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		<title>Falling of the Leaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FALLING OF THE LEAVES      By: Om Mohammed October 29, 2010 &#160; The above is a picture of an evening view of the forest of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Borneo.[1] It is difficult, if even possible at all, to discern exactly how many trees or other plants or vegetation thrives within the range of this camera&#8217;s lens, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balqees59.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266338&amp;post=259&amp;subd=balqees59&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku Collection on Islamic Worship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 22:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAIKU COLLECTION ON WORSHIP prayer comforting connection relief fasting abstention from food and water cleansing Hajj once in a lifetime replenishes smile so easy to do heals all wounds visiting the sick, elderly and incapacitated half the medicine family ties kept for the sake of Allah causes descending mercy charity paid and given willingly multiplies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balqees59.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266338&amp;post=224&amp;subd=balqees59&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Essentially Muslim</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 22:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ESSENTIALLY MUSLIM The underlying belief is where it begins So I’ll start here for all to understand For no worship can mean anything Without the foundation – the base upon which anything must stand. We don’t cross our fingers Or believe in a tri-une God Nor do we believe He has offspring What blasphemes, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balqees59.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266338&amp;post=222&amp;subd=balqees59&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic Worship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMIC WORSHIP Did you wash? Did you pray? Did you dutifully Remember Allah today? If you didn’t No matter why There’s still time to repent Long as we’re living – you and I. Be kind to the animals Pick debris up off the road Or simply smile to others As you go by – not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balqees59.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266338&amp;post=220&amp;subd=balqees59&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Vietnam to Arabia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, April 7, 2008 FROM VIETNAM TO ARABIA FROM VIETNAM TO ARABIA It was the time of my youth Yet I was becoming aware Of what was going on about me Here, there-everywhere. Oh, I&#8217;ve never been a wizard At global civil issues But the Vietnam war awoke in me A sense-on which I used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balqees59.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266338&amp;post=217&amp;subd=balqees59&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of Sadness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE YEAR OF SADNESS THE YEAR OF SADNESS It was once said that &#8220;no man is an island&#8221;. And how true that is. None of us is alone. No matter where we come from, or what we develop into, we have a web of our social contacts—whether family or non-family, who are important to us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balqees59.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266338&amp;post=214&amp;subd=balqees59&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to Azooz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ODE TO AZOOZ ODE TO AZOOZ Is there a place without memories That I can go to escape The pain and the fear That casts a shadow over me to date? How can I forget Those soft red juicy lips The cotton-like cheeks And every other little tid-bit? Perhaps it is so That I really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balqees59.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266338&amp;post=212&amp;subd=balqees59&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dad&#8217;s Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dad&#8217;s Eyes DAD&#8217;S EYES Author&#8217;s note: We were each literally dragging our feet on our writing assignment from the minister. He had given us the opportunity to talk at Dad&#8217;s funeral or write our thoughts to have him incorporate into his speech, if we couldn&#8217;t talk. We all opted for the second. But even then, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balqees59.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266338&amp;post=210&amp;subd=balqees59&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dad and His Cat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAD AND HIS CAT **In 2005, I and all three of my adult children and my 2 grandsons (had only 2 at that time) traveled to the US to visit my family. It was the last time that I saw my father. Strange intuition-when we parted at the airport as I was preparing to board [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balqees59.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266338&amp;post=207&amp;subd=balqees59&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Dad at Funeral Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THOUGHTS ON DAD AT FUNERAL TIME **My father passed away in August 2007. He had been ill with lung cancer for about 6 months. At least that is when he had the first diagnosis. It was diagnosed only in the last stage. He must have had the cancer for a long time prior. After the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balqees59.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12266338&amp;post=203&amp;subd=balqees59&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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