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		<title>Quilting &#8211; a poem by Patricia Cummings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quilting a poem by Patricia Cummings August 29, 2011 With wild abandon I still stitch away, While piles of fabric lay in sheer disarray. I cannot be neat in the midst of a project My method of working defies any logic. A block is too large? I shall just cut it down. A block is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philip Freneau&#8217;s Poem &#8220;The Wild Honey Suckle&#8221;: A Discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1786, Philip Freneau (1752-1832) wrote a four stanza poem that he titled &#8220;The Wild Honey Suckle.&#8221; The final verse is memorable: From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; &#8230;The space between is but an hour, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Have a Little Shadow&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/07/25/i-have-a-little-shadow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollyhock with dew, photo by James Cummings Ostensibly, one of the requirements for passing third grade in elementary school was to memorize poetry. To this day, I recall the poem &#8220;My Shadow&#8221; by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) that is included in A Child&#8217;s Garden of Verse published in 1913. Here are the verses: I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Engraving Spotted Unexpectedly</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/05/26/beautiful-engraving-spotted-unexpectedly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In anticipation of Memorial Day, Jim and I went to Murray&#8217;s Greenhouse in our home town to purchase flowering plants to plant at the graves of my parents and brother. The greenhouse is an amazing place &#8211; so fragrant and full of life with sound of the birds who roost in the rafters and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy National Quilter&#8217;s Day!</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/03/19/happy-national-quilters-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rhodendron and bee. Quilter&#8217;s are always busier than bees, as you may know! Photo by James Cummings You Know That You&#8217;re a Quilter a poem by Patricia Cummings You know that you&#8217;re a quilter When your home could be a shop So filled it is with notions and cloth from Fabric Hops. You know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Favorite Verse by Robert Louis Stevenson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the way, did you know that the famous sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whose former residence one can visit in New Hampshire, created a sculpture to commemorate the life of Robert Louis Stevenson in his home town, Edinburgh, Scotland? The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood Verses</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/03/10/childhood-verses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of the folklore of childhood as well as its perception by adults, in retrospect, can sometimes center on the poetry associated with those long ago days. That idea could be the subject of a lengthy discussion! Suffice it to say that this morning I woke up thinking about a poem that I was required [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy Quilts: Some Photos and a Poem</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2011/02/19/crazy-quilts-some-photos-and-a-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This crazy quilt measures 60&#8243; x 69&#8243; and has two embroidered dates: 1889 and 1929. Whenever we see dates on a crazy quilt, we cannot be sure of their meaning to the person who made the quilt. Sometimes dates recall a birth date, death date, an anniversary or a special event. Before I share close-up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;For the Forgotten&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/12/25/for-the-forgotten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For the Forgotten: An Alternative View&#8221; Go ahead and tell your troubles to the wind. It will blow your words away, so they can&#8217;t return again. Or else you can call and tell them to a friend, but like an old shoe flap that needs a mend the words will make noise that will repeat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Snood</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/12/07/my-snood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My New Snood an original poem by Patricia Cummings, 12/7/10 I&#8217;m enjoying my new snood It feels ever so good As well as expected As well as it should. I went catalog shopping instead of store hopping In jiffy time, it was here and is ever so dear! Being a fashion-trend setter I&#8217;ll leave to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lasting Childhood Poems</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/11/13/grandparents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, my mind turns to the words of a song I learned in grade school. Written by Lydia Marie Child (1802- 1880), a dame school trained child who became a teacher, author, and abolitionist, the poem was first published in 1844 in Flowers for Children, Vol. 2. The first stanza of the poem is: &#8220;Over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Red, Red Rose&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/09/25/a-red-red-rose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Red, Red Rose Oh my luve is like a red, red rose, That&#8217;s newly sprung in June: Oh my luve is like the melodie, That&#8217;s sweetly play&#8217;d in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a&#8217; the seas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Peace Discovered&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/08/30/peace-discovered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our brook&#8221; is just a trickle in the summer &#8220;Peace Discovered&#8221; by Patricia Cummings A bench of granite sits and waits and the eager woman does not hesitate. Together, they listen to the brook below, and ponder how fast seasons come and go. The stream it gurgles, spits and sputters; This place on earth is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit to Emily Dickinson, Plus</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/05/23/a-visit-to-emily-dickinson-plus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson is my perpetually-favorite, nineteenth century poet who, jokingly, once referred to herself as the &#8220;belle of Amherst,&#8221; odd only because she was a recluse. This morning, I recall one of her poems of the thousands she wrote, tucked away in a trunk, and written on scraps of paper. The extent of her work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Poems from Jacquie Sciutto</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/04/05/guest-poems-from-jacquie-sciutto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have enjoyed Jacquie&#8217;s poetry for years now. Today, she shares a few of her poems with us. ~Patricia~ Poems by Jacquie Sciutto: I think this was the first one I ever posted: ON NEATNESS I made my sewing room tidy one day And put all my fabrics and tools away &#8211; A crate of [...]]]></description>
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