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	<title>A for Blog</title>
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	<description>Short poems in the making by Rachel McAlpine</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>End of A for Blog. Long live C for Blog.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This database is full! I have started a new one: if you like watching a poet in action, please visit  C for Blog, where poems from March 2007 will be  stored and worked on. Thanks for reading A for Blog!
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		<title>Questions for discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. What is the theme
of this poem?
Quote to support
your answer.
2. Why did the author
write this poem?
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		<title>Atlantis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Atlantis
is about to sink.
Flatland
is on the brink.
Legendary Tokelau
sea it
don&#8217;t blink.
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		<title>Snipe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(for but not to Colin Miskelly)
Snipe.
You can&#8217;t imagine one.
Frail echo of kiwi
handful of feathers
with a darning needle handle.
Snipe.
You&#8217;ve never seen one
on its nest of dracophyllum
under tussock
on a chilly island rock around the south.
Hakawai.
Horror of the empty  night.
Monster or ghost
not even the elders knew for sure
and nobody wanted to know.
Hakawai.
The rare roar from nowhere
loud as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s lucky</title>
		<link>http://www.writing.co.nz/blog/?p=228</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s lucky I&#8217;ve got wings,
otherwise my hands
would blow away
in the wind
and I couldn&#8217;t
hold your hand,
said Elsie.
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		<title>Sunrise salsa</title>
		<link>http://www.writing.co.nz/blog/?p=227</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(For Celia, 10)
Sunrise salsa stripes
a double scoop of sky.
You will shine
with red lips
and black hair
like Snow White.
You&#8217;ll be a bard
in a band of boys.
They&#8217;ll jostle you,
sing and play with you,
dote on you.
You&#8217;ll wear a black dress
and a red beret.
Salmon lacerations melt
to whipped cream
and ice-blue
in the eastern sky.
And the best boy will tickle
the back of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About Tokelau (found poem)</title>
		<link>http://www.writing.co.nz/blog/?p=226</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atafu is the Protestant atoll
with a strong sense
of fundamentalist
culture 
Nukunono is the Roman Catholic island
with a normal
concentration
of culture 
and 
Fakaofo is the neutral island
with a split
between Roman Catholicism
and Protestantism
and a normal mix
between normal
and fundamentalist tradition.
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		<title>Red trees but still we freeze*</title>
		<link>http://www.writing.co.nz/blog/?p=225</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For weeks the weather
has bullied and teased.
We are displeased
but fully woollied.
* Headline in Dominion Post today.
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		<title>Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.writing.co.nz/blog/?p=224</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories
in the mesh of nerves
combed aside
for the scalpel.
Stories
in the blades of water
slicing ever downwards
over boulders.
Stories in the stones.
Stories in the blood.
Let&#8217;s let
Daddy kiss it better.
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		<title>A baby&#8217;s cry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A baby&#8217;s cry
in a pop song.
How can a baby pray?
A baby&#8217;s cry
in a chapel.
How can a baby disobey?
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