229449301015437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VQC_T7-MGIU/ThJI407otGI/AAAAAAAAAck/KYVCysMP0dY/s1600/gogh_wheat-rising-sun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="257" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VQC_T7-MGIU/ThJI407otGI/AAAAAAAAAck/KYVCysMP0dY/s320/gogh_wheat-rising-sun.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Wheat Field with Rising Sun&lt;/i&gt;, Vincent Van Gogh, 1889 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the sun meets me&lt;br /&gt;face to face&lt;br /&gt;i feel the gift and frisson of heat&lt;br /&gt;eyes closed&lt;br /&gt;watching the the velvet reds&lt;br /&gt;of her light translated&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;beyond&lt;br /&gt;she visits her shifting empire&lt;br /&gt;with the same precision&lt;br /&gt;both blessing and warning&lt;br /&gt;the morning edges of wheat&lt;br /&gt;warm light, on still green grass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;even now&lt;br /&gt;the shadows are resistant&lt;br /&gt;restless exiles&lt;br /&gt;yet to be persuaded by the&lt;br /&gt;offer of the day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2011/07/mag-72.html"&gt;magpie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-4557766671352043389?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/4557766671352043389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=4557766671352043389' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5967307243469200800</id><published>2011-07-02T20:43:00.007+09:30</published><updated>2011-10-15T11:58:17.002+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='glass'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='magpie'/><title type='text'>endeavor</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CF7rrmz8pAk/Tg79zBjOsYI/AAAAAAAAAcc/CpghkdjxHXo/s1600/magpielures.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CF7rrmz8pAk/Tg79zBjOsYI/AAAAAAAAAcc/CpghkdjxHXo/s320/magpielures.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Endeavor&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.linotagliapietra.com/posters.htm"&gt;Lino Tagliapietra&lt;/a&gt;, Columbus Museum of Art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;he breathes the kiss of life to liquid sands&lt;br /&gt;peppers the air with suspended animation&lt;br /&gt;streaming ribbons of glowing colour&lt;br /&gt;suspended in frozen grace, a silent fleet&lt;br /&gt;translucent keels inhaling an imagined wind, &lt;br /&gt;imagine these shapes released &lt;br /&gt;riding the surface of a hazy current&lt;br /&gt;or flitting like coppery leaves&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;to meet their shadows&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2011/06/mag-71.html"&gt;magpie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/wordle-10/"&gt;wordle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5967307243469200800?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5967307243469200800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5967307243469200800' title='8 Comments'/><link 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width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-532334657521108986</id><published>2011-07-02T13:52:00.001+09:30</published><updated>2011-07-02T13:53:31.225+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lobethal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='val'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mosaic'/><title type='text'>pieces</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-op16W_Kc9K4/Tg6c9BDR8zI/AAAAAAAAAcM/w3EcWznAb-Y/s1600/2011-07-01star.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-op16W_Kc9K4/Tg6c9BDR8zI/AAAAAAAAAcM/w3EcWznAb-Y/s320/2011-07-01star.jpg" width="320" 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width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-8112489407160889737</id><published>2011-06-30T20:15:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-06-30T20:15:16.217+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lobethal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mosaic'/><title type='text'>two blankets</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QzYJH8u2CnE/TgxTFzbObaI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/UmfiTtLHpA0/s1600/2011-06-30army.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QzYJH8u2CnE/TgxTFzbObaI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/UmfiTtLHpA0/s320/2011-06-30army.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a 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href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/06/two-blankets.html' title='two blankets'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QzYJH8u2CnE/TgxTFzbObaI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/UmfiTtLHpA0/s72-c/2011-06-30army.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5740580515525706108</id><published>2011-06-29T19:09:00.002+09:30</published><updated>2011-06-29T19:25:01.609+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lobethal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kathryn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blanket'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mosaic'/><title type='text'>progress</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OSzrOutwBjI/TgrzvtZ5d-I/AAAAAAAAAZ4/mjMeBeNTmlY/s1600/2011-06-29mosaickk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="303" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OSzrOutwBjI/TgrzvtZ5d-I/AAAAAAAAAZ4/mjMeBeNTmlY/s320/2011-06-29mosaickk.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uBRVuL8XKxU/Tgryu_jpzmI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/_eqX7qe0czc/s1600/2011-06-29mosaic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uBRVuL8XKxU/Tgryu_jpzmI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/_eqX7qe0czc/s320/2011-06-29mosaic.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;there will be three mosaics&lt;br /&gt;they each represent a blanket design&lt;br /&gt;this first one is an army blanket&lt;br /&gt;i have added the stars on the design&lt;br /&gt;the blanket is simple grey with a yellow stripe&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;and orange edge stitching&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there will be a red orange blanket with tassels and a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;blue green checked blanket with a satin edge.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;the blankets are from the onkaparinga wool mill in lobethal&lt;br /&gt;the mosaics will be in lobethal =)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5740580515525706108?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/5740580515525706108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=5740580515525706108' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5740580515525706108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/5740580515525706108'/><link 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type='html'>the handle turns&lt;br /&gt;a fine curling ribbon of language&lt;br /&gt;winds into my ear&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OdXI4w7KAIE/Tgryfs6S9lI/AAAAAAAAAZw/-VU8OS3iCp0/s1600/2011-06-21dreamear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OdXI4w7KAIE/Tgryfs6S9lI/AAAAAAAAAZw/-VU8OS3iCp0/s320/2011-06-21dreamear.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-3613035907123021089?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/3613035907123021089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30681443&amp;postID=3613035907123021089' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3613035907123021089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30681443/posts/default/3613035907123021089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/2011/06/dream.html' title='dream'/><author><name>lucychili</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06519163424062626658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OdXI4w7KAIE/Tgryfs6S9lI/AAAAAAAAAZw/-VU8OS3iCp0/s72-c/2011-06-21dreamear.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5893037948637311059</id><published>2011-06-26T20:47:00.001+09:30</published><updated>2011-06-26T20:47:43.035+09:30</updated><title type='text'>winter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I4MiClKxP_c/TgcVOTG0THI/AAAAAAAAAZs/qtMcyFRx3Kc/s1600/2011-06-25bonfire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I4MiClKxP_c/TgcVOTG0THI/AAAAAAAAAZs/qtMcyFRx3Kc/s320/2011-06-25bonfire.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-5893037948637311059?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I4MiClKxP_c/TgcVOTG0THI/AAAAAAAAAZs/qtMcyFRx3Kc/s72-c/2011-06-25bonfire.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-5371396763980915782</id><published>2011-06-20T19:48:00.000+09:30</published><updated>2011-06-20T19:48:05.508+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>night</title><content type='html'>restless blackness, wild&lt;br /&gt;tempestuous, intemperate&lt;br /&gt;chilling &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the glowing coals of tail lights&lt;br /&gt;emerge and dissolve&lt;br /&gt;across the flooded windscreen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;parrots swear from wind hustled trees&lt;br /&gt;branches and leaves bleached and shiny&lt;br /&gt;tumble between the road and the night&lt;br /&gt;rain at crosspurposes&lt;br /&gt;almost home&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_biK4g8sw5tU/S-ILL3JaShI/AAAAAAAAAMk/NVRdaX46Dig/S220/life.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30681443.post-8204220778929435382</id><published>2011-06-18T15:21:00.011+09:30</published><updated>2011-06-20T07:44:18.003+09:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poem'/><title type='text'>spin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hI_pt2FSU50/TfwYJ-n-ZvI/AAAAAAAAAZc/g8m0m8PAo94/s1600/rosenquist.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="208" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hI_pt2FSU50/TfwYJ-n-ZvI/AAAAAAAAAZc/g8m0m8PAo94/s320/rosenquist.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.acquavellagalleries.com/exhibitions/2010-02-18_james-rosenquist/"&gt;Rosenquist exhibition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;systems of life&lt;br /&gt;ecologies and economies&lt;br /&gt;spin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they feel disconnected, discordant,&lt;br /&gt;clashing gears, they consume each other&lt;br /&gt;total war between ecology and profit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~~~~~~~~~~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://onestoppoetry.com/2011/06/friday-poetically-with-brian-miller-18.html"&gt;onestoppoetry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' 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/&gt;lifelong pirouette&lt;br /&gt;spinning and growing &lt;br /&gt;writing your autobiography&lt;br /&gt;with tongue toed softness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;an incremental cathedral&lt;br /&gt;honoring your beginnings&lt;br /&gt;repeating rhythms and&lt;br /&gt;building toward your future&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and beyond&lt;br /&gt;where your work will stand&lt;br /&gt;as last will and testament&lt;br /&gt;whispering monument &lt;br /&gt;exquisite epitaph&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2011/06/mag-69.html"&gt;magpie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30681443-3987597499400349586?l=crankymango.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crankymango.blogspot.com/feeds/3987597499400349586/comments/default' title='Post 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