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	<title>John McDonald &#187; Poetry</title>
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		<title>Vintage / Nova</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trust &#8211; an illusion of memories Differing under darkened light. Unholy mistruths and half-lies, unearthed by bone-cracking misconceptions. Purple steel churns, under crushing eternal gravity. Hammer-weakened, tempered in eternity&#8217;s forge and crashing against dimmer, weaker realities. Vintage It stands majestic in temperate woods and rolling fields. Stone is cold, cracked, chipped, and battered. Here [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A trust &#8211; an illusion of memories<br />
Differing under darkened light.</p>
<p>Unholy mistruths and half-lies,<br />
unearthed by bone-cracking misconceptions.</p>
<p>Purple steel churns, under crushing<br />
eternal gravity.  Hammer-weakened,<br />
tempered in eternity&#8217;s forge</p>
<p>and crashing against dimmer,<br />
weaker realities.</p>
<h3>Vintage</h3>
<p>It stands majestic in temperate woods and rolling fields.</p>
<p>Stone is cold, cracked, chipped, and battered.</p>
<p>Here stands the oldest monument &#8211; glorious triumph of science and war!</p>
<p>A column aged and lifeless, technological memorial to genocide and death.  Memorial of a most primitive &#8211; but not wholly dead generation&#8230;.</p>
<h3>Nova</h3>
<p>Here spins worlds<br />
encased in diamond shells</p>
<p>shot and spinning &#8211; grows life!</p>
<p>Among even darkness,<br />
and frozen possibility.</p>
<p>Bold now!  Unknown!<br />
Venture forth, dare we?</p>
<p>Into the growing darkness -<br />
growing stronger daily&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Evolution Cubensis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Water slimes in to life, threatening the dry it grows in to death Drowning, growing over life, synthesized disease patched in to factions. Choking health, soiling that which was once its own life &#8211; dry yet alive. Creation, (the) melting (of) two minds in to one as is/has/will (ever) be defined. Possibility of infinite new [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Water<br />
slimes in to life,<br />
threatening the dry<br />
it grows in to death</p>
<p>Drowning,<br />
growing over life,<br />
synthesized disease<br />
patched in to factions.</p>
<p>Choking<br />
health, soiling<br />
that which was once<br />
its own life &#8211; dry yet alive.</p>
<p>Creation,<br />
(the) melting (of) two<br />
minds in to one<br />
as is/has/will (ever) be<br />
defined.</p>
<p>Possibility<br />
of infinite new futures &#8212;</p>
<p>clawing,<br />
drowning,<br />
suffocating,<br />
that cracked, dried,<br />
dying sort of<br />
&#8220;life.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Moonrise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 08:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Silence and fear rises with the moon]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://johnmcdonald.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/moonrise1.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-583" title="moonrise" src="http://johnmcdonald.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/moonrise1.png" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The quiet,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the silence,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">not of peace and calm.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In the dark</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">of moon rise,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">a black omen flies.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The fog rolls</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and wind whirls</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">to silence broken.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A twig snaps</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and heart booms</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A leaf cracks</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and heads swoon</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What attacks in the darkest,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">blackest dreams untold,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">is just mist of fears</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and imagination&#8217;s cold.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p>
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		<title>Street Nights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On a darkened, shadowed street - a neon globe creates shadows of unknown]]></description>
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<p>When the night comes,<br />
it creeps.</p>
<p>Every lantern<br />
creates ten shades</p>
<p>And every star fails to light:</p>
<p>The corner,<br />
the slither,<br />
the rustling unknown.</p>
<p>A primal world comes back to life,<br />
In the glowing shadow of man&#8217;s.</p>
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		<title>Coldsnap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reflection on winter and loss]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It taps</p>
<p>It taps in the dark</p>
<p>Its here to remind you</p>
<p>That the season of cold doom is upon us</p>
<p>With songs</p>
<p>With songs, gifts, and food</p>
<p>We dance away the rapping reminder</p>
<p>We dance and sing in a denial of mortality</p>
<p>Let us feast</p>
<p>Let us cheer</p>
<p>Let us be merry</p>
<p>As we bury the dead</p>
<p>Goodbye to the love</p>
<p>and the fiery life</p>
<p>We won&#8217;t forget but we&#8217;ll dance away&#8230;</p>
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