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			<title>Summer Love</title>
			<description>10 words long - Inspired by the given topic of &quot;summer nights&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/707566/</link>
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			<title>The Train</title>
			<description>This is inspired by a true story - I got a job in New Jersey and instead of coming with me, my wife divorced me and took my boys.  That's the only true part of this, the rest is &quot;derived&quot;  :)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/707392/</link>
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			<title>The Loquacious Clock</title>
			<description>The is a 10 word poem based on the given subject of Midnight Hour</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/703145/</link>
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			<title>Tesla Hearts</title>
			<description>This is tech-romance Valentine's Day poem for my amazing wife.  She's beautiful and funny but is smart enough to understand how a Tesla Coil works.  Thank you for the inspiration, Nicola</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/680203/</link>
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			<title>Hidden Secrets</title>
			<description>This is forthe Poetry and Lyrical Challenge Group</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/666500/</link>
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			<title>Apocalyptic Pain</title>
			<description>This is a customized poem for the Creative Poetry Group using the words Dejection, anguish, obscured,  weary, and mournful - some of you will appreciate the accuracy of the metaphor</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/662115/</link>
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			<title>Forever 13</title>
			<description>This is for my son and it's sad so skip it if you don't want sad.  But I finished this up from a freewriting I started last Christmas and felt the need to complete it for him.   </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/651158/</link>
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			<title>A Poetic Kiss</title>
			<description>This is a card I made for my wife, Jenniffer</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/647479/</link>
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			<title>My Memory</title>
			<description>This was written on the fly - SPECIFICALLY for the Creative Poetry group using these words:  predestine, endowed, enlightened, lilting, mystify, elation
 

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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/638685/</link>
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			<title>Talons Flexed</title>
			<description>I wrote this in 1990, during Desert Storm.  For about 2 months we were at G-1 which means that every day we were expecting to move north (ground assault)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/638550/</link>
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			<title>Forever of the Present</title>
			<description>Even when the minutes of today go by soooo slowly - looking back, they seem to flown by</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/638542/</link>
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			<title>The Day the Angels Came</title>
			<description>This is a from-the-heart thank-you for my sister Jessica and her husband Dave.  They drove 9 hours to get to us when they heard that Brandon (my youngest son) had died.  I own them everything.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/638073/</link>
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			<title>You Make Me</title>
			<description>For:  Jenn - just because</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/638010/</link>
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			<title>Loss of Thoughts</title>
			<description>Writers block</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/637098/</link>
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			<title>Hi</title>
			<description>She came to visit her sister and in 1 week I fell in &quot;Love&quot; - (I was 20 y/o, the term Love is questionable at best)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/637095/</link>
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			<title>The Passion in Your Soul</title>
			<description>The Passion in Your Soul&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;If you will listen, then bend an ear, that your drumming heart might hear me.&amp;nbsp;For my eyes seeby the light of your soulthat through your beautiful words consoles me.&amp;nbsp;If you will feel,then give me your handwith the softness of y..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/637091/</link>
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			<title>Delightful</title>
			<description>DELIGHTFUL is the word she usedit touched me &quot; in particular, becausewe were talking about my children.And the word itself hit so very RIGHT,in the way I feel about them,that I was amazed, that I hadn&amp;rsquo;t used it,hadn&amp;rsquo;t thought of it, hadn&amp;rsquo;t perused it,but felt it as if..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/637084/</link>
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			<title>That We May Know the Caress</title>
			<description>For Jenn - my inspiration and angel</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/637081/</link>
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			<title>Ole #7</title>
			<description>Ole #7 = Black Jack = Jack Daniels (black label)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/636895/</link>
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			<title>Blood and Ink</title>
			<description>A friend once said &quot;We're holding bottles of ink and we're ready to splash it on the parchment and see what comes out.&quot;  I said &quot;Bring on the parchment.&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/636661/</link>
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			<title>Hello Tree (Part 2) - Ranger School, 1988</title>
			<description>The second and final part to my story.  It explains the name.  By-the-way this is a 100% true story without embellishment.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/636489/</link>
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			<title>Hello Tree - Ranger School, 1988</title>
			<description>THIS IS A TEST - it's a short story about one of many experiences in the Army - I NEED TO KNOW IF IT'S INTERESTING - IF IT IS I'LL CONTINUE</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/636284/</link>
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			<title>god cries</title>
			<description>I lost my 13 y/o son to the choking game 2 years ago.  What keeps me from hating God is my idea that maybe he's not all-powerful and that he too cried when it happened.  I still can't write about it.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/635784/</link>
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			<title>The Misplaced Shard</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;The Misplaced Shard&amp;nbsp;A glimmering point of light in the darkness caught my eye and for a moment, bound by the stifling reality around me, I couldn&amp;rsquo;t seek the source, or ascertain the cause.&amp;nbsp; But as I gained control of myself and the more comfortable surreal of my mind sett..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/632125/</link>
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			<title>Monmouth Battlefield</title>
			<description>This is a freewriting I did at Monmouth Battlefield in New Jersey</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/632119/</link>
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			<title>Collective Ignorance</title>
			<description>Pop culture is collective ignorance where people band together to adore the detestable and hide behind one another in the shower so they won&amp;rsquo;t get wet.&amp;nbsp;I&amp;rsquo;m not truly certain what reality is or is not - but for a society that generally believes in an immortal, all powerful being ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/632116/</link>
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			<title>Twilight</title>
			<description>I wrote this poem as a Junior in high school (1985) when we were told the freewrite about &quot;Nature&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/632102/</link>
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			<title>A Fistful of Screams</title>
			<description>society's dark half</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/632096/</link>
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			<title>I (The center in HumanINature)</title>
			<description>This is just a thought...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/632084/</link>
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			<title>The Night She Met Jack</title>
			<description>Prose poetry - Jack The Ripper</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/631342/</link>
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			<title>What you are, what you are not</title>
			<description>For my wife, Jenn, Mother's Day, 2004</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630628/</link>
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			<title>My Heart My Soul My Life</title>
			<description>This poem is part of the wedding vows I wrote for Jenniffer</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630624/</link>
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			<title>Within This Hell</title>
			<description>Pondering deep inside myself - yes I am here somewhere, I think</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630240/</link>
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			<title>Ranger School</title>
			<description>True hunger heightens all the senses
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630232/</link>
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			<title>Coke Bottle Candy Money</title>
			<description>This is a true memory of mine.  Young people won't understand, but if you're old enough to remember getting money for used coke bottles, this one's for you... </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630222/</link>
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			<title>Quiet Face of Dawn</title>
			<description>Guarding the dawn on a winter morning</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630216/</link>
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			<title>Synthetic Theories of Reality</title>
			<description>We all hope for Magic and Miracles</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630089/</link>
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			<title>Welcoming Fate</title>
			<description>This is imagery incarnate</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630082/</link>
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			<title>Romance</title>
			<description>Rapture and romance...  Oh what a pair</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630073/</link>
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			<title>Mercy's Debt</title>
			<description>Where does life end and where do we stop hoping?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630041/</link>
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			<title>The Erupted Silence</title>
			<description>The silence before the destruction lies like a heavy blanket - cloying - and deafening in itself</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630037/</link>
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			<title>Tonight I Go Hungry Again</title>
			<description>Empathy, please...  Think about the others</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630034/</link>
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			<title>A Mother's Greatest Gift</title>
			<description>This is a Christmas poem for today's Soldier, Sailors, Airmen and Marines</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/630012/</link>
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			<title>Wedding Vows</title>
			<description>Sometimes love is forever forsaking all others</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/629587/</link>
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			<title>Gumball Baskets</title>
			<description>I wrote this specifically for the Picture contest in the group Picture This!  </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/629530/</link>
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			<title>In a Word</title>
			<description>For my Wife - she's everything</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/629505/</link>
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			<title>Summer and Winter With You (The Colors of the Heart)</title>
			<description>For my beautiful wife on Valentine's Day 2005</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/629380/</link>
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			<title>The Shoelace Life</title>
			<description>I just read Solitude by serah jha and was inspired to write something - here it is; it is NOT polished or even refined.  Let it be what it wants to be for now.
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/629374/</link>
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			<title>Trying to Retain My Sanity (With a Paper Cup)</title>
			<description>I tried to make a paper cup and realized I'd forgotten how - how does one forget that?  I unfolded the paper used it to write this poem (4/325 lockdown 1988 - we couldn't leave the barracks)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/628893/</link>
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			<title>Noferatu</title>
			<description>A Vampire's death</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Warrior-Poet/628891/</link>
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