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		<title>Sprouting by Jessica Ni Leacai</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I let the lilies lie in their lilted lullabies, of corners that cobwebs craved their cries, When flowers fell in gardens not groomed, and all creatures crawling craved rays of the moon. While humans hindered lights that lit night&#8217;s street, &#8230; <a href="http://jessienileacai.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/sprouting-by-jessica-ni-leacai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessienileacai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16417337&#038;post=551&#038;subd=jessienileacai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I let the lilies lie in their lilted lullabies,<br />
of corners that cobwebs craved their cries,<br />
When flowers fell in gardens not groomed,<br />
and all creatures crawling craved rays of the moon.</p>
<p>While humans hindered lights that lit night&#8217;s street,<br />
of no sheltering sidewalks solemnly did they greet,<br />
On broken bottled pathways pondering in their time,<br />
for all life&#8217;s troubles planted and left behind.<br />
This poem can be read on poetry.com- <a href="http://poetry.com/poems/386984-Sprouting-">http://poetry.com/poems/386984-Sprouting-</a></p>
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		<title>When Windows Pull Me Forward by Jessica Ni Leacai</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When, in hours I held my harms from action, the winds of windows pulled me forward, And asked my leaping loneliness to plunge the night&#8217;s air affirmingly. Refusing, I reeled and remorsed these retractions, with hollowed heaving in gasping grief, &#8230; <a href="http://jessienileacai.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/when-windows-pull-me-forward-by-jessica-ni-leacai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessienileacai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16417337&#038;post=549&#038;subd=jessienileacai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When, in hours I held my harms from action,<br />
the winds of windows pulled me forward,<br />
And asked my leaping loneliness to<br />
plunge the night&#8217;s air affirmingly.</p>
<p>Refusing, I reeled and remorsed these retractions,<br />
with hollowed heaving in gasping grief,<br />
and my urn an ornament of deflection,<br />
of dour delayments while I paused in patience.</p>
<p>Selfishly, suitors left me lorn in opaque oustings,<br />
when lunar lights descended upon windows open,<br />
and I lain in lost longing for all that is absent,<br />
while windows wooed me closer to my eminent expiration.</p>
<p>This poem can be read on poetry.com- <a href="http://poetry.com/poems/385595">http://poetry.com/poems/385595</a></p>
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		<title>Wasteful Encounters Spent by Jessica Ni Leacai</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I etched these eliminates in so much that they would abscond with your amnesties, I would never more need numbing reminders to fill the frequents of my misering in musings. You not necessary ever in overplayed overtones, A melody &#8230; <a href="http://jessienileacai.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/wasteful-encounters-spent-by-jessica-ni-leacai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessienileacai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16417337&#038;post=546&#038;subd=jessienileacai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I etched these eliminates in so much<br />
that they would abscond with your amnesties,<br />
I would never more need numbing reminders<br />
to fill the frequents of my misering in musings.</p>
<p>You not necessary ever in overplayed overtones,<br />
A melody so memorable, yet unessential and uncouth,<br />
incanting my opals of catastrophes laid on lenses,<br />
In veils of venomocity they tryingly tear from their curtains.</p>
<p>And you there tall and triumphing so effortlessly endued<br />
with muppetry you placed and played on my existence.<br />
And me not questing for qualms favoured from you<br />
or your ilk inclined to impress on my sordidly soured soul.</p>
<p>This poem can be read on poetry.com - <a href="http://poetry.com/poems/385426">http://poetry.com/poems/385426</a></p>
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		<title>In March, In Step, All Trampled in Fury</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People, they steeped, stepping, they thought necessarily nerved, and I, not knowing kindly why. I could not keep my questions, my quizzical nature of needing, knowledge of why things were. How they hurried here this time, in such comical canters chosen, &#8230; <a href="http://jessienileacai.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/in-march-in-step-all-trampled-in-fury/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessienileacai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16417337&#038;post=543&#038;subd=jessienileacai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People, they steeped, stepping,<br />
they thought necessarily nerved,<br />
and I, not knowing kindly why.</p>
<p>I could not keep my questions,<br />
my quizzical nature of needing,<br />
knowledge of why things were.</p>
<p>How they hurried here this time,<br />
in such comical canters chosen,<br />
they came chancing my company.</p>
<p>And I picking my puzzlements,<br />
these refined emotes unencountered,<br />
of torments you thought therapeutic.</p>
<p>This poem can be read on poetry.com -<a href="http://poetry.com/poems/372560">http://poetry.com/poems/372560</a></p>
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		<title>Of Structure and Grace Formed by Jessica Ni Leacai</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would wish myself a wall, a fortress of forgotten time, of stone surfaces in buildings built. No towers there trapping me, nor my heart so horridly bound, And I not melted in marbled moments. No faked fallacy, No whispered &#8230; <a href="http://jessienileacai.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/of-structure-and-grace-formed-by-jessica-ni-leacai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessienileacai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16417337&#038;post=540&#038;subd=jessienileacai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would wish myself a wall,<br />
a fortress of forgotten time,<br />
of stone surfaces in buildings built.</p>
<p>No towers there trapping me,<br />
nor my heart so horridly bound,<br />
And I not melted in marbled moments.</p>
<p>No faked fallacy,<br />
No whispered want.</p>
<p>With the earth my eternal chamber,<br />
A burial beneath the brandished bodies,<br />
and asphalt not asking of our antiquity.</p>
<p>paip</p>
<p>This poem can be read on poetry.com- <a href="http://poetry.com/poems/371965">http://poetry.com/poems/371965</a></p>
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		<title>A Virtue Lost and Lonely by Jessica Ni Leacai</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 05:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How patience pricks my fingers of valued virtue, When calmness would not keep my callousness, Like the urgency of time ticking on my clock chiming, And you said cats could not companion me here. So hours slide, slippery through these &#8230; <a href="http://jessienileacai.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/a-virtue-lost-and-lonely-by-jessica-ni-leacai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessienileacai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16417337&#038;post=537&#038;subd=jessienileacai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How patience pricks my fingers of valued virtue,<br />
When calmness would not keep my callousness,<br />
Like the urgency of time ticking on my clock chiming,<br />
And you said cats could not companion me here.</p>
<p>So hours slide, slippery through these timbers,<br />
As moments meander in and out of damp doorways,<br />
Lighting left to luminosity of the sun and skies above,<br />
And no showered love sits soundly in these window sills.</p>
<p>This alchemist of aspirated affection adorns her crown,<br />
Of lost virtue, vanity, verbosity in a fashion firmly found,<br />
With tiers of no triumph made in recourse, all remedies rued,<br />
Her inheritance, a throne tyrannically trammelled of what&#8217;s accrued.</p>
<p><span style="color:#4e6872;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:large;">This poem can be read on poetry.com-</span><a href="http://poetry.com/poems/361200">http://poetry.com/poems/361200</a></p>
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		<title>Only Common In Expiration by Jessica Ni Leacai</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 05:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anger, anxious , I boil to lengths fueled. Insistence, igniting my flames uncouth. No sense No structure Hath minds meticulate of nothing known, expired? Do they transmit void valiancy of non variants? In uncertain signals In uncertain urgencies Versified meters, &#8230; <a href="http://jessienileacai.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/only-common-in-expiration-by-jessica-ni-leacai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessienileacai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16417337&#038;post=534&#038;subd=jessienileacai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anger, anxious , I boil to lengths fueled.<br />
Insistence, igniting my flames uncouth.</p>
<p>No sense<br />
No structure</p>
<p>Hath minds meticulate of nothing known, expired?<br />
Do they transmit void valiancy of non variants?</p>
<p>In uncertain signals<br />
In uncertain urgencies</p>
<p>Versified meters, I volume unread and misconstrued.<br />
And only particulates present, we share as our remains.<br />
This poem can be read on poetry.com- <a href="http://poetry.com/poems/361128">http://poetry.com/poems/361128</a></p>
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		<title>Birds Breaking My Iced Cages by Jessica Ni Leacai</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From glass cages, they freed the fathomed birds and their demours dimmed the brightest skies and ice, irked over these grounds of grieving. As I seen them soar over my shadowed sittings, I wished their travels would welcome warmer weathers, &#8230; <a href="http://jessienileacai.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/birds-breaking-my-iced-cages-by-jessica-ni-leacai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessienileacai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16417337&#038;post=531&#038;subd=jessienileacai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From glass cages, they freed<br />
the fathomed birds and their demours<br />
dimmed the brightest skies and ice,<br />
irked over these grounds of grieving.</p>
<p>As I seen them soar over my shadowed<br />
sittings, I wished their travels would<br />
welcome warmer weathers, but they<br />
thought summer as no solitude in season.</p>
<p>So all sat seized by these colder breezes,<br />
as beggars without solar celebrations and<br />
how days drifted in longing of laughter,<br />
to heat their hearts alighted and burning.</p>
<p>But chance this dream dared break<br />
the boundaries of reoccuring reality,with<br />
all knowing kindly my violated virtues,and<br />
I not solitarily seeking other&#8217;s acknowledgement.</p>
<p><span style="color:#4e6872;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:large;">This poem can be read on poetry.com- <a href="http://poetry.com/poems/351421">http://poetry.com/poems/351421</a></span></p>
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		<title>To Ashes Left Of Want by Jessica Ni Leacai</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the souring of my soul was not forced by putrid airs, I would greet the grimmest days with generosity. But I am held here in this dormancy, and I would not warm the coldest creatures. For my heart&#8217;s hearth &#8230; <a href="http://jessienileacai.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/to-ashes-left-of-want-by-jessica-ni-leacai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessienileacai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16417337&#038;post=528&#038;subd=jessienileacai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the souring of my soul was<br />
not forced by putrid airs, I would<br />
greet the grimmest days with generosity.</p>
<p>But I am held here in this dormancy,<br />
and I would not warm the coldest creatures.</p>
<p>For my heart&#8217;s hearth is encompassed<br />
and enclosed within these wretched walls,<br />
No visitors vainly seek my sentiments, only vanishments.</p>
<p>Of my arms exposed fall these ashen memories,<br />
of  all that was loved and never requited.</p>
<p>In these trials torments call out names<br />
of loved ones left in anguish and their eyes,<br />
ever eroding my mind in terror of trembling wakes.</p>
<p>With hands harbouring histories of a vacant<br />
vagrant, and all imminency lost to the winds of sorrow.</p>
<p>This poem can be read on poetry.com- <a href="http://poetry.com/poems/350359">http://poetry.com/poems/350359</a></p>
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		<title>The Day the Wolves Came by Jessica Ni Leacai</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I on this hill of hatred, harming myself for missions unfulfilled, These culling chastisements, I cast on my burdened back, and my words wasted,no worth nor use to you. Expelled from ears, unwilling for my merciless devices, I am but wasted &#8230; <a href="http://jessienileacai.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/the-day-the-wolves-came-by-jessica-ni-leacai/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessienileacai.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16417337&#038;post=525&#038;subd=jessienileacai&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I on this hill of hatred, harming<br />
myself for missions unfulfilled,<br />
These culling chastisements, I<br />
cast on my burdened back,<br />
and my words wasted,no<br />
worth nor use to you.</p>
<p>Expelled from ears, unwilling<br />
for my merciless devices,<br />
I am but wasted material, meaningless<br />
garments no one would garnish.<br />
Slowly they sear me in half, my soul<br />
no longer my loyal saviour.</p>
<p>This poem can be read on poetry.com- <a href="http://poetry.com/poems/350076">http://poetry.com/poems/350076</a></p>
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