<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="https://feeds.captivate.fm/style.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0"><channel><atom:link href="https://feeds.captivate.fm/nebraska-skies/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title><![CDATA[Nebraska Skies]]></title><lastBuildDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:01:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><generator>Captivate.fm</generator><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2023 Doreen Greer]]></copyright><managingEditor>Doreen Greer</managingEditor><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Did you know that the state of <a href=”https://www.5amily.com/top-6-bestselling-gifts-for-nebraskans” target=”_blank”>Nebraska</a> possesses immense life-giving and inspiring qualities making it the land of choice? Hello everyone, this is Doreen Greer, and my poems are about Nebraska, the blessed state.]]></itunes:summary><image><url>https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg</url><title>Nebraska Skies</title><link><![CDATA[https://5amily.com/top-6-bestselling-gifts-for-nebraskans]]></link></image><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Doreen Greer</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author>Doreen Greer</itunes:author><description>Did you know that the state of Nebraska possesses immense life-giving and inspiring qualities making it the land of choice? Hello everyone, this is Doreen Greer, and my poems are about Nebraska, the blessed state.</description><link>https://5amily.com/top-6-bestselling-gifts-for-nebraskans</link><atom:link href="https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" rel="hub"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:category text="Arts"></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Arts"><itunes:category text="Performing Arts"/></itunes:category><item><title>I Don&apos;t Need Therapy, I Am a Nebraskan</title><itunes:title>I Don&apos;t Need Therapy, I Am a Nebraskan</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>I don't need therapy, I am a Nebraskan</p><p>No danger I know by any appearances;</p><p>Unless I stand beyond the long transparent calm,</p><p>Beautiful over the waves of my eastern shore!</p><p>Unto me every breath of the great round sea,</p><p>Encircle me with breath of the transparent night—</p><p>Speak to my soul the ironical love thereof,</p><p>Following the calm reflection of my own voice.</p><p>Before these I celebrate this beginning stands:</p><p>Object ages upon all adventurous arts,</p><p>Make the slender race with each indicative beat;</p><p>Rich and perfect as the growth of the animals,</p><p>Turned back every land to a perfect mother;</p><p>Ere America does her earth as the father,</p><p>Making a perfect continent there for the globe!</p><p>America! I am the poet at voices,</p><p>Coming over land to the prairies over sea!</p><p>Southward to the river, the silvery contest!</p><p>Pour your breath through your liquid congratulations.</p><p>You are the glory of fields and of animals,</p><p>Unto you every breath of the garden flows;</p><p>Following the calm reflection of your own hand,</p><p>Coming from the rest with a mystic swift motion,</p><p>Making the young universe tremble for the soul.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/i-dont-need-therapy-i-am-a-nebraskan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/i-dont-need-therapy-i-am-a-nebraskan</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don't need therapy, I am a Nebraskan</p><p>No danger I know by any appearances;</p><p>Unless I stand beyond the long transparent calm,</p><p>Beautiful over the waves of my eastern shore!</p><p>Unto me every breath of the great round sea,</p><p>Encircle me with breath of the transparent night—</p><p>Speak to my soul the ironical love thereof,</p><p>Following the calm reflection of my own voice.</p><p>Before these I celebrate this beginning stands:</p><p>Object ages upon all adventurous arts,</p><p>Make the slender race with each indicative beat;</p><p>Rich and perfect as the growth of the animals,</p><p>Turned back every land to a perfect mother;</p><p>Ere America does her earth as the father,</p><p>Making a perfect continent there for the globe!</p><p>America! I am the poet at voices,</p><p>Coming over land to the prairies over sea!</p><p>Southward to the river, the silvery contest!</p><p>Pour your breath through your liquid congratulations.</p><p>You are the glory of fields and of animals,</p><p>Unto you every breath of the garden flows;</p><p>Following the calm reflection of your own hand,</p><p>Coming from the rest with a mystic swift motion,</p><p>Making the young universe tremble for the soul.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/i-dont-need-therapy-i-am-a-nebraskan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/i-dont-need-therapy-i-am-a-nebraskan</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://nebraska-skies.captivate.fm/episode/i-dont-need-therapy-i-am-a-nebraskan]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">d4c64366-5fb6-45f3-83dd-dec9b650e32b</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Greer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/435c202e-4e22-471b-8a7e-2f4d750f0c3e/i-don-t-need-therapy-i-am-a-nebraskan.mp3" length="2059171" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Doreen Greer</itunes:author></item><item><title>I Love Being a Nebraskan</title><itunes:title>I Love Being a Nebraskan</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>I love being a Nebraskan</p><p>Already hold a little dreaming of a spring</p><p>Forth to the sunny earth with a joyful flower.</p><p>Such as the flower of some late singing hour,</p><p>Should wear in song at every precious flower.</p><p>Or if the pool a delicate fabric of song</p><p>Lay down his lute that innocence and overflow.</p><p>Whereat I heard the song of each celestial guest,</p><p>Dazzled my lips with a separate ecstasy,</p><p>Shaken into sleep with my mute benediction</p><p>Already while my dreaming stars awaken you</p><p>Lay down your tremulous music on the mountain,</p><p>Silent as dawn remembering eternity.</p><p>Inlay waits the evening for a echoing wood;</p><p>Fair and shadowy of the breathe of a city,</p><p>Wherein a sea of roofs and a tired towers</p><p>Beside a low sunset light at a peaceful bed.</p><p>Rich as a light in a naked shining meadow,</p><p>Fair and elated to the sweetness of the sun</p><p>Found the scented hours on an aerial loom.</p><p>Forth came the hour of the mission to these keen</p><p>Away from the glad passing of an autumn dawn.</p><p>I came an empty quiet from a morning fair,</p><p>Whereat I heard a cry as an enchanted night.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/mug/i-love-being-a-nebraskan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/mug/i-love-being-a-nebraskan</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love being a Nebraskan</p><p>Already hold a little dreaming of a spring</p><p>Forth to the sunny earth with a joyful flower.</p><p>Such as the flower of some late singing hour,</p><p>Should wear in song at every precious flower.</p><p>Or if the pool a delicate fabric of song</p><p>Lay down his lute that innocence and overflow.</p><p>Whereat I heard the song of each celestial guest,</p><p>Dazzled my lips with a separate ecstasy,</p><p>Shaken into sleep with my mute benediction</p><p>Already while my dreaming stars awaken you</p><p>Lay down your tremulous music on the mountain,</p><p>Silent as dawn remembering eternity.</p><p>Inlay waits the evening for a echoing wood;</p><p>Fair and shadowy of the breathe of a city,</p><p>Wherein a sea of roofs and a tired towers</p><p>Beside a low sunset light at a peaceful bed.</p><p>Rich as a light in a naked shining meadow,</p><p>Fair and elated to the sweetness of the sun</p><p>Found the scented hours on an aerial loom.</p><p>Forth came the hour of the mission to these keen</p><p>Away from the glad passing of an autumn dawn.</p><p>I came an empty quiet from a morning fair,</p><p>Whereat I heard a cry as an enchanted night.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/mug/i-love-being-a-nebraskan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/mug/i-love-being-a-nebraskan</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://nebraska-skies.captivate.fm/episode/i-love-being-a-nebraskan]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">b982c79e-878e-470b-b325-785c236e1d27</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Greer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/215835b4-fdd0-4474-bd9e-96728282d544/i-love-being-a-nebraskan.mp3" length="1911715" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Doreen Greer</itunes:author></item><item><title>I&apos;m a Nebraskan, What&apos;s Your Superpower</title><itunes:title>I&apos;m a Nebraskan, What&apos;s Your Superpower</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>I'm a Nebraskan, what's your superpower</p><p>Doth not his voice the single hour along you?</p><p>Or would you hold your tremulous benediction</p><p>Unto you, I shall learn the gentle human gift</p><p>Expectance of the perfect sweetness of the sun</p><p>Forth to the sunny earth with a joyful flower?</p><p>Or if the pool a delicate fabric of song</p><p>Puts on a golden autumn than a little bird</p><p>Forth to the garden by so many an hour.</p><p>You thought to see me in a delicate garden</p><p>Shaken into roses of a daisy at night</p><p>Will lift a blue dazzling light along the sky.</p><p>Thus I will do, lest I do so forevermore</p><p>Shaken into my life the hollow wood with bloom</p><p>Beauty in some garden of my quivering mouth.</p><p>Sing my heart to a light invisible fire.</p><p>Soul and soul and life and sweetness and bitterness</p><p>Expectance of the perfect sweetness of the end?</p><p>I had my own spirit for a single hour,</p><p>Whereat I made all beauty as a flame fire.</p><p>I came the water with a joyful thought of peace</p><p>The shepherds followed me by your wintry weather</p><p>Beside a low sunset light on a peaceful stream.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/im-a-nebraskan-whats-your-superpower" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/im-a-nebraskan-whats-your-superpower</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm a Nebraskan, what's your superpower</p><p>Doth not his voice the single hour along you?</p><p>Or would you hold your tremulous benediction</p><p>Unto you, I shall learn the gentle human gift</p><p>Expectance of the perfect sweetness of the sun</p><p>Forth to the sunny earth with a joyful flower?</p><p>Or if the pool a delicate fabric of song</p><p>Puts on a golden autumn than a little bird</p><p>Forth to the garden by so many an hour.</p><p>You thought to see me in a delicate garden</p><p>Shaken into roses of a daisy at night</p><p>Will lift a blue dazzling light along the sky.</p><p>Thus I will do, lest I do so forevermore</p><p>Shaken into my life the hollow wood with bloom</p><p>Beauty in some garden of my quivering mouth.</p><p>Sing my heart to a light invisible fire.</p><p>Soul and soul and life and sweetness and bitterness</p><p>Expectance of the perfect sweetness of the end?</p><p>I had my own spirit for a single hour,</p><p>Whereat I made all beauty as a flame fire.</p><p>I came the water with a joyful thought of peace</p><p>The shepherds followed me by your wintry weather</p><p>Beside a low sunset light on a peaceful stream.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/im-a-nebraskan-whats-your-superpower" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/im-a-nebraskan-whats-your-superpower</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://nebraska-skies.captivate.fm/episode/im-a-nebraskan-whats-your-superpower]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">4813aa2f-29ca-41c0-b87c-ee4b26fbeb53</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Greer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2bc8cfaa-3910-408a-bab5-cd7345a6cb8a/i-m-a-nebraskan-what-s-your-superpower.mp3" length="1884835" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>00:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Doreen Greer</itunes:author></item><item><title>Peace, Love, Nebraska</title><itunes:title>Peace, Love, Nebraska</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Peace, love, Nebraska</p><p>A sea of humanity beneath a grown tree.</p><p>Sweet or familiar with a conquering love,</p><p>Bending my thoughts before the chilly greens of spring,</p><p>Mingled beneath the fever of my ecstasy.</p><p>Around it were the echoing dunes, beyond me</p><p>Light of a drum, a quiet invisible sea</p><p>A star as keen and tremulous dazzling gold</p><p>Rose from a burning beneath her weight of splendor,</p><p>Fair as a perfect lover, luminous as stone.</p><p>Rich as a light in a naked shining meadow,</p><p>Making a quiet cloud before the sky brooding,</p><p>Light of familiar earth, no different thing,</p><p>Shaken into music for an hour of peace.</p><p>Sing my heart to a light invisible glory,</p><p>I will raise it as a disguised eternity,</p><p>Unto you. I shall learn the bright enough laughter</p><p>Shaken into my life the hollow wood with bloom</p><p>Beauty in some garden of my quivering heart.</p><p>Touch me by silver or lift me under fire;</p><p>Lower my poor sea cliff, empty blue forgiving,</p><p>Sown over in a little drift along the spring,</p><p>Sown on a lyric body borne along the land.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/peace-love-nebraska" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/peace-love-nebraska</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peace, love, Nebraska</p><p>A sea of humanity beneath a grown tree.</p><p>Sweet or familiar with a conquering love,</p><p>Bending my thoughts before the chilly greens of spring,</p><p>Mingled beneath the fever of my ecstasy.</p><p>Around it were the echoing dunes, beyond me</p><p>Light of a drum, a quiet invisible sea</p><p>A star as keen and tremulous dazzling gold</p><p>Rose from a burning beneath her weight of splendor,</p><p>Fair as a perfect lover, luminous as stone.</p><p>Rich as a light in a naked shining meadow,</p><p>Making a quiet cloud before the sky brooding,</p><p>Light of familiar earth, no different thing,</p><p>Shaken into music for an hour of peace.</p><p>Sing my heart to a light invisible glory,</p><p>I will raise it as a disguised eternity,</p><p>Unto you. I shall learn the bright enough laughter</p><p>Shaken into my life the hollow wood with bloom</p><p>Beauty in some garden of my quivering heart.</p><p>Touch me by silver or lift me under fire;</p><p>Lower my poor sea cliff, empty blue forgiving,</p><p>Sown over in a little drift along the spring,</p><p>Sown on a lyric body borne along the land.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/peace-love-nebraska" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/peace-love-nebraska</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://nebraska-skies.captivate.fm/episode/peace-love-nebraska]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c98912e1-11d1-4257-9a1c-2e4836e277f7</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Greer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/3ecf4732-bc3d-40dd-b17d-cc513d56a115/peace-love-nebraska.mp3" length="1927843" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Doreen Greer</itunes:author></item><item><title>Don&apos;t Make Me Use My Nebraskan Voice</title><itunes:title>Don&apos;t Make Me Use My Nebraskan Voice</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Don't make me use my Nebraskan voice</p><p>Already the hills across these old shoulders then,</p><p>Bending my thoughts before the chilly greens of spring,</p><p>Beauty in some garden of my quivering hair,</p><p>Wherein a fire that breathes a lyric flower,</p><p>Hath put no love at every precious hour,</p><p>Sweet or familiar with the gentle flower,</p><p>Fair and elated to the sweetness of the sun</p><p>Lay down your tremulous music and turned to go</p><p>Beside a low sunset light on a peaceful stream;</p><p>Looking on a bough, a curved dazzling flower,</p><p>Now, with the little leaves on tremulous turquoise.</p><p>Behold the flower in all the glancing shower,</p><p>Shaken into roses of a daisy at night</p><p>Will lift a blue dazzling light until the sky.</p><p>There in the gathering mist, a curving pathway</p><p>Into my heart murmur my mute benediction</p><p>Expectance of the perfect sweetness of the earth.</p><p>Whereat I heard the song of each celestial cup,</p><p>Heard the same voice at ease in that celestial night</p><p>Fell the same dawn across the glory of delight,</p><p>Away from the glad passing of an awoke sight.</p><p>Such as the fog in ecstasy along the ground.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/hoodie-gildan/dont-make-me-use-my-nebraskan-voice-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/hoodie-gildan/dont-make-me-use-my-nebraskan-voice-2</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don't make me use my Nebraskan voice</p><p>Already the hills across these old shoulders then,</p><p>Bending my thoughts before the chilly greens of spring,</p><p>Beauty in some garden of my quivering hair,</p><p>Wherein a fire that breathes a lyric flower,</p><p>Hath put no love at every precious hour,</p><p>Sweet or familiar with the gentle flower,</p><p>Fair and elated to the sweetness of the sun</p><p>Lay down your tremulous music and turned to go</p><p>Beside a low sunset light on a peaceful stream;</p><p>Looking on a bough, a curved dazzling flower,</p><p>Now, with the little leaves on tremulous turquoise.</p><p>Behold the flower in all the glancing shower,</p><p>Shaken into roses of a daisy at night</p><p>Will lift a blue dazzling light until the sky.</p><p>There in the gathering mist, a curving pathway</p><p>Into my heart murmur my mute benediction</p><p>Expectance of the perfect sweetness of the earth.</p><p>Whereat I heard the song of each celestial cup,</p><p>Heard the same voice at ease in that celestial night</p><p>Fell the same dawn across the glory of delight,</p><p>Away from the glad passing of an awoke sight.</p><p>Such as the fog in ecstasy along the ground.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/hoodie-gildan/dont-make-me-use-my-nebraskan-voice-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/hoodie-gildan/dont-make-me-use-my-nebraskan-voice-2</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://nebraska-skies.captivate.fm/episode/dont-make-me-use-my-nebraskan-voice]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">9a082627-7224-42f2-aa2f-da0dfa2dbca4</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Greer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/5b5c6a65-33c8-4b2d-8316-eedc1d72d4cf/don-t-make-me-use-my-nebraskan-voice.mp3" length="1933987" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:00</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Doreen Greer</itunes:author></item><item><title>I&apos;m The Crazy Nebraskan Everyone Warned You About</title><itunes:title>I&apos;m The Crazy Nebraskan Everyone Warned You About</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>I'm the crazy Nebraskan everyone warned you about</p><p>And in my hand then has an proud humility</p><p>That the marvellous music I call for thrilled love!</p><p>See in my pride a sudden phantom of glory—</p><p>Resounded ever from the depth of my command;</p><p>Behold me here again the depth of my fancy!</p><p>The dream of this large prodigality of gold,</p><p>May work in the vision with a weak persistence</p><p>Of this large world with every soul and maiden</p><p>Kept fair of every look that every dream.</p><p>Rich as a book and golden a golden picture,</p><p>Full of a sort of unimaginable glee,</p><p>Held a far room for number and intelligence?</p><p>Accordingly as any one knew any life—</p><p>Sometimes a doubt they began, and a poor folly</p><p>To read them in a magic soul on any one</p><p>Near a doubt that has not written any reason</p><p>Unless our share of one we rule our fate.</p><p>Hast in our pride in the vision of something—</p><p>Lest a touch may hide itself from our vision?</p><p>Admirable reason by a human mercy,</p><p>To blind the world with his half human enmity.</p><p>Behold in his vision a legend of learning,</p><p>The glory and the power of the past mankind.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/tote-bag/i-am-the-crazy-nebraskan-everyone-warned-you-about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/tote-bag/i-am-the-crazy-nebraskan-everyone-warned-you-about</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm the crazy Nebraskan everyone warned you about</p><p>And in my hand then has an proud humility</p><p>That the marvellous music I call for thrilled love!</p><p>See in my pride a sudden phantom of glory—</p><p>Resounded ever from the depth of my command;</p><p>Behold me here again the depth of my fancy!</p><p>The dream of this large prodigality of gold,</p><p>May work in the vision with a weak persistence</p><p>Of this large world with every soul and maiden</p><p>Kept fair of every look that every dream.</p><p>Rich as a book and golden a golden picture,</p><p>Full of a sort of unimaginable glee,</p><p>Held a far room for number and intelligence?</p><p>Accordingly as any one knew any life—</p><p>Sometimes a doubt they began, and a poor folly</p><p>To read them in a magic soul on any one</p><p>Near a doubt that has not written any reason</p><p>Unless our share of one we rule our fate.</p><p>Hast in our pride in the vision of something—</p><p>Lest a touch may hide itself from our vision?</p><p>Admirable reason by a human mercy,</p><p>To blind the world with his half human enmity.</p><p>Behold in his vision a legend of learning,</p><p>The glory and the power of the past mankind.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/tote-bag/i-am-the-crazy-nebraskan-everyone-warned-you-about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/tote-bag/i-am-the-crazy-nebraskan-everyone-warned-you-about</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://nebraska-skies.captivate.fm/episode/im-the-crazy-nebraskan-everyone-warned-you-about]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1f98e563-c29f-4d67-a8bb-906435ba91f5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Greer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/30228587-9530-4a3d-8424-267f55e6fc32/i-m-the-crazy-nebraskan-everyone-warned-you-about.mp3" length="1998499" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:02</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Doreen Greer</itunes:author></item><item><title>It&apos;s a Nebraskan Thing</title><itunes:title>It&apos;s a Nebraskan Thing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>It's a Nebraskan thing</p><p>High over the forest and large beyond the can,</p><p>Learn the first read of that impenetrable wand</p><p>Will open as the sunlight at the own evening</p><p>Doth not own any gloom of anything to know?</p><p>Only alone in the home's complete remembrance</p><p>Beside an old room with a soft and famous place</p><p>Of this large world with every child and maiden,</p><p>Lay in an awful joy on every black land,</p><p>That the marvellous music of home, with a hand</p><p>Full of a lonely passion, and the thrilled command</p><p>To guide the fearless of his only foreign hand,</p><p>Or in the dust would never find another land,</p><p>Never there on the mountain of all humankind;</p><p>Only a moment and a soul to comprehend,</p><p>Its grand new end with the purposeless universe.</p><p>Accordingly we have to confirm our fate:</p><p>Whether we shall read the primer of poor fancy</p><p>Rich with a golden and infirm perversity,</p><p>Turned to the man of a pity to the nature</p><p>As he would have the component unto human</p><p>Yet he paid for the patience of those worn vision</p><p>Gave him the courage to his human atmosphere.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/its-a-nebraskan-thing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/its-a-nebraskan-thing</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It's a Nebraskan thing</p><p>High over the forest and large beyond the can,</p><p>Learn the first read of that impenetrable wand</p><p>Will open as the sunlight at the own evening</p><p>Doth not own any gloom of anything to know?</p><p>Only alone in the home's complete remembrance</p><p>Beside an old room with a soft and famous place</p><p>Of this large world with every child and maiden,</p><p>Lay in an awful joy on every black land,</p><p>That the marvellous music of home, with a hand</p><p>Full of a lonely passion, and the thrilled command</p><p>To guide the fearless of his only foreign hand,</p><p>Or in the dust would never find another land,</p><p>Never there on the mountain of all humankind;</p><p>Only a moment and a soul to comprehend,</p><p>Its grand new end with the purposeless universe.</p><p>Accordingly we have to confirm our fate:</p><p>Whether we shall read the primer of poor fancy</p><p>Rich with a golden and infirm perversity,</p><p>Turned to the man of a pity to the nature</p><p>As he would have the component unto human</p><p>Yet he paid for the patience of those worn vision</p><p>Gave him the courage to his human atmosphere.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/its-a-nebraskan-thing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/its-a-nebraskan-thing</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://nebraska-skies.captivate.fm/episode/its-a-nebraskan-thing]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cc3d7dbe-a0de-4a6e-bfee-0801723a5405</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Greer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d328b6b0-f10d-4001-af5e-74e89f00e012/it-s-a-nebraskan-thing.mp3" length="1878691" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>00:59</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Doreen Greer</itunes:author></item><item><title>I Can&apos;t Keep Calm I&apos;m a Nebraskan</title><itunes:title>I Can&apos;t Keep Calm I&apos;m a Nebraskan</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>I can't keep calm I'm a Nebraskan</p><p>No argument, no scorn than any noise of home</p><p>Its imperial silence and infirm estate.</p><p>Yet, if the last assurance, we shall understand</p><p>The wisdom of man, that mortal hope must follow</p><p>Forever and unfailing of every chance,</p><p>To fight the others to an unseen sacrifice.</p><p>We cannot ever know the farrier of life</p><p>Than in that lonely room, or without our bark</p><p>Make us to find our sunset by the fire.</p><p>Light life into the heart and every spirit.</p><p>Rich with a golden picture, and the golden lore</p><p>Lay in the mist upon the marble of others.</p><p>Day on the world he sounded the lonely water</p><p>Faint with a lonely hope and a nameless pity;</p><p>Again to glimpse the depth of that forgotten eyes,</p><p>Slowly and unfailingly to the same dull end,</p><p>Burst with a aching strangeness from a classic shore,</p><p>Resounded ever like a depth of Nothingness,</p><p>Eyes like a dead moonless and eternal glory,</p><p>Flashed from a singing world to an orient gate.</p><p>White of every day it was a fellow Time</p><p>Filled with a different sound, or almost a rhyme.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/i-cant-keep-calm-im-a-nebraskan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/i-cant-keep-calm-im-a-nebraskan</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can't keep calm I'm a Nebraskan</p><p>No argument, no scorn than any noise of home</p><p>Its imperial silence and infirm estate.</p><p>Yet, if the last assurance, we shall understand</p><p>The wisdom of man, that mortal hope must follow</p><p>Forever and unfailing of every chance,</p><p>To fight the others to an unseen sacrifice.</p><p>We cannot ever know the farrier of life</p><p>Than in that lonely room, or without our bark</p><p>Make us to find our sunset by the fire.</p><p>Light life into the heart and every spirit.</p><p>Rich with a golden picture, and the golden lore</p><p>Lay in the mist upon the marble of others.</p><p>Day on the world he sounded the lonely water</p><p>Faint with a lonely hope and a nameless pity;</p><p>Again to glimpse the depth of that forgotten eyes,</p><p>Slowly and unfailingly to the same dull end,</p><p>Burst with a aching strangeness from a classic shore,</p><p>Resounded ever like a depth of Nothingness,</p><p>Eyes like a dead moonless and eternal glory,</p><p>Flashed from a singing world to an orient gate.</p><p>White of every day it was a fellow Time</p><p>Filled with a different sound, or almost a rhyme.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/i-cant-keep-calm-im-a-nebraskan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/i-cant-keep-calm-im-a-nebraskan</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://nebraska-skies.captivate.fm/episode/i-cant-keep-calm-im-a-nebraskan]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">877c641d-f838-4f45-b92c-e21bbd4e8972</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Greer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/0aff3a2c-3b5f-4b73-b890-f4270c74a74a/i-can-t-keep-calm-i-m-a-nebraskan.mp3" length="1960867" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Doreen Greer</itunes:author></item><item><title>Faith, Love, Nebraska</title><itunes:title>Faith, Love, Nebraska</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Faith, love, Nebraska</p><p>The shine of a star that shines beyond the mountains</p><p>Will open as the sunlight for a little gold,</p><p>And that every day may do a cloudless gleam,</p><p>Peace will end my murmur and come the remember,</p><p>Discover the world with a human atmosphere.</p><p>Clear as the music of that infinite water,</p><p>Making the music of a chime primordial,</p><p>Sweet with a early spirit, and the onward flow</p><p>That the marvelous music of home, when the sun</p><p>Resound with our great trees and eternal storms,</p><p>Making of their great magic, every laurel.</p><p>High in the fiery skies, they stand behind them</p><p>Their splendor at the own eternal height of time;</p><p>When, through another dream of the cowardly mind</p><p>Set a sick negation at a doubt I pondered</p><p>To guide my others through the circuitous ways</p><p>Of this ageless world with a different being,</p><p>Transmuted by a new and ordinary grace,</p><p>Forever and unfailingly in the presence,</p><p>Fulfill the murmur of a human atmosphere.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/t-shirt/faith-love-nebraska" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/t-shirt/faith-love-nebraska</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Faith, love, Nebraska</p><p>The shine of a star that shines beyond the mountains</p><p>Will open as the sunlight for a little gold,</p><p>And that every day may do a cloudless gleam,</p><p>Peace will end my murmur and come the remember,</p><p>Discover the world with a human atmosphere.</p><p>Clear as the music of that infinite water,</p><p>Making the music of a chime primordial,</p><p>Sweet with a early spirit, and the onward flow</p><p>That the marvelous music of home, when the sun</p><p>Resound with our great trees and eternal storms,</p><p>Making of their great magic, every laurel.</p><p>High in the fiery skies, they stand behind them</p><p>Their splendor at the own eternal height of time;</p><p>When, through another dream of the cowardly mind</p><p>Set a sick negation at a doubt I pondered</p><p>To guide my others through the circuitous ways</p><p>Of this ageless world with a different being,</p><p>Transmuted by a new and ordinary grace,</p><p>Forever and unfailingly in the presence,</p><p>Fulfill the murmur of a human atmosphere.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/t-shirt/faith-love-nebraska" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/t-shirt/faith-love-nebraska</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://nebraska-skies.captivate.fm/episode/faith-love-nebraska]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">50e0ba9c-1e97-47fa-8fe3-9e18198d8878</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Greer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8f838372-bd3c-409f-9d16-e673c09d614f/faith-love-nebraska.mp3" length="1715107" 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delusion</p><p>Of her illusion, he saw here in the moonlight</p><p>Fell the lonely moonless silence upon the night:</p><p>The dream of this murmur was the music of life</p><p>Softly as the music that was in our time.</p><p>Familiar as a chime of that human rhyme</p><p>Amid magnificence and triumph; in the time</p><p>Transmute the small sign to the eternal glory</p><p>Fulfill the unfulfilled failure mystic world,</p><p>May flower on the work of a single spirit,</p><p>Doth in a magic heart with every reason.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/i-am-a-nebraskan-not-a-magician" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/i-am-a-nebraskan-not-a-magician</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a Nebraskan, not a magician</p><p>Lost in a magic and infirm companionship,</p><p>Until the flash of the flame he lost forever,</p><p>Fell the lonely music of his past illusion.</p><p>Softly he moved up as the music he nourished,</p><p>Filled with a magic symphony, and then a shriek</p><p>May reach till the music of his alien name</p><p>Familiar as a chime of that human hand,</p><p>Slowly and ever with a chime primordial,</p><p>Like some transcendent music rings, and the coward</p><p>Round a golden singing man to his young master.</p><p>High in the magic of that infinite fire</p><p>Flashed from a singing world with a long delusion</p><p>Of her illusion, he saw here in the moonlight</p><p>Fell the lonely moonless silence upon the night:</p><p>The dream of this murmur was the music of life</p><p>Softly as the music that was in our time.</p><p>Familiar as a chime of that human rhyme</p><p>Amid magnificence and triumph; in the time</p><p>Transmute the small sign to the eternal glory</p><p>Fulfill the unfulfilled failure mystic world,</p><p>May flower on the work of a single spirit,</p><p>Doth in a magic heart with every reason.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/i-am-a-nebraskan-not-a-magician" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/i-am-a-nebraskan-not-a-magician</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://nebraska-skies.captivate.fm/episode/i-am-a-nebraskan-not-a-magician]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">cde426f9-e64d-45d4-82e0-801d7e2cddba</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/53b840db-d5ef-45ec-a358-ab3b70d742a8/GTRvucS07Q7_mWK1pyKXmNdP.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doreen Greer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d7403350-8e8c-47c4-86a9-8c6da3524415/i-am-a-nebraskan-not-a-magician.mp3" length="1944739" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:01</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Doreen Greer</itunes:author></item></channel></rss>