From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=614">Lydia</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

Jim and Ladyinwaiting: Thank you for your comments on The Bottom. Truthfully, I love it when others notice my work! Empathy is a strong emotion.<BR>
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frozencharlotte: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.25.20.29.21132">Cracker Jacks</a>  is an amazing piece. The prize reference is a metaphor we can all share. Salty peanuts...no substitute, I am sure.<BR>
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Lydia
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

Leamus - I found your PS very interesting. I actually went back and read a fair bit of what I have written in the past because of it. The fact is, I am a selfish poet, I write about my feelings, therefore, my poetry could be said to be self-centered. I was actually quite pleasantly  surprised by a lot of what I have written. Your thought about complacency did hold a note of truth for me... sometimes I do see that I could have put more of a cohesive effort into some works, but they are as they are. I do enjoy looking through the poetic periscope at other poets and I believe that interpretation is individual at any rate, we all relate what we read to and through our own experiences... life is a journey and poetry is life... just thoughts.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

Chances; I'll second the notion. Leamas complains a lot about the place but something here keeps him and everybody else coming back in to read. Don't let them bully you for a second. Write between your head and your heart and it will never be wrong. Love and Romance is what this place is about. Your work is wonderful as it is and your front pages bear witness to it.(I hate critics ha, but what the hey, they are noticing you good or bad. It's still attention ha.)<BR>
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bk<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=222">poyen_fpy</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

Galadrial, i love this <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.23.17.32.23368">If I Love You Means</a> 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=863">Champagne</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

To Wolfscreamer,<BR>
<BR>
You described "hind-site" - knowing ahead of time,<BR>
what the outcome would be.<BR>
I think we all wish we had that ability - not only<BR>
in love and romance, but in everything.<BR>
That's why decisions are so hard to make,<BR>
because we don't know the outcome of them,<BR>
before we make them.<BR>
<BR>
We'd all make the right choices, all the time,<BR>
if we knew ahead of time what the outcome would be.<BR>
<BR>
In everything, life is a gamble.<BR>
<BR>
:-)<BR>
<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=863">Champagne</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

A comment to Star of David,<BR>
<BR>
I was reading some of the front page picks<BR>
and came accross this one which was written <BR>
by you - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.06.12.02.01.20445">The darkness remains</a> <BR>
It was absolutely beautiful.<BR>
Your talent as a writer is very visible here.<BR>
"dipping your pen into the inkwell of his rejection"<BR>
Great stuff.<BR>
You penned the words so effortlessly<BR>
painting a picture in my mind.<BR>
<BR>
Very Nice Indeed.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=863">Champagne</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

Lady in Waiting -<BR>
<BR>
"911" was very clever.<BR>
<BR>
I like clever.<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

wolfscreamer - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.26.08.51.26699">I,d rather leave when I,m in love</a> - I really got something out of this one. Thanks.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=220">wolfscreamer</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

Champagne and Chances. Thank you both for opinions. I write from lifes observations and bottles of wine , if what I write gets a comment from writers like yourself thats a plus , thank you again.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

whispersilent: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.07.26.19.28.23498">loves sweet morn</a> If you're not Jack, then I'm a monkeys uncle hahahahahah (well aunt anyway)<BR>
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Kiss Jack!<BR>
<BR>
bk 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1308">whispersilent</a><BR>
Date: 26 July 2003<P>

jack? ... ah my lady but are you truly sure?<BR>
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and i do thank you all for your wonderfull comments heh kinda made my melinium ya might just say...<BR>
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whispersilent
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