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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Edling <edling-bounces@lists.mail.umbc.edu> on behalf of David Balosa via Edling <edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, March 21, 2022 at 5:37 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Educational Linguistics List <Edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>David Balosa <dbalosa1@umbc.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Edling] March 21- UNESCO World Day of Poetry: Healing Words--Poem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In celebrating March 21, UNESCO World Day or Poetry, may the Edling community enjoy the poem, <i>Healing Words!</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Healing Words--Poem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Healing words,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Words not out of the woods <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Healing words,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Words from the worlds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Healing words,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">How ridiculous as idioms these sound in the 21st century!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">These barbaric idioms feed from one another!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">For healing words!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Healing words,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Writing, painting, dancing, translanguaging, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">In words of diversity,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Sustains healing words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFDFD"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">And celebrate these words today!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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