<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2009348980046093947</id><updated>2011-11-14T04:47:39.768-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Aimez Le Trouvère</title><subtitle type='html'>I carry with me no burden, only bandages.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Fernando</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17244573432100051491</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2009348980046093947.post-7119048934468928949</id><published>2008-03-25T16:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-25T16:24:13.842-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Out on the Harbor</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;This water, tides away&lt;br /&gt;And she’s looking over&lt;br /&gt;This bridge it gives a way&lt;br /&gt;For the ambulance&lt;br /&gt;To come down, we’re sailing&lt;br /&gt;Captain she’s going under&lt;br /&gt;Some tides away&lt;br /&gt;Help us we’re going under&lt;br /&gt;Small crowd today&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;            &lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Out by the harbor&lt;br /&gt;She said she’d remember&lt;br /&gt;Why I came&lt;br /&gt;She said she remembers&lt;br /&gt;But she forgets&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;              &lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Out by the harbor&lt;br /&gt;The carnival bears&lt;br /&gt;March out by name&lt;br /&gt;And like them my thoughts are tamed&lt;br /&gt;And I regret&lt;br /&gt;And she forgets&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;          &lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;My shoes are so nice today&lt;br /&gt;But she’s going under&lt;br /&gt;My suit is pinstriped today&lt;br /&gt;But she’s going under&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                          &lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;This harbor hides away&lt;br /&gt;And I watch to wonder&lt;br /&gt;How this bridge, it fell today&lt;br /&gt;They sent rescue over and under&lt;br /&gt;Captain she’s going under&lt;br /&gt;Some tides away&lt;br /&gt;Help us we’re going under&lt;br /&gt;Small crowd today&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;My shoes are so nice today&lt;br /&gt;Oh we’re going under&lt;br /&gt;My suit is pinstriped today&lt;br /&gt;Oh we’re going under&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-7119048934468928949?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2009348980046093947.post-8182866635566724591</id><published>2008-03-24T01:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-25T10:34:04.847-07:00</updated><title type='text'>In Chaste Conversation</title><content type='html'>I suffer from many addictions&lt;br /&gt;Sins encased within glass vials&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I choose to drink these self-afflictions&lt;br /&gt;My curse&lt;br /&gt;Among this world’s maledictions, I disburse&lt;br /&gt;With a fool's grace, a conniving benediction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Into believing themselves grand&lt;br /&gt;I fool the meager&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than what they’re eager to be&lt;br /&gt;I became a pawn’s mercenary&lt;br /&gt;In this masquerade heresy&lt;br /&gt;As I beleaguered the royalty&lt;br /&gt;Who cursed my name&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cursed them just the same&lt;br /&gt;And my judgment amused a devious ploy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who would be so coy&lt;br /&gt;To banter in song and dance&lt;br /&gt;And ridicule these weapons&lt;br /&gt;That fail to question&lt;br /&gt;And continue to answer entranced&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m inebriated by sarcasm&lt;br /&gt;And the lifeless lives of the sober&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I still suffer from many addictions&lt;br /&gt;These sins are followed closely by contradictions&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-8182866635566724591?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/8182866635566724591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2009348980046093947&amp;postID=8182866635566724591' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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am weak.&lt;br /&gt;I run, therefore I am weak.&lt;br /&gt;I am alive, yet not so bleak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-4144455447311731712?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/4144455447311731712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2009348980046093947&amp;postID=4144455447311731712' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/4144455447311731712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/4144455447311731712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/2008/03/words.html' title='Words...'/><author><name>Fernando</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17244573432100051491</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2009348980046093947.post-8863904315137215558</id><published>2008-03-23T21:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-23T21:19:59.138-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Misc.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;"I see a tulip on the grave &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt; Of a lover who confessed: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt; I'm a soldier and a poet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt; But I'm a dancer at best."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Daryl Palumbo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Head Automatica - At The Speed of a Yellow Bullet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-8863904315137215558?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/8863904315137215558/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2009348980046093947&amp;postID=8863904315137215558' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/8863904315137215558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/8863904315137215558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/2008/03/misc.html' title='Misc.'/><author><name>Fernando</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17244573432100051491</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2009348980046093947.post-2649135550791287339</id><published>2008-03-22T02:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-22T02:24:05.725-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kashisms</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;To those who think that the ridiculous should stay ridiculous, I beseech you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Manuscripts will be written and the words will travel through history to enlighten the few who will choose to appreciate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;A heart-felt welcome to my comrades is in order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Mandolins play only for the solemn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Lies and truths dance together to a song only heard in questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We write our music in open conversation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Lace and velvet line your faith as it hangs from the string of your own devotion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Let’s hurt each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;My cardboard box waits for memories.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Benches do indeed contemplate murder. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-2649135550791287339?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/2649135550791287339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2009348980046093947&amp;postID=2649135550791287339' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/2649135550791287339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/2649135550791287339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/2008/03/kashisms.html' title='Kashisms'/><author><name>Fernando</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17244573432100051491</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2009348980046093947.post-8653858693104436462</id><published>2008-03-22T01:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-22T02:16:03.744-07:00</updated><title type='text'>El Encantador</title><content type='html'>El encantador sigue con su canto&lt;br /&gt;Y el rey celoso tiembla de envidia&lt;br /&gt;La reina teme no ser reconocida&lt;br /&gt;Por el encantador que con su canto&lt;br /&gt;La llena de una bella vida&lt;br /&gt;La vida de la no consentida&lt;br /&gt;Y queriendo darse como atrevida&lt;br /&gt;Aun sin su propia cancion&lt;br /&gt;Pero sin falta&lt;br /&gt;El encantador sigue con su canto&lt;br /&gt;Un canto silencioso y sabio&lt;br /&gt;Sin pecado ni fortuna&lt;br /&gt;Un velorio de esperanzas&lt;br /&gt;Y las manías de un amante&lt;br /&gt;Forman partes de este canto&lt;br /&gt;Un mensajero sin mando&lt;br /&gt;Con reliquias de un amor&lt;br /&gt;Este canto que canta el encantador&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-8653858693104436462?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/8653858693104436462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2009348980046093947&amp;postID=8653858693104436462' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/8653858693104436462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/8653858693104436462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/2008/03/el-encantador.html' title='El Encantador'/><author><name>Fernando</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17244573432100051491</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2009348980046093947.post-5803680095599109685</id><published>2008-03-22T01:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-22T01:50:11.965-07:00</updated><title type='text'>She Knew Something</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;She knew not what she did&lt;br /&gt;All clad in blue and white&lt;br /&gt;She gave a cold stare&lt;br /&gt;From eyes deep like knife wounds&lt;br /&gt;That bleed and create fright&lt;br /&gt;Hair dark like moonless nights&lt;br /&gt;Not love at first sight&lt;br /&gt;But the curiosity of a boy&lt;br /&gt;Who until this point&lt;br /&gt;Had never seen a bright sunrise mid-afternoon&lt;br /&gt;Dawn’s first light in a random classroom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;She knew not what she did&lt;br /&gt;And thoughts of her&lt;br /&gt;I could not rid from my mind&lt;br /&gt;Emotions being hid for some time&lt;br /&gt;And I became a lyrical pantomime&lt;br /&gt;My actions vent frustration in rhyme&lt;br /&gt;Like that of the innocent&lt;br /&gt;Waiting to be acquitted from a crime&lt;br /&gt;Accused to them, but not committed&lt;br /&gt;Love and logic being pitted&lt;br /&gt;Against each other: &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Battle&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:City&gt; Royale&lt;br /&gt;No cameras permitted&lt;br /&gt;My evolution will not be televised&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                                            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;She knew not what she did&lt;br /&gt;Sitting, waiting, brooding in silence&lt;br /&gt;Her visage was a tapestry&lt;br /&gt;A collision between beauty and violence&lt;br /&gt;Like Shakespearian ancestry&lt;br /&gt;The Victorian fusion of comedy and tragedy:&lt;br /&gt;A joyful travesty&lt;br /&gt;And I became not relaxed but high tensed&lt;br /&gt;By self inflicted maladies&lt;br /&gt;Pressure builds and builds and doesn’t let go&lt;br /&gt;Until I explode on this paper&lt;br /&gt;And plead amnesty&lt;br /&gt;As I mentally rape her&lt;br /&gt;The words taper down my energy&lt;br /&gt;And I’m screaming as she mentally rapes me&lt;br /&gt;My pen and hand create synergy&lt;br /&gt;Out of syllables and parables and similes&lt;br /&gt;And hyperboles and somehow poetry&lt;br /&gt;Flows out of me&lt;br /&gt;To illustrate my observation&lt;br /&gt;Of her femininity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                                    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;She knew not what she did&lt;br /&gt;Her curves did swerve&lt;br /&gt;Through verbs and adverbs&lt;br /&gt;That failed to describe&lt;br /&gt;And objectively serve&lt;br /&gt;Their purpose as I in turn&lt;br /&gt;Observed her and wondered&lt;br /&gt;What she was thinking of&lt;br /&gt;What desire or love so gleaming&lt;br /&gt;She was seeming to be dreaming of&lt;br /&gt;And I craved her&lt;br /&gt;Her sultry ways did not save her&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to enslave her&lt;br /&gt;And savor her lust&lt;br /&gt;Her passion and trust&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to taste her 31 flavors&lt;br /&gt;She knew what she did&lt;br /&gt;I was just returning the favor&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-5803680095599109685?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/5803680095599109685/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2009348980046093947&amp;postID=5803680095599109685' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/5803680095599109685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/5803680095599109685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/2008/03/she-knew-something.html' title='She Knew Something'/><author><name>Fernando</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17244573432100051491</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2009348980046093947.post-5403965507319149738</id><published>2008-03-22T01:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-22T01:47:44.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Benches Are Safe Haven</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I stayed waiting once&lt;br /&gt;So long in fact&lt;br /&gt;Someone noticed me and gave a glance&lt;br /&gt;Their eyes firmly asked mine&lt;br /&gt;“Why are you waiting?”&lt;br /&gt;I stared blankly back&lt;br /&gt;And began debating&lt;br /&gt;Why it was&lt;br /&gt;I was waiting?&lt;br /&gt;So I sat there&lt;br /&gt;You know, deliberating&lt;br /&gt;The cause and effects&lt;br /&gt;Of the moments just passed&lt;br /&gt;That in some way or another led&lt;br /&gt;To my current state of waiting&lt;br /&gt;It was raining&lt;br /&gt;I ran towards the nearest shelter&lt;br /&gt;I never carry with me an umbrella&lt;br /&gt;Yet, if I did, it would be white&lt;br /&gt;With pink polka dots&lt;br /&gt;Because who can forget to leave home&lt;br /&gt;Without their white and pink polka dot umbrella&lt;br /&gt;Which in turn I would call Isabella&lt;br /&gt;Yea, Isabella the Umbrella&lt;br /&gt;She would keep me safe&lt;br /&gt;From the torrential rain&lt;br /&gt;Keep me dry from the unforeseen&lt;br /&gt;Keep me sane&lt;br /&gt;Maybe fund the new world’s discovery&lt;br /&gt;But she wasn’t with me today&lt;br /&gt;So I ran to the nearest shelter&lt;br /&gt;And I began waiting&lt;br /&gt;For the rain to subside&lt;br /&gt;Felt like I was playing a fucked up game&lt;br /&gt;Of seek and go hide&lt;br /&gt;It was really windy too&lt;br /&gt;Even in shelter the raindrops mocked me&lt;br /&gt;As they blew in to reach the toes of my shoes&lt;br /&gt;And I thought “For fuck’s sake, I just bought these.”&lt;br /&gt;They were hot too&lt;br /&gt;These yellow striped Adidas in blue&lt;br /&gt;Tight as fuck&lt;br /&gt;Yea, but yea I was under a shelter&lt;br /&gt;And I was waiting&lt;br /&gt;And it was still raining&lt;br /&gt;And by that point my socks were fucking wet&lt;br /&gt;Now I’m going to be walking&lt;br /&gt;With that squishy feeling all day&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-5403965507319149738?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/5403965507319149738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2009348980046093947&amp;postID=5403965507319149738' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/5403965507319149738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/5403965507319149738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/2008/03/benches-are-safe-haven.html' title='Benches Are Safe Haven'/><author><name>Fernando</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17244573432100051491</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2009348980046093947.post-8556887330332217631</id><published>2008-03-22T01:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-22T01:42:39.055-07:00</updated><title type='text'>For Her</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;I want to tell you...&lt;br /&gt;I want to tell you how I feel&lt;br /&gt;How when I’m with you&lt;br /&gt;My only way to be is real&lt;br /&gt;That with my existence&lt;br /&gt;Came the resistance for me&lt;br /&gt;To find the wounds that I could not see&lt;br /&gt;Until you came to nurture and heal me&lt;br /&gt;And so I kneel&lt;br /&gt;You cradle me in your arms&lt;br /&gt;The evil inside me is what you seal&lt;br /&gt;And so I grow with you&lt;br /&gt;And I learn&lt;br /&gt;That there are so many ways&lt;br /&gt;For fire to burn&lt;br /&gt;The passion inside me&lt;br /&gt;Is what makes me yearn for you&lt;br /&gt;All my life it seemed to me with others&lt;br /&gt;I always had to take a turn&lt;br /&gt;But not with you&lt;br /&gt;I love you&lt;br /&gt;And without you there’s emptiness&lt;br /&gt;When I wake up and you’re not there&lt;br /&gt;All I miss is your skin’s caress&lt;br /&gt;And how the love we harness&lt;br /&gt;Brings natural stress and our lives&lt;br /&gt;Become, in your words, a hot mess&lt;br /&gt;But I love it and I know you love it no less&lt;br /&gt;Your lips, your eyes, your hips, your smile&lt;br /&gt;Your sense of style&lt;br /&gt;The way you love to have sex&lt;br /&gt;And all the while&lt;br /&gt;Our life of no regrets&lt;br /&gt;Is what I love&lt;br /&gt;What I want to hold and protect&lt;br /&gt;I am a mirror&lt;br /&gt;It is you who I want to reflect&lt;br /&gt;Your passions, your ideas, your loves&lt;br /&gt;The way you never reject and always accept&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who wants to share their intellect&lt;br /&gt;Or interject new points of view&lt;br /&gt;Whether slightly askew or inept&lt;br /&gt;But I digress&lt;br /&gt;I need you&lt;br /&gt;Like the desert needs rain, no,&lt;br /&gt;Far more intense&lt;br /&gt;My soul gasps for air&lt;br /&gt;You are my oxygen&lt;br /&gt;In this immense vacuum&lt;br /&gt;Of existential nonsense&lt;br /&gt;I need no defense&lt;br /&gt;Because your love gives me the strength&lt;br /&gt;To take a thousand blows&lt;br /&gt;From all sorts of violence&lt;br /&gt;And your love also shows&lt;br /&gt;That this dim landscape can always glow&lt;br /&gt;And the cabaret lights of this show&lt;br /&gt;We dance together in&lt;br /&gt;Reveal these dreams&lt;br /&gt;That stream from you into me&lt;br /&gt;And all I can do is dream this dream&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-8556887330332217631?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/8556887330332217631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2009348980046093947&amp;postID=8556887330332217631' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/8556887330332217631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/8556887330332217631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/2008/03/dream-of-patient.html' title='For Her'/><author><name>Fernando</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17244573432100051491</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2009348980046093947.post-5785035858538099310</id><published>2008-03-22T01:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-22T01:24:50.938-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Righteous and Bold</title><content type='html'>I lack foundation in values and beliefs&lt;br /&gt;And my morality is slightly askew&lt;br /&gt;Or so I’ve been told&lt;br /&gt;But would someone be so quick&lt;br /&gt;To point out to me&lt;br /&gt;The ones so true&lt;br /&gt;So righteous and bold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In their hands, do they cradle fear and hostility?&lt;br /&gt;Weapons so old, so old&lt;br /&gt;Archaic and obsolete&lt;br /&gt;But I cannot probe with these questions&lt;br /&gt;For I am a heathen tainted by heresy&lt;br /&gt;And they are the few&lt;br /&gt;So righteous and bold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there such high demand&lt;br /&gt;For faith to be cast in mold&lt;br /&gt;For those who choose to stand&lt;br /&gt;And not fold&lt;br /&gt;Become martyrs for no one&lt;br /&gt;Rather sinners as told&lt;br /&gt;By the ones so true&lt;br /&gt;So righteous and bold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ones they ignore&lt;br /&gt;To die in the cold&lt;br /&gt;I implore&lt;br /&gt;Are the wicked truly&lt;br /&gt;The bastard son, the witch, and the whore?&lt;br /&gt;Are they to die&lt;br /&gt;And nothing more&lt;br /&gt;For their faith they have sold&lt;br /&gt;Or so it is said&lt;br /&gt;By those who deplore them&lt;br /&gt;The few, the true&lt;br /&gt;The righteous and bold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there no savior for me?&lt;br /&gt;My faith I still hold&lt;br /&gt;In hands once filled with fear and hostility&lt;br /&gt;Am I to be finally free?&lt;br /&gt;Reclaiming my liberty&lt;br /&gt;Only to die in the cold&lt;br /&gt;I can only accept that that is the fate&lt;br /&gt;Of the ones who remain&lt;br /&gt;Indeed in blue hue, the few indeed true&lt;br /&gt;The righteous, the bold.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-5785035858538099310?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/5785035858538099310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2009348980046093947&amp;postID=5785035858538099310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/5785035858538099310'/><link 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unrelenting and the warmth absent. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crying with morning dew, &lt;br /&gt;This window’s view is muddled by tears&lt;br /&gt;And daylight can only shine through distorted, &lt;br /&gt;However persistent, praying for us to believe in its resolve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This landscape is dying and a message is pending.&lt;br /&gt;And danger colors these words that need sending.&lt;br /&gt;And danger colors these wounds that need mending.&lt;br /&gt;And danger colors only in red scarlet while this town remains far from painted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the images surface,&lt;br /&gt;Memory brings a quiet message, &lt;br /&gt;Tempered in textures only felt through these fingertips &lt;br /&gt;That once caressed the warmth of her ripe body, &lt;br /&gt;But now shiver at the touch of cold, wet glass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blown by foreign winds,&lt;br /&gt;These leaves rustle among troubled strangers.&lt;br /&gt;All of them are Nameless and Unfamiliar,&lt;br /&gt;Reaching because the cold is unrelenting and the warmth gallivant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2009348980046093947-4167831138525260701?l=andremarte.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/feeds/4167831138525260701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2009348980046093947&amp;postID=4167831138525260701' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/4167831138525260701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2009348980046093947/posts/default/4167831138525260701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andremarte.blogspot.com/2008/03/reaching.html' 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