<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"><channel rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/BlogRss.aspx/Ariala"><title>Poetry from a Time Forgotten                       - Blogit</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/</link><description>Back by popular demand...</description><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><sy:updateBase>2000-01-01T12:00+00:00</sy:updateBase><items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/563928" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/563720" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/559639" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/558264" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/558100" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/558022" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/557018" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/556809" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/556592" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/556104" /></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/563928"><title>Projected Fear</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/563928</link><description>We fear endings, goodbyes, changes that leave broken glass in the heart, one footpath on the trail, silence from airways once packed with "I love you's." 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The sun keeps quiet over treetops glistened with wet nights unforgotten. I know there was a wind, for I felt it in a wish, hair lifted softly, waves lapping at low tide, pulled only by dream. I'm certain I felt a...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/558022"><title>Wisdom of Trees</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/558022</link><description>From the wisdom of trees all things can be discovered... Consistency, stable union with sky and earth... worship and praise in the sway of quiet thoughts... Color and fullness, bareness and timid bark in mid afternoon light. I walk alone even in a city full of eyes. I find my partner in a tree....</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/557018"><title>The Outpouring</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/557018</link><description>A blooming vibration takes on the color of magic as breath and hearbeat equate into authentic dream. Basking at the shores of a miracle, the scent of rejuvenation gathers a community of saints under a canopy of glory. They wait for the outpouring like cherry blossoms in the wind. It will rain,...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/556809"><title>New Emergence</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ariala/556809</link><description>I'm up with the bird who got the worm; the blossom that received the first light of dawn, the one whose pen runs across a faded journal. A prayer echoes inside silent caverns in soul chimes. The stone is marked in language of etched aether. 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