From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=15">Untamed Bird</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Hey PacMan; that was too delicious not to BUMP!!! Thanks for the inspiration.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=144">Sati</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Stephen & B.K.- Thanks for the comment, that poem was created at about 3:00 in morning in the haze of a dream.  Not letting your mind get in the way has it's advantages ;)<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
~Sati~
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=91">flash</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

pac man and untamed bird....<BR>
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that was fun, you two!!!  I liked both the submissions, they made me smile!!  I needed that!<BR>
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peace,<BR>
-flash
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=367">lunaa</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Sati - "Hurt me" is one of the most passionate poems I had read in the new submission since a while. I love it.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=226">gardenguru</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

scqueen~<BR>
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Your latest entry, Sam <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.09.19.23.02.20139">Sam</a>, is one of the most incredible metaphors I have ever read.  Your read on people and human interactions is one of the many sparkles of your heart of gold.<BR>
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gg
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

gg ~ Yours is the highest compliment I have ever received and the one that means the most. I love you, my sweet husband.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=67">Smiling Kat</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Hey Everyone!<BR>
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I've tried to post a few poems over the last couple of days, but like Rhet said, there were problems.  The funny thing is, looking back on what I was going to post, they don't seem important anymore.  I guess that goes to show how much I live in the moment.  I'd love to comment on some individual works, but right now I just don't have the words. (Maybe there's something wrong with me! lol)  Just keep up the great work.  I love reading everyone's poems.  Very entertaining!! <BR>
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~:) Kat~
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=67">Smiling Kat</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Sorry about the mistakes.  Usually my brain works faster than my fingers.  :)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=91">flash</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Crystal...<BR>
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"Crying for the wrong reason"... yes, i know how you feel... the eyes tell all, don't they?  I think back on all my past loves and I always knew when they were already gone just by looking in their eyes.  Even if I didn't admit it to myself...<BR>
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peace,<BR>
-flash
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=19">Crystal</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

***FLASH*** Thanks for the comments.  I was reading your poem, Farewell Again, sorry I don't know how to do the link thing, but anyway, as I was saying, I was reading your poem Farewell Again, and It touched me.  I guess maybe because I feel like that about my boyfriend, some days he loves me, some days he doesn't know what he wants.  We got into it lastnight and I finally just let it all out, and told him he can't keep doing this to me, because I won't let him, that he was almost 32 years old, not 21 again.   We have been together for over 4 years on and off and that I was tired of hearing excuses, about what he wanted, what about what I have wanted since the first time I saw him.  We used to argue alot about his friends in the beginning, but I became attached to some of them because they were so funny and have been his friends since child hood, although most are still LOSERS and jerks, anyway, somehow these past few months they have been pulling away from him.  Uninterested in the "RUSH" he gets off ebay.  I told him lastnight... you can't just say you love someone, because it makes them happy, you say it because it makes YOU happy.  He then said that he didn't want to break up that he was just so stressed about the Marines calling him back in to go to war again. I just let it go, but I know that he had no business calling another girl, that is in love with him and has been for years, while we are together!  And I on the otherhand have no BUSINESS being with a man tht would do that. ~SIGH~  I don't know why I love him enough to keep hanging on, I sometimes think... LOVE is NOT worth the WaiT!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Just a tiny reminder...<BR>
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                KEV has a birthday tommmorow....remember the date, forget the age!<BR>
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And I have heard that Stands is in intensive care, but doing well...<BR>
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AND TK has a birthday too....<BR>
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Dee, did the package arrive yet?<BR>
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                                  Gala, fretting
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=397">pacman</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Untamed Bird,  Your bump was funny.. I came back online to check for new things after I wrote it.. and it made me laugh that somebody took my thoughts and re-did them the other way.  It was very nice.  <BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=16">kevin urenda</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

actually, it IS tomorrow already in NZ, which makes TK's B-day TODAY.  Happy Day, Sir TK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Happy birthday TK!<BR>
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AND many happy returns!<BR>
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                                         Gala
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Yes yes, TK's birthday is the same day as kevins.... they both are having birthdays with the number 4 in it......<BR>
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Friday September 21st. Which it is already here in NZ.... so Happy birthday to you both!!!<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

btw: no package yet, but I heard that NZ post to America only resumed 2 days back, I don't know if American Post to NZ was effected.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=15">Untamed Bird</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

PacMan; After I posted MsPacMan I thought, I should have said, wugga wugga wugga wugga. But only Pac would know what that meant.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Gala -- LOVE the "evil tiggers" line in <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.09.20.15.28.21184">Unspoken</a> -- I know just what you mean by it but have never heard it put so succinctly!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 20 September 2001<P>

Great stuff this fine Thursday in September Blenderolas!<BR>
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I do want to comment on a few that grabbed my ass, though.<BR>
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Just Some Girl:<BR>
    <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.09.20.15.25.19016">Gleam</a> makes me read & think - like most of your postings.  I do ponder each word and its purpose in your brain.  Honey, you are a deliberate woman - I know that when you say something, it means a great deal to you.  Your pieces are SO perfectly punctuated and concise - I relish the fact that I am able to learn from you.  I want to walk around in your HEAD!!! Gleam - wasn't that a toothpaste from the 70's?  But, (he he he) how would I know!!?  Just funnin ya Doll. Gotta get my fix.<BR>
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Gala:<BR>
   Oh girl! I love this line in <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.09.20.15.28.21184">Unspoken</a> :<BR>
I was drowning in unspoken,<BR>
and you did not offer a word<BR>
Do I EVER know that feeling.  I drown myself in that moment all too often for my brittle heart to bear.  You are constant and always well received.  Great work Blender Diva!<BR>
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Du'Doll:<BR>
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   I have never directly commented on your pieces, but it is certainly NOT due to lack of admiration. <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.09.20.21.38.29805">I hope...</a> is one of those pieces that I have read in my short month and a half here at The Blender that I can say I FEEL. I ache in my bones with regret at some of my past. <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.09.20.21.38.29805">I hope...</a>  speaks volumes to that salty taste that comes over you when you see that person with another.  It matters NOT if you are happy with a different partner, the burn and the thoughts of "How could they love her/him as much as me" stills takes over like a security blanket.  WOW - you nailed about 4 years of my most miserable years in 20 lines or less!<BR>
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I hope all are well.  I am off to dream of autumn colors and fleece slippers!  It is coming - Fall is so nearly upon us!<BR>
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Rhetoric<BR>
 
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