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		<description>The original writings of author Karen</description>
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			<title>Heartbroken</title>
			<description>Sometimes the heartbreak is only one-sided</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/2092987/</link>
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			<title>Someday, Someone</title>
			<description>&quot;soul strewn between the lines&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1934143/</link>
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			<title>Between the Lines</title>
			<description>&quot;Don't make a sound... like you've died before&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1934142/</link>
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			<title>Caesonia</title>
			<description>&quot;encasing the ecstatic with the obscene&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1806973/</link>
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			<title>On Umbrellas</title>
			<description>&quot;I giggled away your seriousness&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1806960/</link>
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			<title>Butterflies in My Belly</title>
			<description>Believe in magic</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1790748/</link>
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			<title>To a Younger Me</title>
			<description>I wish someone had warned me of me when I was younger</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1789492/</link>
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			<title>Please Color Outside the Lines</title>
			<description>&quot;Write on me with melted colors...&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1788192/</link>
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			<title>Haibun: Shamed in Moonlight</title>
			<description>Haibun (&amp;#20467;&amp;#25991;, literally, haikai writings) is a prosimetric literary form originating in Japan, combining prose and haiku. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1783594/</link>
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			<title>Honesty Haiku</title>
			<description>&quot;Honesty!&quot; you urged.I gave you the painful truth,but you still left me.It was never worthgiving you integrity;just a wind-snapped branch.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1783592/</link>
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			<title>Make Believe</title>
			<description>Pretend like my breath isn't caught like dew dropsfrozen on your windshieldwhen you speak to me,my words loitering at the tip of my tongue as I listento the melodies of your heartin the tone of your voice.Make believe that my nervoushands don't slip from yoursunder the intense gaze of your beautiful..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1783591/</link>
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			<title>Littoral Flirtations</title>
			<description>The Ocean flirts her way to your desires</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1783589/</link>
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			<title>Face Haiku</title>
			<description>Nakedly giving you all of me</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1783588/</link>
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			<title>Photo Mosaic</title>
			<description>When my poetry gives way to your secrets</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1783585/</link>
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			<title>How to Walk Away</title>
			<description>Just walk away</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1763858/</link>
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			<title>Old Wineskin</title>
			<description>I did not think it through,the way your simpering mouth&amp;nbsp;would take a wrong turnand retrace the steps of unwanting,the way desire would not burnholes in your pious resolve oryour stoic traditionalism, or the wayhoneyed words did not tempt&amp;nbsp;your unrelenting blossoming so tha..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1758324/</link>
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			<title>Forgetfulness</title>
			<description>www.soundcloud.com/poeticmusings/forgetfulness </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1751057/</link>
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			<title>Fragments of the Mind</title>
			<description>Fragments of the mind write awaythe wild nakedness of theheart breaking the maddeningmodel of draining blood fashionedwith shards of lives mounted likedead corpses in black smokedrawing in deep breaths of&amp;nbsp;my life</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1747966/</link>
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			<title>This is My Love Poem</title>
			<description>The moon shone so full and bright last night I couldn't help but be inspired</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1744483/</link>
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			<title>Wandering Wind</title>
			<description>Behold the wandering windgamboling in the vast prairies&amp;nbsp;of my spirit like a lovelorn maidenwriting poetry in the air&amp;nbsp;with jazzy hands and languid steps,&amp;nbsp;while murmuring sweet nothings&amp;nbsp;to the pitter of rain upon the thin tin roof&amp;nbsp;of my soul,&amp;nbsp;tap-tap-tap..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1677079/</link>
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			<title>Blue Dress</title>
			<description>In the style of Kim Addonizio's poem &quot;What Do Women Want?&quot;
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1677074/</link>
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			<title>White Horizon</title>
			<description>... where there's much to remember but nothing to declare...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1459390/</link>
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			<title>You Want to Know Who I Am</title>
			<description>&quot;when light kisses the cheeks of night&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1454693/</link>
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			<title>To a Sperm that May Have Reached its Egg</title>
			<description>One of those &quot;oops&quot; moments </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1446113/</link>
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			<title>Notes to Self</title>
			<description>&quot;just words strung in phrases and emotions and images&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1432234/</link>
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			<title>I Can't Spell Poetry With a Capital P</title>
			<description>In the style and inspired by Danny Earl Simmons</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1408380/</link>
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			<title>Aphrodite Walking</title>
			<description>&quot;... hope in the sway of my hips...&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1373917/</link>
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			<title>The Sieve </title>
			<description>... haunting guilt of being without you and living on.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1336421/</link>
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			<title>Missing You</title>
			<description>... words caught up in your throat... </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1336420/</link>
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			<title>The Violence of Words</title>
			<description>I am hurt by the betrayal of my own words</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1306688/</link>
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			<title>Mistaken Identity</title>
			<description>to watch you birth memories</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1304566/</link>
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			<title>Roses are Red</title>
			<description>Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1303865/</link>
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			<title>My Body</title>
			<description>a canvas of sensual sexiness</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1302810/</link>
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			<title>Untitled</title>
			<description>Ignore my words,those carefully strewnpearls I flaunt shamelesslyaround my neck but you don't seem to notice,(what are you staring at?).&amp;nbsp;Talk about mebehind my backwhen I offer youmore than you deserve,but you..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1301099/</link>
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			<title>Music</title>
			<description>Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. &amp;#8213; George Carlin</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1300447/</link>
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			<title>Palmistry</title>
			<description>ink spilling onto my palms</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1298509/</link>
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			<title>Crows by Night</title>
			<description>Daysturn into crows by nightthatpeck at my eyes and digholesin my composure, tearingatpaper-thin skin into crumpledfoldsthat gather at my feetlikefallen ash while my soulislaid bare to their frightful perversions.I..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1262051/</link>
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			<title>Sinner and Saint</title>
			<description>... a sinner in my thought, a saint in my resolve</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1261566/</link>
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			<title>My Muse</title>
			<description>Creativity welcomed me with open arms</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1260412/</link>
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			<title>Wildflowers in a Field</title>
			<description>Nature &quot;whispering sweet nothings in your ear&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1258471/</link>
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			<title>Lingering Words</title>
			<description>A poem about words and passion</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1256532/</link>
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			<title>Phantom Writer</title>
			<description>&quot;... writes poetry strangers know...&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1255999/</link>
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			<title>You Want to Know Who I Am?</title>
			<description>I am a poet</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1227310/</link>
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			<title>Bundles of Energy</title>
			<description>... a whirlwind of &amp;eacute;lan and dance and chaos and clutter...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1224590/</link>
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			<title>Coffee Brewing</title>
			<description>Ah, what better than a warm cup of coffee and great conversation</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1222640/</link>
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			<title>If Words Are Who I Am</title>
			<description>... teasing me with snippets of beauty from other people&amp;rsquo;s lips but nigh a sweet word for me...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1222637/</link>
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			<title>Breeding Desire</title>
			<description>... a desire that singes the nakedness of my mind and brands me as an exploiter of your feelings for you are my muse and I simply a temptation</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1222558/</link>
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			<title>Man or Muse?</title>
			<description>It&amp;rsquo;s not that I intend to submit to those fantasies that keep us apart, but that I may acknowledge your experience as a woman instead of simply as a writer.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1222548/</link>
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			<title>Frustration</title>
			<description>... where the mind projects specious delusions and the soul siphons it in absurdity.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1222539/</link>
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			<title>Fallen Angels</title>
			<description>Justice is always served and weighs heavier than mercy and grace simply because it predates them in eternity.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/needywriter/1222241/</link>
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