From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1159">Lilla</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

For ladyinwaiting.  Thanks so much finding "It Rains on Summer" awesome.  I am new to the Love Blender and I am truly happy that real people get to read (and even appreciate) my works.  'Till next time. :)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=66">willtobe1</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

aparajita and ladyinwaiting~<BR>
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Thank you so much for your sweet words. <BR>
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My passion spent, I am again wordless.  Which is, of course, as it should be. <BR>
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I'll hope to stop by again in a lighter mood.  <BR>
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wtb1
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

Dana and aparajita - Thanks for your comments and welcome to both of you. I have enjoyed both of your works, and the comments you both made were invaluable to me.<BR>
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ladyinwaiting - Thanks for your comments. I continue reading and enjoying your work, especially <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.07.03.23.18575">Happiness and Butterflies</a> of late.<BR>
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B.K. - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.09.20.08.23876">Mosaics of Desire</a> and <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.07.18.43.15675">One Humdinger Of A Romance</a> - they are both fantastic.<BR>
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Blue - Good to hear your voice again after a while. Hope to see you around more often and read more. Sounds like you've taken a journey.<BR>
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amaryllis - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.09.14.02.1126">Complete Day</a> - Lovely.<BR>
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jim - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.09.19.10.18628">Dinner for two?</a> - Your poetry keeps getting better and better. Well done!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

There are just so many wonderful works here lately. Compliments to all.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

Chances,<BR>
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Every time I read your account I am struck by the depth of emotion and your abilty to flow it to the page.  Then I keep on reading until I have no time to tell you.  Thanks for the kind words.  Loved beauty routine.  And I love 'hey leonardo' as well, a favorite song.<BR>
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jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1174">Dana</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

Jon - I think all of your pieces are amazing so your commments mean a lot. Thanks so much.<BR>
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jwb71913 - Regular Guy was great!<BR>
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Chances: Beauty Routine was truly beautiful
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">Indefensible Sushi</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

Man, the Blender is so BOOOOORING lately! Putting a plagarized work on the Front Cover ('Relationship Tips'--do a Google search on any one of the 'tips') did not start things off well for the month...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

Inde-Sush~ hey, Kirk got ya hooked on google searching now? I think he puts up what interests him and credits the writers here who bring it to the our attention more than giving each writer credit for any particular piece. The © added to a piece is enough to claim credit or not for a piece. IF a writer doesn't try putting their own copyright to a piece, and only posts that piece here, then there is not really an attempt to steal the piece, but share. It may be incorrect to use a piece without permission that is on the public domain. But calling attention to an author will often boost sales by interesting others in their works. Often, we also learn who an author is from someone posting an "unknown" work and asking for help in finding the author (sometimes not easy). All in all here, we share more as extended family and not great critics or exacting taskmasters to the literary word. That said:<BR>
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willtobe1~ So many of us do our best here to read the new works as they hit the new submission page. It is a daunting task for anyone because of the number of subs. I have had my favorite writers here over the years because I know a tidbit of their real lives or likes, so I read them first usually. I spent quite a bit of Saturday evening getting reintroduced to Ali by reading her entire account. I can appreciate her work far more now from doing that. I try to read each writer here that way .. and add information from their comments posts, much like I would do reading the bios and history of now-famous writers. I vaguely remember a poster in the past with a nic like the one you use. I'm slower after being very ill, sorry. I've been able to catch-up faster on some old Blender posters by going to the search engines and pulling up much of what is not in their account here, but who previously posted to Blender that way only IF I am really lucky in searches. I read your work as one who is very much into words, which I appreciate very much. Forgive me, or any of us, who are slow in commenting here. We often opt for reading over commenting, or like this comment -- overmuch. I seldom receive a comment on something someone (glo-po and BlackBlanche) else is very interested in seeing a comment on, but cannot control what folks feel or care to comment on here. Be assured, when someone does comment here, it is genuine and not just idle banter on the board. The readers often seem to judge comments as much as poetry submissions from what I gather. Each writer here is moved by different words. Sometimes we find the right ones to move many or none here. That is the key to becoming a well-known writer, not finding an audience but finding THE right audience that produces fans. Blender folks are, on the whole, kind and encouraging. Please post more and fill your account so that we can all enjoy the definite love you do have for words, people and feelings. I know I will definitely enjoy reading you. <BR>
And, this also goes for others here. I never tire of reading at Blender when I know something of the writers here ... so it is never "boring" to me. I am thankful for Blender on days where the news is upsetting and others around me are a bit out of sorts. Enough said ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

cattie~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.10.15.23.9583">Wishes</a> sometimes wishes do come true in truly being forgiven by folks strong enough to wipe the slate clean and enjoy a real friend again. Hopefully, this is the case. If we were not sometimes forgiven by those we become close as friends or intimate with as lovers we would be lone wolves in life, all of us since we are so prone to speak our mind. Friendship and intimacy gives us risks in a means to share more deeply. Take care ..... Rennie  <BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=962">Lulu</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

I am speaking for "footballdude"-<BR>
He apologizes for all the submittions of the same poem.<BR>
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                     ~*Lulu*~
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.10.01.52.2894">"Birds in cages sing of freedom, birds in freedom fly"</a> <BR>
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What a lovely child you have Lilla.  And how lovely your words.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1179">amaryllis</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

Chances-  Thank you so much for the wonderful "word":)...it held alot of meaning in it for me.  It isn't a small thing to praise ones work and i truly admire you for taking the time to tell me. Thank you again.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

willtobe1~ is this you (before the newer accounts) in prose and poetry: <a href="http://www.loveblender.com/2001april/heart/dream.html">http://www.loveblender.com/2001april/heart/dream.html</a> ? ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

Kevin Urenda,<BR>
I cant get enough of your writing.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=66">willtobe1</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

RennieLorca~ Thank you for your devoted comment.  It tugs me to believe I was guilt-tripping you for not reading me and commenting anon.  I would be a sorry man indeed cry blame to a crime I've all-but-never failed to commit.  I think my primal scream came from my not having anything I preened to show, more than for y'all not plucking roses from the little manure I spread.  <BR>
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But my primal scream itself was, I guess, the poetry I had to offer.  Not the formal form, you'll grant, but it sung me deep and in my own voice.  And having exhaled it, I felt a familiar calming deflation.  <BR>
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And, Rennie, bless your heart...I had COMPLETELY forgotten about that "dream" thing you linked me back unto.  I must say, I'm more than a little impressed with myself.  Maybe I'm not so unpoetic after all...<BR>
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(Though it's a pain to read, ain't it, with all that side-scrolling that must be done.  What happened with that?  Can it be fixed?)<BR>
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wtb1
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

Relationship Tips - plagarized? You are some kinda super sleuth, Indie Sushi! I know I don't get out much here in Hillbilly Heaven, as you refer to it, but I am pretty sure that nobody here thought your post was a bonafied, one o' the kind, offic-i-alle love poem. Me thinks you are getting your characters mussed up. All this smog must be blocking out the THC.<BR>
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Thanks for the front page Kirk. Even though it doesn't meet with Trout's er, uh Sushi's definition of taste or excitement, I appreciate the head nod.<BR>
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Rhet-o-wreck Bitch-o-rama
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=66">willtobe1</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

I remember now:<BR>
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I wrote "Dream" after I woke from a dream wherein I heard with crystal purity a female voice singing those lines from "Sound of Music" (though I don't recall having heard it since childhood), and I was quite sure, in the way that the forms of dreams are meaningless without the strong feelings they engender, that the Lass was singing in death a terrible bittersweet longing for life, life, life...<BR>
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("the dead know only that its better to be alive")<BR>
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So, RennieLorca, since you asked about it -- just thought you might like to know.<BR>
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wtb1
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=545">Madi</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

<a href="http://www.planetproctor.com/2003/pp03-01.html">http://www.planetproctor.com/2003/pp03-01.html</a><BR>
follow the yellow brick road.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 10 March 2003<P>

willtobe1~ thank you for sharing that explanation. I would be hardpressed to tell what all my posted works relate to (or for ...). Example: I've been taken to task in e-mail and in person for one word in my Brigantine piece: "toil" ... cannot get the folks to just go into www.dictionary.com to dig deep and find the meaning instead of trying to change it to "toll" for me. Glo and Blanche are scholars, so they really work me in reading them, but I like it. Many of my works may have more than one (or even more) meaning for the reader to use. I also enjoy breaking the "rules" of poetry even though I have been taught most all of them at one time or another. So, I enjoy your use of words. A pleasure to read in context or explanation ..... Rennie
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