<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post4813286396125567157..comments</id><updated>2009-03-31T16:05:34.158+01:00</updated><category term='swallow'/><category term='lyric journeys'/><category term='fly'/><category term='archers'/><category term='fish'/><category term='moon'/><category term='photographs'/><category term='books'/><category term='Gobi desert'/><category term='magic'/><category term='winter'/><category term='war and peace'/><category term='willows'/><category term='summer'/><category term='travel'/><category term='Marrakesh'/><category term='wisteria'/><category term='spring'/><category term='lakes'/><category term='storm'/><category term='footprints'/><category term='mother'/><category term='steppe'/><category term='piano'/><category term='dance'/><category term='people and places'/><category term='narrative poem'/><category term='roses'/><category term='impermanence'/><category term='silence'/><category term='horse'/><category term='tatami'/><category term='Mongolia'/><category term='gers'/><category term='interpretations'/><category term='Haiku and Senryu'/><category term='stars'/><category term='cello'/><category term='Silk Road'/><category term='rain'/><category term='Wales'/><category term='dreams'/><category term='senryu'/><category term='autumn'/><category term='promises'/><category term='sonnets'/><category term='footsteps'/><category term='landscapes'/><category term='love poems'/><category term='Balinese Stories'/><category term='tanka'/><category term='Erotic'/><category term='mountains'/><category term='Kashmir'/><category term='snow'/><title type='text'>Comments on Poetry for a Night Owl: Tanka XXI</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.owlnight.com/feeds/4813286396125567157/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html'/><author><name>Beatrice V</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09492224274542764248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nK4pLXAxo4c/TY9vH-pmlmI/AAAAAAAABtk/OpMvbdUIk1c/s220/2009.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-4397607026007174591</id><published>2009-03-31T15:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-31T15:48:00.000+01:00</updated><title type='text'>This is beautiful but oh so sad. For some spring n...</title><summary type='text'>This is beautiful but oh so sad. For some spring never comes.&lt;BR/&gt;Well done.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;love-bd</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/4397607026007174591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/4397607026007174591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html?showComment=1238510880000#c4397607026007174591' title=''/><author><name>Beloved Dreamer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02625091389788114012</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06352561969926667136'/><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nZYr6me39Ss/STwHzpeIW6I/AAAAAAAAA1U/GWkNRLd9ACc/S220/MLP0000062_T.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-4813286396125567157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/posts/default/4813286396125567157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1505409422'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-951586381213286840</id><published>2009-03-21T19:58:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-03-21T19:58:00.000Z</updated><title type='text'>Lord have mercy, here I am again:-) posting and fl...</title><summary type='text'>Lord have mercy, here I am again:-) posting and flitting around. I really am here and there and everywhere LOL</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/951586381213286840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/951586381213286840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html?showComment=1237665480000#c951586381213286840' title=''/><author><name>mysticgmekeepr</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005968619382836095</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15578517709969746642'/><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Jv7uhUAoN7Y/Sa1Zi8uOepI/AAAAAAAAADI/Zp0rMWm_Uds/S220/Winter07+017.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-4813286396125567157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/posts/default/4813286396125567157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1291607427'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-1040615181198548122</id><published>2009-03-21T15:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-03-21T15:42:00.000Z</updated><title type='text'>Love it's Zen-like feel.  And I adore cherry bloss...</title><summary type='text'>Love it's Zen-like feel.  And I adore cherry blossom trees!  Happy Spring, B! :))</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/1040615181198548122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/1040615181198548122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html?showComment=1237650120000#c1040615181198548122' title=''/><author><name>petra michelle; Whose role is it anyway?</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03474448747236205303</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10928554836745238293'/><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7gi6C76_owA/SPtYhnVXlpI/AAAAAAAAAtw/Z_yh4yNL4HY/S220/232323232%257Ffp53635%253Evq%253D3352%253E757%253E849%253EWSNRCG%253D32395367%253A9787vq0mrj.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-4813286396125567157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/posts/default/4813286396125567157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1439276140'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-1716462767629233620</id><published>2009-03-21T12:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-03-21T12:06:00.000Z</updated><title type='text'>Brilliant as usual. :) It carries the Japanese bea...</title><summary type='text'>Brilliant as usual. :) It carries the Japanese beauty in dramatical hopelessness. Interesting sentiment and I kind of relate to it. Spring and nature just is and doesn't take a notice of itself and just rotates in circles and dones the same clothing year after year.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/1716462767629233620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/1716462767629233620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html?showComment=1237637160000#c1716462767629233620' title=''/><author><name>daydream</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09140305922494369576</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n1U_OVnCX-s/SVooU6p4wGI/AAAAAAAABUw/A2xHAfdOVRo/S220/Guilty+Gear+XX+%23Reload+-+SLAYER.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-4813286396125567157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/posts/default/4813286396125567157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1986778794'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-2091436442808509991</id><published>2009-03-20T12:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-03-20T12:36:00.000Z</updated><title type='text'>Thank you Devika, what I meant is that nature goes...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you Devika, what I meant is that nature goes on with its own  unselfconscious cycle regardless of the impermanence of human feeling.&lt;BR/&gt;And Jyotsana, as above, and also, one aspect of memory is that it can be context-linked, this spring/scent/music/etc.. evoking events of another time in the same context.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Mystic Keeper, yes it is beautiful to watch nature just go on, and to try </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/2091436442808509991'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/2091436442808509991'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html?showComment=1237552560000#c2091436442808509991' title=''/><author><name>Beatrice V</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09492224274542764248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02719426175734298236'/><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zae4qH3-POc/SaVwg3uNM1I/AAAAAAAABU8/FTg7STuxndk/S220/2008.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-4813286396125567157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/posts/default/4813286396125567157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1858562184'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-4915832429623845206</id><published>2009-03-20T04:58:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-03-20T04:58:00.000Z</updated><title type='text'>Oh this I feel in every fiber of my being. I watch...</title><summary type='text'>Oh this I feel in every fiber of my being. I watch my little flowering cherry tree daily for signs of flourishing or fading. I pray spring stays without a late frost, that we might bare witness to the beauty of her gowns.&lt;BR/&gt;I posted a poem on Sylph Songs that I think you will like.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/4915832429623845206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/4915832429623845206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html?showComment=1237525080000#c4915832429623845206' title=''/><author><name>mysticgmekeepr</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005968619382836095</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='15578517709969746642'/><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Jv7uhUAoN7Y/Sa1Zi8uOepI/AAAAAAAAADI/Zp0rMWm_Uds/S220/Winter07+017.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-4813286396125567157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/posts/default/4813286396125567157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1291607427'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-6794468795809877618</id><published>2009-03-19T07:20:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-03-19T07:20:00.000Z</updated><title type='text'>thats our love ... isnt it? fraught with longings....</title><summary type='text'>thats our love ... isnt it? fraught with longings...its difficult to bear absence when u love some-one or some-thing.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/6794468795809877618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/6794468795809877618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html?showComment=1237447200000#c6794468795809877618' title=''/><author><name>jyotsana</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11348544707786355970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZrqDVrOEKhs/SWnLchgTCjI/AAAAAAAAAdI/vlyjdHmkHiM/S220/jyo+n+jamu+small.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-4813286396125567157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/posts/default/4813286396125567157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-593454179'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-7134231049416457465</id><published>2009-03-18T01:35:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-03-18T01:35:00.000Z</updated><title type='text'>Nice one, Beatrice but kind of revulsion, &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;...</title><summary type='text'>Nice one, Beatrice but kind of revulsion, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think nature and spring do care -- perhaps it cares for all trees and blossoms&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;at the cost of sounding Utopian, I love if the world were so. :)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;wishes, &lt;BR/&gt;devika</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/7134231049416457465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/4813286396125567157/comments/default/7134231049416457465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html?showComment=1237340100000#c7134231049416457465' title=''/><author><name>Devika</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02349153846127145464</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mK7CUBOCCtM/SToUxpxIPwI/AAAAAAAAAEY/DzkoWt6BARM/S220/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.owlnight.com/2009/03/tanka-xxi_18.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942127524127298405.post-4813286396125567157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/942127524127298405/posts/default/4813286396125567157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-175116444'/></entry></feed>
