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posted June 11, 2009 08:05 AM         

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Hey there!

I'm a new member here - 19, Virgo gal from India. I have a Pisces Moon and a Libra ascendant.

I adore swimming, writing poetry, spending time with my two dogs and little ninja kitty. E.E. Cummings and T.S. Eliot are two of my favouritest poets!

I also love cooking! I make great Pasta [or so they tell me ] and am addicted to Cheese.

I'm new here but am loving every minute of my roaming in Linda-land

PS: How do you put up photos here?

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posted June 11, 2009 10:52 AM         

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Hello fellow cheese-lover!!!

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posted June 11, 2009 10:54 AM         

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See the "Newbie Party" thread for learning how to post pics etc! Welcome!

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posted June 11, 2009 01:41 PM         

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hey mermaiden! how you doing? another cheese AND pasta lover here!

i find it amusing that you write ee cummings with the proper capitals!!

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posted June 11, 2009 03:19 PM         

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Another cheese lover! Woohoo!
Nice to meet you, Mermaiden

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posted June 11, 2009 06:45 PM         

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Let's have a cheese and pasta party. You guys can't bring what I am bringing.
OH and wine, can't have cheese and pasta without wine!

So Mermaiden, to your party I am bringing MUNSTER cheese, cuz its soft and smooth.
For your pasta, I am bringing LASAGNA, because I'm Italian and thats the way we roll. And for your wine, I'm bringing WHITE MERLOT, cause thats my new fave.

K spread out the table cloth!

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posted June 11, 2009 07:11 PM         

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White merlot? What's this, what's this? Now I'm intrigued!

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posted June 12, 2009 08:58 PM         

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Welcome!
Always' good to meet new folk

I might SAY I like cheese, but really I guess I like the novelty of liking cheese >.< and the word cheese
I, in fact, do not appreciate pasta, however I find it not tasty, yet labourious to eat, and thus I don't enjoy eating it :/

At any rate, Welcome

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posted June 12, 2009 11:53 PM         

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Hello! I love poetry too. Do you like any of the Romantic poets?

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posted June 13, 2009 12:52 AM         

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Pasta and cheese

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posted June 13, 2009 07:12 AM         

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what and no wine to wash it down AG?

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posted June 13, 2009 11:49 AM         

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@ katatonic: after a lot of researching I found out that it actually is E.E.C. The man used weird punctuation in his poetry but spelled his name the proper way

And the party idea sounds super. Although I have no clue about wines. :'( I've just tasted white and red, and can't say I liked either

I *do* like the Romantics. Coleridge, Byron and Keats especially. Felicia Hemans among the women poets

And I'm overwhelmed at the responses. Heh. Can't wait to get to know all of you better.

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posted June 13, 2009 11:50 AM         

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And Gypsy, Munster Cheese sounds just about heavenly.

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posted June 13, 2009 12:09 PM         

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Here's hoping it works this time!
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posted June 13, 2009 12:21 PM         

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Hi Mermaiden;
Love the name by the way.
Have you looked under the 'For Yellow Wax and The Aunts' forum?
You can post your poetry, as well as read others. It's nice there!
And artwork! They have artwork too!

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posted June 13, 2009 12:53 PM         

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I will GypseeWind, thank you
Love your name too!
And I managed a photo, yay

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posted June 13, 2009 03:04 PM         

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Good for you! I've been trying to do that forever! Seriously, I had someone helping me for an hour just now, and he can't figure it out either! I got my stuff on myspace with no problem tho.

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posted June 13, 2009 04:05 PM         

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:/ hate to burst your bubble, but your picture expired..

where is the picture from? like the URL that is the picture? I don't even know if it's a photograph or a astrological chart, but if it's the latter, you'll want to copy it, and host it on say photobucket or anything, even facebook really, so it won't expire. because at the chart site they wipe the data clean every so often, to keep space.

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posted June 13, 2009 05:38 PM         

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Yay, Keats! Love Wordsworth too. Look forward to talking to more, also!

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posted June 14, 2009 12:37 AM         

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@ CA: How about now?

@Elysium: Which are your favorite poems by them? I like a lot of the modern poets too.

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posted June 14, 2009 02:57 AM         

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My fav by Keats is "Ode to a Nightingale" and my fav by Wordsworth is the "Intimations Ode." I really like "She Walks in Beauty Like The Night" by Byron also. Actually, I love anything by Keats, so just name it, lol.

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posted June 14, 2009 04:44 AM         

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"La Belle Dame Sans Merci"; "Ode on a Grecian Urn" are two of my faves. This brilliant professor from Paris (Alexis Tadier) taught us both. It was wonderful

And is the photograph visible?

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posted June 14, 2009 04:52 AM         

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The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.

~ Mary Oliver

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posted June 14, 2009 04:55 AM         

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Very pleased to meet you.

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posted June 14, 2009 11:15 AM         

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I adore this poem! Mary Oliver writes beautifully. AND she's a Virgo Her "Wild Geese" is another favorite.

Check out Wislawa Szymborska meanwhile.
And very nice to meet you too

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