Poets' Forum -- Compilation Collaboration

By, MomzillaNC, Jordan, KLGoode, Ploughboy, Sindu, and Frieda P.

The soulless stealing another's gifts

Gifts they lack because

They've emptied their souls 

In pursuit of greed…  -- from MomzillaNC by D. Denise Dianaty

Insatiable beasts become them 

Black hole hearts and gaping abyss minds  -- from Jordan

slack-jawed lies' post mortem, 

scooped hollow; nothing left to find -- from KLGoode

Jousting jesters, whose tepid quest;

to steal those lines they cherish best

from those who slave to find the words

then force-feed us the bitter curds -- from Ploughboy

True unsung heroes of shadows

pour ink in blood and sweat

string words with every breath

measly mice; thieves of dark

greedy vice; plague the lark -- from Sindu

Word salad nightmares at best

in forgery's counterfeit fallen ink

lying, cheating, cancer reapin'  Jesus freaking,

shouldn't fornicate where you pray

Thinking this Poets' Forum was benign?

Think again! -- from Frieda P

Author's Note

This is a compilation of lines in a collaboration on the theme of plagiarism.

Reviews

[Rene Salinas]

Interesting when put this way. As writing is a little random I tend to relate to Frieda's for reasons unknown to me I like the fact that her paragraph may have physical intenions. What I do know from the subject and my relation to the site is that is sad that the site does not seem to feel the same level of passion for writin as the writers that come to use the site. So it was left unclear to me as if repudiation could just be a momentary thing. Nothing could stop the user from continuing in his empty journey.

Thankyou

[MomzillaNC]

We're glad you liked it. The developers could boot him. But, it would require a concerted effort from the individuals he's plagiarized. They would have to take their hard evidence to the developers show the plagiarism; and should probably organize a petition from the rest of us.

[Rene Salinas]

Nope is part of the agreement when you first sign in. I work in IT it is clear the do not want to IP bann. For reason's unknown to me..... No petition needed what is illegal in the eyes of the law is not legal in the eyes of the developer.

[Rene Salinas]

And that would just be the site admin as no devlopers get to make any decisions.....

[MomzillaNC]

Maybe. But, my experience has been that when enough people make a big enough noise about it, then developers tend to act. If users become too disillusioned with the site, they'll move on to another: that's lost revenue. When you get right down to it, that's their only motivation: to generate revenue. If need be, writers can take their petition to this site's advertisers. Amazon, for example, could not possible wish to associated with a site that supports plagiarism: publishing is still their lifeblood.

[Frieda P]

Does this mean he's still lurking about? Thanks so much Rene for your words Rene.

[Frieda P]

Ha I'm repeating, must need more coffee....

[Rene Salinas]

Yes he is lurking and that is precisely my point. The descent thing for the site to do is IP bann him which would at least make him get a new location ...... or to know about IP's as he doesnlt know about poetry I hardly think he is an IT afficionado...

[Frieda P]

Under a different profile I presume...haven't seen his own mug for a while.

[MomzillaNC]

Something really should be done about him. He'll be self-published on sites like Amazon too, I'm sure, enslaving other writer's words.

[redflutterby]

Rene@ I brought up IP tracking with the site owner about a year ago because of a different kind of troll...one of those harassing ones. The site owner didn't even respond back to me. This site is just a place to put money in there pocket and that's it. They want to do as little as possible to earn that money.

[Rene Salinas]

I heard you saying that but the site cannot be seen promitng illegality is not difficult to understand. Otherwise let's sell drugs too let's see how log that will last or lets promote terrorism let's see how long that one last.

[Frieda P]

I know who you speak of Red, they banned his nasty a*s, but he had threatened physical harm before they went to those lengths.

[redflutterby]

Ive been on other sites that use IP tracking for the purpose of eliminating fake and harassing profiles. Especially when it comes to protecting minors who use the sites. If a complaint is made against a member that is the only time the IP info is used. To ban and prevent the return under a new name. Theres nothing illegal about a site doing that...the fact that they use IP tracking is clearly stated in the sign up info and site policies when you join.

[MomzillaNC]

There's only one way to make the developers act: hit them in their pockets. Take the complaints, the fight to their revenue stream: the advertisers. Amazon and the other publishing support companies do NOT want to be associated with plagiarism. I'd say organizing with other writing forum sites would help too. Take a multiple site petition with overwhelming numbers of signatories and evidence to those advertisers and this site and those others will quickly do something to deal with plagiarism on their sites.

[Briana O'Connor]

Wow. Brilliant! Absoulutely love this. Very well placed together. Thank you for sharing.

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you for your review. We're glad you like it.

[Jordan]

This turned out great! That'll show those plagiarists, lol

[MomzillaNC]

It did turn out rather well. Make sure you post it on your page too!

[R Smith]

well that made its point really well and what a treat to see so many great poets together, you must go again, well done :)

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you. And, I don't know about doing it again. We'll have to see what needful issue inspires.

[Frieda P]

Love the format, it adds that extra slap upside the head, great job Momzilla...thanks again for the invite!

greedy vice; plague the lark...love that.

[MomzillaNC]

You're very welcome. Thanks for the closing stanza!

[Frieda P]

Whatever we need to do to get this plagiarizer to back off...and stay the fook away!

[MomzillaNC]

That's why I also issued an individual challenge to pen poems about plagiarism too. I'll say it again: plagiarism is the enslavement of someone else's genius.

[Lyn Anderson]

Wow, it turned out great. I especially like the last three stanzas

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks. I love everyone's contribution. Frieda's ending really gave it the gut-punch finish. My personal favorite is Ploughboy's stanza; but the whole turned out really well and sends the message very pointedly.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, I really like that stanza as well.

[MomzillaNC]

Make sure you put it on your page too!

[Shadows Ember]

Very lovely. Flows nicely.

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you.