From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

Misti - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.13.00.17.6845">Croix de guerre</a> is beautiful -- so many lovely analogies, it leaves me speechless!<BR>
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MichaelT - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.12.21.08.7790">Ten Down</a> -- love the openness to new things, change...<BR>
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St Christopher - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.12.19.11.27537">Domino Effect (my mothers story)</a> -- powerful: I can only hope it helps you to share these things<BR>
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twinkle - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.12.03.11.28508">Velvet Footprints</a> -- amazing what can happen when you let someone in, isn't it?<BR>
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Gala - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.11.08.07.22583">Almost Sorry</a> -- someone famous said: "of all the words from mouth or pen, the saddest words are these: 'it might have been'"
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

Tanq ~ Thanks for your comment about Last Road Trip...I think? (I mean, I HOPE you liked the Mellissa Etheridge song my poem reminded you of). And thinking of Melissa Etheridge, she's got some good work out there, though sometimes I find her to be a tad whiney. LOL!! <BR>
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Anyway, Cowboy, I have always loved your work, ever since I came to the Blender almost 2 years ago (???). Thanks for being one of us long term residents of this Psyco Ward.  (Now, now...nobody take offense to that....I take great pride in being psyco, so, coming from me, it's a compliment!)<BR>
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Luv Ya All, (well, sorta)<BR>
-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

Blue Song ~ Reading 'Flowers' reminded me of a crazy thought I have each year when the hot pink ice plant is in bloom in CA...<BR>
I pass this house on my way to work and the entire front yard blooms thick with it. It comes alive, is on fire with color and I always have this urge to jump out of the car, strip off my clothes and lie naked in it. <BR>
But instead of taking a chance on being arrested, I just keep on driving to work :-(<BR>
Oh, ahem, back to you...I loved this poem!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=450">Blue Song</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

Ah then fair Scqueen<BR>
in the darkest  hour before the dawn<BR>
when night holds all in sweetest mist<BR>
take thy self in robe'ed form<BR>
to this place of erotic destiny<BR>
bathe thee then in these flowers of fire<BR>
in all thy naked splendor<BR>
whilst dreaming of being kissed<BR>
by the sun....<BR>
umm  lol  sorry but had  ta <BR>
thank you for the comment<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

Blue Song ~ Well, now ther's an idea; however, the flowers close up at night and I'd just be lying on a bed of cold, slimy, green stems :-(
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=450">Blue Song</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

perchance ... do they sleep late over there?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

Well, now I pass that house about 6:45 am and it is still dark...hmmm 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

Kirk~<BR>
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I was looking at your survey answers...And I just wanted to tell you that I love Holly Cole...She has such an amazing voice...=)<BR>
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Love and light, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=450">Blue Song</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

perchance ... do they sleep late over there?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=450">Blue Song</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

oops
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

hey Scqueen... go knock on the door and ask if you can roll about naked in the ice flowers.... I betcha if a guy answered he'd NEVER say no..<BR>
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*giggling and dashing off stage right*
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

OK you NZ kiwi ~ don't get me wound up :-P
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=50">MichaelT()</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

Misti ~ I have to agree with Echolocation. <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.13.00.17.6845">Croix de guerre</a> is excellent.<BR>
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Echo ~ thanks for the compliment! Why are women so full of <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.08.19.23.51.20130">Contradictions</a> ? :) (That was a rhetorical question..)<BR>
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Distant moon ~ Thanks! I came up with the idea when someone else started posting with the same name. Rather than change my name completely, I decided to add a qualifier that meant something. <BR>
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Arwen ~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.13.13.41.26006">Again Rain</a> Nice! <BR>
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Tanqueray Cowboy ~ If we dated the same archetypes -- I feel for you man. :-) Thanks for the link to that song!<BR>
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Deevaa ~ you are so right. Saying things like that makes a man want to visit Home Depot for some gardening equipment.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

MichaelT ~ I love it when you talk dirt-y ;-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 13 October 2001<P>

Hello Verbage Addicts!!<BR>
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It seems like this site turns and bends taking us to new places all the time.  I am enjoying the spurious energy.Arwen ~  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.13.13.41.26006">Again Rain</a> is beautiful.  You have brought a fresh voice – I really look forward to each post…but please more often?<BR>
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Melancholy<BR>
what a waste of a true love<BR>
Pepper,  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.13.02.33.3901">Honey</a> is wonderful.  Isn’t love melancholy by nature?  Maybe I am too skeptical?<BR>
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Misti ~<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.13.00.17.6845">Croix de guerre</a> is well done, sister.  <BR>
you house my primal ecstasy<BR>
keep the fire lit<BR>
Ooh, yeah…I like that line.  Where do you find these writers challenges you are always referring to?  Am I missing them?<BR>
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Galadrial ~<BR>
I hate to beat the drum that everyone has already pounded, but I loved <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.10.12.09.14.6326">Besting Beaulah</a>.  I really like when Blenderites change format and give a piece of their life.  I once had a very good customer (whom I chatted with nearly daily back in college) with AIDS who talked about BA – before AIDS…my heart sunk when you used that exact reference.  I miss his stories and his honest way of looking at things.<BR>
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Kirk – I was peeping at kisrael.com and saw your pics of Germany.  Don’t you love Heidelberg?  I spent a couple months there back in ‘97.  That is the greatest little German town.  While I was there, the city had a celebration and lit the castle up with torches and spotlights – the red walls looked like they were on fire…I watched from a boat on the river… SO AMAZING! <BR>
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Night, night sweet poets…<BR>
Rhetoric<BR>
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