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	<title>Poems</title>
	<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other</link>
	<description>by Michael Peach</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Soul</title>
		<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/12/20/the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lia</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poems on the Soul</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wise don&#8217;t dread or dwell upon the tomb,When lying wide awake at dead of night:For body only it&#8217;s a black-hole womb &#8211;The Soul by then well borne again to Light. 
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; 



Jerusalem7 December 2011



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		<title>The Christian Embassy</title>
		<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/12/20/the-christian-embassy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lia</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poems on Current Events</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Begin let them in, they did pretendThat, like all &#8220;Chosen Folk&#8221;, he was their friend;But in the end the Jews will suss perforceThe Christian Embassy&#8217;s a Trojan Horse. 
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; 

Jerusalem13 December 2011


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		<title>Beyond Words</title>
		<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/10/15/beyond-words/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/10/15/beyond-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lia</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poems on Love</category>
	<category>Poems on Being a Poet</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Shakespeare ripe and wiseWould cordially admit,Some feelings are too deep or largeFor words to fit:To hear and speak and write with eyes,To cite the Bard,Belong to love&#8217;s fine wit.
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; 
Jerusalem15 October 2011

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		<title>Elegy</title>
		<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/07/31/elegy/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/07/31/elegy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lia</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poems on the Spirit</category>
	<category>Tributes to Dylan Thomas</category>
	<category>Poems on the Soul</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Despite &#34;Lament&#34;:His shadow&#8217;s last standIn that ramshackle shedBy the marey sea,When trousers were tight;And Promethean rageAt his blind, dying,Mock-stoic father&#8217;sPitiful plight;And eighteen straight shotsOf false-spirit&#8217;s smiteIn that bright-dark cityOf nine days&#8217; night;If my views on GodAnd Soul are right,At the very endDylan went gentleInto the Light.


Jerusalem29 July 2011

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		<title>Before the Advent</title>
		<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/07/31/before-the-advent/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/07/31/before-the-advent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lia</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poems on the Spirit</category>
	<category>Tributes to Dylan Thomas</category>
	<category>Poems on the Soul</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Before the adventOf soulful Anima,That led at last to Milk WoodAnd glimpses, at least,Of wholeness and true love,Dylan&#8217;s adopted museWas demonic Demiurge:No humble poet-prophet he,Awaiting impregnationBy the Holy Ghost,But a thrusting, spouting,Phallus-penned Lucifer incarnate, Who bodied forthHis hubristic, fragmentedShadow-spiritIn showers of sharp, dark, spinning,Spellbinding verbal shards &#8211;Words, he believed,For word&#8217;s sake &#8211;Which almost shattered his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Israel&#8217;s Redemption</title>
		<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/07/11/on-israels-redemption/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/07/11/on-israels-redemption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lia</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poems on the Spirit</category>
	<category>Poems on Current Events</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh end the Occupation, Israel, cease the fallAway from God and our integrity;Reject outright the evil beck and callOf Christians who&#8217;ve perverted Prophecy!Like them we foolishly believed the LordApplauded, when we took from Arab handsThe rest of Eretz Israel and ignoredHis word that justice is more blessed than lands.Thanks to its sacred democratic creed,A major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Messianic Age (4)</title>
		<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/04/25/the-messianic-age-4/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/04/25/the-messianic-age-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lia</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poems on the Spirit</category>
	<category>Poems on the Psyche</category>
	<category>Religious Poems</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Torah, New TestamentAnd KoranAre no longer hijackedBy theocratic sadists,Messiah-making masochists,Shadow-possessed, fact-obsessedApocalyptic literalists,Or regardedBy passive-aggressive partisansAs exclusive repositoriesOf Divine revelations, sacred lawsAnd various vicarious acts,But are acknowledgedUniversallyAs holistic collections of timelessArchetypal mythsReflecting the active human psycheAnd its constant communionWith the Holy Spirit,The Creator will at last become The living God for allAnd we His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wounded Healer</title>
		<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/03/24/the-wounded-healer/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/03/24/the-wounded-healer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lia</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poems on the Spirit</category>
	<category>Poems on Jerusalem</category>
	<category>Poems on the Soul</category>
	<category>Religious Poems</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Dedicated to Dr. Michael Avishai) 
I dreamt I met an old manIn the Jerusalem Botanic Garden,A volunteer named Israel.I&#8217;m a Holocaust survivor, he confided,And ex-settler on the West Bank.I&#8217;m also a healer, he added quietly,And activist for peaceBetween nations.
Before I could respond he continued:A year ago I came up to Jerusalem.On the first dayI visited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shadow</title>
		<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/03/19/the-shadow/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/03/19/the-shadow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lia</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poems on the Psyche</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(In response to &#34;The Hollow Men&#34;)&#160; Between idealAnd actualityBetween potentialAnd fulfilmentBetween insightAnd expressionBetween inspirationAnd creationBetween geniusAnd integrityBetween revelationAnd responseFalls the shadow &#8211;The alter ego archetype &#8211; Claiming its place in the sunDemanding its sacred dueProviding the soul with choice.&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; 


Jerusalem16 March 2011

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		<title>The Messianic Age (3)</title>
		<link>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/02/13/the-messianic-age-3/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelpeach.org/other/2011/02/13/the-messianic-age-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lia</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Poems on Nature and the Environment</category>
	<category>Poems on the Spirit</category>
	<category>Religious Poems</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dreamt I was aboardAn international space station,The lofty headquarters of the UN.I watched as the representatives(Respected stewards of the One God)Conveyed the resultOf their nation&#8217;s vote,Regarding a resolution.
Beneath us Mother Earth,No longer plaguedBy insatiable capitalists,Dialectical materialists,Religious terroristsAnd other apocalyptists,Performed in peaceA natural revolution.
And I saw that it was good.
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