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posted April 09, 2009 11:39 AM            

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posted April 09, 2009 12:37 PM            

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oh happiness

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posted April 26, 2009 10:06 PM              

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Thanks.

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posted April 26, 2009 10:33 PM              

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i have gone to sleep
in the hollow
of the riverbed

my cheek has touched
the stiff reeds
beneath the waters

my eye has pressed
into the mire there
and seen the underworld

in the place where I was
they look for me and
growing weary forget me

their empty hands
let go
of even the will to hold

and rest supine
by their sides
as dead as I

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posted April 28, 2009 09:03 AM            

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Oh......

Your words make me emotional

I f***ing love your poetry!

I think maybe....your poetry is my most favourite- of all deep/ metaphysical poetry.

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posted April 28, 2009 10:17 AM            

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Absolutely

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posted April 28, 2009 10:36 AM              

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Wow.

Thank you.

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posted May 04, 2009 12:47 AM            

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DAMN STRAIGHT!!

You have quite a gift with words V!

I was given a blank poetry book to write my poems in as a child so from the time I was about 8 yrs old I wanted to write poetry.
I have a book filled with poems thru a child's eyes, but I could only wish to write poems that touch so deeply as yours..

Awesome job,
Thanks for sharing!!

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"I'm selfish, impatient, & a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control and at times I'm hard to handle, but if you cant handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." - Marliyn Monroe

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posted May 10, 2009 03:43 AM            

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I wish air was more like water, so I could float in it, move gracefully in it, let it envelop me.

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posted May 10, 2009 04:04 AM              

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It is rare that I really get to float and be graceful. I often have to isolate myself, not just from people, but from television and anything too "busy", in order to get in touch with those still waters. Floating and being graceful is very airy. I thank my Aquarius Moon and multipli-exalted Uranus, mostly, for letting me fly like an eagle. Without them, I'd be earthbound; a scorpion. But, then, now that you mention it.. maybe it is the Pisces South Node, the Pisces Decan, Neptune, and the 12th house influences, that let me swim like a fish. Give yourself to that Gemini Ascendant, and that Venus/Neptune, AG! Float gracefully in your music. You know you do.

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posted May 10, 2009 11:58 AM            

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posted May 10, 2009 12:13 PM            

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I was originally going to say that Water is what we always wanted Air to be. It was a bit presumptuous, though.

I've been swimming the last couple days in our heated pool. I love it.

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posted June 02, 2009 03:01 PM            

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Valus, I was curious.....pardon me if this is being nosy...but Your Little Black Book, where do you go to write in it? I'm always wondering about the process that other writers have:

Does it have to be a quiet place, a surrounded by nature place?

Can you write in large crowds, like on the bus/train, or restaurants/pubs?

Do you (I do this) write in a kind of shorthand version in your carry around book, then transcribe it later to a more permanent place?

Have you ever experimented with using a tape recorder??
I have one, and I was all excited about the possiblity of using this at night when I get these brilliant thoughts that elude me come the morning hours (lol) but I never bought tapes for it. Consequently, there are always notebooks, scraps of paper, journals wherever I am.

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posted June 04, 2009 08:22 PM              

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i never put the tape recorder into action,
but it always seemed like a good idea

i just carry the notebook around
and jot things down when i think them

or if i cant get on the computer

mostly, i like to write at the computer

i'll jot things down fast in the book
or on a scrap or something
then work them out at the computer

i wish i knew shorthand
sometimes it comes so fast and
i dont have time to write it down

tape recorder would be good

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posted June 05, 2009 11:44 AM            

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I don't know shorthand, per se
just my own goofy version of it.

I'm always afraid to put anything written on the computer, ever since I had one crash and lost everything on it.

My brother-in-law is a comp tech and even he couldn't retrieve the stuff from it. I had been writing on a short story for a contest and it was...poof...gone.
And my girlfriend lost all her photos the same way, by using a digital and storing them on a computer that crashed.
lost her kids grad, the last few days of her dads life..again..poof!
Technology and I, not such good friends.
Funny story, I got fired from a bar job once for "taking notes." I've been working on this book forever on people at bars, and this one job provided endless examples. But the owners didn't like it, so out the door I was!
Sorry for rambling.
I say, keep rockin the paper!

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posted June 05, 2009 02:26 PM              

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Sorry to hear that happened to you and your friend. I actually did lose two or three years worth of stuff, lol, when someone decided to switch computers without telling me, or bothering to back up my stuff. Sucks, because it was a time when I was writing fiction; short stories mostly. And I rarely do that, so I have very little evidence of that part of my creativity. Pretty much all I have from around that time is this unfinished short story:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhbpnf2_0c75m8c

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I say, keep rockin the paper!

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Thanks.

You too.

Rock whatever works for you!

I've since gotten in the habit of printing things out, and filing them away, so I dont worry about them getting sucked up by the cybermonsters anymore. Also, my mars/merc in Sag shoots first, and then the square to Saturn in Virgo asks questions; I do a lot of revising as I go along, so the computer is a great help to me. When I try to do it all in my notebook, you see tons of scratched out lines, words wedged into sentences from above and below, arrows pointing from one sentence to another paragraphs away, and so on. Its tough, and its a mess. And, in the rare occassions when I seem particularly inspired, and the piece just comes down, already complete, as if channeled, -- when that happens, I can't write it down fast enough. I've tried my own brand of shorthand, but my handwriting is messy and, in that abbreviated form, I can never tell what i was trying to say. But I can type much faster than I can write. Computer works for me.

Keep writing, fellow word-weaver.

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posted June 05, 2009 02:55 PM            

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haha

I am picturing your paperwork. Have you ever seen Kurt Cobians journal book, I don't know the proper name of it, but I do have it.
It includes alot of that writing, scratching, arrows redirecting. Madness, it is! Beautiful madness!
I will check that link to your short story, should be interesting.

Yes def print out your stuff. I am a tree hugger and all,, but I love my paper!

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posted June 08, 2009 12:27 PM            

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Hey there;
I finished your story, sure wish you would finish it.
I liked it alot.
You did a good job at foreshadowing with Macy and her face. But you didn't overdo it, which to me is much better.
The characters and dialogue were believable, and well thought out.
And your story was cohesive. Nothing seemed out of place, it seemed to flow very naturally.
You seem to be interested in the idea of duality. I would like to hear more.
It says at the end that you got too depressed to finish it. I was sorry to hear that. I hope your feeling better now.

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posted December 22, 2009 09:48 AM            

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posted December 23, 2009 08:01 AM              

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Thank you, Gypsee.
I've had that story on my mind lately,
and been thinking about finishing it.

And thanks, LTT.
I would have missed this.

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posted February 04, 2010 12:37 PM            

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http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/tfreke.htm

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posted February 04, 2010 02:01 PM              

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fascinating man

"I sought the One Thing,
but I found All Things."
~ valus

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