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    <title>Gaia: Poets Workshop. - Introductions - Greetings</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:46:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Greetings</title>
      <author>http://addresstofollow.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Zephyr</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:46:52 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      Hi Drew, welcome and thank you for the lovely introduction, to post just click on the title of each section and click on new post. Off to read your poem. &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Re: Greetings</title>
      <author>http://inducingconsciousness.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Nicola</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:08:26 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      Hi Drew!&amp;nbsp; I love your teacher&amp;#39;s words, &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;&amp;quot;The Soul is a House&#8230;Let it Burn!&#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; and your sharing your meanderings.&amp;nbsp; Come play when you&amp;#39;re ready!&amp;nbsp; See you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nicola (left Florida 17 years ago for the mountains of North Carolina) &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Greetings</title>
      <author>http://mIRRORMERE.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>mIRRORMERE</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:23:24 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      &lt;div style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; padding: 2px; left: -100px; top: -100px; visibility: hidden; display: none; width: auto; height: auto; position: absolute; background-color: rgb(168, 236, 255); -moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 5px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 5px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 5px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; z-index: 1410065406;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: 1px dotted black; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Hi Everyone, I decided to join this group after getting a great invite.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; My problem is this...my muse &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;WAS &lt;/span&gt;a wonderful temptress.&amp;nbsp; She inspired, enticed, and forced out my inner voice through my arm and onto paper.&amp;nbsp; However, she escaped me and fled to FL and took up residence as an old bluehair bald guy named Marty who sits around in his chest-high plaid shorts pinching the local ladies on the butt trying to get some Viagra-laden action.&amp;nbsp; He ritually attends Shuffleboard daily at 2pm and follows it up with an hour of Judge Judy.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Regardless, my muse has morphed into something untenable for any writer.&amp;nbsp; It is true she fled when I was in Night school while working 60hrs/wk and preparing to go to Pharmacy school.&amp;nbsp; Now that I&amp;#39;m actually in my program my semesters are grueling enough to stop &lt;span style="font-style: italic"&gt;most&lt;/span&gt; of my creative pursuits, save photography.&amp;nbsp; So now that I&amp;#39;m on Summer Break I figured I&amp;#39;d see what Gaia has to offer.&amp;nbsp; So once I figure out how to post a poem and do so, I&amp;#39;ll try to be active in helping others with there work as well.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; My creative writing mentor in grad school, Tim Seibels, left me with these words when I left the English Dept...&amp;quot;The Soul is a House...Let it Burn!&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; In need to get back in touch with this passion.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Enough rambling.&amp;nbsp; See ya in the Poets Workshop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Drew &lt;/p&gt;

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