Re: NastyGoon lifts a line

HarryLime wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

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

The Eva Saulitis poem titled "A Room Stacked With Newspapers"

"The days pile up like unread newspapers,"
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I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Eva Saulitis; otherwise that would be
something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism".

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Four repetitive posts

It doesn't matter now since we all agreed the similarities in the two
poems was only an odd coincidence.
HTH and HAND.