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Pluto</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-18T03:28:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/07/16/poetry-saved-my-life/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/venela-vida1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Venela Vida</image:title><image:caption>Vendela Vida
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/venela-vida.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Venela Vida</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-16T04:42:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/07/12/hometown-haiku-continued-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/stacks-of-old-letters.jpg</image:loc><image:title>stacks of old letters</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-15T05:39:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/07/15/hometown-haiku-continued-4/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/saline-county-courthouse.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Saline County 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MO</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-08T04:51:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/07/07/hometown-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/img_1631.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hometown railroad depot</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-07T05:00:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/07/04/independence-day-love-poem/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/198.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Forth of July celebration in Minneapolis</image:title><image:caption>A nation's liberty was meant</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-04T23:14:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/07/03/modern-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/storm-above-memphis.png</image:loc><image:title>Storm above Memphis</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/geese.jpg</image:loc><image:title>geese</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-03T04:45:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/07/02/memphis-cat-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/img_1575.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Memphis cat: Withnail</image:title><image:caption>Withnail</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/img_1560.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Memphis cat: Terance</image:title><image:caption>Terance</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/img_1601.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1601</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-03T00:28:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/07/02/memphis-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/91mry-aut-l__sy355_.jpg</image:loc><image:title>91MrY-auT-L__SY355_</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-02T19:26:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/07/01/poet-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cropped-img_0049.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cropped-img_0049.jpg</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-01T04:57:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/06/30/midsummer-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/6d7d698cd00d398d02ac44fc2d2432d4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>6d7d698cd00d398d02ac44fc2d2432d4</image:title><image:caption>Solitary dove</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-06-30T06:31:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/06/23/a-poem-about-a-glove-and-love-and-my-wedding-anniversary/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/glove.jpg</image:loc><image:title>glove</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-06-23T05:01:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/06/21/fathers-day-haiku/</loc><lastmod>2016-06-18T23:16:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/fathers-day-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_1604.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1604</image:title><image:caption>Today, I'll wear some</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-06-21T20:24:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/06/06/a-birthday-poem-for-my-wife/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/lhaina-sunset.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lahaina sunset</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-06-19T23:55:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/06/19/hometown-haiku-and-a-note-for-fathers-day/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_1601.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1601</image:title><image:caption>Held together with duct tape</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_1594.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1594</image:title><image:caption>"Once, it was magic"</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-07-07T09:32:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/05/25/my-war-hero-and-a-classic-poem/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/300px-sheridan_at_cedar_creek.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Sheridan at the Battle of Cedar Creek</image:title><image:caption>Colonel Phillip Sheridan arrives to save the day at the Battle of Cedar Creek</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/229456_1064601381502_4215_n1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>My great grandfather</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-28T04:49:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/05/24/more-haiku-from-hawaii/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/maui-sunset.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Maui sunset</image:title><image:caption>"Don't you wish it could be like this always?"</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-24T06:15:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/05/23/invite-a-poet-to-give-your-next-commencement-speech/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/walter-mink.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Walter Mink</image:title><image:caption>Professor Walter Mink</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/17771982-mmmain.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mary Karr at Syracuse</image:title><image:caption>Poet Mary Karr stands a delivers an awesome graduation address at Syracuse University</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-09-05T20:58:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/05/23/something-about-hawaii-and-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/haiku-marketplace.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Haiku Marketplace</image:title><image:caption>No haiku for sale here</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-23T05:26:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/05/04/a-real-downer/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/thomashardy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Thomas Hardy</image:title><image:caption>Thomas Hardy</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-04T05:19:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/04/28/carvers-best-poem/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/tess20gallagher.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tess Gallagher</image:title><image:caption>Raymond Carver wrote "Hummingbird" for his wife, Tess Gallaher.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-29T01:40:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/04/22/therell-come-a-day/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/fried-chicken.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fried chicken</image:title><image:caption>"I'll eat fried chicken and biscuits smothered in bacon gravy ..."</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-05-04T00:30:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/04/20/wild-geese/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/geese.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wild geese</image:title><image:caption>Wild Geese:  I heard them long before I saw them.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-22T04:52:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/02/10/oh-love-for-love-i-could-not-speak/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/pontefract.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pontefract</image:title><image:caption>"In the licorice fields of Pontefract"</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-21T02:31:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/01/27/my-one-heart-let-me-have-more-pity-on/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/hopkins.gif</image:loc><image:title>hopkins</image:title><image:caption>Gerard Manley Hopkins (1884-1889)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-21T02:23:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/04/17/raymond-carver-and-grandpa/</loc><lastmod>2015-04-21T02:42:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/04/09/lilac-time/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/photo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lilacs</image:title><image:caption>"When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd"</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-09T04:46:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/02/21/how-hard-should-this-be/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fun-facts-friday-ts-eliot.jpg</image:loc><image:title>T.S. Eliot</image:title><image:caption>T.S. Eliot</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-30T06:50:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/29/that-day-we-lay/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/minneapolis-2011-039.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lake of the Isles, Minneapolis</image:title><image:caption>Lake of the Isles, Minneapolis ... long ago</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-29T17:49:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/23/crow-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/crows.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Crows</image:title><image:caption>Japanese Woodblock Print by Kyosai (1831-1889)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-24T06:10:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/24/when-the-dizzy-petal-peak-is-past/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/petalpeak.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Petal Peak</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-24T05:27:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/18/in-honor-of-st-patricks-day/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/yeats.gif</image:loc><image:title>William Butler Yeats</image:title><image:caption>William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-18T05:18:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/17/poets-on-poetry/</loc><lastmod>2015-03-17T15:55:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/11/haiku-with-feeling/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/raymond-ida-mae-ball-family.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mother and Father</image:title><image:caption>Father cared for mother through her decade-long ordeal with Alzheimer's.  After her death, he went downhill very quickly.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-13T00:48:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/08/early-spring-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_2472.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Early spring</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-08T20:20:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/07/digging-issa-haiku-master/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/issa_self_portrait.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Issa Self Portrait</image:title><image:caption>Issa self portrait</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/issaselfportrait.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Issa self portrait</image:title><image:caption>Issa self portrait</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-07T16:58:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/06/hawaii-haiku-green-sand-beach/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/green-sand-beach-hawaii-pictures.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Green Sand Beach</image:title><image:caption>Green Sand Beach</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-04-23T15:52:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/05/hawaii-haiku/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/hawaii-volcanoes-national-park.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Kilauea</image:title><image:caption>Surely this must be the roof of hell</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-05T05:20:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/04/haiku-and-cats/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_1881.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Little black cat</image:title><image:caption>The haiku masters wrote about cats</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_0221.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cat haiku</image:title><image:caption>The haiku masters wrote about cats. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-18T04:16:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/03/cat-poetry-2-0/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/iphone-various-1-0-337.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Aging cat</image:title><image:caption>The times are somehow breeding a nimbler race of mice</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-03T04:48:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/03/02/cat-poetry/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_0414.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Beloved cat</image:title><image:caption>A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?” -- Mark Twain
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-03-02T17:58:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/02/26/the-ukrainian-candidates-face/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/dn17570-2_300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Viktor Yushchenko</image:title><image:caption>In 2004, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko was believed to have been poison in the midst of a reelection campaign.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-26T04:55:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/02/25/playing-tennis-with-the-net-down/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mary-karr.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mary Karr</image:title><image:caption>Mary Karr</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/li-final-rain-forest-tennis-court-fiji.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Playing tennis with the net down</image:title><image:caption>Playing tennis with the net down</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-25T07:20:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/02/22/lamentations/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/p009_jeremiah_200.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jeremiah</image:title><image:caption>This proud and stiff-necked people shall not stand</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-22T05:53:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/02/19/winter-haiku/</loc><lastmod>2015-02-19T07:36:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/02/14/love-poems-for-grown-ups/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/johndonne.jpg</image:loc><image:title>John Donne</image:title><image:caption>John Donne</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2015-02-19T07:27:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://poeticchampions.com/2015/02/17/love-poems-for-grown-ups-part-two/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://poeticchampions.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/3699_old-dusty-wine-bottles-hd-wallpaper.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wine bottles</image:title><image:caption>"Each vintage has its period of 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