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		<title>Two Kinds of Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences. With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2009/09/22/two-kinds-of-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>The New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new year has commenced Its momentous journey today. From today on, during the entire year, I shall not offer my volcano-ambition To the world. I shall offer the world Only my moonlit heart&#8217;s flaming aspiration. - Sri Chinmoy]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2009/01/01/the-new-year/</link>
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		<title>The Death Of The Old Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year you must not die; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year you shall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/12/31/the-death-of-the-old-year/</link>
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		<title>The Kingdom Within</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a kingdom of the spirit&#8217;s ease. It is not in this helpless swirl of thought, Foam from the world-sea or spray-whisper caught, With which we build mind&#8217;s shifting symmetries, Nor in life&#8217;s stuff of passionate unease, Nor the heart&#8217;s unsure emotions frailty wrought Nor trivial clipped sense-joys soon brought to nought Nor in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/12/30/the-kingdom-within/</link>
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		<title>The Shivering Beggar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Near Clapham village, where fields began, Saint Edward met a beggar man. It was Christmas morning, the church bells tolled, The old man trembled for the fierce cold. Saint Edward cried, &#8220;It is monstrous sin A beggar to lie in rags so thin! An old gray-beard and the frost so keen: I shall give him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/12/29/the-shivering-beggar/</link>
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		<title>Being walkers with the dawn and morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being walkers with the dawn and morning, Walkers with the sun and morning, We are not afraid of night, Nor days of gloom, Nor darkness&#8211; Being walkers with the sun and morning. - Langston Hughes]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/12/28/being-walkers-with-the-dawn-and-morning/</link>
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		<title>Spontaneous me, Nature,</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder, The hillside whiten&#8217;d with blossoms of the mountain ash, The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green, The rich coverlet of the grass, animals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/12/27/spontaneous-me-nature/</link>
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		<title>Laughing at the word two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only That Illumined One Who keeps Seducing the formless into form Had the charm to win my Heart. Only a Perfect One Who is always Laughing at the word Two Can make you know Of Love. &#8216;The Gift &#8211; Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master&#8217; translations by Daniel Ladinsky]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/12/26/laughing-at-the-word-two/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Christmas Circular Letter The city had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls of snow not come to lie And whirls of foliage not yet laid, there drove A stranger to our yard, who looked the city, Yet did in country fashion in that there He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/12/25/christmas-trees/</link>
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		<title>The Mystic&#8217;s Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All hail!&#8221; the bells of Christmas rang, &#8220;All hail!&#8221; the monks at Christmas sang, The merry monks who kept with cheer The gladdest day of all their year. But still apart, unmoved thereat, A pious elder brother sat Silent, in his accustomed place, With God&#8217;s sweet peace upon his face. &#8220;Why sitt&#8217;st thou thus?&#8221; his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shortpoems.org/poem/2008/12/24/the-mystics-christmas/</link>
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