From: Misti<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

I feel so DUMB. I just submitted another poem that contains a misspelled word! In *Chilled* I spelled "attractive" ATTACTIVE. In another poem awhile back I spelled "nickel" NICKLE. I'm not going to waste any more space by submitting the same poem more than once. It's not that big of a deal, really. Serves me right for the "stunt" I pulled tonight!!!
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From: Gala<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Hey All---<BR>
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          Megs---Oh sweetie---I hope you got that Nap---most beautiful moment, captured beautifully......<BR>
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          Madison---All right. You're a good detective----but you are a wizard of a poet! You go girl! Khaki...pulled me right in...<BR>
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          And Mojave? I had a hard enough time keeping up with the Blender folk before---but now I have to read ALL your subs too---because you really have an exceptional way of catching the moment. Merry met, and all that...and welcome/ Pull up a chair and stay a spell, won't you?<BR>
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                                       Galadrial
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From: Toklas<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Misti,<BR>
I just read "Translucent Gold." WOW  I really love it!<BR>
Sometimes a poem just connects and that one really does.<BR>
thank you for that one!<BR>
Toke
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From: Misti<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Toke,<BR>
  Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it. I have had a burst of creative energy this weekend. Hope everyone enjoys my latest offering, placed at the altar of Sappho.<BR>
Hehehe.
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From: Tonya (TGillman85@hotmail.com)<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Kevin<BR>
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Your works are absolutely beautiful and I fall in love with your words every month. Thank you for sharing
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From: Tonya (TGillman85@hotmail.com)<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

I've been coming to this site for quite a while & have only had the nerve to submit one (2/00 &lt;3 on sleeve). I can only hope to be as good as the regulars I enjoy here one day.  
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From: Misti<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages."<BR>
~Tennessee Williams<BR>
(quote on the inside of Angelina Jolie's left forearm)
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From: Megs<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Mojave- Sunrise Hike- Muy bueno!!!<BR>
I have read your works and just decided to jump on the praise bandwagon :)  As if one more compliment won't make your head swell...*hehe*  Nah just kidding.  GREAT works...this last one says lots to me.  Welcome aboard.<BR>
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*Picture all Blenderites with open arms*<BR>
Megs
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Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Misti - if you where so truly unique and exciting you'd not have to scream it from roof-tops we'd all be able to see it for ourselves.<BR>
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A good product sells itself with no advertising. You seem to be all advertising and no product. Don't try so hard.
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From: Galdrial<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Okay, who's picking on Misti this time?<BR>
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                               Gala
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From: Barb Yawp, PR rep for Misti Velvet Rainwater<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Bored? Lovesick? Looking for a UNIQUE, cutting edge poem to slip under your lover's pillow? Then go to New Submissions and check out Misti Velvet Rainwater's latest offerings to the Blender of Love! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You might even BLUSH! But don't forget your earplugs...her poems are kinda LOUD. 
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From: Misti<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Thanks, Barb. &lt;sniffle, sniffle&gt;<BR>
Don't know what I'd do without ya.
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From: Megs<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Please lets not take up MOUNDS of space with this whole insulting people thing.  It really is ignorant and a waste of space.  <BR>
Sorry if that sounds harsh...it just irritates me.<BR>

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From: Madi<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

thanks Gala, that one's been on the emotional shelf for a few years, a little hard to write - I think it wasn't sure it wanted to be seen on paper; this morning, it wrote itself.  
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From: Galadrial<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Hey Madi---<BR>
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          The very best poetry happens like that---the stuff I struggle with  is always sub-par. When it comes out all by itself---even if you thought about it forever---BINGO!<BR>
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           And forgive me folks, but after that last one, I could use a cigarette!<BR>
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                                              Gala
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From: Megs<BR>
Date: 12 March 2000<P>

Damn!!! Gala/Wench...<BR>
*Giggles*<BR>
Last one has some great images.<BR>
That is all I will say.<BR>
Cause I am just an innocent fairy child eh?<BR>

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