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ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>I love to write poetry and to read poetry.</b><B> </b><B>I decided to make my own web site to not only publish my own, but to hopefully allow others to put their own on it. </b><B>This is a small collection of my and some of my friends and guest poetry. We cover love, hate, light and darkness, passion, and erotic pleasures in these pages. Please feel free to look, read and enjoy. If after you have looked around some, you decide you want to have me add one of your own or comment on the work you have seen here, please feel free to do so. Just go to the add your own link and post your poem or comment there. But above all enjoy. These works come from the darkness in our lives as well as the light since there can not be one without the other.</b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Graciously Yours;</b></div> <div> <B>John E. 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