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				<title>Sarah posted a new activity comment</title>
				<link>https://storyembers.org/waiting-in-the-rain/comment-page-1/#comment-10929</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 18:00:28 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This. is. fire! You use imagery and diction so well. The last line is beautiful, &#8220;And while I wait, I feel alive.&#8221;</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/graham-jackson/" rel="nofollow ugc">Graham Jackson</a> wrote a new post While I’m waiting, I am
Distilling neon signs in a drop
Of rain, nearby the rushing
Of the world’s many neurons,
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 18:58:42 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much!! I&#8217;m glad it spoke to you. 🙂</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/storyembers/" rel="nofollow ugc">Story Embers</a> wrote a new post By Sarah Spradlin
 
After the longest dry season,you pour yourself into the cracks in the clay and your overflowing,lasting long after the clouds have passed us by,is the color [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:11:02 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awww! I love that. So glad it resonated with you!</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2021 02:32:56 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahhhhh! I love that so so much! I am so glad that this resonates. As a farmer myself, this poem was really special to me to write. &lt;3 Thank you for commenting and sharing that!</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:26:28 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am so so glad you enjoyed it, Glynis! Thank you for commenting. &lt;3</p>
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				<link>https://storyembers.org/prayer-for-the-artist/comment-page-1/#comment-10175</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 04:29:38 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am so glad this continues to resonate with you, Eddy!</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/storyembers/" rel="nofollow ugc">Story Embers</a> wrote a new post By Sarah Spradlin
 
Sister, I see your arms are trembling.
Brother, I see your tears,
your stone-set face,
how this fire
rattling in your bones,
shut up no longer,
has burned [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 04:21:25 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much, Libby!</p>
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Sister, I see your arms are trembling.
Brother, I see your tears,
your stone-set face,
how this fire
rattling in your bones,
shut up no longer,
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				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 03:40:37 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Emily!!</p>
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Sister, I see your arms are trembling.
Brother, I see your tears,
your stone-set face,
how this fire
rattling in your bones,
shut up no longer,
has burned [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 03:31:40 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much, Eddy!</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 02:12:10 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&lt;3 Thank you so much, Catherine!! I&#039;m so glad you took something away from it.</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/storyembers/" rel="nofollow ugc">Story Embers</a> wrote a new post By Sarah Spradlin
 
My soul weeps,
and its tears glisten in the fading sunlight;
emotions run out into the open, empty air of aloneness.
On my skin, they trim their graves with [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 02:11:45 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you!!</p>
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My soul weeps,
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				<link>https://storyembers.org/the-impossibility-of-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-8753</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 02:11:18 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&lt;3 Thank you, sweet friend! I recently read this at my first open mic, and it was awesome to revisit it and what God was teaching me in this moment.</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/storyembers/" rel="nofollow ugc">Story Embers</a> wrote a new post By Sarah Spradlin
 
I feel it,
a certain heaviness in my heart
as I’m making my way home one evening.
Joy and Sorrow are very nearly always together,
are very nearly always mi [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2020 02:21:10 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much!! &lt;3 That is so true: they really can exist together and that&#039;s okay&#8211;even good. &lt;3</p>
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I feel it,
a certain heaviness in my heart
as I’m making my way home one evening.
Joy and Sorrow are very nearly always together,
are very nearly always mi [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2020 02:20:40 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awwwww &lt;3 &lt;3 Thank you!</p>
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I feel it,
a certain heaviness in my heart
as I’m making my way home one evening.
Joy and Sorrow are very nearly always together,
are very nearly always mi [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<link>https://storyembers.org/the-impossibility-of-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-5434</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2020 02:28:17 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a beautiful thing to be learning yourself and how to love others well too! That&#8217;s awesome, Emily! &lt;3</p>
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I feel it,
a certain heaviness in my heart
as I’m making my way home one evening.
Joy and Sorrow are very nearly always together,
are very nearly always mi [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2020 02:27:42 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&lt;3 So glad it spoke to you, Nana. Love you so much!</p>
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I feel it,
a certain heaviness in my heart
as I’m making my way home one evening.
Joy and Sorrow are very nearly always together,
are very nearly always mi [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<link>https://storyembers.org/the-impossibility-of-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-5386</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:41:42 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awww thank you, Sue! &lt;3</p>
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I feel it,
a certain heaviness in my heart
as I’m making my way home one evening.
Joy and Sorrow are very nearly always together,
are very nearly always mi [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:04:11 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m so glad you enjoyed it! 🙂 InsideOut in part inspired the poem, so I love that you picked up on that! 😉 And go for it!! Write that story!!</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/storyembers/" rel="nofollow ugc">Story Embers</a> wrote a new post By Sarah Spradlin
 
I feel it,
a certain heaviness in my heart
as I’m making my way home one evening.
Joy and Sorrow are very nearly always together,
are very nearly always mi [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<link>https://storyembers.org/activity/p/79572/</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2020 15:20:30 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<link>https://storyembers.org/home-2/comment-page-1/#comment-5086</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2020 00:07:37 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Love this! You captured what happens inside a home from the first moment to the end and did a great job pulling us into moments with specific details. Thanks for sharing!</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/storyembers/" rel="nofollow ugc">Story Embers</a> wrote a new post By Katelynn Richardson
 
So it begins,
the smell of freshly spread paint
mixed with sweet-sticky perspiration.
Tireless preparation.
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				<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2020 00:03:27 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes. This is a poem I want to sit with and think on. Thank you for sharing this!</p>
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that leaves have scraped with many final breaths.
When asked why it lingered so, it laughed
and held onto my arm, and hopped with wreaths
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 23:59:31 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My heart!! Oh my goodness, I had no idea that this article existed, but while I was looking for an old poem I published, this popped up. It is such an honor to have been in your article! This literally just made my day.</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/cindy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cindy Green</a> wrote a new post Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in our three-part series on harnessing the power of poetry, which explores the insights and techniques novelists can glean from poets. You c [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 23:57:22 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beautiful beautiful poem with a beautiful ending. Wow. Thank you for sharing this. I feel like you did such a great job sharing a few little moments that make the reader feel like they know you. Great job!</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/cindy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cindy Green</a> wrote a new post If I were to make a list
of the best feelings I know,
the ones that smell of safety
and taste of tenderness
and call me with loving lungs,
I would write:
being held in small, [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 23:55:17 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;but I’ve taken the letters of privilege</p>
<p>and taught them to spell burden.&#8221;</p>
<p>Girl. Say it louder for the people in the back. What a beautiful way to capture something that so many people feel and validating emotions that will make so many people feel understood.  Great job!</p>
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I’d never call it personal—
I’ve left him on read for a week,
and I don’t reply to her as quickly as I used to.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 23:52:48 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You just crushed that rhyme. Wow. I love how precise and powerful each word is. You owned this piece!</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/hope-ann/" rel="nofollow ugc">Hope Ann</a> wrote a new post I took life apart
To see what made stars glow;
I wove a web of silver truth,
Untangled row by row.
 
I took life apart,
Each gear and cog and spring;
I mapped each broken hand
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 23:49:43 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2019 04:33:53 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cindy. My heart. I just want to hug you. Man. That last line. You nailed it, girl.</p>
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Your fingers ran through my hair
and calmed
the strands the storm had tangled.
I wondered how long before I felt that safety again.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:51:13 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love this allegory and the conversational style of this poem!! Really nicely done. 🙂 I hope to see more poems from you sometime!</p>
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				<a href="https://storyembers.org/members/storyembers/" rel="nofollow ugc">Story Embers</a> wrote a new post By Sarah Wiens
 
Father! Father! What are you doing
Sawing the branches of our apple tree?
Won’t the tree hurt with all those cuts?
Won’t it look ugly?
 
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				<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:34:08 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow. This is gut-level honesty and it&#8217;s awesome. I love the setting and the truth you&#8217;ve packed into this poem! Nicely done!</p>
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I’ve come all the way here to talk to you.
I have come from birth
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:37:38 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awwww! Thank you so much for taking the time to read, Libby!! I&#8217;m so glad that it spoke to you. &lt;3 That part with Moses&#039; sandals was one of my favorite parts to write!</p>
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My soul weeps,
and its tears glisten in the fading sunlight;
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:36:08 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow. I love the vulnerability in this poem, Cindy. I needed to hear this today, too. &lt;3 Thanks so much for sharing!</p>
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to describe the ache—
the ache in my shoulders from sitting too long,
the ache in my eyes from crying too much,
the ache in my heart from missing you,
the a [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:44:29 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are one of my most favorite things!! &lt;3 Thank you so much for reading! 🙂</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:43:37 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awwww! Thank you so much, Ariel!! I&#8217;m so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂</p>
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My soul weeps,
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				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2019 02:42:32 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love this so so so so so so so much. Thank you so much for sharing your heart. 🙂</p>
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I don’t have a temple; I barely have a prayer.
In the hollows of this empty church, I know that You are there.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:16:46 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;for the artful weapon of listening</p>
<p>is there for all to wield.&#8221;</p>
<p>I have never thought about listening this way, but wow&#8211;you just blew my mind, girl! Love this poem and you so much!! Thanks for sharing your heart-words with us. 😉</p>
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are the most sought for:
elusive phrases
hiding under tongues
and peering from eyes;
retreating to throats
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:12:23 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your comment made my whole morning, Katherine!! 🙂 I am so glad that you liked it and that you took the time to read it!!</p>
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I understand your hesitation, dear one.
Life has fallen so far from perfect.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:11:39 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>🙂 🙂 🙂 Thanks so much, Brooke!! You were definitely one of my first readers. xD &lt;3</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:10:57 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>KATE!!!! I&#8217;ve missed you so much, my friend! Thank you so much for reading!! &lt;3 🙂</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:02:19 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks so much, Martha!!</p>
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I understand your hesitation, dear one.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:45:03 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I was reading this and the whole time I was like, &#8220;Man, who&#8217;s writing could this be? It&#8217;s amazing.&#8221; And then, of course, I got to the bottom and saw your name and I couldn&#8217;t help but grin. You are such a gifted poet, Cindy. Keep doing your thing, girl, and know I am cheering you on. &lt;3 🙂</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:38:23 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow. First off, thank you for being honest. And then, I love how much hope this has and how much power there is when you surrender your story to Christ. Keep writing, girl. You&#8217;ll move mountains. 🙂</p>
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It’s hard for me to sayor describe what I feel;though I’m physically better,it does take time to heal.
 
It all began with meand a thoughtless inspi [&hellip;]			]]></content:encoded>
				
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:32:49 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*sneakily dumps lots of love* *less sneakily throws lots of confetti* Love this and you, you amazing human you.</p>
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I saw only dreams,
But slowly my laughter faded,
As in my mind
I found the shadows left behind.
 
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				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:29:40 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*hugs* I am so glad, Heather! Thank you so much for taking the time to read it, and know that I&#8217;m cheering you on through whatever you&#8217;re walking through! &lt;3</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:28:40 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much, Libby!! I&#8217;m so thankful for you taking the time to read my poem! &lt;3 🙂</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:27:49 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey there, Sereena! Thank you for reading it! I&#8217;m so glad that it was helpful. Cheering you on! &lt;3 🙂</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:53:11 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You grabbed me from the title!! I love metaphors, and this one is no exception!! Well done, you poet you! Keep up the great work. 🙂</p>
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My heart is red in a world that’s dark;
my Savior’s blood colors me stark
amid a sin-swept world of gray.
Now I’m seeing everything this way.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 19:41:20 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*bear hugs* Thank you so much for reading!! 🙂 I&#8217;m so glad you enjoyed it! 😉</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:35:39 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah! Cindy!! I missed you! I&#8217;m so excited to be here!! 😀 Thank you for reading!</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:34:56 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aww!! Thank you, you lovely human. 🙂 I&#8217;m excited to be here and to share!</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 17:09:46 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey girl!! I am so glad that you were encouraged by reading my poem!! &lt;3 🙂</p>
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