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		<description>The original writings of author Firebird</description>
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			<title>Feathers on the River</title>
			<description>Beautiful white Swan feathers on the river of life</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/2781539/</link>
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			<title>Muse</title>
			<description>My urge to write poems can often become overwhelming when my mental health declines. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/2780063/</link>
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			<title>Zen at the fairground</title>
			<description>The inside of my head is like a crazy fairground ride. Zen is the only cure. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/2779768/</link>
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			<title>Poplar Tree</title>
			<description>A short poem of life </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/2779758/</link>
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			<title>Freefall</title>
			<description>The way things are</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1722431/</link>
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			<title>Exorcised Friendship</title>
			<description>Saying Goodbye</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1687458/</link>
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			<title>The Shuttered Light </title>
			<description>I am the light within.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1685874/</link>
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			<title>A Voice From The Past</title>
			<description>My Nightmare Visited Today</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1682268/</link>
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			<title>The suitcase</title>
			<description>About attachment</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1676881/</link>
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			<title>November Rose</title>
			<description>Late beauty </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1676871/</link>
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			<title>Shutdown</title>
			<description>Autumn thoughts</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1674230/</link>
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			<title>Into the Unknown</title>
			<description>Reflections on a worm's journey.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1674213/</link>
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			<title>Come to Me</title>
			<description>I'll be there for you. I read this out to my husband. It didn't even register. Mind you Black Adder was on.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1673024/</link>
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			<title>Cures For All Ills</title>
			<description>The hair of the dogcures a hangover,and hides the nasty pattern on my rug.The morning after pillwould have helped my neice,she wouldn't need it&amp;nbsp;if she'd thought the night before.Health food shops&amp;nbsp;cure all ills,plus you lose extra weightin your purse.The doctor gave me medicationto lift dep..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1672989/</link>
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			<title>The Poet </title>
			<description>For Ian (The Dirt Poet)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1672741/</link>
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			<title>Words from Australia</title>
			<description>For Stef (aka Zeitnot)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1669500/</link>
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			<title>Still Pond</title>
			<description>Meditation haiku</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1669492/</link>
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			<title>Forbidden Fruit</title>
			<description>For Howard</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1669488/</link>
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			<title>Parisian Flowers</title>
			<description>For  France</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1669437/</link>
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			<title>Three Small Girls</title>
			<description>A poem about hopes and dreams</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1669020/</link>
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			<title>Innocence and Trust</title>
			<description>Two very different experiences of childhood.
Not all stories have happy endings.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1662589/</link>
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			<title>Birdsong</title>
			<description>Hopeful song</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1661541/</link>
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			<title>Solitude</title>
			<description>Haiku</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1661534/</link>
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			<title>The Apple core</title>
			<description>A jolly ditty about rejection</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1661528/</link>
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			<title>Confessions</title>
			<description>I told you true</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1661022/</link>
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			<title>The Sad</title>
			<description>My friend Zeitnot introduced me to  the Sad....I met that creature last night. I know it well.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1660671/</link>
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			<title>Phoenix</title>
			<description>Haiku</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1659517/</link>
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			<title>Mountain Lake</title>
			<description>Tired and dusty from the climb,I came to a mountain lake.I immersed myself in the crystal pool,And my pain fell away to the depths.I was washed clean and soaked through,My spirit was freed of its webs.I stepped out barefoot on the shoreAnd I raised my face to the light.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1659515/</link>
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			<title>Wildflowers in flight</title>
			<description>Haiku</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1659492/</link>
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			<title>Songbird</title>
			<description>Haiku</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1659490/</link>
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			<title>The Moth</title>
			<description>Escape</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1659487/</link>
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			<title>My Haiku are Mush</title>
			<description>This was my first longer poem</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1659478/</link>
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			<title>Night Vision</title>
			<description>Night can be long and dark.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1659461/</link>
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			<title>What I Say</title>
			<description>Not much of a poem but I wanted to 
say it anyway</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1659455/</link>
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			<title>Sharp Shards</title>
			<description>About the benefit of meditation</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1659381/</link>
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			<title>Texting</title>
			<description>A very short poem about something that has a profound effect in my life.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1658810/</link>
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			<title>Sparks</title>
			<description>One of my first poems. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/cathy99/1658397/</link>
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