From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

I found that quote while cleaning out e-mails last night and planned on putting it front page but when I saw what was going on boards put it here instead. (so go get bushwacker and dixiechick hang me ha) <BR>
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There are lots of ways to say things I think but only one that distinctively makes it your own and when you start monkeying with that you may as well be sniffing butts with the rest of the sheep. Baahh! There are millions that love that smell, I'm just not one of them. <BR>
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bk<BR>
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So get out the cross, someones going to get crucified again ha. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

Thank you Star of David, Hope you're doing better.<BR>
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I'll avoid crucifixun by choosing rhyme over content.<BR>
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Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

I have to say...I'm confused, and it's not that easy to confuse me. I have no idea what you're talking about B.K.<BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=339">jack</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

lol B.K. sounds like a big argument in offing lol but i will try my best to remain clear of this as being banned fer my thoughts on poetry here lol would kinda be a bummer <BR>
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jack
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

Poetry is whatever I say it is. So everyone be nice to me, K?<BR>
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;)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

BK~ It was July 12th.  I'm closing in on a month or wedded bliss!  Thank you for your kind comments on "reasons to love you"  I'm warming up to writing again after having been in hibernation. :-) ~Vi<BR>
PS: Did you ever watch that show, Fraggle Rock?  I loved it when I was a kid. ;-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

POETRY: <BR>
p o e-try  <BR>
poet r y   <BR>
y r poet<BR>
poe try <BR>
try poe<BR>
o trype <BR>
typo er! ... 'xactly, :) w/e, inde-sush<BR>
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Kase~ In reply to your several requests for crits: I've never seen true and complete critiques here at Blender on the board. We give praise, gut reaction, general, vague and personal reactions (we're a real reactive group), preferences, heads-up and comfort here. True criticism has several elements in comparing your work to the times, group, genre, your former work, works at large, how you've progressed or regressed and more. Since they've been mentioned, professionals get paid to give critiques and reviews. They usually bear in mind who pays their salary or wages, the publication's sponsorship or advertisers, and their editor's and publisher's personal preferences. The best praise is from your own feeling of self-satisfaction (personal best), and then from those who care about you and are honest with you. Avoid writer's block by writing what you really feel at the time and then dress it up a bit. Tips: Write for yourself and your feelings at the time. Write for your lover, since this is love poetry. Write to get the attention of new lovers if you need that. IF you try to write to please Kirk with a piece about being curled-up like a kitten with your sweetheart, he might read you with a headache, just after the cat's uncurled and taken a swipe at him, and Mo's fussed at him over something. You cannot second guess your audience or the public. You can't write for anyone but who you really know where romance is concerned. That means you and who you've been intimate with (or want to be). IF you write to please folks here at Blender, they may be off on vacation, blue when you are happy, or happy when you are blue. You'll do better on a one-armed bandit than you will trying to please the public. You'll find fans where you didn't expect them. Just write. There is someone out there who will read you and connect with it even if it's something like the foolishness I wrote above on inde-sushi's comment. Poetry is what each of us want it to be, unless we let others dictate to us. Poetry has evolved, and keeps evolving. "Beat" poetry hit the streets in the sixties, took off in the seventies. Rap is an ancient form that's resurfaced in our time. Lyrics sell well in Music City, and bore the beans out of folks about how their poetry should follow certain forms. My preferences and understanding evolve. I always read poems here several times before commenting. Your poem worked for me because I read your other works in your Blender account. You're realistic about love, but you want to think domestically about him with cooking? How are you two with making beds, sweeping and dusting? :). I think your (love) poetry will grow as your relationship does, if you want my opinion. I think you'll get more confident and comfortable with what you feel and write then. I liked what you wrote, how you wrote it, and the progression you used in writing it. Hope this will suffice, Kase. I've been covered-up in work here ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

So...after all this...is Kase around? LOL!<BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1189">darwin</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

violet, congrats....I know your joy!<BR>
I myself have been married for 2 months as of today.  And I can't wipe that newlywed smile off my face!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.08.07.14.30.29943">Discouraging Battle</a>   Hey Pam, Don't tell me I'll never get that piece of my heart back, please?  I need it to give to someone else.<BR>
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Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1131">indefensible sushi</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

B.K. & Teej: Play nice, girls! ;)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

OMG! Sush, shut up. LOL! We're not even fighting. I answered KASE. She asked for something. I indulged her request. All the rest is just fluff. And most of it makes no sense in context of what Kase aksed for.<BR>
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-Teej (laughing)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

TJ~you misspelled asked....<BR>
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bp
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

  ~Misti~Gobbled was an awesome rant, glad i took the time to read it, i do hope someone is there to remind me never to piss in your corn flakes. way to go kid...<BR>
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bp
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

LOL! bp...you're hilarious! Correct AND hilarious. How you been, old man?<BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

LOL...thanks, bp!<BR>
(god help the fool who pees in my Lucky Charms...ha)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.08.07.18.52.21497">Pink Mink</a> <BR>
"pour me a kiss<BR>
then rub me like mink"<BR>
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me gusto esta mucho. muy bueno, B.K.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

Teej.~still old and confused babe, thanx for thinking of me....<BR>
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bp
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=487">bp</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

~nite BK<BR>
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bp
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=909">leamas</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

A Poem of Definitions <BR>
Dedicated to Danica, <BR>
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At hand or accessible,<BR>
A son or daughter,<BR>
To undergo or feel (pain or distress),<BR>
Source, origin, agent or cause,<BR>
Suitable to the needs or purpose,<BR>
A personal attachment or affection<BR>
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Reckless<BR>
Damaging<BR>
Careless<BR>
Self-serving<BR>
Regretless<BR>
Haunting<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=909">leamas</a><BR>
Date: 7 August 2003<P>

TRIPE.<BR>
Intestinal garbage.<BR>
Wretch.<BR>
Antiquated filth.<BR>
Flush.<BR>
Self-inflicted punch.<BR>
Mold.<BR>
Self-absorbed.<BR>
Ridiculous.<BR>
GOLDEN CALF.<BR>
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"good stuff"---LEAMAS.<BR>
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