From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=152">Max-Rom</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

To whom it might concern, <BR>
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I have been browsing the recent board entries only to come to this conclusive question:  Why all the useless blather?<BR>
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Sure, it is a free board... but c'mon.  Are we poets supposed to talk discuss poetry on a poetry website or not?  Please help me understand this.  I came to this site because I love poetry and still do.  It just happens to get unnerving when a majority of the conversation consists of kindergarten-type such as, "Who stole my crayons?"  I just think some people should act their age(maybe a few years more for a few of us)  instead of, and please excuse this cliche' ,their shoe size!  I thought that poets were people that gave a rats behind (at least)  about how they represented themselves publically or otherwise.  I hope that my heart will always stay true to poetry as I wish for you all also.  Just make this a fun place to visit.  Not, as many have so aptly put, a soap-operish thing.<BR>
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Sincerely, <BR>
~Max~ ;)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=12">Tanqueray Cowboy</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

Echo ~<BR>
Love <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.01.17.09.446">Arkansas Night (Winter)</a>!!!<BR>
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   "Full moon tips the blowing leaves with silver,<BR>
    Turning the red wine to black <BR>
    Even as it edges our glasses with white fire"<BR>
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Strange and wonderful how everything looks and feels beneath moonlight, isn't it?<BR>
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Ali ~<BR>
Thanx.<BR>
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Rhet ~<BR>
Home's that place where they HAVE to take you back, right?<BR>
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Beyond ~<BR>
Welcome.  Like your stuff.  I like the style... not overly concerned about rhyme or meter, just  phrases and thoughts in pleasing cadence.  Nice.<BR>
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~tc<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

Tanq Honey...<BR>
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            Ghost...and Reprise...why does the cold weather seem to heat up your stuff?<BR>
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            Sighing...liking it...<BR>
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                                       Lisa
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=10">Galadrial</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

Hey Gang...<BR>
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        Jesus.......I missed a little Jihad I guess. Anyway, I have been about six levels beyond swamped...family crap, the holidays---and setting up a new site to replace the Garden.<BR>
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        I'm trying to keep it simple...but will have it ready for art soon (you listening dee?). If you have any poetry that is NOT love related, please feel free to come and post...there is a registration process, but you signed up for ez board, and have a global account, you're already eligible.<BR>
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        I also want to ask the blenderites who posted to the garden to PLEASE move their posts to the Respite...<BR>
I have no control whatever over the old board...but I still want your stuff. Our crew is vert diverse, and dynamic...including Ali, Kev...and Misti. So give it a whirl...<a href="http://pub97.ezboard.com/bgaladrialsrespite">http://pub97.ezboard.com/bgaladrialsrespite</a> the natives are friendly...and we've gotten them out of the habit of eating the tourists...mostly!<BR>
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        BTW...Kev and Misti's forums ROCK. Thanks to everyone...including the Big Kahuna...<BR>
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                                         Gala/Lisa
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

Echo...your newest, <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.02.09.49.15987">Incognito</a>, is so lyric. <BR>
Look behind the words <BR>
Lure it out, persuade it to show itself in all its naked beauty <BR>
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WONDERFUL.<BR>
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Bob - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.02.04.12.25171">Kristin's Quote</a> is so funny.  Thanks for sharing it.<BR>
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TC - Reprise..Wow.  And no, home is where you want to be - we don't have to take you back!!  ;o)<BR>
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nothing - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.02.01.14.25200">a light for...</a> is tender and soft.  You have a very recognizable style already.  I like the titles and how they play off your name.  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.02.01.14.25200">a light for...</a> is my favorite so far.<BR>
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Beyond Different - Welcome to the Jungle! <BR>
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Happy Sunday Blenderites, Rhetoric
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

Blue Denim ~ Your posts are very refreshing and I'm glad you've joined us. By the way, I saw a car in AG last night with plates that read "EPOETIC". Wondered if it could've been you?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

December Digest is here: <a href="http://www.loveblender.com/2001december/">http://www.loveblender.com/2001december/</a>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

Congrat's to all the front pagers...*smile* Excellent work everybody!!<BR>
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Love and sparkling eyes, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=340">BlueDenim</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

scqueen: Thank you. And I like the plate, but I would not have thought of it. Thanks for thinking it might've been me.<BR>
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~Bob
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=299">sweetness</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

Echolocation:   <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.02.09.49.15987">Incognito</a>    and<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.02.09.42.12478">Erinyes</a>  blew me away....  both are just beautiful.....<BR>
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Tanqueray Cowboy:  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.02.00.28.13307">Ghost Reprise (Hello Stranger)</a>  you have a gift for saying so much with the minimum of words.   I loved this one, and <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.01.17.44.26450">These Closed Blinds</a> .<BR>
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Glad to see the December Digest!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2001<P>

sweetness - thanks for the kind words - so glad you made the Front Page Picks because it brought <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.11.03.21.04.25113">Tonight</a> to my attention.  You've beautifully captured a longing with which too many of us, I'm sure, are familiar.  "The way you touched me and left me untouched" is especially sharp.<BR>
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Tanq - glad you liked the AK post (moonlight is indeed a Good Thing).  I see you're starting December off well - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.01.17.44.26450">These Closed Blinds</a> is lovely - perhaps 'poignant' would be a better word?  So many of your pieces evoke intense visual as well as emotional imagery...<BR>
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BlueDenim - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2001.12.02.04.12.25171">Kristin's Quote</a> had me laughing out loud - too too true!<BR>
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Max-Rom - Re your remark about "useless blather": I see your point and I think part of the reason there isn't much formal and/or detailed critique is that at bottom this isn't a Writer's-Circle-type site (maybe that's what Nutty Jim needs to understand!).  It's a Romantic Luv site, and as such the emphasis is not so much on the technical skill of the writing as it is on sharing emotions -- which, on the Board, often expands to include sharing personal details of one's life.  It has gone to extremes on occasion, making a lot of us unwilling witnesses to flamings we neither understand nor care about; but it generally recovers if you stick it out!<BR>
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I note a lot of people lately are specifically asking for feedback, though.  Kirk's idea about workshopping particular poem(s) may be An Idea Whose Time Has Come, especially if there were guidelines for the comments such as not being allowed to just say "Gee I like it", but instead having to provide some sort of concrete reason(s) -- for example, "Unusual imagery" or "That analogy doesn't really work, does it?" or "Did you think about using the word 'wombat' here instead?", that sort of thing.<BR>
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Maybe Kirk would like to float some ideas on how the workshop-thing might work (hint hint)?
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