Re: NastyGoon lifts a line

will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) wrote in
news:9af92643755c5eed0250be78928444f6@www.novabbs.com:

On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 0:04:15 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
 

https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article.php?id=255731&group=alt.arts.poet
ry.comments On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:15:27 +0000, Michael Monkey
Peabrain (MPP) aka "HarryLime" wrote:
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I realized from the content of NancyGene's posts that they were
intelligent, well-educated, and better written than anyone here.
Naturally, I asked them to start contributing to the "Sampler."  And
I was right in doing so.
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Here are the opening lines of NancyGene's latest poem:
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"Yesterdays stack up like piles of read newspapers,
Cluttering my mind and obstructing my day."
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That's poetry of the highest quality.

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The opening line is very good. It's almost as good as the opening
line of Robert Creeleys poem, "The Days Pile Up":
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"The days pile up like unread newspapers,"
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I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley; otherwise that would
be something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism".

 
I'm looking forward to finding out more details on the Robert Creeley
poem.

That must mean someone else will have to do the work. Dreckster can't be
bothered and can't do it properly in any event.


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"I've been writing poetry for nearly fifty years, rest assured it's a
poem, Pendragon." - Will Dockery demonstrating why he's a douchebag.