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		<description>The original writings of author Jen</description>
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			<title>Stripped in Iambic Pentameter</title>
			<description>Stripped of all my fingers and all my toesMy limbs are gone and haven&amp;rsquo;t yet grown backThat&amp;rsquo;s always how the ugly story goesWhen in the darkness I go falling back&amp;nbsp;We shown by starlight crowns we made and woreAnd thought ourselves creators of the worldB..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/616045/</link>
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			<title>Romantic Cliches</title>
			<description>Life is full of chocolate and a stream of dancing feetAnd smiles thought to be lost in the wilderness emergeGames and youth don&amp;rsquo;t wait to be invited; they appearAnd songs with clich&amp;eacute; sentiments introduce themselves&amp;nbsp; The meaning to every ballad ever written smiles at meA..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/612700/</link>
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			<title>Gentleness Ran Out</title>
			<description>Truth be told, this is an angry piece of writing and probably not one of my best. I may decide to remove it later, but for now writing it has provided a little therapy. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/606021/</link>
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			<title>Two Lives to Live</title>
			<description>The hole you left is wider than the constellation&amp;rsquo;s bearingsI&amp;rsquo;ve tried to fill it with sand, weather, wind, and moonbeamsThey keep running out just as I try desperately to forget The only puzzle piece is broken and cannot be replaced&amp;nbsp;Skipping stones mak..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/533520/</link>
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			<title>The Needs of the World</title>
			<description>I want an embraceEmbrace my hand, my faceEmbrace my lips with your lipsEmbrace my love handles whileYou embrace me in your arms&amp;nbsp;I need a singerSing me to sleep, to wakeSing our song while I&amp;rsquo;m hummingThe song that made me singThe song of life..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/533106/</link>
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			<title>I will look to see you no more</title>
			<description>I watered a garden that never grewWasted water fell on dead earthThat spawned no life but good intentionsAnd bore no fruit&amp;nbsp;I am a stormy ocean of tearsThat ceases her hurricane winds and wavesTo make safe the passage of your shipAnd you will not renew me ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/524058/</link>
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			<title>Give It and Live It All</title>
			<description>To give it all, and what&amp;rsquo;s it for, this love we bear? A few moments in a sunlit rose scented gardenThat weeps and mourns for us when we&amp;rsquo;re not thereAnd sighs to think how easily we were fooled&amp;nbsp;If those violets could talk they&amp;rsquo;d warn us not to tread..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/511344/</link>
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			<title>One Rose in a Billion</title>
			<description>In sadness look and see a blushing roseOn who&amp;rsquo;s petals raindrops sit and run along her stemHeaven&amp;rsquo;s tears do drown her, yet she growsTo bear against the wind and Fates&amp;rsquo; unforgiving whim&amp;nbsp;Now joyfully day&amp;rsquo;s warmth does kiss her faceAnd the s..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/499944/</link>
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			<title>Movement of the Universe</title>
			<description>		Save me from myself, and let the starsfall on us bothSurround me with your wealth ofadoration and of oathsDrown me in two stormy seas, leave mefalling through their depthsFollow me to paradise. To my heavencount the steps.Explosion of light illuminate thedarkness of the..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/496661/</link>
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			<title>Destruction</title>
			<description>Slowly, slowly walk this wayView your face in the glassWaltz with me, diamonds glowFor the world will turn to ash&amp;nbsp;Steady, steady dance we twoUpon a crumbling pastThe chandelier will fall and crushEvery creature to the lastSlowly, slowly wa..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/475887/</link>
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			<title>My Mad Imaginings</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;     Many things I told youI spoke without delayBut I spoke too roughlyAnd frightened you away&amp;nbsp;Many nights I laid with youI dwelt upon your mindI thought I knew your hea..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/472520/</link>
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			<title>Devouring Suffocation</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Hungry beastmouth half opensalivatingdesiringfrightening the littlecat&amp;nbsp;Spoiled childhands clenched tightaround the writhingwild birdyou seek tohold&amp;nbsp;T..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/467320/</link>
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			<title>Two Fortune Tellers</title>
			<description>                 Two fortune tellersDifferentAs night from dayTold me strange thingsAbout youThe first saidOur time was emptyHope was endedYou are notseriousYou are notthereYou would leave meStranded in the desertParched, dried upEmptyLike ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/467066/</link>
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			<title>What If</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I want to speak to you, and I can'tKnock, knock, knockAre you in there?Wondering what you're thinkingDoesn't that mean you should tell me?Don't be a coward and pull awayDon't be af..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/463475/</link>
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			<title>The Over-analysis of a Relationship</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Where have all the good boys gone?Are they hiding behind trees?What happened to I love you?It faded quickly like the breeze.Birds have more feeling and more loyaltythan you who leave..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jenads85/462013/</link>
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