<?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/emmasdill_eh"><title>EBB.AND.FLOW'S POEM'S, SONNET'S, &amp; LYRICAL BALLADS - Blogit</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/</link><description>Alongside our routes 
and roundabout ways 
we meander
and sometimes
philander
but rare
is the one 
who can not
say these verses
are anything
less than
fodder 

fodder for spirit
and soul and wit
and wanton wild
wordplay sometimes
fickle, sometimes fit;
in song that won't
wage less than almighty
war on the villainous
gluttons for greed
and for gore; those vile
ones whose foreplay 
on web sites and film
creates quite a stir
as it crosses the chasm
to the cliffs of regret
and the lakes of remorse
where the charms of God's
Spirit run like a course.
Taste of this fine wine 
it's stored here for you;
if the vintage is hearty,
then the future is true.</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/emmasdill_eh/336404" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/334252" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/334132" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/334073" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/333810" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/333451" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/333428" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/332977" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/331674" /><rdf:li resource="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/330524" /></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/336404"><title>Media hype...</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/336404</link><description>drives us: on impulse we push on for more, seek to uncover what keeps us apart, yearn to discover what’s at our heart’s core, adore stars above us, admire their art, bestow upon them gifts rich in fancy, emulate them, adorn ourselves like them, watch them again, and again; take chancy risks to...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/334252"><title>The King’s Daughter</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/334252</link><description>Hidden in a cave, underwater, lost for years, is a treasure in a trunk sunk at sea. On a parchment golden gilded and sealed with royal decree are writ the secrets of a kingdom fraught with fears. It seems that certain strangers landing by the castle walls intruded in upon a solemn feast. They...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/334132"><title>CONTENTS</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/334132</link><description>(for Ariala, with sincere affection) Somewhere in media res the end began with an ebony undertow, as the black tusk of fear crept shadowy night over silken white end-tables of time’s nude nostalgic daydream humanity reclined sunk in satin on serene leather cushions of amiable illusion woven from...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/334073"><title>Fighting Fear</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/334073</link><description>Calm me, placate me, erase my bad dreams; tonight of all nights as I stare at the sky; awake way past midnight my mind still teems with visions of violence; force me to cry; force me to die: I yearn for the graveyard, the tomb, cold comfort must give to the dead; yet I see glimpses too gruesome...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/333810"><title>TRUE LOVE</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/333810</link><description>Enticing, inviting, sweet as a pear, alluring, ensconcing, like wine on tongues, touching through lips locked so firmly to share an embrace: of such are soft supple thongs that bind us now each to each; thighs, too, joined in a moist firm grip and groove, undulate proving love, given and taken:...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/333451"><title>A Sonnet to the Potheads</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/333451</link><description>Life is short and then you die: A cliché. That’s why kids get high. Such a sad display. Consider a poignant response to this: You were born to live forever. Don’t miss out—don’t pass it by—don’t waste it away by getting high. Too many to my dismay live their whole lives by the motto of KISS: Rock...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/333428"><title>The john and the she-wolf come to some terms</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/333428</link><description>Gothic beyond all limits of dark grace, intense as a Titian on stark display is the look of horror on the john’s face. Full is the moon, high above clouds of gray. Soon he is bit by the she-wolf whose prey upon humans sates her crude appetite. The john is hellbent to live, come what may; He...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/332977"><title>...stuff that dreams are made of...</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/332977</link><description>Trite as truth, wrong as right Good as evil, bright as night: Nothing real is what seems Fiction, life: stuff of dreams Melville penned a whale in prose. Jesus wept, and died, and rose. Love endures; love will last: A present from the past. Somber King, callous dawn Feeling more than put upon:...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/331674"><title>BARE FANGS</title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/331674</link><description>Hale as gods, our troops prepare to meet with Scottish foes. The whetted appetite excites, and so the prelude party goes. Music sweeps us vista-like into a moonlit trance. Celtic mystery invites, and to the pipes we dance. Through the forests great and green come the fearsome Scots as the wind...</description></item><item rdf:about="http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/330524"><title>an i on eyes </title><link>http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/emmasdill_eh/330524</link><description>die verse if i cat ion I cut you. You bleed love. Among your groans and sighs I sense great need fulfilled. I have sung of your love, and I have fit like a suture into your wound, and followed you home to prove I was more than merely a passing fancy. * * * I cut you. You bleed love. I on eyes:...</description></item></rdf:RDF>