<?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-3799240421890856928</id><updated>2011-10-01T14:19:33.284+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Perceiving Life, Love and Humanity</title><subtitle type='html'>Being a bar lady and a mother, I hear a lot... Not always intended for my ears... I accumulate these strings of data to bring to you, my perception of Life. Love. and Humanity at it's finest... Uit die mond van die suigeling en n dronkaard sal jy die reine waarheid hoor...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Simi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312883770348293701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X2_lppZPPq0/SroC8KbLuUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/iwZ-pXjyZAc/S220/22092006(005).jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799240421890856928.post-7909029277364487755</id><published>2011-10-01T14:19:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T14:19:33.321+02:00</updated><title type='text'>4 Burner Hot Rock Gas GRILLER For Sale Johannesburg Quality Classifieds | Junk Mail</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.junkmail.co.za/v-johannesburg-household-stoves-4-burner-hot-rock-gas-griller-QZQYCatQX0045QYRgnQX0001QYAdQXF24443QYEdQX201140#.TocFSp_XdFM.blogger"&gt;4 Burner Hot Rock Gas GRILLER For Sale Johannesburg Quality Classifieds | Junk Mail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3799240421890856928-7909029277364487755?l=simisparklies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.junkmail.co.za/v-johannesburg-household-stoves-4-burner-hot-rock-gas-griller-QZQYCatQX0045QYRgnQX0001QYAdQXF24443QYEdQX201140#.TocFSp_XdFM.blogger' title='4 Burner Hot Rock Gas GRILLER For Sale Johannesburg Quality Classifieds | Junk Mail'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/feeds/7909029277364487755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/2011/10/4-burner-hot-rock-gas-griller-for-sale.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default/7909029277364487755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default/7909029277364487755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/2011/10/4-burner-hot-rock-gas-griller-for-sale.html' title='4 Burner Hot Rock Gas GRILLER For Sale Johannesburg Quality Classifieds | Junk Mail'/><author><name>Simi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312883770348293701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X2_lppZPPq0/SroC8KbLuUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/iwZ-pXjyZAc/S220/22092006(005).jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799240421890856928.post-5563137445336456542</id><published>2009-10-05T15:58:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-05T15:59:48.433+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kindle</title><content type='html'>Sitting here in the dark looking at the embers slowly burning out...&lt;br /&gt;I am happy watching the fire smolder...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dream walker creeps in, in the dead of the night and adds kindling...&lt;br /&gt;The fire roars up  and consumes me...&lt;br /&gt;It burns my soul, searing my heart.&lt;br /&gt;I wish I had doused the fire completely...&lt;br /&gt;Wish I had emptied the bucket of tears over it, killing it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, I wish I may, I wish I might, have my wish come true tonight...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let the fire be...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let it smolder in peace...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dream walker only adds kindling, never stoking the fire...&lt;br /&gt;He does not tend it, he walks away...&lt;br /&gt;His fire is not mine to have...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The embers slowly burn waiting for the day walker.&lt;br /&gt;My hero...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For him to sweep me off my feet, to stoke and tend the fire.&lt;br /&gt;To make it burn with passion and love, never afraid to stand up and add a big log.&lt;br /&gt;The log that burns for eternity...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day walker will come. I have only one question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will I let him in?&lt;br /&gt;Will I let him add kindling to the embers, slowly fanning the flames making my soul burn...&lt;br /&gt;I know he will be there to protect my aching heart from those flames.&lt;br /&gt;To guard my heart, with all his might...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know HE will be my savior...&lt;br /&gt;My day walker...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3799240421890856928-5563137445336456542?l=simisparklies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/feeds/5563137445336456542/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/2009/10/kindle.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default/5563137445336456542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default/5563137445336456542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/2009/10/kindle.html' title='Kindle'/><author><name>Simi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312883770348293701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X2_lppZPPq0/SroC8KbLuUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/iwZ-pXjyZAc/S220/22092006(005).jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799240421890856928.post-4361704819297076805</id><published>2009-09-30T09:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-30T09:54:50.067+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Dream Walker</title><content type='html'>I can hear the cars passing by will the man in my dreams stop?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will he ask me to open the gate?&lt;br /&gt;The gate to my soul, which I have barricaded.&lt;br /&gt;If he does, will I open it again?&lt;br /&gt;Am I prepared for the hurt again?&lt;br /&gt;My lips still burn from our last embrace...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My heart can only take so much.&lt;br /&gt;I hope he stops only to ask for directions to someone else.&lt;br /&gt;That way I can make peace with his unwillingness to love me.&lt;br /&gt;The way I love him.&lt;br /&gt;I asses and make choices which are in my best interest, then he comes along. &lt;br /&gt;He ruptures my soul and makes me do silly things that hurt me in the end… &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh I wish I could stand up to my hearts whims, tell him no. Go away… &lt;br /&gt;I would be crushed if he does… I am crushed; the mere thought of him not being in my dreams anymore makes me want to weep… &lt;br /&gt;Relieved now that he doesn’t have the courage to stop and ask for my love… &lt;br /&gt;I am willing to once again give directions… &lt;br /&gt;It’s safer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3799240421890856928-4361704819297076805?l=simisparklies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/feeds/4361704819297076805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/2009/09/dream-walker.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default/4361704819297076805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default/4361704819297076805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/2009/09/dream-walker.html' title='Dream Walker'/><author><name>Simi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312883770348293701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X2_lppZPPq0/SroC8KbLuUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/iwZ-pXjyZAc/S220/22092006(005).jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799240421890856928.post-5419775969697996422</id><published>2009-09-29T08:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-29T08:54:56.505+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Beautiful Confusion</title><content type='html'>This must be it. What a vampire feels like seconds before death, that brief moment of the stake piercing the heart.&lt;br /&gt;I have no reason, no right to feel this pain…&lt;br /&gt;Oh woe hath befallen me and I have no cause or cure…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel ill, how can I not be content within myself and let life run its due course.&lt;br /&gt;Why does my heart want more?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stand, trying to synchronize thought with feeling to come to a mutual understanding of where, how and what the way forward is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life seems so perilous a journey.&lt;br /&gt;True happiness comes from within, &lt;br /&gt;so within I retreat to gather my thoughts to find my happy self.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To treasure it and relish this gift, with loneliness, my new companion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful confusion reigns still.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3799240421890856928-5419775969697996422?l=simisparklies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/feeds/5419775969697996422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/2009/09/beautiful-confusion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default/5419775969697996422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default/5419775969697996422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/2009/09/beautiful-confusion.html' title='Beautiful Confusion'/><author><name>Simi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312883770348293701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X2_lppZPPq0/SroC8KbLuUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/iwZ-pXjyZAc/S220/22092006(005).jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3799240421890856928.post-1285882673253929463</id><published>2009-09-26T07:26:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-05T16:19:20.577+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Fragility</title><content type='html'>Fragility,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is this feeling?&lt;br /&gt;I’m sure I’ve never felt before.&lt;br /&gt;A sense of longing overwhelms me now.&lt;br /&gt;How do I sleep so sound with this madness, this fight going on inside?&lt;br /&gt;To let the possibility of having some purpose slip though my sleep fogged mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel so fragile, so broken hearted.&lt;br /&gt;Why?&lt;br /&gt;You have probably found a warm bed.&lt;br /&gt;Now, I shall take my pain and CRUSH it.&lt;br /&gt;It makes me weak.&lt;br /&gt;No one will do that to me again.&lt;br /&gt;Not even you, my beautiful, beautiful friend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know I’m stronger than this.&lt;br /&gt;I have to be.&lt;br /&gt;I have scarred my heart one too many times.&lt;br /&gt;I will not mourn this loss I will not regret my daze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such is life.&lt;br /&gt;Solitude: my answer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3799240421890856928-1285882673253929463?l=simisparklies.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/feeds/1285882673253929463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/2009/09/fragility.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default/1285882673253929463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3799240421890856928/posts/default/1285882673253929463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simisparklies.blogspot.com/2009/09/fragility.html' title='Fragility'/><author><name>Simi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13312883770348293701</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X2_lppZPPq0/SroC8KbLuUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/iwZ-pXjyZAc/S220/22092006(005).jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
