<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
	xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
>

<channel>
	<title>Mark Scandrette &#187; Poetry</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.markscandrette.com/category/poetry/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.markscandrette.com</link>
	<description>The founding director of ReIMAGINE, a collective that invites people into integrative spiritual experiments and practices, (with an emphasis on creativity, community building and social action</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:18:39 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator>
	<!-- podcast_generator="podPress/8.8" - maintenance_release="8.8.4" -->
		<copyright>Copyright &#xA9; 2012 Mark Scandrette </copyright>
		<managingEditor>mark@reimagine.org (Mark Scandrette)</managingEditor>
		<webMaster>mark@reimagine.org (Mark Scandrette)</webMaster>
		<category>http://www.markscandrette.com/category/podcast/feed/</category>
		<ttl>1440</ttl>
		<itunes:keywords>Jesus Dojo, reimagine </itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>The founding director of ReIMAGINE, a collective that invites people into integrative spiritual experiments and practices, (with an emphasis on creativity, community building and social action</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Author of Soul Graffiti: Making A Life in the Way of Jesus and The founding director of ReIMAGINE, a collective that invites people into integrative spiritual experiments and practices, (with an emphasis on creativity, community building and social action</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>Mark Scandrette</itunes:author>
		<itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality">
	<itunes:category text="Spirituality"/>
</itunes:category>
<itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality">
	<itunes:category text="Christianity"/>
</itunes:category>
		<itunes:owner>
			<itunes:name>Mark Scandrette</itunes:name>
			<itunes:email>mark@reimagine.org</itunes:email>
		</itunes:owner>
		<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:image href="http://www.markscandrette.com/wp-content/themes/markV2/images/mark-podcast.jpg" />
		<image>
			<url>http://www.markscandrette.com/wp-content/themes/markV2/images/mark-podcast-sm.jpg</url>
			<title>Mark Scandrette</title>
			<link>http://www.markscandrette.com</link>
			<width>144</width>
			<height>144</height>
		</image>
		<item>
		<title>ABOLITION PROJECT Mantra (Prayer)</title>
		<link>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/abolition-project-mantra-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/abolition-project-mantra-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ReIMAGINE!]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markscandrette.com/2009/09/02/abolition-project-mantra-prayer/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Make me an agent of your healing and justice To weep with those who suffer To speak for my sisters and brothers whose voices cannot be heard I join the struggle of love’s triumph over greed Spending myself for the captive Praying that more liberators will be sent until every slave is free. Sign upread more]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/abolition-project-mantra-prayer/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A prayer for this day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/a-prayer-for-this-day-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/a-prayer-for-this-day-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Practices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markscandrette.com/2009/08/31/a-prayer-for-this-day-2/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Give me courage to be fully alive today To embrace this moment with destiny To choose life, make beauty and risk love with every thought in every touch with every word in every act with every breath&#8230; in grateful submission to the mystery of being and belonging to this people and place and to you.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/a-prayer-for-this-day-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Sayings of the wanderer #18</title>
		<link>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/sayings-of-the-wanderer-18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/sayings-of-the-wanderer-18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Practices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markscandrette.com/2009/03/11/sayings-of-the-wanderer-18/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I am a scholar, then where is my library? If I am an activist, then who are the people I liberate? If I am a writer, then where is the manuscript? If I am a mystic, then where is my cave? If I am a lover, then who is my love?&#8221;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/sayings-of-the-wanderer-18/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Sayings of the wanderer #16</title>
		<link>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/sayings-of-the-wanderer-16/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/sayings-of-the-wanderer-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Practices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markscandrette.com/2009/03/09/sayings-of-the-wanderer-16/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The sunshine sooths the bruises of my psychic ache. I could spend a thousand moons here before I miss the sweet embrace. My joys and pains are solitary. And even as the healer holds me I am plotting my escape. &#8220;]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/sayings-of-the-wanderer-16/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Our Mantra-Prayer for Awakening Creativity</title>
		<link>http://www.markscandrette.com/writing/our-mantra-prayer-for-awakening-creativity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markscandrette.com/writing/our-mantra-prayer-for-awakening-creativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ReIMAGINE!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markscandrette.com/2009/01/22/our-mantra-prayer-for-awakening-creativity/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something Adam Klein and I wrote for this Learning Lab: Created to be creative We enact our destiny Embracing the energy of the Spirit To risk making beauty With our whole lives &#8211;Amen]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.markscandrette.com/writing/our-mantra-prayer-for-awakening-creativity/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>PAGE STREET OPEN MIC &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/page-street-open-mic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/page-street-open-mic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ReIMAGINE!]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markscandrette.com/2009/01/20/page-street-open-mic/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[was a real success, a great gathering of people from the Lower Haight neighborhood, Seven and ReIMAGINE around food, friendship, poetry and music. Someone snapped this photo of me:]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/page-street-open-mic/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>STILL STUTTERING IN THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE</title>
		<link>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/still-stuttering-in-the-language-of-love/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/still-stuttering-in-the-language-of-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markscandrette.com/2008/12/14/still-stuttering-in-the-language-of-love/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have never been faithful Always cheating and deceiving More or less &#8211;sometimes more and sometimes less But my heart in these rare and reflective moments Has always been true On warm nights I melt into this city wandering down the lonely streets of China town With the sky hanging over my head And myread more]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/still-stuttering-in-the-language-of-love/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Prayer for This Day</title>
		<link>http://www.markscandrette.com/spiritual-practices/family/a-prayer-for-this-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markscandrette.com/spiritual-practices/family/a-prayer-for-this-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markscandrette.com/2008/09/28/a-prayer-for-this-day/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To rise in hope And lie down in peace To carry my portion of the work of creation Leaving what is left unmade for another day To be tender with my wife Cherishing and beholding her ageless beauty To guide my children with words and actions Listening with wonder to all they discover To exerciseread more]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.markscandrette.com/spiritual-practices/family/a-prayer-for-this-day/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A RECENT POEM BY ISAIAH (age 11)</title>
		<link>http://www.markscandrette.com/spiritual-practices/family/a-recent-poem-by-isaiah-age-11/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markscandrette.com/spiritual-practices/family/a-recent-poem-by-isaiah-age-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markscandrette.com/2008/05/07/a-recent-poem-by-isaiah-age-11/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kids crying Drunkards swaggering moms yelling men swapping drugs in dark alleys cars crashing people on the street dogs and cats fighting in all but forgotten neighborhoods But&#8230; maybe Just maybe We can give the kids candy Help the drunk Cool down the moms Take away the drugs from the men Help people get outread more]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.markscandrette.com/spiritual-practices/family/a-recent-poem-by-isaiah-age-11/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>NIGHT</title>
		<link>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.markscandrette.com/2008/02/11/night/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NIGHT (January 26th, 2008) Through skeleton branches the western sky fades from blue to pink apocalypse red then starry black and I feel the night coming on the wind and in the darkening gray as the temperature drops in minutes by degrees Night comes like death All the promises of the day lost in theread more]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.markscandrette.com/poetry/night/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

