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	<title>diasporic literature spot &#187; N.Ν. Trakakis</title>
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		<title>Listen</title>
		<link>http://diasporic.org/2011/11/trakakis/listen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen:
this could all be false, I know
the brilliant light in the park
on that Saturday
no promises, not today
stranger things we could not say
but you could see
the hand that held you <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/11/trakakis/listen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Do relationships ever die</title>
		<link>http://diasporic.org/2011/08/trakakis/do-relationships-ever-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do relationships ever die
or do they merely fade to grey
losing their colour
their vibrant glow and fervor
refusing nevertheless to let go <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/08/trakakis/do-relationships-ever-die/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Greeks bearing gifts</title>
		<link>http://diasporic.org/2011/06/trakakis/greeks-bearing-gifts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly
I now depart.
Tonight we said our Goodbyes
my farewell gifted
as a discourse on Truth <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/06/trakakis/greeks-bearing-gifts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saturation</title>
		<link>http://diasporic.org/2011/06/trakakis/saturation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sky and its thousand stars
stare back in sadness
as do I
in the pre-dawn hours
resigning the world
without sleep <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/06/trakakis/saturation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>This morning we could sense</title>
		<link>http://diasporic.org/2011/05/trakakis/this-morning-we-could-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 21:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning we could sense
the sun was powerless to rise
Looking outside the window
as the instructor was busy explaining
tenses and moods
our gaze fixed on the cypress tree
handfuls of snow caught in its outstretched palms
as the instructor’s voice rebounded from the walls <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/05/trakakis/this-morning-we-could-sense/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In a time when words are wasted</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 22:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a time when words are wasted. Repeatedly. In a time when one must struggle against becoming yet another living platitude. Defiantly. When everyone has depression, and pills will help you find yourself. Predictably. I look up at the skies of the infinite winter, attempting to read God’s handwriting. Confusedly.  <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/05/trakakis/in-a-time-when-words-are-wasted/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>[sun sight light]</title>
		<link>http://diasporic.org/2011/04/trakakis/sun-sight-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[sun sight light
there is no black
one step forward
two steps back
sun sight <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/04/trakakis/sun-sight-light/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The British Museum</title>
		<link>http://diasporic.org/2011/04/trakakis/the-british-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outshining the statues of Hathor and Ramesses II
truer to life than the coffin lids picturing Osiris, Isis and Horus
the bright Aegean light
revealing the half-clothed and voluptuous Aphrodite
Demeter seated on throne
Apollo holding kithara <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/04/trakakis/the-british-museum/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>She who inspires</title>
		<link>http://diasporic.org/2011/04/trakakis/she-who-inspires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She who sits there
unmoved
all evening
looking out at the planes
as they ascend and descend
what is she thinking? <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/04/trakakis/she-who-inspires/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>[so much for the sunshine]</title>
		<link>http://diasporic.org/2011/04/trakakis/so-much-for-the-sunshine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[so much for the sunshine
it’s complicated
it always is
still have time for summer
but how many winters will it take
who knows <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/04/trakakis/so-much-for-the-sunshine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Inheritance</title>
		<link>http://diasporic.org/2011/04/trakakis/inheritance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N.Ν. Trakakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever I go, whatever I do
I carry within me my Father:
that look, that sigh
of one thrown onto alien land
without hope of returning home
for home has ceased to exist.  <a class="more-link" href="http://diasporic.org/2011/04/trakakis/inheritance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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