From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Chances,  I was just reminded that the topic is romance.  Outrageous?  Thank you.<BR>
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Pam....You're the gem my dear.<BR>
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Rennie, thanks for your time and attention.<BR>
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Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Cattie; we like it that you are working thru your emotions and hope you will continue to write for us along love related topics.<BR>
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As for the SCREAMING MEME's. A one year vacation to an ex-marines wilderness camp ought to fix your need of being whatever it is you are. Get over yourselves. Try reading "Angela's Ashes" and see what weenies you really are compared to their lives. It's a survival of the fittest out there and you put yourselves at the bottom of the rung acting like whiners. Do you realize that every great artist was Depressed and worse and they created some of the finest music and writing and art work ever. They worked their way thru it creating something lasting, something worthwile, something beautiful...not something to make people want to get as far away from them as possible.<BR>
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Rennie; They pick on you because you have an open mind and are big hearted and take it. Even Kirk lets it slide as long as it's love related. I'm glad it's not my site as I would have deleted their idiot asses a long time ago. Most of this I can let slide as well till it keeps going on and on and it gets truly BORING.<BR>
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So we've done it now lets try and move on.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1217">Ful</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Kase & LuLu- Yes I do agree that i should put the peoples name! But you see I got most of them off a web site, and they do not have names up their! yes I did look to make sure!  And for everyone that wants great poems liek the ones that I posted go to www.firehotquotes.com! It is a great site!!<BR>
(I wasnt trying to get credit for what wasnt mine!)<BR>
Ful
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1217">Ful</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Carol-I am glade that I can make you feel good about yourself! You are a really talented writer! And im not saying everone up here isnt! But yours just seem to reach me more! Well any ways to my point, I think you should enter this contest, it is at www.poetry.com! I got sent and e-mail about it, and i dont write very good poems!! (I just write to express,like u) and I think that you would have a chance to win! I dont know all the details about it but you should go to the site and read the rules and all that!<BR>
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Ful
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=985">elocution</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

I think we are all just speaking our minds and our hearts.  I wish however, the language and the personal attacks would stop!  <BR>
Rennie-I read your words faithfully and I find hidden meaning in each one of your posts.  Dont let these who bad mouth you or others change the kind, caring person that you are.  Some days I race home from work to just see what is going on and always find it a comfort to see the wonderful things you speak of and share!<BR>
Kirk-I do not envy you!  I know you are allowing freedom of expression but please don't let anyone destroy the "beauty" you have created!  I thank you a million times for the "Board".
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Hi Everybody~<BR>
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I just popped in to say hi.  I know I haven't been around much, but life has been crazy (not necessarily a bad kind of crazy, but crazy nonetheless).  I will post a piece soon, I promise! *smile*<BR>
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Love and undone boundaries, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

CryingShame; re: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.04.30.22.12.22330">fantasies & truths revealed</a> , have you tried a google search? I found many good matches for that lyric, though most of them have "The sun was shining brightly" instead of "The forest fires are burning" (which is what happens has folkish songs spread.)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Dang it, I meant <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.04.17.07.07.13767">?????</a>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Thank you all for your lovely compliments...<BR>
I shall bow out for a while...let the anger calm...<BR>
but shall continue to read and look for my favorites as usual...<BR>
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Kareem ~ nice to see you writting again...always love your works...<BR>
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Jon ~ nice to see you back as well...always touch my heart<BR>
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Chances, Cryingshame, Jim, Rennie...it has been a great month with the play...I shall miss it...<BR>
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BK ~ nice to see you back also, love your spirit and your works...keep it up dear<BR>
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Spaceman ~ nice to see you posting again...<BR>
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wolfscreamer ~ you are just lovely...<BR>
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Rennie and Kase...I pray each day that you both are healing nicely...always thinking of you<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

One suggestion; I'm pretty much ok with people posting song lyrics (even if I think they push into very dark grey areas of copyright/fair use) but it would be better if people clipped them, either just show the really good bits, the part that really speaks to you (and to be honest, usually it's just one or two stanzas that really makes a song work) or at least don't put in the chorus over and over...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1212">alan</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

kase:<BR>
   my one "poem" wasnt a poem, it was just a "need advice" thing! and yeah, i need help..but unfortinaly for you...theres no one that can help ur sorry ass! and when you say "back to you" isnt that a lil.....childish. anywayz, im not gonna comment on u anymore, seeing that i wasnt talking to u anywayz when you had to comment to me in the first place! 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1050">Kase</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

 ANAL__ I mean ALAN___I see you're once again rejected by your left hand..... So I guess you're having trouble screwing yourself...  No more comments to me--- You're not worth responding to and your poetry is nondescrept.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Hmm. Good thing you're being ladylike... ;)<BR>
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Play NICE, people...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Kirk,<BR>
I have not tried a google search, but will...thanks for this idea...I will let you know what i find...Can't wait for the new May issue of the Blender of Love...<BR>
CR58
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">Cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

wolfscreamer,<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.03.15.01.20683">Love scenes</a> touched the struggling star that's only a waitress in me...i have had similar thoughts but mine was more of a best seller...<BR>
CR58
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1212">alan</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

kase,<BR>
  one last comment:<BR>
    its my right hand not left, get it right next time, lol. anywayz, how does that have to do w/ anything? and  anal, wow...great joke! i meen it must have took u how long to think of it...hour...two hours? cuz u do seem lil on the slow side. and why do you keep saying "not worth responding" if you KEEP RESPONDING?!?! 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1212">alan</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

everyone,<BR>
  sorry for the fighting that has been happening w/ me and otherz and fighting between otherz. this isnt the place for it. <BR>
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kase,<BR>
  sorry for the comments, u pissed me off. i take it back.  some friends of mine have gone through alot and cut. and a way they over came what was going on was through they're poems. so i guess i felt as if i should say something, but i wasnt talking to you when i did. sorry for what i said.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=220">wolfscreamer</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Cryingshame .We all have star status inside us we just don,t get the breaks huh.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Kirk - Well, as Rennie will vouch for, I dislike it when bits are missing. I actually told myself when I took Chances as a nom de plume that I wouldn't post lyrics. It's a fallback when I've got a creative block and probably doesn't encourage me to stretch myself, so I'll try to knock it off (no pun intended).
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Rennie - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.03.16.15.9295">LEGENDS OF EVERY WOMAN</a> - That was fantastic!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1202">bloomingrose</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Aparajita-thanks for the push, I was just sitting here twittleing my thumbs waiting for the mood to strike, I read your latest three and really enjoyed them. They sound like you are getting more open with your heart. Keep up the healing process, there is no life without feeling, just existance.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=943">jessica</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

sarah- your poem "long distance thing" was really good!!! i really liked it! i dont know what yhere was about it but it really touched me!! keep up the great work!!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1202">bloomingrose</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Chances: I am glad you felt my poem, what would our world be without feeling? Just an existance that can't really be enjoyed. Without the bad, we could never enjoy the GOOD.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Rennie,<BR>
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I swear you are the funniest person I know.  Thanks.<BR>
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Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Ali; Glad to see you back woman. <BR>
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Rennie Lorca: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.03.16.15.9295">LEGENDS OF EVERY WOMAN</a> Bravo Rennie, this is one of my favorites of yours thus far.<BR>
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Kindred Spirit49; Too many to mention, I like all your writing and have to say you inspire some of mine as well. <BR>
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wolfscreamer: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.03.15.01.20683] Wonderful![[2003.05.03.02.01.20400">???</a> Your observations are an inspiration for all of us. Very nicely written.<BR>
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kareem; <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.02.15.05.7940">Missing You Today</a> Oh how I can identify with this one. Thanks for sharing.<BR>
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By Star of David <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.01.19.37.12394">Kisses for you</a> There are never enough poems about kissing ha. (My favorite topic ha)<BR>
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Jim; I laughed out loud reading the weiner whiner poems you wrote ha. Almost spit tea all over myself. <BR>
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Chances;<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.02.21.55.1116">Inconsolable</a> Hope you are consolable and find someone as wonderful as yourself. Thanks for the comments on my work.<BR>
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ladyinwaiting; <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.03.11.06.30841">Pieces of Love</a> No matter what, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again. Nice one.  <BR>
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Case; You make me laugh as well. You are about as mean as me and I'm a rough tough creampuff. ha<BR>
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CryingShame58; Your dog poems are funny. Having two Corgis that own everyting and then some, I know where you're coming from.<BR>
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Rhett; I was thinking about what you said about style and substance. We all are different here and that's what I like about the place. I've read that famous poets all had lots of cuts on the same poems (tweaked a lot) and I love this place to bounce the first draft off. If I have to sit and think about it much I usually ruin it. Most of my changes I make in xanga and though I ride Kirk about an edit button here. Actually he saves me a lot of grief haha.<BR>
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bk <BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

wolfscreamer; <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.03.15.01.20683">Love scenes</a> <BR>
I put in both link codes and that is what I got. Ha<BR>
My computer is being attacked by aliens<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.05.03.02.01.20400">Candlelight</a> <BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=158">footballdude</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

i have a ? 4 anyone that'll answer.<BR>
when u make a comment, how do you do the thing where u can have a short cut to a sertin poem? (cant spell)!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Blast away, we're broadsidng now!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

footballdude - In a posted work, there's a linkcode at the top. Highlight it (together with the brackets on each side). Copy it (right click, copy) and paste (right click, paste) into your comment. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Chances,<BR>
I dunno about "bits are missing". I think songs are structured differently than pure poetry. I think songs are better than pure poetry, actually, so I don't think it hurts to refine them when taking them away from their tunes and posting them here.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 3 May 2003<P>

Kirk - I think every word's important in a song, including repeats. If you put in CHORUS, REPEAT CHORUS, then it doesn't read very well. 
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