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		<description>The original writings of author riskrapper</description>
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			<title>Madiba</title>
			<description>all friends of freedom
mourn the passing 
of Madiba</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1278157/</link>
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			<title>Black Granite</title>
			<description>Vietnam Veterans Memorial</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1266891/</link>
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			<title>Semper Fidelis</title>
			<description>some gave all</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1265327/</link>
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			<title>Dia de Muertos</title>
			<description>catching up
with the dead</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1260430/</link>
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			<title>Detroit</title>
			<description>whole country
needs overhaul</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1260428/</link>
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			<title>True Story of Halloween Terror </title>
			<description>don't drink and drive</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1260024/</link>
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			<title>Waiting for Sandy</title>
			<description>ultimate hurricane party</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1258783/</link>
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			<title>Silk City PIT 2: The Exhortation (WIP)</title>
			<description>counting the homeless
one lost soul at a time</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1257798/</link>
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			<title>reflections</title>
			<description>reflections on water</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1257130/</link>
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			<title>Orion</title>
			<description>the great hunter returns to the northern sky</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1257059/</link>
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			<title>Pride Goes Before the Fall</title>
			<description>leapers get off easy</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1256689/</link>
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			<title>Socialist Heroes 2: Critical Reviews</title>
			<description>reviews of Socialist Heroes not good...</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1256004/</link>
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			<title>Socialist Heroes</title>
			<description>trying to get to the bottom 
of the red menace  </description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1255990/</link>
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			<title>Woman No Cry</title>
			<description>50 Years Since JFK Assassination </description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1252682/</link>
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			<title>First Rays of an Autumn Morning</title>
			<description>transcending death</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1251709/</link>
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			<title>Monk Muzik</title>
			<description>Happy Birthday Thelonious Monk</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1249803/</link>
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			<title>Listening to Copland</title>
			<description>when America was young 
a promise was made</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1248709/</link>
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			<title>Homecoming</title>
			<description>can you go home again?</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1246811/</link>
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			<title>as i: 9/11 Recollections</title>
			<description>9/11 Remembered</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1235779/</link>
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			<title>Obama in Africa</title>
			<description>Africa's favorite son returns</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1200730/</link>
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			<title>Silk City PIT: 5. Hope and Labor (WIP)</title>
			<description>counting the homeless</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1148292/</link>
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			<title>Palm Frond</title>
			<description>just a closer walk with Thee </description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1145559/</link>
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			<title>Tippy</title>
			<description>Happy St. Patrick's Day</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1142388/</link>
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			<title>Pass the Biscuits Please</title>
			<description>breakin bread with the Prez</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1139012/</link>
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			<title>Corpus Chavez </title>
			<description>Hugo Chavez deserves his heavenly rest</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1138781/</link>
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			<title>Dada Speaks</title>
			<description>linguistics gymnastics
hoping for a bronze</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1137254/</link>
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			<title>Silk City PIT: 1. The Place</title>
			<description>Point In Time Homeless Census</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1134141/</link>
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			<title>The Day Liz Taylor Died</title>
			<description>the day a star died</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1133078/</link>
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			<title>South Tower 2/26/93</title>
			<description>eye witness to selfishness </description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1132359/</link>
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			<title>Christian Nation</title>
			<description>the divine grace of democratic secularism</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1127534/</link>
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			<title>Grand Central</title>
			<description>marking the 100th Anniversary of Grand Central Station</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1127519/</link>
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			<title>Carmen</title>
			<description>counting souls in a homeless census</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1117693/</link>
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			<title>Love Don't Rest In Peace</title>
			<description>urban violence murders our children</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1111188/</link>
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			<title>The Night of Falling Trees</title>
			<description>autumn snow storm threatens hearth and home</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1102875/</link>
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			<title>A Jay Feather</title>
			<description>spring thaw reveals season of new possibilities</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1102863/</link>
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			<title>Harlem Bird Flock</title>
			<description>Happy Birthday James Baldwin
some ornithological observations from Upper Manhattan</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1014908/</link>
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			<title>Call Me Ishmael</title>
			<description>a poem from a collection of poetry and prose on the Arab Spring.  Offered today to celebrate the anniversary of Herman Melville's birth.</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/1014274/</link>
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			<title>Chesapeake</title>
			<description>Chesapeake sustainability threatened</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/998463/</link>
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			<title>The Dancing Jinn of Cairo</title>
			<description>Egyptian uprising 2011</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/995636/</link>
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			<title>Thinking of Betsy Ross</title>
			<description>unraveling of American culture</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/989617/</link>
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			<title>Step Into The Sunshine</title>
			<description>seek the light</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/988031/</link>
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			<title>I Straddle Rainbows</title>
			<description>Pollyanna revisited</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/984754/</link>
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			<title>Churchin on a Thursday Mourn</title>
			<description>The Great Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving Day</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/984424/</link>
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			<title>i dream of poems</title>
			<description>almost asleep, almost awake</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/984379/</link>
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			<title>pointillism</title>
			<description>yes we can can</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/984115/</link>
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			<title>Mountaintops</title>
			<description>Poem for MLK Day</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/983894/</link>
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			<title>Nelson Mandela</title>
			<description>Nelson Mandela</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/983704/</link>
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			<title>Maryam of Homs</title>
			<description>Homage to Homs</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/983250/</link>
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			<title>Exodus from Homs</title>
			<description>the fall of the besieged City of Homs</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/983243/</link>
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			<title>Watching Homs</title>
			<description>in solidarity with the liberation struggle of the Syrian people</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/riskrapper/983238/</link>
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