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		<title>Ian Sowton poetry collections</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two of Ian&#8217;s poetry books are available for purchase here at Holy Trinity. The proceeds of Waking in Harbour One Day and The Stink of Experience will support the ongoing work of the Holy Trinity Refugee Committee.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lovingly Your Stars and Planets</title>
		<link>https://holytrinity.to/2021/02/lovingly-your-stars-and-planets/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 20:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lovingly your stars and planets tread the blissful reach of space,where in their stupendous singing they return you grace for grace.Though we are a small creation, slight jewel in your crown of lights—you have made us too for learning Love’s demands and Love’s delights. Ceaselessly, without conditions, you have put the lover’s casewhile we spend [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>for those who are&#8230; Grieving the Death of a Partner</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If it has come to that, feel free to give rein to the outraged helplessness at the injustice of having to watch a beloved human being endure a difficult departure from this world. Perhaps it hasn’t come to that; perhaps your partner has been heavily drugged for some time and you’ve already whispered goodbyes and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Come and Follow</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Come and follow, follow me,&#8221; says our brother Jesus.&#8220;for my yoke will set you free from all fear and pretence.My way&#8217;s exodus and we shall soon leave behind uscruel oppression&#8217;s diligence, howsoever dang&#8217;rous.&#8221; As we journey, journey on, sometimes weary, cheerless:plundered earth and freedoms gone, greed, waste, slaughter wrong turns.Yet for ev&#8217;ry hurt that&#8217;s done [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lenten Psalm (also suitable for December)</title>
		<link>https://holytrinity.to/2021/02/lenten-psalm-also-suitable-for-december/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Winter of Toronto town has come                                                                                                    [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dry-Bone Valley</title>
		<link>https://holytrinity.to/2021/02/dry-bone-valley-2/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ezekiel 37:1-14 It's like trying to stay upright, scorched and breathless, in the blast of some sneezing rot-toothed dragon. This guided tour, God, is tough going. As vistas go, it's in questionable taste--hills bare-ribbed and drought-dried to the bone; Satan plays Lego with Rwandan skeletons, chews over the remains of hope in Darfur and a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Canticle of High Park</title>
		<link>https://holytrinity.to/2021/02/the-canticle-of-high-park/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[North: We give thanks to the Creator Who fashioned this haven Now so busy yet so hospitable amid our second-order creations of steel, glass and concrete. East: We give thanks for the generosity and foresight that conserved this treasure. Yet we acknowledge that we are enjoying ourselves on land appropriated in bad faith, that early [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stone says to seed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[    Stone says to seed: Above I bask in sun or mock the cold, below it’s blindman’s buff with brother stones, light and dark, dark and light are     all the same to me     all the same to me     Root says to seed: I work my way round or push way through, earth [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisdom Led the New Stars Burning</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisdom led the new stars burningin the first steps of their dance,and she smiled to see earth blushingat the sun’s warm primal glance.Joyous firstling of God’s action,sign of heaven’s inventiveness,Wisdom plays with clearest pleasurein creation’s lavishness. Cherished darling of God’s bosom.bright Sophia pleads our case;we are creatures she delights in,Wisdom will not leave our race.Still [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deep Life All Abounding</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Sowton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Deep life all aboundingwhose voice goes on soundingthe word of creation through space;your love still is schoolingprime stars in their moving,and new worlds unfurl in your grace. We hear tell the storyof your ample gloryfrom creatures that roll off your tongue:the swimmers, the fliers,all diggers and sliders &#8212;the brood that you rear us among. So [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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