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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s ridiculous that I’ve only written one post for this blog in the last four months. I have about three dozen articles in various stages of undress. Instead of clothing them properly, they are wandering sheepishly around my laptop half-naked, &#8230; <a href="http://quiltingsword.com/2010/08/05/the-unwritten-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quiltingsword.com&amp;blog=1775757&amp;post=564&amp;subd=quiltingsword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Quilting Sword?</title>
		<link>http://quiltingsword.com/2008/05/26/what-is-a-quilting-sword/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 16:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father, an astute and thoughtful man, asked me two great questions. What is a quilting sword? What are you meditating about in all those Meditating Wind photos. Today I’ll answer the first question. But I’ll let you decide which &#8230; <a href="http://quiltingsword.com/2008/05/26/what-is-a-quilting-sword/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quiltingsword.com&amp;blog=1775757&amp;post=139&amp;subd=quiltingsword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water Poetry 4: The Free Verse</title>
		<link>http://quiltingsword.com/2007/11/16/water-poetry-4-the-free-verse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this fourth installment of the Water Poetry Series, I present an open form or free verse poem about the San Francisco Bay. In contrast to the previous poetry forms which have strict rules on meter, rhyme, stanza structure, and &#8230; <a href="http://quiltingsword.com/2007/11/16/water-poetry-4-the-free-verse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quiltingsword.com&amp;blog=1775757&amp;post=50&amp;subd=quiltingsword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water Poetry 3:  The Villanelle</title>
		<link>http://quiltingsword.com/2007/11/05/water-poetry-3-the-villanelle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 3 of a series of poems about bodies of water. Each poem is written in the form of a popular poetic style native to that body of water. In Water Poetry 1, I wrote a haiku about &#8230; <a href="http://quiltingsword.com/2007/11/05/water-poetry-3-the-villanelle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quiltingsword.com&amp;blog=1775757&amp;post=46&amp;subd=quiltingsword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water Poetry 2: The Elizabethan Sonnet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week I presented the haiku. Today I present the Elizabethan sonnet. The first sonnets appeared in Italy, and is designed for the rhrythmic syncopation of the Italian language, where every other syllable is stressed. Adapted into English, that &#8230; <a href="http://quiltingsword.com/2007/10/26/water-poetry-2-the-elizabethan-sonnet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quiltingsword.com&amp;blog=1775757&amp;post=39&amp;subd=quiltingsword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water Poetry 1: The Haiku</title>
		<link>http://quiltingsword.com/2007/10/23/water-poetry-the-haiku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back when I found myself in four countries in three months, I wrote four poems dedicated to a body of water in each of those countries. I also decided to write the poem in four poetic forms &#8230; <a href="http://quiltingsword.com/2007/10/23/water-poetry-the-haiku/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quiltingsword.com&amp;blog=1775757&amp;post=38&amp;subd=quiltingsword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life in the Urban Canopy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think one of the reasons I haven&#8217;t blogged much in the last two years is that living in a new country, newly married, with a new job, while writing my Phd, was just too overwhelming to write about. I &#8230; <a href="http://quiltingsword.com/2007/09/24/life-on-the-upper-floors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quiltingsword.com&amp;blog=1775757&amp;post=3&amp;subd=quiltingsword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Quilting Sword v4.0</title>
		<link>http://quiltingsword.com/2007/09/23/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog is the fourth incarnation of The Quilting Sword. The first incarnation was a photocopied zine with poetry and short stories about love fading into regret. The second was a Xanga blog, in which I documented my last days &#8230; <a href="http://quiltingsword.com/2007/09/23/hello-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quiltingsword.com&amp;blog=1775757&amp;post=1&amp;subd=quiltingsword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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