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		<description>The original writings of author Ronda</description>
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			<title>The Untamable Spirit</title>
			<description>The untamable spirit, so strong and unfalteringIs always the hardest to keep.Its unwavering desires span far and wide, Its love for adventure deep.&amp;nbsp;It travels to places of wandering mystery and Leaves behind its weeping despair. The richness of its secret is behind this curse ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/493172/</link>
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			<title>Forbidden Fruit</title>
			<description>About a trying beginning to a relationship...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/493164/</link>
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			<title>Gold Dredge #3</title>
			<description>The hard surface wise with rust and Stained with crusty memories of theHopeful, wanting, and thirstyEnchants me with its ridged silence.&amp;nbsp;Ridged and smooth, once polished With sweat and ideas that were Celebrated, now dulled by lack of Careful pampering once given.&amp;nbsp;Pam..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/493160/</link>
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			<title>The Eternal Mile</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Your love is worth more than an ore of goldWith a miners eyes full of a craving so boldAfter a winter&amp;rsquo;s day labor breezy and coldWith a fires crackle and gleaming stone to behold&amp;nbsp;Your love is full of a spirit so gentle and kindKindred to me as a tree&amp;rsquo;s roots to..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/493143/</link>
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			<title>Chewy</title>
			<description>This is about our new puppy that my 7 year old daughter adores.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/248027/</link>
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			<title>Little Black Fly</title>
			<description>This is about my daughters father and our constant struggle to play nice.  I don't wish he was dead, though, just nicer.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247393/</link>
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			<title>The Mother Child Bond</title>
			<description>There is nothing sweeter and more absorbing than a sleeping baby.All my thoughts are replaced by the weight of her in my arms, her sweet and rhythmic breathing, her perfect, delicate features, the way she loves me and feels safer with me than anyone. Her trust in me is astounding! Her sighs and ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247392/</link>
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			<title>The White Ship</title>
			<description>I wrote this about my friend who fell off the boat crab fishing.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247391/</link>
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			<title>Hide and Seek</title>
			<description>About a relationship that was back and forth, always a struggle.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247389/</link>
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			<title>Glue</title>
			<description>This is about losing your idenity in something.  In my case it was a relationship and I no longer was me, but his girlfriend.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247386/</link>
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			<title>Solitude</title>
			<description>Looking at the stars and contemplating my hectic life, then the tree creaks and puts things into perspective once again.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247383/</link>
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			<title>Coffee</title>
			<description>Tension after a fight the night before experienced during morning coffee.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247381/</link>
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			<title>Candle Lips</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Frayed edged ribbons gaze upon me,illuminated by the lips of the soaked candle.I am hungry and wanting; An animal needing to be wild and inhibited,operating on instinct.&amp;ldquo;I crave you&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo; in a guttural hush.The rawness of the moment, the brutal honesty ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247378/</link>
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			<title>Box of Trust</title>
			<description>About when a relationship first loses its trust...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247375/</link>
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			<title>The Giants</title>
			<description>The invisible, glorious and powerfully divine God                        carefully gazes upon the large spinning globe                        scanning the crowded cities and countries                        for all the forgotten and brittle survivors,                        when his ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247372/</link>
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			<title>Various Limericks *Eskimos, Drunks and Cowboys*</title>
			<description>Just some stuff I wrote for my dad one year.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247366/</link>
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			<title>Click Thee Times</title>
			<description>Being homesick</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247365/</link>
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			<title>The Omen</title>
			<description>This is about two four leaf clovers I found on a first date.  I thought of tossing him aside... for a moment.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247363/</link>
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			<title>The End</title>
			<description>                                    Your words mimic            my empty feeling,            clothed in black,            standing at the foot of the             casket full of the             lasting, romantic beauty            of deep, red roses                        Pee..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247357/</link>
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			<title>Bar S Scene</title>
			<description>Just a silly thing from my observations as a bartender and living in the country at a time in my life.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247351/</link>
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			<title>Sister</title>
			<description>This is about a very good friend of mine who is Crow Indian, while I am Dutch.  I miss her very much.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247329/</link>
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			<title>Playing House</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;                                    I have done your laundry            Folding it all exact.            I have made dinner, too            And a home so intact.                        I made a bed of down            Where the feathers swarm            To lay ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247316/</link>
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			<title>Tonight</title>
			<description>                                    Tonight I want to grace my hand with a goblet of crystal filled with the nectar of grapes so white and sweet that only those of true knowledge can appreciate it fully.                        Tonight I want to find a foreign cigarette from a land of c..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247303/</link>
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			<title>Deception</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;                                    Those photos,            so perfect, shiny, glossy             smiles and laughter,             a beer in hand and shimmering             shadows from the brilliant            green leaves of the Wise One                        Me, ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247298/</link>
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			<title>The Perfect Pattern</title>
			<description>I lived in an area where the girls would get married so young and then men treated women as a possession rather then an equal.  Some were almost planned and not by choice.  I felt sorry for them.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247288/</link>
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			<title>Rivulets</title>
			<description>Who has not been hurt by someone and wiped them away like they never existed?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247285/</link>
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			<title>Linger</title>
			<description>A cat and mouse obsession...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247283/</link>
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			<title>Tight Rope Shoes</title>
			<description>This is about being be chilishly rebellious and angry about someone telling you how it feels to be a certain way and how to do it.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247274/</link>
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			<title>Scalping</title>
			<description>This is about my daughters father who tried to tell me how to parent our daughter after not being very involved for four years.  He was jealous of my fiance.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247249/</link>
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			<title>Barefooted Dreaming</title>
			<description>In this poem, I was porrtraying that even if you are poor and are not famous, if you look at the simple things in the right way, you can be a star every night.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247244/</link>
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			<title>The Barbie</title>
			<description>This is about wanting to belong to the group when it was painfully apparent to me and everyone else around me that I did not belong .</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247232/</link>
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			<title>Abused Dogs</title>
			<description>                                    My mind is a race for which            thought will become first to think.            Those tires, worn and bare,            spit on the gravel like            an&amp;nbsp;angry dog who has grown            bitter and defiant to             his u..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247220/</link>
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			<title>Daughter</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Little butterfly,cruel winds throwing your light and graceful wingsfrom one direction to the other.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Struggling to find your point of landingin this huge world full of flowers and fallen leaves.You will find your place on the rose bush and breathe the scen..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247208/</link>
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			<title>My Humble Prayer</title>
			<description>Written for a family friend who lost their teenage daughter.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247194/</link>
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			<title>Where They Gather</title>
			<description>Feeling like the outcast...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247183/</link>
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			<title>White Picket Fences</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;And it seems that no tears In the form of words from my Quivering and shocked lips Can make you and yours feelThe amount of love I have Inside of me for you.And it seems that no amount of Lyrical words or heartfelt motionsCan make you feel the way you haveIn the so long d..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247178/</link>
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			<title>Miscarriage</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;It moves and is thereAnd I can feel us there andOnce again I am aliveYet I remember more then you doAbout the past and for once I am soHappy and so completeThen it is over and I am leftTo pick up the pieces alone andBattered by me and mostly you&amp;hellip;&amp;nbsp;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247166/</link>
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			<title>My Enemy</title>
			<description>The Silent Treatment, never a good thing to feel....</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247160/</link>
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			<title>Chemistry</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I love your valleys and shadows;how they look under the lights, so velvet and smooth with my heart beating in time with you.Being guided by the music and your motion moving the air around you and so eloquentlyinto me with swirls that influence everyone in the room.How slippery I feel when I ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247134/</link>
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			<title>The Same Page</title>
			<description>Even when you want to be the same thing, sometimes you just can't see eye to eye.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247129/</link>
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			<title>Death is Hers</title>
			<description>Sometimes people can be vindictive in their actions...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247119/</link>
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			<title>Carson Hill</title>
			<description>An eye opening day in a simple, small town...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247102/</link>
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			<title>Super B***h</title>
			<description>Some people have no morals...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/247098/</link>
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			<title>Chardonnay</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;My glass of Chardonnay, radiatinga saddened glow from the overheadkitchen light next to the smokingcandle that gave up hope moments ago.Cool and icy, golden but dulledonly to be framed by the beautythat only crystal can bestowholding its truth, aged wisdom and mystery...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/246817/</link>
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			<title>Loose</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I am running nude through the fieldwith my bare feet enjoying every sensualblade of grass that has been given to meand grown by our mother whom we neglect.The song grows intense in the air as the birdspraise the coming of the goddess who sits on the golden throne with her pin..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/246814/</link>
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			<title>Time</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;The mirror reflects the girl I wasand the woman I am and the person that you once wanted me tobecome.I am battered and dying as a flower by the wind and rain in the fall, covered by the fateful storm time has conjured and Isee that all you wantedme to be was never..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/246808/</link>
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			<title>Want</title>
			<description>Being wanted is such a precious thing...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/246807/</link>
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			<title>Empty Pillow</title>
			<description>Waiting for someone to come home and missing them is always a bitter-sweet anticipation.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/246799/</link>
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			<title>Wicked Hours</title>
			<description>Awakened with your transparent eyes in the fog of the hourand wanting to call youand make you believe I love you.Calling your voice mail again just to hear your cool warmth thenleave you another silent message of everything I obsess about in the late hours of the night.That butterfly, sickening feel..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/246794/</link>
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			<title>New Skin</title>
			<description>Bad marriage, bad job, bad friend...   we are all a slave to something.  Who would not want to let it out and plot our revenge against the thing that controls us?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TrueFreedom/246792/</link>
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