From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=254">chris</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Thanks, Harem... I'm glad Misti decided to come back, too. She never should've left, in my opinion. But this is a special time for us - in two days it'll be exactly one year ago that we met in person. I can't believe how much my life has changed. Misti is a continual blessing to me...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=141">wistful</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

TJ Holland ~ I'm a big sucker for wordplay, and I *loved* <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.08.06.05.17.30133">Make It Real Baby</a>.  So simple, so clever!  I was mesmerized in the possible meanings that could string these three things together, other than the obvious, of course.  Cool, cool, cool.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=141">wistful</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

~Harem~ : "The Silent Drone".  What truth.  There was this guy who I ended up only ever seeing every other Tuesday at midnight.  Great, passionate sex, but the emotional void!  Ever-widening, soul-wrenching, unquenchable need.  Luckily, he recognized it and cut all ties before it spiraled away into something dangerously unhealthy.  The closest I ever want to come to addiction . . .  I guess that's the nature of addition: the desperate belief that just a little more will get you what you want, and it never will . . .
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=141">wistful</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

~Harem~: addition?  I meant "addiction". Must be gettin' tired . . .
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=145">shayan73</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

To ~Harem~  <BR>
 Sounds in the Air was absolutly great! I have wanted to say those very words a million times<BR>
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 I completely can relate to Spots on a Leopard, I have know quite a few.<BR>
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Thank you for all of you great poems, I really love your work<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=50">MichaelT()</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Waiting4 ~ thanks for the compliments. It's nice to know I have a reader or two..:-)<BR>
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guppy ~ as always man - you inspire.<BR>
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Everyone who wrote it July ~ I know I haven't been overflowing with praise for everyone lately -- but thanks for a good month.<BR>
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And for all the blender front pagers -- wow. I'm impressed not only with all the good work I read last month -- but all the gems I MISSED.<BR>
keep it up. <BR>
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Kirk ~ As always, thanks for the site, the time, and the work you put into this place to make it this good.<BR>
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I've ranted. Back into silence for a month. :-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Terry...<BR>
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         An epic? Wow. The Sleepers Awaken is good stuff.<BR>
The Ka...hmmm. Egyptian for spirit. Was reading on that the other day. Hollywood got part of it right. They believed they had to preserve the body, and the spirit. But the third element of their journey into rebirth was a word that took them forever to translate adequately. The closest english word is "personality". Body. Spirit. Personality.<BR>
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        Your sleepers are  well formed. Excellent poem, and there is no denying the yearning between the lines. I'll say this for you sir---when you wake up, you do so with style.<BR>
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                                        Gala
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=9">Madison</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Oh my! Harem.  I’m not at all an established writer, but what an enormously generous compliment.  (P.S., remind me again where to send that check?  teehee)  Oh,  and I think we’d all like to know what brand of coffee that is your drinking; you must be a mountain of energy!<BR>
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Gala, I think I remember (but can’t remember) another word for the word that combines spirit/personality/body you were talking about, and it’s driving me nuts trying to come up with it.  I saw it once in a psychological or philosophical dictionary, thought it was a great word - besides its cool  meaning it had a nice sound to it.  I may have even used it in a poem.  If I find it, I’ll holler.<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Anima?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=9">Madison</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

&lt;Madi, hollering&gt;  I found it!!!  Soma.  See if this comes close? I like to only use words (it's the rules, right?) in writings that you'd use everyday, and of course, since I'd read this word, I thought I'd start using it daily, uh huh.  I did find where I'd written it in though, it was in a poem "Bluebottle Sting" from this past March.  Here:<BR>
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"The word soma refers to an organism as a whole (Hanna, 1986).  In understanding the human as a soma rather than a mind and a body or a bodymind, "there is no distinction between body and mind.  Instead, body and mind are understood as an inseparable continuum of matter and consciousness" (Greene, 1994, p. 98).  Hanna (as cited in Greene, 1994) uses the word soma as "a body perceived from within" and refers to "the rich and constantly flowing array of sensing and actions that are occurring within the experience of each of us" (p. 98).  "<BR>
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Oh yeah, it's also slang for PCP.<BR>
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ha.<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=12">Tanqueray Cowboy</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Isn't  "Soma" also the drug/aphrodisiac in Brave New World?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=91">flash</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

tanq...<BR>
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yes, soma is the one in Brave New World... funny there's a prescription med named after it too...<BR>
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-flash
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=14">terry39</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Hi guys,<BR>
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I used Ka as a reference to Fate as a joint area where human and God together provide the path we walk. Much as Stephen King used the term in his epic Dark Tower series.<BR>
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As to soma, you are all right, but Gnostic teachings take the term to a deeper level. Sarx would refer to the literal flesh on the bone, pneuma would refer to the spirit or soul of a human, and soma would refer to the body as a untited whole: spiritual and sacred.<BR>
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Anima as Misti offered, along with animus, are Jungian archetypes of the subconscious to refer to primal instincts both masculine and feminine and how they effect one's personality.<BR>
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I guess in my writing I've used all these terms at one time or another.<BR>
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terry
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Body/Mind split? Bah. It's all Body. Mind is just a pattern riding on part of it.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Kirk...<BR>
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          All body? Ahem. Beg to differ dear. We don't have bodies...not here! Here the brain/heart/spirit rule.<BR>
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                                          Gala
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=274">highpriestess</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

BK<BR>
 Your poetry is sooo wonderful....I really enjoy reading it and stuff like that<BR>
highpriestess
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Isabella -- "Hidden Meaning" is great, I laughed out loud.  I'm pretty sure I knew this guy's twin brother...<BR>
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Tanqueray -- "For K." Yup, once again you cram all this oomph into such a tiny compass.  It's like those medieval miniatures.  How do you do it??<BR>
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To all the other Front Pagers -- well done.  As someone already said, one of the best parts of the digest is being pointed to "gems I missed".<BR>
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And to guppy, Misti, and the other Prodigal Poets -- nice to have y'all in the Blender with us again, welcome back!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=230">Isabella Svenska</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Thank you for the honor of being included in the "Front Page" for "Hidden Meaning - What he meant to say".  This is an honor I neither expected nor imagined.  I never would have thought such an angry ranting I pounded out to a friend of mine via email after a sleepness night would have made it to the front page.  My friend actually encouraged me to post this so I have to give her props.  <BR>
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Wow, thanks again - I feel honored to be posted with such talented company.<BR>
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Congrats to all the front pagers!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2001<P>

Unchained -- <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.08.05.21.28.29454">Crucible</a> is lovely.  It's good to be reminded that the crucible burns away the impurities and leaves behind something finer for having been through the fire.
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