From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

Akash~ I always look forward to your submissions. It is a treat to see your name on the list when I come to Blender. I believe others feel the same way<BR>
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scqueen~ "raw up and downer" .. she is .. and wonderfully so. She is a survivor and able to live to tell about it in ways that don't whine. She is to be admired for her spirit and inspirations. I agree without just giving a thumbs-up ditto this time ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1321">Neverynuff</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

I wish the Love Blender had a sister site with the same sense of friendly, welcoming community for amateur poets, the same range of writers and styles, but open to work over any kind of topic (within reason).  I don't know, maybe a "Life Toaster," or a "Feelings Can-Opener."  I'd have a lot more stuff I could post then, since most of my writing is related to love only indirectly.<BR>
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More likely, I'm just not looking around hard enough.  If anyone has any suggestions and doesn't feel too put-upon to share, I'd appreciate it.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1321">Neverynuff</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

I may as well post something on-topic, eh?<BR>
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<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.08.14.09.24.1258">Insecurity Blanket</a> gives me chills.  Brilliant, Liz; excellent twist on that old piece of vernacular.  It hits home with me because I can remember the time when I WAS the insecurity blanket, trying to wrap myself around someone else.  Of course I didn't realize what I was doing then, but in hindsight I can see my terrible errors, the terrible injustice I paid to those I cared about as a hurting and mistaken teenager.  It wasn't all that long ago, really...  Thankfully, I've been forgiven for most of it, and now I think I know better.<BR>
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Heh, another cryptic little piece of myself for you Blender Board-ers to ruminate on, if you so choose...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

never~ see Kirk's www.kisrael.com ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

Take a look see at <a href="http://pub97.ezboard.com/bgaladrialsrespite">http://pub97.ezboard.com/bgaladrialsrespite</a><BR>
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Lots of different types of poetry there run by our own Sister Gala
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

Wolfscreamer, <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.08.14.14.35.21043">Shadows</a> and Darwin <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.08.14.06.24.27700">in the light</a> – both of these are beautiful...<BR>
Liz, <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.08.14.09.24.1258">Insecurity Blanket</a> – fantastic piece<BR>
Misti - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.08.14.00.23.9026">whiFF</a> – your recent writings are mind blowing!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

that  thing –  was supposed to be a dash!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

Kirk~<BR>
lol at "squish squish." I was teased mercilessly by my buddies during basic training in the Army when they found out about my Miller book. I kept it in my wall locker with my combat boots. I forget which one it was. One of the girls borrowed it from me and it wasn't easy getting it back. I know it was either Sexus, Nexus or Plexus. Usually with erotic books I just flip to the juicy parts but I really enjoy reading all of Miller's prose. He was truly ebullient. Even when he was starving and alone he had a fierce passion for life. He called his life a "rosy crucifixion." <BR>
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Anais Nin liked her daddy a little bit too much. She definitely had guts. But Miller had gusto.<BR>
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scqueen~<BR>
I am overwhelmed by your praise! wOw...thanks, chica. I am happy to know that I have encouraged you and made your life better in some way. I'm so glad you like the collage. I put so much of myself into my collages. I'm thrilled that you understand and appreciate that! Chris needs to update my website, by the way...with new photos and new collages. The Clara Bow comparison throws me for a loop. Maybe on a good day? On a bad day I am Alice Cooper in drag. Not too pretty. Of course I love you! We are Virgo simpatico!<BR>
(((((((HUGS))))))))))) You are the awesomest. Oh, and since xanga is down, I don't know if you got the link I posted. The store is called Thunderbird Supplies and it's in Albuquerque. I bought some green turquoise and an instruction book there so I can make my mom a bracelet. Once I get the ball rolling, I would love to send you some jewelry, whatever kind you would like!<BR>
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Neverynuff~<BR>
You certainly are mysterious. Thanks for the compliment on whiFF. Yeah, my poems mostly suck. They especially sucked two years ago. I'm trying to cull a decent collection of poetry out of poems I've been writing since the early '90s. It's tough going, I tell ya. Welcome aBoard.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

thanks, Star of David! glad ya like it!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

god, I'm annoying...one last thing before I bake a Chef Boyardee pizza and watch "Goodfellas":<BR>
Rennie,<BR>
Yes, this land is healing. Texas blistered me in more ways than one. I always felt like an alien in Texas, unless I was drunk or sick. Everyone liked me when I was drunk or sick. <BR>
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Truth be told, I never had the desire to move to a place like Albuquerque. I dreamed of L.A. and Seattle and San Francisco and Las Vegas. My husband thought this would be a nice place to live. I'm glad we're here. Chris has dragged me cussing like a trucker on many hikes. I've always been a cave girl...holing up inside dark rooms with the a.c. full blast, only venturing out when the moon is up to buy groceries or magazines or cds. I still haven't made peace with the sun or with the desert, but I'm aware of the beauty and the awesome openess of New Mexico. I want to grow into it. Thanks, too, for the insight...I never thought those kinds of poems were my best. But maybe you're onto something there.<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

In a list I have somewhere of top 100 books of all times, Henry Miller was in the top 20 with either Tropic of Capricorn or Cancer (can't remember which) I remeber one of them being my favorite.<BR>
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Anias had an incredibly erotic story about swimming and  when I found out it was about incest it almost made me sick. But it was very well written. Haven't see the movie yet but will rent it soon. Henry and June, way behind on my movie viewing.<BR>
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Happy Friday ya'll. Hope you get the lights back on if you're in the dark.<BR>
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bk<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

GoatgirlGeorge,<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.08.13.20.57.21077">Lovesick</a> - At first I didn't want to read this because it was so long but then I thought I would and a few lines down, I was caught up in what you were describing, it's contagious you know.<BR>
Your excitement and feelings are so vividly described! I remember when I used to feel that way and you brought those memories back perfectly.<BR>
And then I read on to your despair and how you deal with it and how you wish in spite of it all that you could make a wish for her to love you back; and how you even said you didn't want it to be one of those wishes that turned out bad - you covered all bases!<BR>
You first took me high up on the roller coaster of your love for her and then the drop - she doesn't love you back. And I found myself wishing and hoping that everthing works out fine. I do hope it will! Take care and keep the faith.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1087">k3davis</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

Wow; a front-page pick. I reloaded the page in case my download was corrupt or somethin' ;-)<BR>
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I don't write much, mainly because I wish there was something more to write about and sometimes I generally can't stand the "sound of my own voice" getting to that age where I wonder if im really so uninteresting that I must be single forever. I did write some stuff back before they went to the login scheme that's buried in here somewhere (probably the best place for it!).<BR>
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Anyways, thanks for the private little victory of "best opening line". All it would take is a little Googling to expose me, but my friends are mostly technophobes; so far I'm still a closet blender-poet. :)<BR>
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Thanks for the great site.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1320">GoatgirlGeorge</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

I like it ^_^ <BR>
It really conveys feelings and thoughts that are relatable.  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=909">leamas</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

Just a question, and this is in no way intended to look for a fight.<BR>
Is "love" in regards to the Love Blender, strictly taped to the idea of emotional love?  Scratch the "emotional love", is is only for the googoo eyes-love.  Can't it also reach to the other side of love.  For example:  Sadness.  Cannot one feel love for sadness?  Not that you would love being sad, but isn't there some solice and loving comfort in knowing that you are in COMPLETE touch with ones feeling?Can you ever feel more in touch with yourself then when you are introspectively(?) sad?  Wouldn't the same go for one's depression or pain (please no lectures on depression and pain...you have no ground to gain here).  Can't one write about their pain, knowing that they have reached a point that a rare few people have been, and through love of understanding conveigh their emotions.  It seems that the idea of "love" is a bit one dimensional.  That is in no way a slam, just a topic for simple and decent discussion.  "Love" doesn't have to be confined to starry-eyed romanticism, at least as far as I know.  To "love" life, don't you have to understand it first?  To love life, don't you have to accept all that comes with it, no matter how unsavory?  Just a question.  You know what, and I am sure that every blood thirsty, meat craving person here will jump on this, I love depression (again no preaching, it would fall on deaf ears).  You know why?  Despite the pain brought, it brings out clarity.  It draws out my convictions, thoughts and wants.  It brings out who I really am.  It's easy to be lost in joyful field-skipping puppy love, but how diluted can that get a person.  Very.  Go ahead and attack.  I semi-expect it. <BR>
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After I proof read this entry I realized that it my seem cryptic.  I assure you that it isn't and I think that some will understand and some won't.  You have to see it from a certain angle to catch my drift.  If you do, cool, if not that is coold too.  It was just a topic for thought.  If you do understand, however, then you might understand my poetry.  Sure some of it was meant as a parity or joke to what I had read, but most of it was a piece describing what I was just talking about.  Whatever though.  It's just a bunch of words that nobody will understand or be as moved or affected as the author who wrote it. <BR>
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csQueen(?)-I care for orange cream sickles a great deal..In fact that SoBe drink that tastes like them is my favorite.  It is quite tasty.---LEAMAS
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

leamas~<BR>
whose heart is breaking here<BR>
as your eyes meet mine<BR>
and lips form my name<BR>
just before you turn away<BR>
angels watch and weep<BR>
the earth wobbles on its axel<BR>
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© 1997 Rennie Lorca (Blender digest pick in 1998)<BR>
has everything in the world to do with sadness ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=16">kevin urenda</a><BR>
Date: 15 August 2003<P>

No, Misti, haven't been to Insomnia since last summer.<BR>
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the monsoon season hasn't existed for the last few drought-riddled years.  It's supposed to rain like hell every afternoon up closer to the mountains.
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