From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=969">drew1977</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

Jasmine<BR>
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Your poems are absolutly fantastic.<BR>
They take me away to places if havnt thought of for a long time
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1039">Graysiren</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

are you serious? I haven't shown them to hardly anyone and the latest one "Forgotten Snow Angel"  I just wrote tonight right after I came inside.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1039">Graysiren</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

Thanks, by the way.  That means alot to me.  Even though I'm writing from my own experiences I want people to be able to hear what I am hearing in the poem, see what I saw and smell what I could smell.  I Want them to feel like they are a part of it just by reading it, like they are almost there, watching it happen.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1040">empyrean</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

Jasmine - I'm new here... but wow, your writing is sensational...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1040">empyrean</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

so yeah, i'm new here... still a little reluctant to be sharing some of this, being in the company of such high calibre writers!  thank you all for sharing anyway
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=969">drew1977</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

Empy,<BR>
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Love the work, but you already new that.<BR>
I can see the message in risk now and i feel the same.<BR>
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;)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=969">drew1977</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

Thanks to all for answering my question.<BR>
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nice to have some good advice about this sort of stuff.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1039">Graysiren</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

I haven't been writing for very long, I never really thought about it before.  When I was really upset or happy I would write about it and then one day a few months ago I got all my poems together and copied them into a book and I keep adding on more when they come to me.  Now, I have to write or I start to get antsy.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1039">Graysiren</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

Thanks you guys .  I'm glad I can get the feedback from people I don't know because even though I love my friends I always wonder if they're just saying they like them so I won't get my feelings hurt.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=744">jimmyallgrownup</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

Graysiren:<BR>
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Allow me to jump on the bandwagon in praising your work. You da real thing, girlfriend! Word UP! <BR>
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But seriously, it is some really, really good stuff. Keep it coming! ;)<BR>
<BR>
Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

jimmy ~ any chance you live in Hillcrest? We spent Thanksgiving at a deli there last year, long story. Anyway, it's a fun neighborhood. Just curious.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1042">LoriMe</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

Hey you guys, if I suck, let me know!!   I want some honest opinions from people who know what writing is about.  C'mon!!<BR>
I know there has to be some critics out there.  I don't care how negative the response is, at least it is a response.  ???
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

um, BK ~ is that word in the dictionary? or are you pulling a kluless? (he likes to make up words too that he swears are in the dictionary...shhh!)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

SC; As much as I would love to say I made it up, it's a word and even spell check knows it...ha<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=744">jimmyallgrownup</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

Scqueen, I'm actually nearer to La Jolla - but my heart's in Compton. That's where all my homiez be at, anyway. <BR>
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(Oh, btw, Roger LOATHES my new b-boy persona. But I don't care. I'm just keepin' it real. Thug life ain't easy but someone gotta do it. Besides, I think his brain has gotten soft from all those meditation retreats and guru-talk.)<BR>
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Word UP & peace OUT, ya'll!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=744">jimmyallgrownup</a><BR>
Date: 2 December 2002<P>

LoriMe, <BR>
    You decidedly do NOT suck! Very nice work indeed - solid metaphors, good imagery - love the leitmotif of night that seems to run through your poems. Welcome to our community!
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