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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v4.1.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Fri, 16 May 2008 14:20:27 GMT--><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"><rss:channel rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/"><rss:title>Philosophical Poems</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/</rss:link><rss:description>Philosophical Poems</rss:description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><dc:date>2008-05-16T14:20:27Z</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace Site Server v4.1.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</admin:generatorAgent><rss:items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/13/051308.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/6/050608.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/5/050508.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/4/050408.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/3/050308.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/2/050208.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/1/050108.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/29/042908.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/26/042608.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/25/042508.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/24/042408.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/23/042308.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/22/042208.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/21/042108-1.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/21/042108.html"/></rdf:Seq></rss:items></rss:channel><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/13/051308.html"><rss:title>05.13.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/13/051308.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-05-13T12:20:37Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>we are intelligent circles</p><p>this means we understand</p><p>we are invisible circles</p><p>and we know a quiet room</p><p>is different from the same room noisy</p><p>and we also know a dark room</p><p>is different from the same room lightened</p><p>and the room metaphor untangles </p><p>all&nbsp;circles</p><p>intelligent and invisible quiet and dark</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/6/050608.html"><rss:title>05.06.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/6/050608.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-05-06T14:19:25Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>we separate science and religion</p><p>so we can think more clearly</p><p>but once we have 'figured it out'</p><p>it is easy to see science and religion</p><p>must articulate the same reality</p><p>science and religion are in a circle</p><p>they both articulate and are articulated by</p><p>the circle for, after all,</p><p>science came from religion</p><p>and religion came, originally, and only,&nbsp;from science</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/5/050508.html"><rss:title>05.05.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/5/050508.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-05-05T14:22:11Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the symbols we use to articulate reality</p><p>are personal at best</p><p>that is, we must choose what to see</p><p>when to see it</p><p>how to see it, and, most importantly,</p><p>how to symbolize it</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/4/050408.html"><rss:title>05.04.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/4/050408.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-05-04T14:23:26Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>a rational man</p><p>realizes he hides an irrational woman inside</p><p>and the opposite of this is also true</p><p>that is, we have, and we are,</p><p>rational and irrational</p><p>men and women</p><p>only the circle combines these</p><p>properly</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/3/050308.html"><rss:title>05.03.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/3/050308.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-05-03T14:29:56Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reality means we do and do not </p><p>believe everything and anything</p><p>we see </p><p>we have figured out how to live with</p><p>two opposing views as one</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/2/050208.html"><rss:title>05.02.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/2/050208.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-05-02T14:26:02Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>we can stretch the limits of imagination</p><p>as far as imagination stretches</p><p>and this is very far indeed</p><p>is this an open or a closed idea?</p><p>both, neither, either</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/1/050108.html"><rss:title>05.01.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/5/1/050108.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-05-01T14:24:54Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>a pair of anything makes a one</p><p>pairs do not have to be related in any way</p><p>but then again they may be</p><p>and this is all, and only,&nbsp;clarified by the circle</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/29/042908.html"><rss:title>04.29.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/29/042908.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-04-29T09:30:01Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>we can see whatever we decide to see</p><p>and this, obviously, is our most demanding</p><p>responsibility</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/26/042608.html"><rss:title>04.26.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/26/042608.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-04-26T15:30:05Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hope and despair surround</p><p>clothe and protect each other</p><p>and only we can decide for hope</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/25/042508.html"><rss:title>04.25.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/25/042508.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-04-25T15:31:10Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the weather reminds us</p><p>we are constant</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/24/042408.html"><rss:title>04.24.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/24/042408.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-04-24T15:31:55Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>circular reality means</p><p>we can lose no arguments</p><p>nor win them either</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/23/042308.html"><rss:title>04.23.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/23/042308.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-04-23T15:37:35Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>we're all in a circle</p><p>and there is only one circle</p><p>(many circles one circle)</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/22/042208.html"><rss:title>04.22.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/22/042208.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-04-22T15:35:47Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am no more or less</p><p>special than you</p><p>and this statement</p><p>causes all of the wars</p><p>and all of the treaties</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/21/042108-1.html"><rss:title>04.21.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/21/042108-1.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-04-21T15:32:37Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>equality is equivalence</p><p>at its most magical and reverent (and relevant)&nbsp;state</p><p>we can see it anytime we want to</p><p>and the opposite of this is always</p><p>also true</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/21/042108.html"><rss:title>04.21.08</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.circular-theory.com/poems/2008/4/21/042108.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ilexa Yardley</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-04-21T13:18:32Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>once we see a line must be the diameter of a circle</p><p>we notice very many lines too-many-to-count</p><p>and very many circles too-many-to-count</p><p>and the most important (and only true) fact:</p><p>there are no lines without circles</p><p>(no men without women and no women without men)</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item></rdf:RDF>