From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

Here I am catching up... I really liked the poems I ahve listed below. Sorry to the writers for bunching them all together but I have to rush and am reading the new submissions as fast as I can and can't comment on why I like each piece. But each one of these held my attention<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.17.04.31.20553">Buoyant Brat</a><BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.17.04.27.15372">Feedin' The Hunger</a><BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.17.04.22.9570">Gone</a><BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.16.15.24.26989">steven in the passenger side</a><BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.15.08.31.18357">What is Home</a><BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.12.08.44.23977">Checkmate</a>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1169">Passion_Painter</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

In reply to LadyInWaiting;<BR>
<BR>
I am quite flattered that a writer so prolific<BR>
as yourself, has taken the time to not only read my<BR>
writing;  but also to comment upon it.<BR>
<BR>
Thank you for your gracious words.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

thanks, Star of David!<BR>
I need to go back to bed.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">CryingShame58</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

Kirk,<BR>
The wine ads are fabulous sites...<BR>
Pam
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

What?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

libs0813,<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.17.09.37.10917">don't know much</a>....this is one of my favorites too...read or sung...from experience I can admit that i have loved someone to that depth, but it would be so lovely to be loved like that in return....<BR>
CS58 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=985">elocution</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

Rhetty:<BR>
I hope you are feeling fetter and I hope your heart still has room for me and all my mistakes!!!<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

Kirk,<BR>
the ads that are located on the message board were about wine...and i checked them out...every wine ad was an interesting site.<BR>
CS58
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

Passion Painter ~ "prolific"...blush blush...thank you for your lovely compliment...<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

Elocution ~ Baby! You know that I think you are the coolest cat in all of Sunny Cal. It was awesome to just chat with you today. I miss ya, sista. Have a good weekend, you little hussie. I am glad that loves has lit your porch.<BR>
<BR>
Dread Pirate ~ Oh my God. The Princess Bride is my most favorite movie; even as sappy and and corny as it is. I do hope your Buttercup feels just as touched by the sentiment as I when I read your post. On its own I really loved the punctuation and specificty of the lines (what a marvelous title). However, with the overtone of Wesley and Buttercup - it was one of the most sweet and tender gestures. I am so jealous.    As you wish...<BR>
<BR>
Rhetoric<BR>
<BR>
Off to NYC for a week. Hope my Sunday in The Park with the Dali Lama isn't rained out by Isabelle.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=985">elocution</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

Sarah:<BR>
I loved Farther, I can tell you I have been in those shoes and just when I felt as if the world was ending, new love found its way into my heart!  Hang in there--I know there is someone for each of us!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.17.04.40.2385">COMMA ,  COLON,  PERIOD,  QUESTION - MARK</a>  Passion Painter, What a nice reminder of the value of a well constructed sentence, conveying a straightforward idea as well as a reader interpretive message.  I was first amused, then quite awed by this piece.  Thanks.....  Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

God Misti...you write what I think so much of the time (pinot noir - so subtle a theme). If you lived in WV, I would have to meet you! Sadly, NM is a bit farther than I can drive in my little beat up car w/ 90,000 miles. <BR>
<BR>
I hope to meet BK and Rennie...but Nashville is one of my stops. The whole idea of meeting, in person, a name on a computer screen is both frightening and kickass at the same time. To be intrigued enough by a person's words to want to engage in full-on conversation, sans the safety of Backspace, Delete, and Send, just says so much about the words to begin with.<BR>
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BTW - Athena ~ Jim Croce is amazing. I love that song. recently, Operator has been swirling in my head. Wanting to talk to that voice from the past, but knowing that it just can't ever be. Ah, how wonderful Jim Croce was as a poet.<BR>
<BR>
OK...out for good this time.<BR>
Rhetty Rhet la Rue - the aging Protagonist
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

Passion_Painter <BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.17.04.40.2385">COMMA ,  COLON,  PERIOD,  QUESTION - MARK</a> - great piece of writing
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

Hi jwb71913,<BR>
I enjoyed your latest writings, especially <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.17.21.05.549">Mail Order Funeral</a> 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 17 September 2003<P>

Misti,<BR>
I love this one - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.09.17.04.35.27968">Conquest #7</a><BR>
The ending is great. Love this part,<BR>
"there's an alligator<BR>
on my bedside table<BR>
adorned with Mardi Gras beads<BR>
and there's a look<BR>
on my face<BR>
that says<BR>
This Shit is Getting Old."
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