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		<title>Day 20 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 20 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge involved writing a poem entitled &#8220;And Then (blank)&#8221; where we fill in the blank. Here&#8217;s my attempt for the day: And Then We Walked Away We could have talked it over Worked through fears Gaps in understanding It seemed too much work Prying at old walls [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.michellebishopwrites.com/?p=497</link>
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		<title>Day 19 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theme for Day 19 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge was to write an attachment poem. Since all of life involves attachments there are numerous ways to interpret this. Pensamientos de un Pescador Attached by a small hook Hangs the brightly colored painting By the artist whose name is no longer recalled That [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.michellebishopwrites.com/?p=495</link>
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		<title>Day 18 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theme for Day 18 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge is to write a slow poem. Interpret that as you will. Despacio Instead of Rushing away from The love we’d lost Like the rapid current of the Yellow River That curves behind the neighbor’s house Under the overpass and Along side the cemetery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.michellebishopwrites.com/?p=493</link>
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		<title>Day 17 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 17 is a two for Tuesday in the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge. So here are the writing prompts we&#8217;re working with today: 1. Write an explosion poem. 2. Write an implosion poem. Without Warning Implosion of the soul generally occurs without warning. – m.b. It was so sudden I did not anticipate The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.michellebishopwrites.com/?p=487</link>
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		<title>Day 16 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theme for Day 16 of the Writer&#8217;s Digest Poetic Asides November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge is &#8220;Clouds (blank)&#8221; where we fill in the blank for the title and write our poem. Well, here&#8217;s mine: Clouds the Mind Nebulous, dark storm clouds of thought That in another space and time Would have incited riotous rebellion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.michellebishopwrites.com/?p=484</link>
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		<title>Commentary on the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had some interesting revelations about myself as a writer as a result of participating in the Writer&#8217;s Digest Poetic Asides November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge.  The first, and possibly most important, of these is that that I can, indeed, write poetry.  It may not be the best poetry.  It may not be the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.michellebishopwrites.com/?p=480</link>
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		<title>Day 15 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Day 15 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge we were prompted to write a hanging poem. I wrote about my absolutely least favorite thing (okay maybe my 2nd least favorite thing, vacuuming is 1st). Waiting Hanging Like the bed sheet Out on the line Longer than necessary to Dry in the summer breeze [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.michellebishopwrites.com/?p=478</link>
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		<title>Day 14 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theme for Day 14 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge was to write about about lines. The poem could refer to anything having lines or having to do with lines. Here&#8217;s my poem for today. Laugh Lines His face was still the same Kind of, sort of Harder-edged than I remembered Formerly smooth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.michellebishopwrites.com/?p=475</link>
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		<title>Day 13 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theme for Day 13 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge was to write a renewable poem, or rather a poem about something that is renewable. As the Sun Rises In solitude but not alone Between prayer, sleep, and vision Learn ancient tongues Secret lessons Of herb, water, and spirit The power of word [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.michellebishopwrites.com/?p=471</link>
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		<title>Day 12 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theme for Day 12 of the November 2009 PAD Chapbook Challenge was to write a poem entitled &#8220;If only (blank)&#8221;, fill in the blank, and write a poem about it.  Here goes: If Only the Possibilities Were Not Endless If only the possibilities were not endless I would not be able to imagine All [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.michellebishopwrites.com/?p=468</link>
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