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Lorenda

online 99 friends
joined on 07/14/04
last updated 07/20/08
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Trancing...
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Boogie Nights with Katie, Lauren & Sarah

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I won a first-place NJPA award

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Katie and I under the disco ball.

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New Year's Eve in Atlantic City

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Pete and I
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Dancing at a Depeche Mode party at Burning Man.
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Ready to dance at the Deep End at Burning Man.
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Scotty and I
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Fire circle at 4 Quarters interfaith sanctuary
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Dionysus, the harbinger of truth through the pain and ecstasy of the cosmic dance
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I'm an award-winning writer now!

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My Persona

Age
31
Location
about me
"What we call 'I' is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing, no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door." -- Dharma discourse

"As a poet, I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late-Paleolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstacy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the time measure of things and stand against the imbalance and ignorance of our times." -- Gary Snyder
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My Poetry

"Gnosis"

I worship your mystery of blood,
Of water,
And of wine
And I am in ecstasy
Watching you die
Crucified on the vine
And I am in rapture
As I imbibe your soul
Merging it with mine
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"Blood Moon Pieta"

The temptress moon,
Full and white,
A beacon of the mother goddess’ energy tonight
She’s tainted with the god’s blood on this third and
final harvest
He dies in her arms,
Crucified by her sexual violence
And she mourns his loss
While gliding him back into her womb
To give birth to the new messiah
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"The Burning Man"

I see him spread his Phoenix wings in Jesus Christ pose
In metaled flesh and neon-lit veins, he towers above thousands of enraptured revelers,
Hungry to see him burn,
Waiting for the sparks, the sonic boom of fireworks
As scantily clad Goddesses spin fire in the desert sand,
We are aroused by death, who will soon engulf the man in her furied womb
He stands Atlasian, carrying our soon-to-be-harvested selves on his shoulders
We have projected all of our tensions and fears of the past year onto him
The air is heavy, burdened with the need for release
Ready, mouths watering, eyes twinkling, sweat in the air
The first rocket is launched and the sky is an inferno of the man and his Goddess’ lust
The flames dance and lick, teasing him with death
Sex in the sky
Fire and tears in my eyes
The air shifts, and we experience the man’s orgasm as our own,
Dancing, hugging, crying, screaming
Because it is done
And our new lives have just begun

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"Dia De Los Muertos"

Mother Earth is wet with embryonic dew
Autumn death floats inside of her,
And me and you
And I want to swim through her golden leaves
The violence of the night wind rocks me like a
hurricane
The electricity and rain charges my brain
And the dead are in the air tonight
I give my blood in this beautiful Mass of pain
So I may arise, and live to die
But not in vain
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“Femme Fatale”

I want you to die inside of me
So I can give birth to you again
I long to seduce you into death, my son
I am the life giver
Return the universe to me,
The universe of light that you are
That can only be created again in my darkness
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"Halcyon Daze"

A carnival of ecstasy,
A lost city in the Jersey Pine Barrens,
Home to the east coast trance heads
Angel-headed hipsters of the new millennium
Seek utopian visions for the mad, mad world,
Hoping to beat the apocalypse by 2012,
To write the next chapter in the Mayan calendar
Israelis, Europeans, Americans, Indians
All unite to the universal language of music and dance
Shiva’s cosmic dance
Trying to destroy the gone world
And resurrect a new consciousness
Kali, great vagina in the sky,
Swallow us up; nourish us with your blood
Rain down your alien-angels
So they may teach us their wisdom
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"Helios Descending"

Dreaming about this enchanted scene …
As the moonlight’s swallowed by the sea,
The night swallows the day
And creates a tapestry of reds, purples, blues and
grays
The sun’s death is just an inch away
My life for the day, a breath about to stray
The night’s coming in,
To embrace her lover sun
This isn’t the end,
But a beautiful dark world about to begin
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Untitled

You are my Earth mother
Gaia,
Capricorn,
Mother, Maiden and Crone
All are one in you
Persephone, Hera, Shakti, Mary the virgin,
Magdalene, Venus, Hecate
All are Goddesses to me
But there is only one Goddess who is my favorite
My mother
Her name is Loretta
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“Anatomy 101 with Arthur Rimbaud”

My paper: the dissecting tray
My poisoned-pure heart: the specimen
My pen: the dissecting tool
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Untitled

The movie house in my mind is open.
My nocturnal film is now showing
In Technicolor-kaleidoscopic 3-D vision,
Hi-fi surround sound,
Buttered-popcorn tactile awareness,
And exfoliated electric-nerve-wave-tongue taste
sensation
Of a jumping Juju Bean-delicious montage like a
dream.
I feast on the delicacy of your lips
In the darkened, red-velvet—curtained,
Sticky-floored voyeur machine
That brings stars to Earth.





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Cool Things People Said About Me

March 20, 2007
Met lorenda dancing under the stars in the woods! What a great way to meet a great person! Always seem to run into her good aura! She's sucha sweet heart!
September 13, 2005
Lorenda is a beautiful manifestation of the Goddess. She is a vibrant and amazing being with the power to light up the dim corners of our world and psyche. Her Hugs are so intoxicatingly sweet and she has a strong fundamental understanding of reality and its manyfold nature.
February 7, 2005
Have you ever had an experience so beautiful, so full of ecstatic bliss you could spend the rest of your life writing about it and still fail to accurately express the beauty of it? If you answered yes to that question, you know the dilemma I am in trying to write about Lorenda. She is one of the most amazing people I have ever met. A brilliant poet, a hopeful romantic, a captivating enchantress. I am honored to call her my friend, my lover, my muse, my soulmate. In more subdued terms, she's pretty swell.
January 30, 2005
When Lorenda enters a room it fills with such beautiful and positive energy. You can feel it when she gives you one her big wonderful hugs. If only more people could be like Lorenda.
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October 8, 2004
<3 ) ) ) ) ) )-(ugs~~~~
October 7, 2004
I agree with Jaime about Lorenda's hugs. She is a water fairy that can aid you with great advice about almost anything. Shes one of the most intellegent and spiritual people that I know. I've learned so much from her, about life and beyond.
October 4, 2004
Lorenda smiles and the world smiles with her. She's a beautiful earth mother that is full of love and positive energy. I am blessed to have her as a friend.
October 3, 2004
Lorenda is the most beautiful social butterfly I know. Her energy is awesome. I love being around her. She always knows how to make me smile. She gives the best hugs in the world!!! Good Karma favors her as much as I do! Lorenda is one of a few true diamonds in the rough. Luv Ya chickie!
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The Man, 2006
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Dressed as a fairy for the Henry David Ball
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My girlies, Lynne and Mel, and I at Burning Man, 2006.