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			<title>Good Morning New Soul</title>
			<description>For my son</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/2466973/</link>
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			<title>Wealth</title>
			<description>Give it all you goteven when there is nothing to give,&amp;nbsp;like the hole drilled into the rotting handcan you have my heart, it's fulloverflowingThe wealth in the heart, could buy a thousand ships&amp;nbsp;and sail them to your corner of this cornered planetThe wealth of the heart can only feed other h..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1501552/</link>
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			<title>In The Next Life</title>
			<description>Thinking of youis like a daydreamYou are my latin operayour smile resonates so profoundlyin my day's redundanciesI seek your approval in daily trivialitiesthis marriage of wordsbetween our lipsis the world's greatest hidden treasureand it is buried alive&amp;nbsp;letter to letterWhich people have I save..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1500218/</link>
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			<title>Grass</title>
			<description>My best friend tells me the best way to get over someone is to perceive it as if they are over you. So I try this method I picture him not having feelings for me at allAll his smiles platonicAll his words barren I image him as any other entity is to be imagedWith out a pedastal Mortal ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1496932/</link>
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			<title>Before it even began </title>
			<description>It is as if the exact momentThe exact touch in time That you let us sink in When you realize thatYou let me in too farToo fastToo soonWhen you've clutched on to me Right as you push me off into space Before my heart could respond Before I could taste the pink of your lipsYou ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1494878/</link>
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			<title>Sinful Inheritance </title>
			<description>Raindrops&amp;nbsp;lay hidden under the soil&amp;nbsp;in the clenched fists of the old rootsAnd when you scream in to the caveyou hear the echos of your grandmothers&amp;nbsp;laughterIndecent proposals&amp;nbsp;ring their thin fingers&amp;nbsp;along your navel and acrossthe lining of your warmththe expectation of repit..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1494105/</link>
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			<title>A new dance</title>
			<description>My thoughts are dancing tonightto a song you hummed&amp;nbsp;and forgottenI lay transfixed in wonder by your&amp;nbsp;enigmaWhat an endangered species you are&amp;nbsp;to this cold unwelcoming landhow swiftly you fly to meover my mountainsand through my rivers of&amp;nbsp;sobering redemption&amp;nbsp;Can I hold you in ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1493738/</link>
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			<title>Tonight I Let My Heart Hurt For You</title>
			<description>I am ending my love tonightsending it a sweetened seal of despairinto the river that swallows our memoriesthat lie scattered like water liliesI saw you and I said good byewith my eyes I followed the movements&amp;nbsp;of the body you call yoursbut belongs to my ownyour fleeting smile is the worst pain&amp;n..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1487416/</link>
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			<title>My heavy heart</title>
			<description>There is a heaviness so profoundit drowns everydaywith in my chest cavitiesand swells like a full moon in the SaharaMy vision blurs as i try to graspmy existence on this lonely planeti try to grasp, desperatelythe faces my heart finds familiar&amp;nbsp;I have hope in the hopelessi hope for love and i re..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1486883/</link>
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			<title>Sophia Loren</title>
			<description>Sophia Loren is femininity. When she walks in a movie scene it's like she is woman and nothing else is woman. She looks like pheromones being wafted by men who cross her path.Sophia Loren is the poetry of Pablo Neruda, as if all 20 love poems were in her image. As if his song of despair is f..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1466632/</link>
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			<title>Traffic</title>
			<description>There is traffic in his eyes&amp;nbsp;busy and congested with trouble&amp;nbsp;from some time long agoshaded in the color of newspaper&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;the fine point&amp;nbsp;at the tip of his ink pen &amp;nbsp;held all the knowledge of the world he knew</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1463183/</link>
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			<title>Just One Sense</title>
			<description>In a trance of spinning redi hear the smile in your eyesdulled in sensesi reach for your heartand find it somewhere&amp;nbsp;in my heartand with these deafened eyes&amp;nbsp;i look for you in yesterday's pagesand with these blind earsi listen to the cry&amp;nbsp;lost between the labyrinth of timeMaybe it's all ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1459171/</link>
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			<title>Midnight Thoughts in the Back Seat</title>
			<description>Take a step backFrom the magnetism&amp;nbsp;Of the day's trivialitiesAnd the dwarfing hypnosis of the dynamics&amp;nbsp;Created in relationships&amp;nbsp;You will find this instinctual need to&amp;nbsp;Turn to the cosmos&amp;nbsp;Look for celestial counseling&amp;nbsp;On the microcosm that is your current life.Maybe it's a..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1457811/</link>
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			<title>2 Untitled</title>
			<description>i see youlike a&amp;nbsp;kaleidoscopein my pupili gulp you into my stream of thoughtlike a&amp;nbsp;prescriptionand i breathe you in likethe daylight after rainfallwhen nature looks greeneralmost rebornfrom the showeri am remindedof the divinity that saturatesall that isand all that isn't~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1457801/</link>
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			<title>Ode to Pencil</title>
			<description>The pencil.so very forgivingalways willing to erasemy mistakesletting me write againnew ideasand thoughtswith no worryofstarting over.I left you forthe anxiousinkpermanentandunforgivingbut I am backand it's happier here.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1457788/</link>
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			<title>Zeus</title>
			<description>I carry in the valves of my heartZues' thunderbolt&amp;nbsp;It sleeps there&amp;nbsp;UndisturbedUntil once in a while&amp;nbsp;It's strikes with no mercyNo warning&amp;nbsp;A single joltAwakening the sleepy bloodElectrifying a sedated bodyInto life&amp;nbsp;And when he walks away&amp;nbsp;I am left&amp;nbsp;With the burden of ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1457785/</link>
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			<title>River</title>
			<description>Her eyes were raining one summer morning&amp;nbsp;Like the showers of the amazonQuiet and overwhelmed with responsibilityHolding her I Meditate on the fickleness of nowOh how the present courses forward like the river&amp;nbsp;And I, drowning against the current&amp;nbsp;Sing her name in fearwith relentless hop..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1457784/</link>
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			<title>Paralyzed</title>
			<description>Paralyzed&amp;nbsp;And utterly breathlessBy some supernatural&amp;nbsp;GhostHaunting my bodyDeadening me&amp;nbsp;Into a listless&amp;nbsp;Acquiescence&amp;nbsp;Usurping itsImpotence&amp;nbsp;And suffocating&amp;nbsp;My visceralsUntil all but awhite noise&amp;nbsp;Darkens my mind&amp;nbsp;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1457781/</link>
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			<title>Up, Up and Away</title>
			<description>You haven't seen a mother like this one.She wakes up the sun with prayers and breakfast.&amp;nbsp;Daylight tries to catch up, yawning the dew away from his eyes, but she has no time for his teenage silliness.&amp;nbsp;Up, up and away she goes every morning. Racing school buses and other mothers too...to the..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1457737/</link>
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			<title>Jazz Man</title>
			<description>He moves like jazzeach step in blind synchronya happy accident to the untrained eyeOH his eyes, they danced in solidarityweaving through my reservei feel it falling slowly, my reluctance to trustthat jazz manI feel it in the sway of my hips,his cool hand a baton, and i his compositionwith only the l..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1457681/</link>
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			<title>The Longest Spring</title>
			<description>Memories scattered&amp;nbsp;like crumbled lettersSomewhere near the remaining steps by the doorDrying tears sign and seal the last few pagesHe stares into the languid orchid&amp;nbsp;by the windowwhite with lament, it did not want water.&amp;nbsp;He wanted to drownturning to the fire place, rising in remorsefol..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1457657/</link>
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			<title>Be My Pillow</title>
			<description>Be my pillow&amp;nbsp;Like the sun as it rests its head&amp;nbsp;on the warm horizonI long for you, my sanctuary&amp;nbsp;You are the bed time story to my heartAnd the covers guarding against&amp;nbsp;The cold turbulence of loneliness,&amp;nbsp;my loveBe my dreamFor sleep and wake hood&amp;nbsp;I can not distinguish&amp;nbsp;T..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Alaa521/1457650/</link>
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