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	<title>Symbolic Meanings Blog by Avia Venefica &#187; poetry</title>
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		<title>Reborn Through Art and Ink (a personal essay)</title>
		<link>http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/2011/07/09/reborn-through-art-and-ink-a-personal-essay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avenefica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Air Totems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Symbolism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Misc. Symbolic Meanings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Observations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tattoo gun murmurs its Morse code on my Manubrium, the hard bones perched just above soft curves of cleavage.  From the first tip of costal cartilage, down to the fourth Line of Union on my sternum, I feel the tattoo engraved upon my chest and the fusion is finally complete. When I discovered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light Junkies</title>
		<link>http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/2011/03/25/light-junkies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avenefica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Symbolism - All]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flame]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[moth meaning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No squinting. No pinching back the light. Only compulsion and slack-bodied surrender. Flame-singed wingtips Corpuscles popping at hints of heat. I know why. Gossamer gold glimmers in luminous Light We grope for it too with dumb fingertips. Light sought by Moth methods, pitching forward into the bones of Bridgette&#8217;s flames. Propelled, following the language of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prose for Jimi</title>
		<link>http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/2010/11/02/prose-for-jimi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avenefica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc. Symbolic Meanings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symbolism - All]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classic rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hendrix]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ode]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    God bless you Hendrix.   Are you live, or are you Memorex?   Your oozing twang-jive that you bled back then is a whole-blood transfusion for my head. Electric riffs rip my seams.  My skull peels apart, banana splits for the brain.  I&#8217;m stripped by your soul.  I listen naked to your howling legend. I howl too.  You get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skinning Life</title>
		<link>http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/2010/06/30/skinning-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avenefica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature Symbolism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reptile Totems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symbolism - All]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reincarnation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snakes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had she known from the Beginning that Life is like a Snake&#8230; Turning and twisting through the years of Life&#8230; Shedding its skin, just as we all shed extraneous layers&#8230;.eventually. Had she known both Life and Serpent are synonymously elusive, equally cryptic. Had she known all this, perhaps she would not have been consumed or constricted by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercurial Vision</title>
		<link>http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/2010/06/17/mercurial-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avenefica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crank your speakers&#8230; Rock on.]]></description>
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		<title>Get Bent</title>
		<link>http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/2010/06/01/get-bent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avenefica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature Symbolism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To remain whole, be twisted. Become bent, and be straightened. Become hollow, and be filled. Wear out, and be renewed.&#8221; (22nd stanza of the Tao)]]></description>
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		<title>Swallowing the Sun</title>
		<link>http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/2010/05/11/swallowing-the-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 17:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avenefica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Observations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[She swallowed the sun whole On a Wednesday afternoon. Just crammed it right into her mouth, Like a fiery jelly doughnut. Sticky sunny ooze Dribbling out the end, as she shoved the last sunbeam in. Aftertaste pungent and puckery Like sweet gherkin pickles Tartness lingering on the tongue. And now she levitates like the sun [...]]]></description>
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