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			<title>Were you a heart breaker </title>
			<description>Did night Descend on women while falling asleep crying your names?When Late night fell were they woken by the anguish of your face in dreams.   It must have been their heart, Startled &amp;hellip; breaking,  tugging wrenching, from a peaceful rest.     But, many are forced to mature.  In their life ..</description>
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			<title>It's A Mid-life Crisis </title>
			<description>It's A Mid-life Crisis          You've given all,   your babies are flying free!   Work, home or family needs success has been your  goal.    But&amp;hellip;when missing those tender touches of loving moments appeared. Your world began to stumble&amp;hellip;down that midlife slippery slope. ..</description>
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			<title>BE NOT TOO LATE</title>
			<description>Nothing stirs in the midst of my life.  Not the leaves, not the water, not even the air.     This is silent stillness but calm that breaks no peace.     Just one dimension light in my hallow.  Where has it all gone, the days, the months, the years?      The babies, that became my children,..</description>
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			<title>Should I Plan</title>
			<description>Should I PlanTaking simple joy from the left overs in my life during my senior years, as the cracked shell I&amp;rsquo;ve become now hides away.Heavy that foot that landed on my back.  It wouldn&amp;rsquo;t let me rise up.No one told me I could be president or a big success, no one told me there w..</description>
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			<title>A Secret Kept</title>
			<description>A secret keptTwinkling sunlight peeking softly between this forest of trees.      Old is my Twilight hours, broken are my nights.  This isn't long ago it's here and now.     Like memories of  those peaceful rides alone and along Colorado's rustic trails. He guided me tenderly and quietly d..</description>
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			<title>      Not Transference!!</title>
			<description>Hush! Hush! The cloud of years gone by had lifted.Sshh! Sshh!  I need to hide my secret away, feelings so overwhelmed.Help! Help!  My brain swirling as catatonia symptoms remind me,                               I've been here before.      Time starts passing as the shock begins to settle,..</description>
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			<title>CHRISTMAS Eve</title>
			<description>     Beginning life from beneath the demon's territory.  I was born ten fingers, ten toes, two eyes that wondered at the whirling world around me.       I breathed in the earth's summer air and gave out my sounding cry that I had arrived.       In my shiny new birthday suit, life rushed in l..</description>
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			<title>The will to live</title>
			<description>For those who love their children unconditionally:__________________To my loving daughter.                        The will to live     First of days, I stood by her bedside.  My eyes of tears could only beg,     &quot;Please! doctor, don't let her die, Please!&quot;  To God in anger, my sile..</description>
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			<title>         I would Burst </title>
			<description>                        A fight among the senses.  To write or not to write.                   An answer!        I would Burst if I didn't put pen to paper.         My visits in incremental 3.Time enough to forget and live on.     Not this time, a window, 2 chairs, a desk, one comput..</description>
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			<title>I Have A Type</title>
			<description>           Arriving at the start, where the ending began. Thought it was only today's world lesson.      Blue, hazel,  &amp;#65533;'&amp;#65533; I'm attracted to you. They say I have a type.      Memories ringing through repeated times, the same  rhythmic results.  Things I loved about them, making ..</description>
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			<title>IRELAND</title>
			<description>Poem</description>
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			<title>Loves Last Call</title>
			<description>                      Dropped like rain's final tear.Such a flood of sweet droplets that came before and during our existence.    Your lips never moved to truth's meanings, but I loved the words and let them live.         All this I endured willingly  First sight closed off all those..</description>
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			<title>I CLIMBED A TREE</title>
			<description>I climbed a tree and reached for the sky. I walked the streets of heaven seeking and asking why?The sounds I heard echoed through my mind, pounding out my anger, tugging away at my pain...I fell to my knees and cried out loud.The crippled held their heads up high.  The sick struggled and n..</description>
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			<title>The Blues</title>
			<description>The  unrequited blues came today.  It sat above my head and crossed its legs and stayed awhile. I remembered everything that was and never was, and I was sad.</description>
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			<title>Beyond This World </title>
			<description>Beyond the worries and cares you lay while circles ofSanctuary above you sway.Feeling good and feeling fine, there seems no reason to draw a line.A mind that thought  so clear and straight, a mind that had a well planned fate...around in circles see it swirl beyond the boundaries of yo..</description>
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			<title>CAN I TRUST YOU</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;How do I switch from a fan into a friend?&amp;nbsp;How can I trust that bright star blinking in my sky?&amp;nbsp;I confess, his voice is who I cried&amp;nbsp; with when my heart was broken. When life had no more ..</description>
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			<title>STRENGTH IN ME</title>
			<description>           Two years, a date so marked for ...backtracking!Brave enough now to...perseverate!A lost heart buried by...words!Swiping past those written years, all my begging...why?     But I let my STRENGTH guide the way.I praised you often and you took...pleasure!Two and a half yea..</description>
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			<title>Je Ne T`ai Pas Reconnu</title>
			<description>I said, I would love you forever.I said, you were the breath of living air that brought sparks to life again.     I said, I would never forget the wind beneath my freedom flight.     I said,  yes I would always remember your laughing, playful, jovial manner.Like a quarterback you aimed for..</description>
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			<title>THE RACE </title>
			<description>Breathing today's centuries old air, there's no relief.  The suffocating masses left us nothing but remnants of the old south's battlefield by ancient plantations gathering.     This is a time of assemblers, a time of speeches, a time of marching towards a Verelse of races.           ONCE AGAIN!..</description>
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			<title>APOGEE</title>
			<description>It's my aging heart.It's my weakest of mind.It's my broken spirit.It's today I send my bleeding feelings to the safest point of our universe.The wind has blown it.The sun has seen it's last flickering.As the rain puts out remaining  burning embers.My heart that seems to alway..</description>
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			<title>I Thought We Had More time </title>
			<description>A heart became broken, that none could mend. She took to the universe to seek my replacement.  I had such dark hair and big brown eyes, she had such dark hair and big brown eyes. Our guardian who loved us found that sunshine could rise again.       But, back I came, by the grace of God just ..</description>
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			<title>COME OUT! COME OUT!</title>
			<description>Come out! come out!  The chants  have changed.  Alive are you this very new day.     Bring out your dead, bring out your dying, now the call is a distancing, fading, lessening of tearful crying. Come out! come out!  The air is fresh with rain's Spring flowers bringing Longer daylight, longer h..</description>
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			<title>From His Little Secret </title>
			<description>NOTHING...takes over my imperfections as much as crossing paths with your memory pages.     Time, reminding me I've faded into the distant past.Having given you to many of my Hail Mary's.     Two years gone quietly by (just like that)...those pictures sent my world into the High Striker ring..</description>
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			<title>Christmas Eve Night</title>
			<description>Newly arriving, summer's air warming springs breezes.  A wish for perfect was all that was asked.     Ten fingers, ten toes, bright brown eyes twinkling.  Perfect baby born on the eve of summer.     Give away infant so sparkling new, awaits her turn to join her sister,  join her brother...</description>
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			<title>Thug Life Of Our Resident Squirrels </title>
			<description>Thug Life Of Our Resident Squirrels      Three years ago I told my landlord we had squirrels in the attic. I had him stop and listen to the sounds of our neighborhood squirrels scooting around rooftops and settling in my attic.His reply to the noise was, &quot;that's not squirrels that's the trees ..</description>
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			<title>Accepting Your Way </title>
			<description>     I beg no more to stop the end, to stop the silence, to stop the WHY of your disappearance.           Your way became my agreed path.No more waiting for your changing heart to fall down on mine.You reached the top of my world then sent my soul crashing down into hell.         But...all..</description>
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			<title>Nothing Gained </title>
			<description>Beauty is the rose as each petal     Brightens the earth, and makes contentthe air with its fragrance.     Love fills the hearts but makes beauty the true lover!The rose, picked by an admirer no longer grows when now it is unattended by the                             &amp;#127774;SUN&amp;#127..</description>
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			<title>I Don't know how we survived </title>
			<description>     I don't know how my grown up son survived me.     I don't know how I survived my grown up son.A fence couldn't hold the little toddler in, his mind filling up with the new world around him.  It's wondrous trees, neighborhood streets, rocketship park all adventures calling out to him.     ..</description>
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			<title>JUST ONE MORE BROKEN HEART</title>
			<description>Dawn at 5:55 A.M. comes to rescue me from another dark and restless night.      My voice no longer thrills him, is not needed.     My written words on his long and lonely journeys not wanted anymore.     My latest pictures erased from his sight.Is it really over now? Is there no turning back..</description>
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			<title>Fountain Of Tears</title>
			<description> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Can you imagine the tears of screaming pain, that flows like a waterfall from your burning eyes? &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;THAT RUN, and run down the broken body into the fountain of your life into the tortured heart. &amp;nbsp;It floods the heart until it overflows bleeding your tears of red..</description>
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			<title>White Velvet</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Gentle flakes of silent white ceased their falling for a moment yesterday.&amp;nbsp; I hardly noticed.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Pictured scenery of dressing earth brought to thought by vivid visuals from your voice.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Momentarily drifting caused feelings of warmth from the..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Bonniepaige2/1988504/</link>
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			<title>Never A Preacher</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;Signatures in my yearly book, define my future's way.Destined they said to follow, the fate of Emily...&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Enchanting honor abound - what glorious a path to take.I raised my head to blos..</description>
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			<title>The Heart Wants What it Wants</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; &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;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Born, I am from their torrent option.Still wondering ..</description>
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			<title>Hold of My Heartstrings</title>
			<description> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;That which is deeply the embodiment of my heart, my soul - hasNever-ending growth&amp;hellip; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Just the voice, or written words, the newest picture, only seasons the spaces in time. &amp;nbsp;Bringing up the glow of light, bringing up the sun that covers a rainy day, brin..</description>
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			<title>The Dragon Fly </title>
			<description>Hovering round in circular low - from back, to front, lingering from corner to window.     The keepers of his old stone house watch in wonder, to this curious sudden flight. Nearer to them, but not near me.   Closer in distance,  but spaces away...I was amused.   Inspecting the showcase of h..</description>
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			<title>The Gift</title>
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			<title>Once Again</title>
			<description> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;                                                       Once AgainBehind my door of solid steel, it locked, key hidden safely far away. &amp;nbsp;I escaped into my peaceful world far from love&amp;rsquo;s desires and entanglements.Silver and gray marks my thousand dreams upon this ea..</description>
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			<title>AFA'S 21Club's Last Call</title>
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By Bonnie Paige
Connie, a young Air Force wife is pushed into the private world of the upper-class cadets. The cadets, staff and Connie began building a Wednesday night gathering. </description>
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			<title>The Three</title>
			<description>I asked the Lord to look down on me, as I remember.I ask the Lord to remember the pain of the three.One awoke in me newness to my life, one completely devoured the whole of me, butone took the time to raise me up from my darkness.I asked of one, for my breath back because of his beauty. &amp;nbsp;I aske..</description>
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			<title>The Earth is on Fire</title>
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			<title>Phantom &quot;D&quot; Beckons</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;In the terror chambers of my mind, twisted life hammered down by life's afflictions.Far from home, my weary heart cried...no husband today, same as yesterday, this is the military life!Single - married Air Force Wife. Strangers, I and all.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;My children loo..</description>
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			<title>Night Phantom</title>
			<description>Breath deep within the sanctuary of euphoric sleep there lay the peace, I do&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;not feel.Breath deep within the sanctuary of &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;euphoric sleep a rest of mind, I never reach.You are the beating thunder that&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;..</description>
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			<title>WALK WITH ME AMOUNG THE POETRY</title>
			<description>Walking among the literary competitors, beautiful covers full of luster-letters printed so bold-while pictures cry, &quot;Read my words!&quot;Yesterday's readers are not yet a vanishing era. &amp;nbsp;Today a writer's work exhibits within an artist's gallery. &amp;nbsp;Anticipating hope from a devout reader. &amp;nbsp;A ..</description>
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			<title>JOVIAL JOY  </title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;A simple pleasure entered my life. &amp;nbsp;It's beginning required no effort - no one worried - no one cared.My simple pleasure nurtured by time, grew.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;A Jovial Joy, of playful humor - creating a lightness in my serious heart.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Living in an exis..</description>
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			<title>WITH THIS LIFE</title>
			<description> &amp;nbsp;Can't you hear the pounding thunder; It's my&amp;nbsp;heart that's breaking the silence. &amp;nbsp;Vibrating! Quivering, and resounding through the long distance air of time.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Stuck...living for the emptiness of tomorrow. &amp;nbsp;Eyes wide open for today despite the lasting unchangeab..</description>
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