From: Madi<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

[madison curtsies] It's a beautiful walk through your garden site, Gala.  Humble backatcha!  
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From: Tara<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

I am amazed at the beauty of the new submissions, Gala and BK imparticular... incredible<BR>
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Gala, how do you do it?  I would love to spend time learning from the master....
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From: Daniel <BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

Have you had any romantic peotry competitions? If not, why not?<BR>
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I'd be glad to enter if there was.<BR>
So go for it.
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From: Gala (blushing furiously)<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

Tara Girl,<BR>
<BR>
            Thank you...but I am no master! I do teach poetry writing to young teens,or did---until the county decided to micromanage it. This spring I have been offered the opportunity to teach night school in my district---which I am awfully nervous about. I love the idea---but sheesh---so I'm trying to put together the materials---and have even planned a "writer's weekend" in a pine barrens group cabin to cap off the course. I always wanted to do a writer's retreat---but they cost the earth, usually. The state forest I want to go to, situated on a calm lake right next to the cranberry bogs, should be ideal.<BR>
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     My methods of teaching are unorthodox---(how surprising for me, huh?)but if you can figure a way to NJ, I'll save a bunk for you dear!  <BR>
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     And thanks Tara------everybody---the support I've gotten in the last year from this community has made a huge difference in my work---and my life. You are all amazing people---and I am thrilled to be counted as a "regular" in such a stellar group....you are all the bee's knees!<BR>
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                                    Love, <BR>
<BR>
                                    Gala
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From: slug<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

BK Beene: it's been a long time since poetry has made me sigh. thank you.
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From: BK Beene<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

Gala; Kissing is a lost art that must be revived! With poetry like yours, should be pretty easily brought back...lol<BR>
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Slug; Write something would you?<BR>
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Date: 13 September 2000<P>

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From: terry<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

BK Beene~ All your latest have struck just the right sensuous/longing note with me...keep up the great work!<BR>
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slug~ like others I miss your posts.<BR>
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Susannah~ 'Things we didn't know' grabbed my heart for a squeeze. Timinng can mean everything, I know...<BR>
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Madison~ 'day 14...' was so very eloquent and captured such a sense of place and time and being. I am in awe your talent.<BR>
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Akash~ All your writing has this undercurrent of emotion that draws me to read your posts...and 'sleep..' was one that blew me away in its simplicity of words that painted a complex feeling I knew from experience. Thanks.<BR>
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terry<BR>
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From: Missy,  [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

Love Runs Dry<BR>
     dedicated to Jorge<BR>
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What do you do when love runs dry?<BR>
When all you can do is sleep and cry.<BR>
You sit on your bed all alone,<BR>
And think of what you wish was your home.<BR>
How do you keep a promise to someone that doesn't try?<BR>
Life holds choices, live or die.<BR>
And when all is well in the days of today,<BR>
Friends look towards you as you look away. <BR>
He loves you, or so you think,<BR>
He's nothing but a fink.<BR>
How do you stop yourself when there's nothing you can do?<BR>
You wish so hard that you knew.<BR>
To find the man you love, find the man you hate, find   that special man and tell him he's too late.<BR>
"Why me," is all you can say,<BR>
And hope so very hard that this feeling just won't stay.<BR>
             -Missy, CT
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From: it dosent matter<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

umm sorry about this but lovers dance was supposed to be a bump to B.K.   i loved Moon Dancers<BR>
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Gala truly a lovely site   to have so many wonderful contributors must be an incredible feeling<BR>
and for them to be friends as well ... indescribable     <BR>
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From: Zero #1<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

Hello everyone!!!! It's been quite some time since I've put anything on the blender. I can probably fancy myself a little rusty about now. I'm sorry for all the typos that may have occurred. I'm here at a computer lab at college trying to fit some leisure time into my schedule. All of your poetry means sooo much to me...even if I don't have time to comment on it. I just want to tell each one of you that puts writings her on the blender,,I LOVE YOU AND YOUR WORKS TO DEATH. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND THANKS FOR KEEPING A SMILE ON MY SOMETIMES GRIM FACE. Thanks guys.<BR>
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Sincerely,<BR>
Zero #1
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From:    <BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

To "Dosent Matter"<BR>
<BR>
May I gently suggest that the correct spelling<BR>
is: DOESN'T <BR>
Which is a contraction of the words "does not."<BR>
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?<BR>

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From: BK Beene<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

Terry, Gala & It Doesn't Matter: Guess the agony and the ecstasy are what keep these pages flowing. Full moons just pull at the tides of our hearts a little harder. <BR>
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Thank you all for such lovely works of art!  <BR>
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

When the idea of doing this bump thing was suggested I had many reservations. For one thing I convinced myself that inspiration and poetry simply did not work that way. But having seen it in action, and trying to participate, I must say that it has worked indescribably well. They just get better and better, and it is fascinating to watch a word or idea jump from one artist to another here, each creating something new and beautiful. I think the one going now, about the moon and dancing is the best yet. I humbly bow to the talents here on the Blender. Such beauty can only make the world a better place! Thank you all...<BR>
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terry
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From: BKBeene<BR>
Date: 13 September 2000<P>

ZERO#1: Thanks, you put a smile on my face. So write more often. The world needs lots of smiles!
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