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	<title>REELY'S POETRY BLOG</title>
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	<description>poetry, audio poems, music</description>
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		<title>Robert Burns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember my first acquaintance with reading Robert Burns&#8217; poetry, young as I was.  The first thing I found out was that unbeknownst to me, I was already acquainted with his works through music because everyone sang Auld Lang Syne  every year.  I also already knew the song, Coming Through the Rye, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reelyredd.com/blog/2008/07/17/robert-burns/</link>
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		<title>A Poem on Beethoven&#8217;s Persistence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perserverance and dedication in the face of obstacles is a great thing but only when the thing you are being persistent about is also good.    
Here is a poem from Edward Carpenter, who died on this day in 1929.    
BEETHOVEN. 
BETWIXT the actual and unseen, alone,
Companionless, deaf, in dread [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reelyredd.com/blog/2008/06/28/a-poem-on-beethovens-persistence/</link>
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		<title>Great Voices with Something to Say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if you had a great voice but didn&#8217;t have anything great to say?  Or maybe you had something great to say, but didn&#8217;t have a great voice.  Hey, It happens &#8230;  
Then there are some who have not only a great voice but something great to say.
Today is Irish poet, Paul [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reelyredd.com/blog/2008/06/20/great-voices-with-something-to-say/</link>
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		<title>Sam Walter Foss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sam Walter Foss was a New England librarian and poet.  He was born on June 19, 1858 in New Hampshire, went to college in Rhode Island and served as librarian for the Somerville Public Library in Massachusetts beginning in 1898.  His most famous poem was The House by The Side of the Road. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reelyredd.com/blog/2008/06/19/sam-walter-foss/</link>
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		<title>Moondog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever hear of Moondog, the blind poet and musician who chose to live homeless in New York City for about 20 years?




If you&#8217;d like to learn more about him, get Moondog, The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography, which comes with a CD that according to one reviewer is worth the price of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reelyredd.com/blog/2008/05/26/moondog/</link>
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