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	<title>Roger Collis &#187; Poetry</title>
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	<description>Roger has earned world-wide recognition as a business travel guru through his weekly column, &#039;The Frequent Traveler,&#039; in the International Herald Tribune; and as a contributing columnist for the New York Times. He has been described as the dean of business-travel journalists in Europe, who ‘created the template for business-travel columns in newspapers worldwide.’ An actor and broadcaster, Roger provides the many voices offered by Voicesetcetera.com.</description>
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		<title>Paragraphs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As under the tiptoeing arches of her
smile he sheds his unrest his longing
mellow and song-spun the wide summer
leaves tremble green and fresh with dew
guarding love in the blessed evening cool
and keen as a knife touching the skin
burning his flagship in the weak
wonderful moment of happiness drowning
his soul in a million fathoms in her pale
destiny as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There can be no monopoly of grief</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was dismayed to find myself dismayed the other day
that someone had laid a bowl of crocuses on your grave
in the place where I lay my Sunday flowers
usurping I thought the raw memory of my loss.
Yes, my loss and my memories belong to me alone.
But there can be no monopoly of grief. 
Others have loved you, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First and final love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, a log – of dense, aromatic wood – lying in the forest, was happily ablaze.
Until one day, some people discovered the log and covered it with sand to extinguish the fire, thinking it unseemly, and possibly dangerous.
Many years later, a man searching for a rare species, came across the mound of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long distance lover</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hawes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to marry you. Don’t
bother me with the facts:
that we’ve never met; that you
might have other arrangements.

I haven’t told you that your
signature is tattooed on my left
wrist; that your belly is already
starting to swell with our first
child.
Nights I hold you in my arms:
Rehearsing
the language of our bodies.
I come alive under the instruction
of your tall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hawes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a matchless moonless night at the year&#8217;s turning a
star as rare as truth begins its silver journey over the
wide shoulder of the earth glancing by the white
sepulchre of the hills past dark castles and ornaments of
war and men as blind as
time who stare like moles from the
labyrinths of their deeds passing the
land of chosen [...]]]></description>
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