<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684</id><updated>2010-03-02T17:20:15.488-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Blindraven</title><subtitle type='html'>Poetry Placeholder</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-7201846263659201010</id><published>2007-10-21T15:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-27T00:53:06.419-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gossip.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gossipevents.com/images/gossip-photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.gossipevents.com/images/gossip-photo.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, here's to the workers who work with a will,&lt;br /&gt;Today and tomorrow who never are still;&lt;br /&gt;Who keep pegging on though the scoffers deride,&lt;br /&gt;Who smile through the tears they endeavor to hide,&lt;br /&gt;The salt of the earth are such people as they,&lt;br /&gt;For the work that they do will not die in a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today they are working and as we pass by,&lt;br /&gt;We give scarcely thought enough to ask why,&lt;br /&gt;While jealous betrayers, malign and traduce&lt;br /&gt;And shout from the housetops: "Twill be of no use;"&lt;br /&gt;But oh! on tomorrow when reason is clear&lt;br /&gt;The thoughts we now spurn will be sacred and dear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gossips delight to quote somebody's word,&lt;br /&gt;Somebody said it so somebody heard;&lt;br /&gt;But when you hunt for the facts 'twill be found&lt;br /&gt;It s the wish of the fellow that peddles it round.&lt;br /&gt;Vain silly gossipers, why do you sow&lt;br /&gt;Thistles and thorns where the roses would grow?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh where is the grave of the gossip today,&lt;br /&gt;The backbiting gossip who friends did betray,&lt;br /&gt;Whose heart was all malice, who lived but to jeer,&lt;br /&gt;Will some one please point out his monument here?&lt;br /&gt;Oh gossip and jeerer few tears o'er thy clay,&lt;br /&gt;Will ever be shed when we lay thee away,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh children of men be ye broadgauged and pure,&lt;br /&gt;Learn to pity the weak and their frailties endure.&lt;br /&gt;Let your love for your brothers, who dwell here below,&lt;br /&gt;Grow stronger and deeper as onward you go.&lt;br /&gt;And from hearts that feel your sympathy here,&lt;br /&gt;The sweet flowers of friendship and love will appear.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-7201846263659201010?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/7201846263659201010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=7201846263659201010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/7201846263659201010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/7201846263659201010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/10/candle-sun.html' title='Gossip.'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-8035209765137065457</id><published>2007-02-25T16:00:00.005-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T21:00:30.528-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rain</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs6/300W/i/2005/095/a/8/a_day_without_rain_by_ssilence.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs6/300W/i/2005/095/a/8/a_day_without_rain_by_ssilence.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Rain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;A tear of dew rolls off a leaf and shimmers in its fall,&lt;br /&gt;In mid air it screams “despair” and wages earth a war,&lt;br /&gt;It hits the ground and makes a pound that none could ever hear,&lt;br /&gt;And then it dies, but no one cries and seldom less appear.&lt;br /&gt;The sky begat a diamond child that fell on to a leaf,&lt;br /&gt;It often does, when earth is cruel - it curdles up and weeps,&lt;br /&gt;But all the tears that live their life are short and yet abound,&lt;br /&gt;And on they hurl, they shimmer , swirl, and die upon the ground&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What life is so important that we oft neglect reflect,&lt;br /&gt;To think about the seed of life that keeps us out of heck,&lt;br /&gt;What life is longer lasting than a single bead of rain,&lt;br /&gt;Perception is your fault but oft you supersede in vein.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-8035209765137065457?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/8035209765137065457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=8035209765137065457' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/8035209765137065457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/8035209765137065457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/rain.html' title='Rain'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-2615444572448446628</id><published>2007-02-25T16:00:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T16:21:18.251-08:00</updated><title type='text'>People</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thebody.com/bp/mar01/images/protesters.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.thebody.com/bp/mar01/images/protesters.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;People drive me crazy,&lt;br /&gt;People drive me sane,&lt;br /&gt;People full of maybe’s,&lt;br /&gt;People full of pain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People full of envy,&lt;br /&gt;People like to lie,&lt;br /&gt;People like to hate me,&lt;br /&gt;People wonder why.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People make you absent,&lt;br /&gt;People make you there,&lt;br /&gt;People make you distant,&lt;br /&gt;People pull and tear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People make you praise them,&lt;br /&gt;People make you scream,&lt;br /&gt;People make you fortified,&lt;br /&gt;People make you seen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People make and break us,&lt;br /&gt;People break the broke,&lt;br /&gt;People like to sucker you,&lt;br /&gt;People like to poke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People can you see me?&lt;br /&gt;People can you hear?&lt;br /&gt;People – that I’m different!&lt;br /&gt;People - so you fear!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People are you jealous?&lt;br /&gt;People are you glad?&lt;br /&gt;That all you fucking are is just to salvage what you can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People – just formalities,&lt;br /&gt;People – just a speck,&lt;br /&gt;People – just a subtlety,&lt;br /&gt;People – made of heck.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-2615444572448446628?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/2615444572448446628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=2615444572448446628' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/2615444572448446628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/2615444572448446628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/people.html' title='People'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty 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follow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deeper,&lt;br /&gt;Darker,&lt;br /&gt;Dream embarker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sexy,&lt;br /&gt;Lusting,&lt;br /&gt;Sweating,&lt;br /&gt;Puffing,&lt;br /&gt;Mistress,&lt;br /&gt;Take me,&lt;br /&gt;All or nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leather,&lt;br /&gt;Latex,&lt;br /&gt;Lacy black,&lt;br /&gt;Changing,&lt;br /&gt;Turning,&lt;br /&gt;Take me back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Echoes,&lt;br /&gt;Distance,&lt;br /&gt;Damage,&lt;br /&gt;Done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naked,&lt;br /&gt;Savage,&lt;br /&gt;Bleeding,&lt;br /&gt;Fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nails,&lt;br /&gt;Flesh,&lt;br /&gt;Screams,&lt;br /&gt;Breath,&lt;br /&gt;painful,&lt;br /&gt;Probing,&lt;br /&gt;Fucking,&lt;br /&gt;Sex.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-3023945879064818648?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/3023945879064818648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=3023945879064818648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/3023945879064818648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/3023945879064818648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/steam.html' title='Steam'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-5060485610024049288</id><published>2007-02-25T15:53:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T16:40:35.854-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Feeble</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIsdnU872I/AAAAAAAAACs/OgEQKyAXSj4/s1600-h/DSC02738.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5035636220638326626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIsdnU872I/AAAAAAAAACs/OgEQKyAXSj4/s200/DSC02738.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feeble.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Feeble hands,&lt;br /&gt;Never land,&lt;br /&gt;Sifting through the sands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gumming brick,&lt;br /&gt;Bleeding quick,&lt;br /&gt;How to make a plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gonna slide,&lt;br /&gt;Try abide,&lt;br /&gt;What you know is wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sniffing grit,&lt;br /&gt;Feel its prick,&lt;br /&gt;Never did belong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-5060485610024049288?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/5060485610024049288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=5060485610024049288' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/5060485610024049288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/5060485610024049288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/feeble.html' title='Feeble'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIsdnU872I/AAAAAAAAACs/OgEQKyAXSj4/s72-c/DSC02738.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-5748155835978023566</id><published>2007-02-25T15:53:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T17:01:42.926-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fallacy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIxanU873I/AAAAAAAAAC4/RNYTwkKKHDs/s1600-h/060405_MB_Bush_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5035641666656857970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIxanU873I/AAAAAAAAAC4/RNYTwkKKHDs/s200/060405_MB_Bush_tn.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123051/2133658/2139375/2139406/060405_MB_Bush_tn.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fallacy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I look and see the misery you people try to hide,&lt;br /&gt;I touch and feel the blasphemy you cover up with lies,&lt;br /&gt;I breath and bleed the heresy you beat in to my head,&lt;br /&gt;I fight - repel your fallacy and all that has been said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With fists of broken arguments where many people learnt,&lt;br /&gt;With heart of broken promises where many people burnt,&lt;br /&gt;With mind of broken supplement that many call absurd,&lt;br /&gt;With life of broken anything when I only seem to hurt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-5748155835978023566?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/5748155835978023566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=5748155835978023566' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/5748155835978023566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/5748155835978023566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/fallacy.html' title='Fallacy'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIxanU873I/AAAAAAAAAC4/RNYTwkKKHDs/s72-c/060405_MB_Bush_tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-2939805987245445798</id><published>2007-02-25T15:47:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T17:06:03.699-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fiction Overdue</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIycHU874I/AAAAAAAAADE/rmA1_OV6xaA/s1600-h/fiction.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5035642791938289538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIycHU874I/AAAAAAAAADE/rmA1_OV6xaA/s200/fiction.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fiction Overdue.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;A man in white once beckoned me and said there’s little time,&lt;br /&gt;A man in blue once threatened me and called my mind a crime,&lt;br /&gt;A man in black once looked at me and snickered through his teeth,&lt;br /&gt;A man in all these things above has now become of me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A life of knives and silent cries - a life we all dismiss,&lt;br /&gt;A life of try’s and blinded eyes - a life devoid of bliss,&lt;br /&gt;A life of RAGE because the page was never turned or touched,&lt;br /&gt;A life that seldom had a chance before it got too much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is all your dignity when all your worth is gone,&lt;br /&gt;Why is all your biggery so full of spite and scorn,&lt;br /&gt;Which one of you can look at me and speak your utter mind,&lt;br /&gt;Which one of you can fucking breath without a bitter lie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you alive or breathing and mistaking air for life,&lt;br /&gt;Are you depressed and leaving all your quality’s behind,&lt;br /&gt;Are you relaxed and ignorant to what you need to do,&lt;br /&gt;Are you a mote of worth or just a fiction overdue?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-2939805987245445798?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/2939805987245445798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=2939805987245445798' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/2939805987245445798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/2939805987245445798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/fiction-overdue.html' title='Fiction Overdue'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIycHU874I/AAAAAAAAADE/rmA1_OV6xaA/s72-c/fiction.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-2236783798242899125</id><published>2007-02-25T15:44:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T16:54:03.272-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A brielf and brittle note</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocedar/old_school_note.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocedar/old_school_note.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A brielf and brittle note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;A captivating breeze amongst a burning river bed,&lt;br /&gt;a will to choke upon the rays of all that lies ahead.&lt;br /&gt;stop and don’t confuse me now - for I am all the will,&lt;br /&gt;not only to continue here but make the rush the still.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t let me drain or cause you pain,&lt;br /&gt;Don’t let me make you want,&lt;br /&gt;Control the sky’s of which the rain émpour - the souls le´mont.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scream upon another breath- -another raging foe,&lt;br /&gt;Off and on, Pre-empted death - - and all to feed the glow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sickness sets and all the lets have long become a must,&lt;br /&gt;dabbling in the morbid baths of black - another puff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time has come to pardon me - my presence as it were,&lt;br /&gt;to let the toll of leisure fault - to serve my anti-birth.&lt;br /&gt;To take me back to void again - before I ever was,&lt;br /&gt;unto the darkened limbo of the nullifiers fog.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-2236783798242899125?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/2236783798242899125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=2236783798242899125' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/2236783798242899125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/2236783798242899125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/brielf-and-brittle-note.html' title='A brielf and brittle note'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-5960972384274587968</id><published>2007-02-25T15:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T17:08:23.838-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pills</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIzAHU875I/AAAAAAAAADQ/cKYA7GVyYHQ/s1600-h/e_fbi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5035643410413580178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nLXMDO4_0QQ/ReIzAHU875I/AAAAAAAAADQ/cKYA7GVyYHQ/s200/e_fbi.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pills&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;twilight mourns of ecstacy,fever dorn's its prey.&lt;br /&gt;flashing strobe serenity,awake and scared to fade.&lt;br /&gt;consumption of devices - ill,likely to be short.&lt;br /&gt;Euphoric madness, blinding -pills,cause life is just to short.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-5960972384274587968?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/5960972384274587968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=5960972384274587968' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-6307716498573020383</id><published>2007-02-25T15:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T15:41:41.342-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Plee!</title><content type='html'>So what!, I plee,tis only me!,if it became a chore?&lt;br /&gt;Do not!, she cryed,My wish abide!,My love forever more!&lt;br /&gt;Denie, I must,The drug entrust,Decisions made to free.&lt;br /&gt;And Leave, you will.My life, my quill,The word - My only glee.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-6307716498573020383?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/6307716498573020383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=6307716498573020383' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/6307716498573020383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/6307716498573020383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/plee.html' title='Plee!'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-7064380011436018937</id><published>2007-02-25T15:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T15:38:54.571-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Abode'n' Yonder</title><content type='html'>I confide and of't abide, to hide, thine humble home, mine everest nigh.&lt;br /&gt;What folly and what foe, beyond, beneath the bright'n'icky sky.&lt;br /&gt;For' ere the lad or lass there be - of same or less of sanity,&lt;br /&gt;But' ere the ill of mass -a fee - then 'ence the sweet of vanity.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-7064380011436018937?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/7064380011436018937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=7064380011436018937' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/7064380011436018937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/7064380011436018937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/aboden-yonder.html' title='Abode&apos;n&apos; Yonder'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-7896675949647867562</id><published>2007-02-25T15:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T15:37:56.432-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A gloat upon a sinking boat.</title><content type='html'>I try to be a man of oath,&lt;br /&gt;I try to reason true.&lt;br /&gt;I try to be a man of code,&lt;br /&gt;I try to see things through.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I try to be a man of will,&lt;br /&gt;I try to set it straight.&lt;br /&gt;I try to be proactive - still,&lt;br /&gt;I try to demonstrate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I try, and its not good enough,&lt;br /&gt;I might, and might have not.&lt;br /&gt;I will, but seldom willing - tough,&lt;br /&gt;I least the bid forgot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should, but never did - and worse,&lt;br /&gt;I knew the path to take.&lt;br /&gt;I climb on down and lift - the hurst,&lt;br /&gt;Of knowing my mistakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know the fault amidst my ways,&lt;br /&gt;But yet i still persist.&lt;br /&gt;I suffer from my own relays,&lt;br /&gt;I aim - and yet i miss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why, i ask, and when, i stew, will i melee the foe,&lt;br /&gt;And can, i dread, pretend, i said, to see a little hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You cant portray a figure for the right upon the wrong,&lt;br /&gt;You cant enslave a servant who has lost the will for on.&lt;br /&gt;You can not brake the broken and you can not bleed the bled,&lt;br /&gt;You can not mute the spoken or the thoughts they of't embed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I curse my mind, in all its grime, in all its foul and slime,&lt;br /&gt;in all its waste, its feeble taste, in all its waste of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I curse my weak, in all its meak, in all its passive leak,&lt;br /&gt;of all its utter lack, the slack - the dormat of its peak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I curse my lacking everything - my contribution none,&lt;br /&gt;my person void of offering - the simple light of sun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so proceeds are cursed, rehearsed, ambitioned for the fault,&lt;br /&gt;A minus - plus, devoid of fuss, expecting life to halt.&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps a sorry way to see the fore - for what its worth,&lt;br /&gt;But that of course, belates the choice, of mine - recall and hearth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So lay your claim to fame in pills and status - jealousy,&lt;br /&gt;And ill lay mine to cunning, brains, and craft in poetry.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-7896675949647867562?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/7896675949647867562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=7896675949647867562' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/7896675949647867562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/7896675949647867562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/gloat-upon-sinking-boat.html' title='A gloat upon a sinking boat.'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-2436027041006518894</id><published>2007-02-25T15:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T15:24:38.201-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mingle</title><content type='html'>Tremors of vigorous convulsions, shaking, impacting all around.&lt;br /&gt;Treacherous people, biting, snaking, plotting against my crown.&lt;br /&gt;With a sceptre I will smite them not, with words and poison lisp,&lt;br /&gt;Seeping leaks of maddened freaks and broken backs ‘n fists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take me on, you Scum of earth, throw forward your very best,&lt;br /&gt;With your face ill make a brake, and with your features make a mess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angry have I become, from YOU, the very devils scorn,&lt;br /&gt;From the lies and glutinous thievery of the heart I had en-thorned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simmer down you petty fool, slither up the creek,&lt;br /&gt;You whore of all the years, you fake, entwisted weasel meek.&lt;br /&gt;Subtle, me? never see! Ill make it well and known,&lt;br /&gt;Instigating, perpetrating, angst will not be thrown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So scurry of you sewer rat and catch a nasty ill,&lt;br /&gt;Nibble on the toes of damned, the weak become your meal.&lt;br /&gt;Your peasantry and shallow thoughts of what you make ideal,&lt;br /&gt;Your little hints of misery and poultry tastes of real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at me, no really do, take a second look,&lt;br /&gt;Am I really all that is said of me, the Jekyll in the nook,&lt;br /&gt;Or have I simply had it worse, I lacked a silver spoon,&lt;br /&gt;The one you have jammed down your throat, your birth, and from its noon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t Evan try to make a mend, your bitter work is done,&lt;br /&gt;Your sloppy fucking hopelessness of nothing, you’ve become.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Choke for me you piggish dog, you dripping maggot corpse,&lt;br /&gt;Let me storm all over you, the knight amongst his horse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blind in to the world I am, if your perceptions clear,&lt;br /&gt;Nothings fucking easy ,ever,  - clearly no idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shallow statements, of what you think, of all I know is wrong,&lt;br /&gt;The bastard comments, I swallow, prick, doesn’t last for long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suffering fools of lasting presence, of single serving hope,&lt;br /&gt;The single pleasures of flattery and the sweat of the elope.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-2436027041006518894?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/2436027041006518894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=2436027041006518894' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/2436027041006518894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/2436027041006518894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/mingle.html' title='Mingle'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-117171215960900098</id><published>2007-02-17T03:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T15:00:25.914-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Poetry placeholder</title><content type='html'>&lt;span xmlns=""&gt;&lt;p&gt;My poetry will be listed here soon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-117171215960900098?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/117171215960900098/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=117171215960900098' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/117171215960900098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/117171215960900098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2007/02/testing-office-blog-wizard.html' title='Poetry placeholder'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15887684.post-112523122659848204</id><published>2005-08-28T05:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T14:59:28.894-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Update</title><content type='html'>This will be the first post i have made in to this blogspot,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blindraven.googlepages.com/home"&gt;http://blindraven.googlepages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15887684-112523122659848204?l=blindingraven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/feeds/112523122659848204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15887684&amp;postID=112523122659848204' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/112523122659848204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/15887684/posts/default/112523122659848204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blindingraven.blogspot.com/2005/08/well-well.html' title='Update'/><author><name>Blindraven</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03751231459222408470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04359087958440971381'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry></feed>