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inechoingsilence

I wrote short stories at 7, poems by 12. For more than twelve years I was incapable of writing or singing - I was emotionally closed off to everything except living. Now, at 40, I've regained my voices and there is poetry and song in my life once more.

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Paulajobi

Paula Jobi

I started writing these type pieces around 2005. I was one of many writers on a porn site that closed in 2008. That left me no outlet for my frustrations. I just sank into life as it bit me in the ass repeatedly. Not good. I'm going to try again.

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Observational Poems
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Inspirational Poems
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Erotic Poems
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Dark Poems
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Love Poems
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Self Poems
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Drugs Poems
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Story Poems
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Anger Poems
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Spiritual Poems
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Miscellaneous Poems
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Song Lyrics
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Fictional Prose
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Non-Fiction Prose
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