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		<title>मेरी आँखों का रंग / The Color of my Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Rathore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[और फिर- कही उसने ऐसी बात रोप दिया दो बैलो वाले हल से सींचते हुए मेरे अन्दर सूखा बीज अंकुराया वो एक सुबह देखो- और हरा हो गया है मेरी आँखों का रंग - &#8211; - &#8211; - And then, he spoke - Ploughing through me with bullock-driven cart seeds seedless. One morning, it sprouted. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinarathore.in&#038;blog=2903161&#038;post=2366&#038;subd=tinarathore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Half-inch Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Rathore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Minimalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minimalist Poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reluctant footsteps at my door should I ask him in? **** Unfinished poems at my bedside I will miss evenings like these smell of virgin rims **** Unfinished bedside poems know to pause, sometimes, is to end **** I write to remember to forget **** I live life life lives me Both lives- are they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinarathore.in&#038;blog=2903161&#038;post=2351&#038;subd=tinarathore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Mama</title>
		<link>http://tinarathore.in/2012/01/23/tell-mama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Rathore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell Mama I clean ed up my room Wires overfloor Entwin ed nak ed spark ing wait ing for my feet I fell stood up Wear ing His toric scars return ed borrow ed music on my shelf errupt ed abruptly as I collect ed carefully scatter ed pieces of my mind Other Night It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinarathore.in&#038;blog=2903161&#038;post=2337&#038;subd=tinarathore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Nile</title>
		<link>http://tinarathore.in/2012/01/07/nile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Rathore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book was dren ched From it watersof Baby lon came gushing carving stonesstone men Do Do not at temptto read the-ese words washeda way They are not written in blood There will be an other Nile other civil ization Wait The Messiah isonhisway Bath ing in the Ganges, Thirsty Do Do not attemptto read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinarathore.in&#038;blog=2903161&#038;post=2159&#038;subd=tinarathore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Mama Could See</title>
		<link>http://tinarathore.in/2011/03/29/if-mama-could-she-would/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Rathore</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[on reading Lucille Clifton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If mama could see she would see worn out war bed, moth-eaten library, naked wires running over spilled dreams, desires stripped of vocabulary. If mama could read she would read letters unsent, never received hung on my wall Rene Magritte Salvador Dali Figure at the window, cuckoo clock breeding numbers, frames without pic tures. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinarathore.in&#038;blog=2903161&#038;post=2032&#038;subd=tinarathore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Archana Sahni’s He Loved a Poet: In Search of an Ideal Reader</title>
		<link>http://tinarathore.in/2011/03/25/archana-sahnis-he-loved-a-poet-in-search-of-an-ideal-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Rathore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archana Sahni]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read Archana Sahni&#8217;s He Loved a Poet He Loved a Poet is one of my favourite poems by Archana Sahni. It brilliantly explores the theme of unrequited love from a fresh perspective. It is a plea of a woman-poet to her love, who loves her ‘poetry’ more than the ‘woman who wrote it’. The reader-beloved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinarathore.in&#038;blog=2903161&#038;post=2027&#038;subd=tinarathore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time and Time Again</title>
		<link>http://tinarathore.in/2011/03/22/time-and-time-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Rathore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A-g-a-i-n the Shake speare stage is set an other handker chief mischief an other harm onized madness another yet another war over poetic justice The Trojan Battle The Lankan Army Henry’s politic-o’-love another yet another haran agni pariksha pyre sacrifice same questions same answers - of love that lasts unlasts. Copyright, Tina Rathore Tagged: life, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinarathore.in&#038;blog=2903161&#038;post=1927&#038;subd=tinarathore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He Loved a Poet</title>
		<link>http://tinarathore.in/2011/03/15/he-loved-a-poet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Rathore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For you each poem is just a poem ~ Archana Sahni He loved a poet A poet&#8217;s mind is not meant for love or poetry clustered bewildered possessed in search of a prey she longs for a touch a blow no not for you your love your presents- you choose so cautiously a reflection of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinarathore.in&#038;blog=2903161&#038;post=1872&#038;subd=tinarathore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>B’day Diaries: Days that Grow</title>
		<link>http://tinarathore.in/2011/03/13/bday-diaries-days-that-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Rathore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birthday Diaries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother always says, “It would be difficult growing up, but you must.” &#8220;Don&#8217;t Grow up &#8230; There are too many rules and restrictions&#8221; -   Hugh Hefner &#8220;It was then that I declared, resolved, and determined that I would never under any circumstances be a politician, much less a grocer; that I would stop right [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinarathore.in&#038;blog=2903161&#038;post=1830&#038;subd=tinarathore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drenched</title>
		<link>http://tinarathore.in/2011/03/01/drenched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Rathore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To day I have bailed out that day clouds held back your tears thunder outcried you lightning hit flashes in your eyes sky wore colors of your skin brown black yellow grey Will you not today come out play with me raise castles of wet clay I I am drenched in memories of days that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinarathore.in&#038;blog=2903161&#038;post=1490&#038;subd=tinarathore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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