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			<title>After the Dream</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;The sands of the Sahararemain unmarked &amp;nbsp;by their footsteps, the pipe of happiness gone cold,&amp;nbsp;fruit in the orchards of the Tien Shan, uneaten&amp;nbsp;-apricots rot on trees, their fragranceturned sour.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The corpses of lovers' dreams l..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/534266/</link>
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			<title>Haiku LXVIII</title>
			<description> &amp;nbsp;a crisp snow fallwhile you play a cello suitethe moon must be crying&amp;nbsp;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/342325/</link>
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			<title>Kashmir</title>
			<description>A brilliant spectrum of cloud and snowthe world belowa vanishing dark spotand come the night, if it wasn&amp;rsquo;t so coldI would have dipped a hand in lake Dhalto pull out the moonand let it thaw by the warm fireit would have been so easyto reach up to the sky and scoopsome star..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/342321/</link>
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			<title>haiku</title>
			<description>elegant swallowspoised in flight --on the cover.the first poems in print</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/281952/</link>
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			<title>Sun Kissed</title>
			<description>the taste of ripe grapesfrom the Italian hillsidestill in your kissesand traces of molten sunlike liquid gold, on your skin</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/281920/</link>
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			<title>Letters</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;In the beginning, I existed &amp;ndash;just being,Not-knowing; I was a parcel of symbolsPassing between you and I; only wordsThat gave birth to Meaning. I conveyed, you interpreted.&amp;nbsp;One day I looked in the mirror of your Eyes, Reader,&amp;nbsp; like a young Narcissus,I bec..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/272244/</link>
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			<title>Haiku XLII</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;chasing a swallow the ripples in the pond;and they are gone&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/267751/</link>
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			<title>Pearls</title>
			<description>In the silent chorus of dawnI bask in the glowOf your last embrace,And on the paving stonesOf longing I tread impatientTowards our next encounter.Your gift nestles proudBetween my breasts;  intertwinedPearls of love and light&amp;nbsp;While nature wrapsher grief with artfulness..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/261515/</link>
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			<title>Hamlet in Somerset House</title>
			<description>Strangers warble in Somerset Housebetween mouthfuls of Hamlet and chocolate cakeUnderneath, the Thames flows undisturbedOut of reach, skyscrapers rise into the ether-phallic symbols of the times, politics and power,lands razed, war zones; a cloud ceiling without beyond.Do..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/258882/</link>
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			<title>Borne by the Wind</title>
			<description>Child of the Ether;Mothered by Cloud; fathered by Wind.That is who I am; this here, a mistakeIn earliest memory, high upAbove father's head, a tiny totThrown up in the air and... oh.. and oh..That is when I first knew, that I had wings.The instant I could scrambleUp..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/253170/</link>
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			<title>Haiku X</title>
			<description>the crescent moon,admiring the setting sunreclines on a cloud</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/252973/</link>
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			<title>Senryu  V</title>
			<description>pillow dreams for two;he steals into her wet dream,at dawn- the lust thief</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/252052/</link>
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			<title>Memory  Lane</title>
			<description>My skin tingles, as the souvenir of your caressesLeaps out of the shadows, when I drive past our trystingPlace; a hand tracing electric pathways on the skin.Your body, and&amp;nbsp; inviting blank page -I write a poem on it,With my lips for a quill,&amp;nbsp; and kisses for ink; soft long ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/wordcrafter/252045/</link>
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