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		<title>Tennessee, The Volunteer State</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cecelia L. McSweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For The Victims And Survivors May of 2010 There are things we all love about the state in which we reside Special things in which we take pride What is it for you? The people? The weather? The sports or your job or the arts or the spirit? All of this found in our lyrics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poet Writes of Life in Murfreesboro in Verse, Book Available Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bracken Mayo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A company providing &#8220;software tools and actuarial services for risk management and insurance professionals&#8221; may not seem like a garden of creativity. But the chief communications officer for Brentwood based Specific Software Solutions and SIGMA Actuarial Consulting Group has recently released a collection of very personal poetry entitled &#8220;Heaven Was the Moon.&#8221; Though not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday&#8217;s Grid Iron Gunslinger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David S. Pointer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beneath the sacred 100+ yards of soil, Broadway Brett Favre has been sutured, surgically repaired, and sent wintersmithing purple or &#8216;Packering&#8217; to coldest Minnesota, pinned under wide screens by wider tackles or guards growling this argument, insult or coach&#8217;s expectations; the ex-Lombardi land leader drops back blazing like a buckled racehorse full throttle fire still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Sound Byte That Wasn&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murfreesboro Pulse Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by David S. Pointer I&#8217;m listening to Verras Militares (War Pigs) on CD when Maverick Senator John McCain comes on TV&#8217;s town hall meeting where the Arizona veteran has been asked to name a poet laureate or two, And for an instant the possibility floats that he will flash to eminence within the artistic community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vaughn finds her calling in writing, gives readers the freedom to interpret</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murfreesboro Pulse Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[W hen I was a little girl, I remember my father had a subscription to Reader&#8217;s Digest and there was a regular article called &#8220;My Most Unforgettable Character.&#8221; Tennessee&#8217;s Poet Laureate, Margaret &#8220;Maggi&#8221; Vaughn, fits this description. A quote from Maggi is a perfect way to introduce her: &#8220;I was a product of the &#8217;50s. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalist Lost</title>
		<link>http://boropulse.com/2007/08/capitalist-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murfreesboro Pulse Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalist Lost by Caroline G. Feeling sad Feeling blue A world of confusion With nothing to do. A move, relocate? To start anew What&#8217;s the prescription for a heavy heart That exists in a world? a vacant hue. All around me is life, capitalist pride? Concrete implosion- A rueful smile. I&#8217;m lost in the sea, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trivial Adolescent Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murfreesboro Pulse Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Matt Collom Trivial Adolescent (Predictable) me The dawn of such problems half twisted less twice Is righteous enough to offer advice! So questions become my effortless guide Through blinding bright horror I swallow inside And truly, all respect aside, The dreams of a child are never misguides. All horror that&#8217;s dreamt is&#8211;in fact&#8211;swallowed inside. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Corner</title>
		<link>http://boropulse.com/2007/05/poetry-corner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murfreesboro Pulse Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spices by Curt Binkley In a cigar box I keep the heart of a blackbird and news clippings: when day shows its orange tooth, when yellow jackets commandeer the pears, I understand urges to flog violinists in the heat. Treasures of a thousand mornings line these hills-cannonball fragments, fossils of soldiers, rusted tin and cooking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War of the Masses</title>
		<link>http://boropulse.com/2007/03/war-of-the-masses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murfreesboro Pulse Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a world of suicide bombers With a growing numbers of armed robbers The pattern of war seems to be religious And ever struggling fight between Muslims and Christians Violence it seems is a pure human need Like love, hate, caring and greed When someone does harm to someone else We don&#8217;t ask [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War</title>
		<link>http://boropulse.com/2006/12/war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murfreesboro Pulse Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Josh Petty Some men go to war with God Mixing the ethereal with a need to kill Some men go to war with themselves Enslaved by their revolutions Some men go to war against their friends and lovers Some men go to war against their governments Who are at war with foreign leaders Some [...]]]></description>
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