Re: Robert Creeley poem

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:53:52 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 6:41:33 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 0:04:15 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
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https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article.php?id=255731&group=alt.arts.poetry.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".

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Ping Rachel:
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This is the obert Creeley poem I was telling you about, the one causing
such a ruckus here on the poetry newsgroup.

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It's George Dance's libelous accusation of plagiarism

Read the George Dance poem again, he didn't make an accusation, just an
observation.
HTH and HAND.