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		<title>By: Colby William</title>
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		<dc:creator>Colby William</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi my name is Colby.  I have been writing since i was thirteen, this is my first post and this poem is about the hope of some day that a rule will be broken and quite basiclly that it wont be a rule anymore or in this case a law.  I will apoligize if i mess up some spelling and grammer in advance

New USA

Survive the fall of mankind,
resign to crawl over the line,
decline to neglect most precious in my mind,
I still have a heart, I still have a spine,
and in this part, of  history so dark,
of grim cowardness I provide a spark,
to weary vagabonds I secure this hope,
to any one falling I regain the rope,
and spot there way to a new regime,
full of promises of undying dreams,
open to suggestions and beliefs,
where is isn’t a crime to smoke a leaf,
and with the money made from the sales,
will provide food and shelter and free health,
spread the wealth, what do you say?
We need a true free land, a new USA</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi my name is Colby.  I have been writing since i was thirteen, this is my first post and this poem is about the hope of some day that a rule will be broken and quite basiclly that it wont be a rule anymore or in this case a law.  I will apoligize if i mess up some spelling and grammer in advance</p>
<p>New USA</p>
<p>Survive the fall of mankind,<br />
resign to crawl over the line,<br />
decline to neglect most precious in my mind,<br />
I still have a heart, I still have a spine,<br />
and in this part, of  history so dark,<br />
of grim cowardness I provide a spark,<br />
to weary vagabonds I secure this hope,<br />
to any one falling I regain the rope,<br />
and spot there way to a new regime,<br />
full of promises of undying dreams,<br />
open to suggestions and beliefs,<br />
where is isn’t a crime to smoke a leaf,<br />
and with the money made from the sales,<br />
will provide food and shelter and free health,<br />
spread the wealth, what do you say?<br />
We need a true free land, a new USA</p>
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		<title>By: Saul Nadata</title>
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		<dc:creator>Saul Nadata</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 05:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How to Bid Generously

To buy a house, you must bid
enough that the seller feels pride--
not just equanimity, but like he&#039;s won.

It costs you nothing (but your hard-won
cash) to place that kind of a bid,
provided you can swallow your pride.

I say, let the seller have his pride,
when in truth all he&#039;s actually won
is an evaluation of the past; you bid

forward; you bid on future pride; you won.

Saul Nadatas last blog post..&lt;a href=&quot;http://featuredpoems.blogspot.com/2008/05/buyers-prayer.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Buyer’s Prayer&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How to Bid Generously</p>
<p>To buy a house, you must bid<br />
enough that the seller feels pride&#8211;<br />
not just equanimity, but like he&#8217;s won.</p>
<p>It costs you nothing (but your hard-won<br />
cash) to place that kind of a bid,<br />
provided you can swallow your pride.</p>
<p>I say, let the seller have his pride,<br />
when in truth all he&#8217;s actually won<br />
is an evaluation of the past; you bid</p>
<p>forward; you bid on future pride; you won.</p>
<p>Saul Nadatas last blog post..<a href="http://featuredpoems.blogspot.com/2008/05/buyers-prayer.html" rel="nofollow">The Buyer’s Prayer</a></p>
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		<title>By: What is a Stanza? &#124; Writer's Resource Center</title>
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		<dc:creator>What is a Stanza? &#124; Writer's Resource Center</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rosemary Nissen-Wade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rianon: I have commented on this impressionistic piece on the &quot;Confessional&quot; page where you posted it again. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rianon: I have commented on this impressionistic piece on the &#8220;Confessional&#8221; page where you posted it again. <img src='http://www.poewar.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Rianon Burnet</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rianon Burnet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree and thank you. I feel as though that I need to learn how to express myself in a different style and I&#039;m just know exploring them. When I find it I feel as though it will release me and find prosperity in letting go. Thank You And God Bless!!! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree and thank you. I feel as though that I need to learn how to express myself in a different style and I&#8217;m just know exploring them. When I find it I feel as though it will release me and find prosperity in letting go. Thank You And God Bless!!! <img src='http://www.poewar.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Rianon Burnet</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rianon Burnet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do have many ways that I express myself and I do agree with you I think that I could express myself in a different style. I wrote this and my other sensitive poems when I felt it, when it was tearing me apart and needing to come out. I feel that it&#039;s a better way to put it down on paper than it is to deal with it in other ways I use to. Here is another poem I wrote, Please tell me what you think:

Photo Gallery

Frozen;
To look at one’s self;
Cemented;
You come in;
The loving;
The prize;
In front of me;
Singing;

The next;
Your dance
To step;
A hex;
In time;
You’re still;
Movement absorbs me;
Fine;

Step aside;
Some one talks;
Silence broken;
Thoughts stride;
Life is still;
Time stopped;
Beauty exults;
My soul in fill;

A statue of steal;
Screaming;
Almost alive;
Feel;
Bring forth;
The next turn;
A corner;
Art and more;

Exhilarating;
Pounding heart;
Emotions;
Not just a fling;
Everlasting flight;
Yearning;
Craving;
As beautiful as night;

I want more;
Can you feel it;
I dig deeper;
I soar;
Smile;
 Frowns;
Indifference;
Beauties;

Feelings mixed;
Confusing thoughts;
Racing;
Bodies fixed;
Pictures move;
Yet unshaken;
Tricks never play;
I’m soothed.

In this one I felt as though I got out what I feel when I enter an art show.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do have many ways that I express myself and I do agree with you I think that I could express myself in a different style. I wrote this and my other sensitive poems when I felt it, when it was tearing me apart and needing to come out. I feel that it&#8217;s a better way to put it down on paper than it is to deal with it in other ways I use to. Here is another poem I wrote, Please tell me what you think:</p>
<p>Photo Gallery</p>
<p>Frozen;<br />
To look at one’s self;<br />
Cemented;<br />
You come in;<br />
The loving;<br />
The prize;<br />
In front of me;<br />
Singing;</p>
<p>The next;<br />
Your dance<br />
To step;<br />
A hex;<br />
In time;<br />
You’re still;<br />
Movement absorbs me;<br />
Fine;</p>
<p>Step aside;<br />
Some one talks;<br />
Silence broken;<br />
Thoughts stride;<br />
Life is still;<br />
Time stopped;<br />
Beauty exults;<br />
My soul in fill;</p>
<p>A statue of steal;<br />
Screaming;<br />
Almost alive;<br />
Feel;<br />
Bring forth;<br />
The next turn;<br />
A corner;<br />
Art and more;</p>
<p>Exhilarating;<br />
Pounding heart;<br />
Emotions;<br />
Not just a fling;<br />
Everlasting flight;<br />
Yearning;<br />
Craving;<br />
As beautiful as night;</p>
<p>I want more;<br />
Can you feel it;<br />
I dig deeper;<br />
I soar;<br />
Smile;<br />
 Frowns;<br />
Indifference;<br />
Beauties;</p>
<p>Feelings mixed;<br />
Confusing thoughts;<br />
Racing;<br />
Bodies fixed;<br />
Pictures move;<br />
Yet unshaken;<br />
Tricks never play;<br />
I’m soothed.</p>
<p>In this one I felt as though I got out what I feel when I enter an art show.</p>
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		<title>By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rosemary Nissen-Wade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rianon: Elsewhere I have expressed some lack of enthusiasm for your rhyming - but here I see that you&#039;re being &quot;rappy&quot;. The short, two-beat lines work that way too, of course. Well, I probably don&#039;t really get rap, though some of it&#039;s exciting. I know it is used to deal with some very serious subjects indeed, having grown out of urban disaffection - but still I question whether it is the most appropriate style for this heavy subject matter you&#039;re dealing with here. In all your work, your tone seems to me sensitive rather than raw. Even when you&#039;re angry and aggressive - with reason, obviously - it&#039;s more complex than just the outpouring of  rage. I think a different style might serve you better. Which is not to say that this doesn&#039;t work as you intended, only that I think there are many more directions too, in which you could take your poetry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rianon: Elsewhere I have expressed some lack of enthusiasm for your rhyming &#8211; but here I see that you&#8217;re being &#8220;rappy&#8221;. The short, two-beat lines work that way too, of course. Well, I probably don&#8217;t really get rap, though some of it&#8217;s exciting. I know it is used to deal with some very serious subjects indeed, having grown out of urban disaffection &#8211; but still I question whether it is the most appropriate style for this heavy subject matter you&#8217;re dealing with here. In all your work, your tone seems to me sensitive rather than raw. Even when you&#8217;re angry and aggressive &#8211; with reason, obviously &#8211; it&#8217;s more complex than just the outpouring of  rage. I think a different style might serve you better. Which is not to say that this doesn&#8217;t work as you intended, only that I think there are many more directions too, in which you could take your poetry.</p>
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		<title>By: Rianon Burnet</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rianon Burnet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Connie and Rosemary, 
WOW both poems took my breath away, thank you so much for sharing them! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Connie and Rosemary,<br />
WOW both poems took my breath away, thank you so much for sharing them! <img src='http://www.poewar.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Rianon Burnet</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rianon Burnet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is both scary for me and  was how I felt when I was younger:

Keeping Silence

My thoughts collide;
Expressions melt;
Bringing in fear;
My heart had felt;
Arising nausea;
Hurting pain;
Falling starts;
My clothes they stain;

Why am I here?
Who do I seek?
My clothes in all;
Fall to my feet;
All sounds drown out;
My hearing at halt;
Everything gone;
Closed in a vault;

Hearing impaired;
I like it this way;
No one to heart;
No “games” to play;
Faces melt;
Port holes close;
All these minutes;
Suddenly frozen;

A dark room;
Within it I lay;
Breathing slow;
Black and gray;
A window I seek;
Noises they’ve stayed;
I wanna kill you;
I want to blow you away;

I take a deep breath;
I blow hard;
You scream;
As you float afar;
Bye noise;
Bye all to you who suck;
I’ll never like you;
Goodbye all that muck;

I’m bondaged in shackles;
Made of memory;
My life;
I will never see;
I’m nothing to you;
So keep away;
My body, soul and mind;
I’ll keep at bay;

I like my life;
Without you in it;
Me and others;
Just don’t fit;
I don’t want you to know;
Anything about me;
All you people;
I really don’t need;

My experiences stay;
I read them all;
Who needs to know?
The feeling in which you fall;
I know what there like;
All weasels and pest;
I hate the lot;
And all the rest;

I curl up in the corner;
Arms around my knees;
My flesh and hair;
The rats they feed;
Pist in psyche mode;
I cringe at that;
I ate that one, this one;
To the last rat;

Blood dies in my mouth;
My cloths they stenched;
Silence is reached;
No thanks to a wench;
The noise maker;
Humming in my ear;
You think you got me;
But I killed all I used to fear;

You brought them to me;
Thinking I’d fall;
But you all the one;
In hell you crawl;
Skin inflamed;
I feel the heat;
My heart aches;
With every hit in beat;

No noise around;
The hell with you;
I take in breaths;
But only a few;
I killed you all;
Not a chirp in shock distance;

I lift my head;
Sun shines through;
Hits the floor;
With thick morning dew;
Mold is growing;
Filling my nostrils;
It grows in my skin;
My body it fills;

How long have I been here?
How long have I stayed?
I’ve been held down;
My life faded;
Where to go?
Forward I guess;
Why do I care?
All you want is the best;

I hear the mold;
I crawls up my spine;
Up my neck;
And down a fine line;
I still sit here;
I will not move;
My life alone;
Becomes anew;

Not only silence;
But everything else;
The one that kills;
And all that sells;
I pray to God;
For all that you make;
For this night in silence;
For my soul to take.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is both scary for me and  was how I felt when I was younger:</p>
<p>Keeping Silence</p>
<p>My thoughts collide;<br />
Expressions melt;<br />
Bringing in fear;<br />
My heart had felt;<br />
Arising nausea;<br />
Hurting pain;<br />
Falling starts;<br />
My clothes they stain;</p>
<p>Why am I here?<br />
Who do I seek?<br />
My clothes in all;<br />
Fall to my feet;<br />
All sounds drown out;<br />
My hearing at halt;<br />
Everything gone;<br />
Closed in a vault;</p>
<p>Hearing impaired;<br />
I like it this way;<br />
No one to heart;<br />
No “games” to play;<br />
Faces melt;<br />
Port holes close;<br />
All these minutes;<br />
Suddenly frozen;</p>
<p>A dark room;<br />
Within it I lay;<br />
Breathing slow;<br />
Black and gray;<br />
A window I seek;<br />
Noises they’ve stayed;<br />
I wanna kill you;<br />
I want to blow you away;</p>
<p>I take a deep breath;<br />
I blow hard;<br />
You scream;<br />
As you float afar;<br />
Bye noise;<br />
Bye all to you who suck;<br />
I’ll never like you;<br />
Goodbye all that muck;</p>
<p>I’m bondaged in shackles;<br />
Made of memory;<br />
My life;<br />
I will never see;<br />
I’m nothing to you;<br />
So keep away;<br />
My body, soul and mind;<br />
I’ll keep at bay;</p>
<p>I like my life;<br />
Without you in it;<br />
Me and others;<br />
Just don’t fit;<br />
I don’t want you to know;<br />
Anything about me;<br />
All you people;<br />
I really don’t need;</p>
<p>My experiences stay;<br />
I read them all;<br />
Who needs to know?<br />
The feeling in which you fall;<br />
I know what there like;<br />
All weasels and pest;<br />
I hate the lot;<br />
And all the rest;</p>
<p>I curl up in the corner;<br />
Arms around my knees;<br />
My flesh and hair;<br />
The rats they feed;<br />
Pist in psyche mode;<br />
I cringe at that;<br />
I ate that one, this one;<br />
To the last rat;</p>
<p>Blood dies in my mouth;<br />
My cloths they stenched;<br />
Silence is reached;<br />
No thanks to a wench;<br />
The noise maker;<br />
Humming in my ear;<br />
You think you got me;<br />
But I killed all I used to fear;</p>
<p>You brought them to me;<br />
Thinking I’d fall;<br />
But you all the one;<br />
In hell you crawl;<br />
Skin inflamed;<br />
I feel the heat;<br />
My heart aches;<br />
With every hit in beat;</p>
<p>No noise around;<br />
The hell with you;<br />
I take in breaths;<br />
But only a few;<br />
I killed you all;<br />
Not a chirp in shock distance;</p>
<p>I lift my head;<br />
Sun shines through;<br />
Hits the floor;<br />
With thick morning dew;<br />
Mold is growing;<br />
Filling my nostrils;<br />
It grows in my skin;<br />
My body it fills;</p>
<p>How long have I been here?<br />
How long have I stayed?<br />
I’ve been held down;<br />
My life faded;<br />
Where to go?<br />
Forward I guess;<br />
Why do I care?<br />
All you want is the best;</p>
<p>I hear the mold;<br />
I crawls up my spine;<br />
Up my neck;<br />
And down a fine line;<br />
I still sit here;<br />
I will not move;<br />
My life alone;<br />
Becomes anew;</p>
<p>Not only silence;<br />
But everything else;<br />
The one that kills;<br />
And all that sells;<br />
I pray to God;<br />
For all that you make;<br />
For this night in silence;<br />
For my soul to take.</p>
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		<title>By: Rosemary Nissen-Wade</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rosemary Nissen-Wade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>EXPELLING MY DEMONS


On a couch of red leather I lie flat.
The room is lined with crystals,
the corners green with ferns.

I close my eyes.
He speaks aloud his prayer
to call protection over us.

White light filters through my aura,
rainbow colours flood my chakras,
gold light spins a mesh cocooning me.

Seventeen small things
rise and leave my field
with very little persuasion.

He supports my head
as I gather my breath and blow them
back to the Great Light.

Then the dragon goes.
At first I feel its reluctance,
but it listens and is convinced.

He reads its rights 
and limitations.
I feel it weigh the options and decide.

I am a free will being. It must not stay
if I refuse it lodging.
It leaves with surprising ease.

The pain of previous occasions
doesn&#039;t happen. I feel clear
and tired.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EXPELLING MY DEMONS</p>
<p>On a couch of red leather I lie flat.<br />
The room is lined with crystals,<br />
the corners green with ferns.</p>
<p>I close my eyes.<br />
He speaks aloud his prayer<br />
to call protection over us.</p>
<p>White light filters through my aura,<br />
rainbow colours flood my chakras,<br />
gold light spins a mesh cocooning me.</p>
<p>Seventeen small things<br />
rise and leave my field<br />
with very little persuasion.</p>
<p>He supports my head<br />
as I gather my breath and blow them<br />
back to the Great Light.</p>
<p>Then the dragon goes.<br />
At first I feel its reluctance,<br />
but it listens and is convinced.</p>
<p>He reads its rights<br />
and limitations.<br />
I feel it weigh the options and decide.</p>
<p>I am a free will being. It must not stay<br />
if I refuse it lodging.<br />
It leaves with surprising ease.</p>
<p>The pain of previous occasions<br />
doesn&#8217;t happen. I feel clear<br />
and tired.</p>
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