Welcome to OpenLinkNight everyone! My name is Brian Miller and I will be your host this evening for our 30th week. Verse is no doubt already flying around the room and I will explain how this works if you will indulge me for a few minutes.
While in college, I was the victim of two break ins. Both occurred while I was at home. One, I repelled the invader as he was coming through the window, the other not so much. Two men pushed through me into the townhome and one watched over me, while the other searched the property.
In the end, they took one thing, a list of names and telephone numbers that was posted on the wall. Thankfully, I was not hurt in either and the damage was minimal. But I doubt seriously anyone would say it is no big deal for someone to break into your home and take something that belongs to you.
That being said, just this week several poets that frequent the pub had poems taken from their blogs by another poetry site and posted in an attempt to garner poems for a self published book they were putting together. One of the comments back when they were asked to be removed was “what is the big deal?”
Well, it is a fairly big deal when something is taken without permission. Depending on copyright, it is against the law. It also can get in the way when you are trying to publish material, if the parameters dictate it can not be previously published outside of your personal blog.
I won’t go into all the fine details on copyright as I am not here to give legal advice, I will just say don’t take without asking. I can not think of any reason why an upfront conversation is not had prior to taking someone’s work. If you want to honor them, ask first.
Alright, if I have not scared you off with that come on in, let’s get down to business. Here is how this works:
- Post a poem on any topic to your blog,
- Link in the poem you’d like to share (1 per blog, please) by clicking on the Mr.Linky button just below.
- This opens a new screen where you’ll enter your information, and where you also choose links to read. Once you have pasted your poem’s blog url and entered your name, simply click submit.
- Don’t forget to let your readers know where you’re linking up and encourage them to participate by including a link to dVerse in your blog post.
- Visit as many other poems as you like, commenting as you see fit. Chances are if you comment on others they will comment on you. Funny how that works.
- Remember, we’re here for each other. Engage your fellow poets, talk, chat, comment, let them know their work is being read, and enjoy the input you also will receive. Feel free to tweet and share on the social media of your choice.
- Finally, enjoy–this is poetry alive.
Luke Prater said:
Whew! I made it back… great to see y’all again my friends. Who’s buying the drinks?
C.L. Sostarich said:
Welcome back!
brian miller said:
i got your back man…whatever you want…
and welcome everyone to OLN…great to see you…and i will be stopping in soon enough…
Joanne Sprott said:
Ah, good to see you back, Luke! I’ve been away also.
Buddah Moskowitz said:
For anyone who’s had too much – I’ll be your designated driver. – Mosk
mrsmediocrity said:
Yay for Open Link Night!
Scary stuff about your break-ins…
and about stealing others work, that just makes me sad..
Dulce said:
I know how it feels, my dear friend, when something that belongs to you is taken away, no matter how minimal the thing is…no one has the right to do it
Thanks so much for hosting tonight Brian- needless to say 🙂
Cheers! as we say here!
brian miller said:
cheers back at you dulce! great to see you….
Adrian Giannini said:
Morning all, I need coffee bad, will be back much later for some reads, far to busy a day today….
Adrian Giannini said:
Had that happen at Writers Cafe, quite a few of us got ripped to the point that they even did some spelling checks (I didn’t mind that ;)), one or two have Lawyers handy and well lets just say they where removed very quickly.
The other point is, it is the INTERNET there is no Copyright really, that is a risk to me when I post which I am very aware of.
Question for poets here…how many use UNAUTHORISED pictures on there blogg? Quiet a lot I reckon as I see it all the time.. so careful of pots n kettles
PS you didn’t mention the site
Sheila said:
never for me – unless I made a mistake somewhere along the way, which is entirely possible. I go through great lengths to make sure the stuff I use is offered by its author under a creative commons license. If I don’t know or am not sure then I leave it.
Adrian Giannini said:
Thats good Shella unfortunately I see a lot that are definitely not…
Victoria C. Slotto said:
Adrian, good point. I’m sure I’ve violated that…I’m not sure I understand how to tell what’s okay and what’s not. I usually use my own images or those that I pop up on WordPress. Would love to have a good, simple explanation of what’s okay and what’s not.
tashtoo said:
I second that request! The gray areas are too deep to be swimming in without a life jacket! I know I’ve no doubt been guilty…I do try to be sure the image is linked to its original source…but I don’t think that’s right either. Have we enough words sourced now to bring on our own legal council? 😉
Adrian Giannini said:
I was a Graphic Designer for a while, so easy answer (well Ill try) basically unless you can find umm simple term “allowed to be reproduced ” you can use it, Royalty Free is another thats mainly you don’t use it for profit, an image that is ,otherwise you are in breach, although you can use a small part of a pic as in a mosaic of pics so therefore the whole of the pic is diconcernable, well thats a layman way. however the internets is rife with blatant ripoffs I do it to and have done, and yes it is much the same as ripping of music, art, you name it, but tell ya what Ive been a pirate since 1986 and most of the crap that they spit out as software is CRAP but that is a whole other discussion
So yes it is wrong, its your work protect it if you can, at WC we all now leave our work up for short time only rather than pages of the stuff.
Sheila said:
I am no expert but these are the rules I follow:
1) I have yet to find a photo that does not have some sort of copyright notice on its source website. That being said, if I cannot find its source (e.g., someone posts a photo on their blog, twitter, etc., and doesn’t specify whether it is theirs or not, or where they found it) then 9 times out of 10 I leave it alone. If I really want to use it then I will ask them where they got it and verify its source myself OR I will right click and copy the photo and then go to google image search and try to find its source that way.
2) I am most confused by the stuff found on deviantart.com because some artists make their work available for download and some do not – specifiying instead that you can buy prints of their work. But all of their pages imply that the copyright is “all rights reserved” which means “don’t touch it.” However, if they are allowing people to download the photo, I assume that it is ok to use. I may be in error but it is a choice I am making until I have reason to do otherwise.
3) And like most people, I always link the image to its source. Also, I think its important to know that there are different types of creative commons license – where the author can specify exactly what you can and cannot do with their work. This is crucial for me because when I am creating photo art I will use another person’s work along with my own but only if they specify in their creative commons license that I am allow to “remix” their original photo.
I think its important to education ourselves on this topic and specify what people are allowed and not allowed to use our work for and honor their copyright details in the same way.
You can read about all of the different types of creative commons licenses and even create a badge for your website that tells visitors what they can and cannot do with your work at creativecommons.org/licenses/ (also, you can see how detailed I got with my copyright on my photo blog at aberrantart.wordpress.com)
Hope its ok with you, Brian, that I got so detailed here. I think it is an important topic and I am glad you brought it up.
Adrian Giannini said:
nicely said Shella now I need my morning coffee
Joseph Harker said:
Thanks for the heads-up about the situation, Brian, would have had no idea otherwise… it’s good to have a community of people to look out for each other in this regard.
darkangelwrites said:
Wow Brian that really sucks. It wouldn’t occur to me to even check my stuff to see if had been stolen. Perhaps I will now though.
Warning: I’m still writing dark stuff, but I write my life so it is what it is.
Happy OLN everyone!
brian miller said:
thats ok…dark is not bad…gotta get it out somehow…and if i see any of your stuff out there i will let you know…smiles.
Laurie Kolp said:
Wow- that’s scary, Brian- both your break-ins and the copyright thing. I hope we’d alert each other if we find this happening. I’d hate to not be aware.
1emeraldcity said:
Hey Brian! Wot about break-ins, huh? Someone stole your work? Want me to put a contract out on ’em? I know the Soprano family intimately. Lemme buy you a drink, kiddo…
brian miller said:
smiles….i know u got my back jackie…may need to…and i know their address so…
Misfit said:
I’m excited to mingle with some words!
brian miller said:
and we are excited to have you here….
Pat Hatt said:
Damn thieves. Go back to the old ways of chopping off appendages and I bet they’ll stop. Not even a need for a cop..haha
brian miller said:
lol…there you go…great idea pat!
C.L. Sostarich said:
Hello poets, happy Tuesday! Let me buy a round!
claudia said:
happy open link night everyone!!
you touch a hot topic in your intro brian – but it is a topic that has to be discussed esp. as as sometimes in the online world the borders are very fluent…most people wouldn’t steal a CD in a shop but they have no problems stealing music on the internet by doing illegal downloads – the same with poetry..it always belongs to someone and we should not forget this
wordsandthoughtspjsp said:
Wow, Brian, the poetry stealing is so unethical and needless to say shameful. Glad you weren’t harmed during the break-ins.
Happy Open Link to all!
Pamela
brian miller said:
hey there pamela…true that…and actually i was not one of the ones affected ‘this time’ but friends dont let friends get stole from you know…smiles…i seem to have no problem sticking my nose in…smiles.
Sheila said:
lol – you can stick your nose in over here then Brian. Never told anyone, but this happened to me just last month. Does the fact that the website owner let me know she/he took my poem by leaving a comment on my blog constitute as permission granted??? Apparently, he/she thinks so!
Jerryj said:
thanks Brian…one thing, I’ve tried several times to put the copyright symbol at the end of posts…how does one do this? …anyway, back to the pub…”Barkeep?!…draw one…or two or three…then call a cab for me.
Zouxzoux said:
Jerryi, you might want to check out putting a Creative Commons notification on your blog. Here’s the link:
http://creativecommons.org/
This won’t stop unscrupulous people from stealing but it might make the casual “borrower” think twice. Good luck!
I’ve had to confront photo theft on my group blog, on which I have a CC notification posted, several times and it amazes me the excuses people come up with.
Sheila said:
just a quick thought on this – as I understand it, a creative commons license (no matter what type) means that YOU ARE GIVING OTHERS PERMISSION to use your work. If you don’t want people to use your work then all you have to do is write “Copyright (your name) All Rights Reserved.” Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
Samuel Peralta / Semaphore said:
Yes, Creative Commons gives people permission to use the material, under certain conditions defined by the type of CC. Don’t use it unless that’s what you mean.
However, “Copyright (c) 2012, Your Name. All rights reserved.” means they don’t have permission unless you give it, explicitly.
bajanpoet said:
WOW – I’m at #49:???????????? I swear I’m in only 5 mins late! …..
And
“Well, it is a fairly big deal when something is taken without permission. Depending on copyright, it is against the law. It also can get in the way when you are trying to publish material, if the parameters dictate it can not be previously published outside of your personal blog.”
That sucks BIG TIME…. I know some of my friends that will never post online for that reason, being afraid of being exploited like that. I am just glad that we’re in a community that respects each other and our work – and I’m very glad to have found you all.
Jody said:
yay mingling coffee break afternoon poetry time! word…. i’ve put up a fun little one “to be with the summer people” ….http://www.presssendpoetry.com/2011/11/to-be-with-summer-people.html
Daydreamertoo said:
Funny you should say that Brian. I have Google analytics on my site and yesterday someone in California came to my site and went through 99 pages but it registered as 122 visits, because they sometimes paid 2 and 3 visits to one page. I tried to track who it was because they also seemed to be looking at comments on each entry too. I got in touch with my webhost and they said it was highly ‘unlikely’ that anyone would be ‘copying’ my site but, I was a bit perturbed. I know the domain name but they didn’t even register as having visited on wordpress stats, just on Google itself. So, it pays to keep your site as protected as they can be from either being copied or, works stolen I guess. I think they maybe were trying to get other peoples email address’s so they can spam them? I don’t know what else they would do it for.
As for the two home invasions, it is still a very, very scary thing to have to go through without knowing if you will end up in the same state as that poor guy whose wife and two daughters were all killed. It’s still an invasion of your own personal space. Scary.
Thanks for the post.
Valerie said:
Not one of my best, but addresses the topic at hand. I think of Iago’s speech in Othello, not exactly the same theme but close enough for horseshoes:
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’t is something, nothing;
’T was mine, ’t is his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
Madeleine Begun Kane said:
Just last week I found roughly 30 of my limericks on a “humor” blog that appeared to exist for the sole purpose of hosting ads. Since it was a blogspot blog, I filled out Google’s complaint form. A few days later got a request for some further info and documentation that the work was mine. A couple of days after I provided the info, Google removed each of those posts. (I actually think the entire blog should have been removed, but at least I got quick satisfaction from Google.)
And thanks as always for hosting this! Here’s my Off One’s Game Limerick.
Ginny Brannan said:
Wow, Brian. Scary stuff, both college and recent. Unbelievable, the nerve. Not good!!! Glad they were caught in the act, maybe they’ll think twice.
Happy we could all make it to the pub tonight to read a little, relax a little and enjoy ‘drinking’ in this great poetry and writing! See you inside…
Karin Gustafson said:
Hi Brian! Wow, a few minutes in and there’s a long line.
I am, of course, with you re online piracy. I am not a copyright attorney and I think people should put a notice someone on their blog, but I am pretty sure that one does not immediately release rights by posting without the copyright symbol. I do not believe that the law is as gimmicky as that. (I should check though!) K.
Steve King said:
Hi all…no post for me tonight. My imagination is undergoing reconstruction, but I look forward to sampling some top shelf offerings from the rest of you. Barkeep, leave the bottle….
brian miller said:
done steve and got your email…beack at you in a bit…
Margaret said:
As always, thank you for this wonderful place to share and learn from! I’ll be back later tonight to enjoy the others.
Jerryj said:
Brian, Sorry, somethings amiss with my links. I am not trying to be a link hog.
Jerryj said:
Sorry again…please delete first two Jerrys…Sheesh!
claudia said:
fixed it.. thanks for the galactic ride sir jerry..
gardenlilie said:
Hello. Are you saying people stole the poems and put to another site? Did they include the names or pretended it was their own? New here guys, figuring it out.
tashtoo said:
Hey Kim! You found your way! 🙂 I’ll let Brian and Joy answer the specifics about the occurrence…, but wanted to say welcome to the pub!
brian miller said:
not they actually credited the poets in the post…but there are those that have taken as their own…either way, without permission its unethical…
Poetical Psyche said:
Brian, thanks for hosting OLN this week. read a few so far and some really good contributions again this week. Kinda getting to the point where that’s become a given though, hasn’t it 🙂 Thanks again
tashtoo said:
I know my work has been posted to sites without permission…never really knew what to do about that. Wouldn’t dream of not asking…(I’ve been known to when sharing facebook pics too!) Guess this should stand as a notice to all to keep our eyes open…not just for our own work, but for all. Then to have it treated like it was not a big deal!? When they are putting together a selfpublished book!?! Oh my…
Ruth said:
Oh Brian, you tell ’em – yes, it is a big deal!
Richard Fenwick said:
Hi everyone…nice to see you again, absolutely. One question: how do I determine if my work was pilfered during the break-in?
hedgewitch said:
It didn’t occur at this site, Richard, but you can google search the titles and/or first lines of recent posts and it will show if they’ve been reproduced elsewhere. Make sure you have a copyright notice posted prominently on your blog, also.
Sheila said:
you can also go to copyscape.com and type in the address of your site and it will search for duplicate material across the internet
hedgewitch said:
Thanks, Sheila–didn’t know that. Very handy.
Beth Winter said:
Hey Brian 🙂 I made it! I’m a little late, number 74, but I was writing the piece for tonight. It looks like the pub is filling up. I’m looking forward to reading what is offered here.
Coffee please with free refills … smile, my friend.
Tony said:
Thanks for hosting Brian. It’s sad to think that people will steal work like that, but it’s all too easy. Although I’d hate it if that happened to me, in a funny kind of way it would be a compliment. At least they thought the writing was worth reproducing.
Sheila said:
(smiles @ Tony) I like your attitude. I kind of feel the same way unti people start making money off of my work – that’s where I drawn the line. Sharing and profitting are completely different things to me. Either way permission needs to be gained first.
Tony said:
With you on that Sheila. No-one has the right to make money from our work except us. It’s especially galling when we make nothing from it ourselves!
Sheila said:
smiles…galling indeed!
ladynyo said:
Hi Brian and everyone else!
This weekend I was contacted by a Webmistress who asked if a particular poem was written by me.
Yesssss….and that poem won the only award I have ever received, from a website in 2010. It was also published in my first book, “A Seasoning of Lust”.
A person on a website I have never heard of before, took my “The River”, changed the title, a few words in two stanzas, and put her own name on it….Luckily, the Webmistress googled a few lines of my poem and my name and website came up.
I was shocked and angry. I have alreadly prepared a blog entry for this issue for Thursday. Those people who steal other poet’s work are actually robbing themselves of the magic that poetry brings to the poet. It’s hard labor, what poets go through, but it is also a ‘refining fire’.
I wonder how much of this stuff happens to poets on the internet? I am beginning to think this isn’t a rare occasion.
Sad.
Lady Nyo
hedgewitch said:
Jane, that’s terrible! How frustrating to have to deal with such an issue. In the case Brian mentioned, at least correct attribution was given, and the poems were promptly pulled when requested. What you describe is pure plagiarism. So sorry you had to go through that. And no, it’s not rare at all, sadly.
Kavita said:
Cheers, ye wonderful poets! Am gonna do a bottoms up on the poems he today!! *hic*
Linda Kruschke said:
I’m a little late as I had a work conference call at noon, so no hope of being in the top 5 again. Maybe next week. I’ve linked to a poem I wrote last week about what “Hate is . . .”. Perhaps I should have included that hate is stealing someone else’s poetry without asking! Hmmmm. It is odd how digital media is seen by some as something not really owned or as having no value and so is free for the taking. With all that is becoming digital in our world – and as paper books become less important – that mindset is going to have to change. It’s not a mindset I share, mind you, but one I’ve heard more often than I’d like.
Okay, enough of my soapbox. Where’s the ale and peanuts? Peace, Linda
Nick Rolynd said:
-sigh- Messed up my link. Sorry guys. It is NOT supposed to link to my frigging novel excerpt. I added another link to the linky with the CORRECT link, but it’s a little too late I think…
claudia said:
deleted your first link..
Nick Rolynd said:
Thank you, Claudia! ❤
Becky Sain said:
Im so excited to share this week!!!!
claudia said:
excited to see you in the pub becky
Bodhirose said:
What an intense situation, Brian, to confront people breaking into your home. I had my home broken into while away once…several items were stolen and the house and I felt invaded! Thank you for the reminder about not taking what does not belong to you…weren’t we taught that in elementary school?!
Thanks for hosting!
snakypoet said:
Never had a home broken into, but once a flat I was living in underwent some renovations by the owners without prior warning. I came home from work, let myself in and found this huge mess everywhere, job half done. I felt very violated indeed, even after finding out it wasn’t exactly a break-in. (Of course, the landlords were in breach of the Tenants’ Act, but as they did it to whole block of flats and we all complained vociferously, I bet they never did it again.)
How weird that your thieves just took the list from the wall!!!
And yes, what was the site that stole the poems? And how does one find out about such things?
@Daydreamertoo, it may have been a ‘bot’ crawling your site, for information for spamming purposes.
Yuck!
But I’m happy because of something good that happened online, and I’ve posted a happy poem about it. At least, it’s meant to be happy — though one reader has already described it as ‘melancholic’. HUH?
Shawna said:
I’ll be sticking with soda tonight, B. My head is still pounding from yesterday’s headache. But I still managed to work up a poem for you.
Paula Tohline Calhoun said:
Over here for the first time today, thanks to Kavita. I have been looking for a different site to post some of my poetry. The one today is just a light-hearted, quickly written poem.
claudia said:
welcome paula…enjoyed your piece even though it is REALLY winter here in germany now…and i ache for spring…smiles
tinkwelborn said:
Wow! what a story, Brian! …and all they took was a list of names w/phone numbers! Amazing, still. Low level thieves.
Regarding the stealth & theft of poems from the site, here, I would imagine, that putting a Copyright notice to each piece should help. Of course, one could officially ‘Register’ with the Copyright Office, but that’s prohibitively expensive for each piece. However, if all together in a book and thereby registered, it would be much more manageable.
Well, it’s quite an opening for OpenLinkNight, for sure.
Enjoy all! I shall return to read & provide my 2 cents on a few; but basically, to just enjoy them — for you all are the best poets I’ve found clustered at one site, thus far.
Enjoy Sharing!
brian miller said:
yeah they did not actually steal them from here tink…it was just people i knew were from here so i notified them to make sure it was kosher what this other site was doing…
ladynyo said:
I always copyright at the end of a poem, essay, but it didn’t stop this person at deepundergroundpoetry.com. This person took numerous poems and changed some words, and the title, but in some cases, she posted the stolen poems word for word and put her name on them.
What was especially galling was that her ‘revisions’ of my poems were awful~ LOL~
This person was a straight out thief, and no copyrighting slowed her!
Off with her fingers!!
Lady Nyo
Alfreda said:
Forgot to check in! Very happy to be a part of OLN and mingle with you brave poets. Sorry to hear about those crimes, Brian. As they say in Liberia, “God can’t sleep”, aka Karma, man.
Anyway, great to be here. And I take my vodka straight, thank you.
claudia said:
warm welcome alfreda…vodka is on the way..smiles
brian said:
oo i like that quote….great to have you here…drinks coming…
kd sullivan said:
I’m so sorry to hear that someone has felt the need to do this…I am excited that you might break a record here tonight! I hope you do!
claudia said:
midnight for me over here..and already 111 links…sounds like a new record indeed..
brian said:
get some rest friend….we are def setting the pace…mr hesch set it at 166 last week….we will see…
Laura Hegfield said:
Yikes, Yikes and Yikes! Not very honorable. Thanks for hosting Brian and for the heads up.
oceangirl said:
30 weeks Brian, really? So much emotions I went through in 30 weeks. Feelings that I could not imagine I have left for. I am not sure which came first, dVerse or the feelings. Still, I want to thank you.
brian said:
thank you OG…you will always be the first dVerse poem ever…
Victoria C. Slotto said:
Great reminder, Brian. The poetry stuff has happened to me, also, and this year, just before Christmas, I interrupted a break-in. I scared them away by turning on lights and talking loudly. It was 10:30 at night and they must have assumed we were not home. In the AM we found 2 broken windows and one wide-open. Needless to say we now have a sophisticated and expensive alarm system. Very scary but I was lucky.
brian said:
oh my on the break in victoria…would not wish it on anyone….my future wife was there for the first one…and my baseball bat….guarantee they think twice before they did it again…
Gay said:
Ooooh sorry to hear about everyone else’s problems. I had two people re-blog me without permission this week. I put up a sign on my blog and left ugly notes on theirs. They do have “beachanny” on them and I guess a link back to my blog. I’m coming late. Had a scary event Sun. (during superbowl) a really bad asthma attack. I saw the doctor today for my regular exam and he said he was glad I knew what to do. I’m still using my inhaler – undoubtedly from coming back to a dirty house and stirring everything up by trying to clean it. Ron is still doing well so I’m moving ahead. Tomorrow the eye doctor and then for a new car and house repair…sigh. So happy to see everyone tonight and I’ll make the rounds as I can. Love reading all of you and thank you as always for the kind remarks at my site.
brian said:
oh man gay i am glad you are ok…had asthma as a kid…not fun at all…take care of yourself…
Sheila said:
I am glad you are ok, Gay. Hoping things are settling down for you a bit (dust included – smiles)
Re: your comment about the reblogging…reblogging is a WordPress feature that unfortunately, we cannot disable on our sites. As I understand it, reblogging is the equivalent of retweets on twitter (tumblr.com sites are reblogged all of the time as well.)
Here’s a link to WordPress’s reasons for (just recently) bringing back the “reblog” feature.
dani said:
i was going to mention the WordPress “reblogging” ~ the only good thing about it is that it does not reblog the entire post, but the beginning of the post, providing the name of the source blog and a link back to the source blog ~ i was quite surprised to see them bring the feature back as i had assumed they pulled it because of copyright issues. i used it a few times when it first came out and i have done posts about other poets with the beginning of a poem linking back to their site, but i stopped just “doing” it and started contacting the poets first for permission.
as for photographs, you can always find source information by right clicking. i have extensive lists of artists and photographers who allow use of their photographs and try to make sure that’s all i use with credit back to them, but i’ve gotten lax with the “We Heart It” website ~ the photographs there are supposed to link back to the source, but i haven’t verified any restrictions of use on individual photographs ~ it’s the same situation when you grab an image from google ~ just because it comes up in a google search does not mean it’s okay to use it.
and i am bad about using music videos from youtube, though again, i always link back.
{sigh} okay, i’m just bad…….
Carys said:
Way past my bedtime so will return tomorrow folks.
Shashi (@VerseEveryDay) said:
Hi Friends, been busy last week so could not be here… atleast this week I am relatively free… so here I am, celebrating the day of remembrance… Hope you will enjoy it and I look forward to your thoughts about the same..
Shashi
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
http://shadowdancingwithmind.blogspot.in/2012/02/whispers-in-remembrance-moon-haiku.html
At Twitter @VerseEveryDay
brian said:
taking a dinner break everyone…enjoy for a bit and i will be back tonight to catch up with the rest of you…
Yousei Hime said:
Well, now I’m depressed (which suits the mood of my poem), but . . . really? I hate that. *grumble, grumble* To all who had this happen to you, I’m really bothered about it and wish you a quick recovery. May it become fodder for your best poem ever. Off to post my poem. Btw, there is an absolutely brilliant silver moon outside my window as I type this.
brian said:
nice i need to go out and see if i got that moon as well….hey that is what poetry is all about…
Elyas Mulu Kiros said:
Where is my Long Island Iced Tea? 😉 Been waiting and waiting! lol Cheer to our pub! 🙂
brian said:
sorry i had to travel to long island to get it…smiles. cheers
Myrna said:
I think I’m number 135. I thought today was Monday. Oh well. So nice to join in.
brian said:
alright back in the house and ready to play catch up…man you guys are rolling tonight….way to poets….
seingraham said:
Well, I came at this several ways but it went where it wanted anyway – took another prompt with it as well fortunately I guess – it’s here, in any case … back later to read, I hope
http://thepoet-tree-house.blogspot.com/2012/02/sliding-into-dusk.html
Samuel Peralta / Semaphore said:
I’m a little late to the party, but cheers everyone!
brian said:
never late sam…#141 is a coveted position…it is 2 away from where we were last week when i went to bed…we leave a light on for you…enjoy your reading…
claudia said:
smiles… good morning sam…and if you need a coffee with your reading…just give me a shout…about to brew one for me…smiles
Joanne Sprott said:
Sorry to be away. Family visit to the north came up last month and been refocusing my creative efforts in different places, but found a poem I started before winter that I’ve edited for you all’s fine perusal and looking forward to checking out a goodly sampling of the product at the pub this week.
RE the unauthorized appropriation of creative work: Lots of gray area, indeed, in this virtual world. I assume that my stuff may show up elsewhere without my permission, but I figure I take that chance when I post, although I do have copyright law behind me (to whatever degree) here in the USA. I guess my philosophy is, I’ll just make more! And I also try to find attribution for photos and stuff that I share, but Facebook does not make it easy to tell where things come from.
A toast to the 30th week, and to all the hosts, many thanks, indeed!
Lady Joanne
Duane said:
Late night posting, but is definitely mine.
deedee said:
Hi! Brian and Claudia…
What a very interesting, but unfortunate or [sad] post Brian…Tks, for sharing!
[Note: The most important fact, in your post was that you were unharmed…physically…I’m not sure how you dealt with both incident(s) emotionally and mentally.]
deedee 😦
brian said:
good morning poets….hope everyone has a great wednesday…i will put the coffee on and get busy on the over nights…
hedgewitch said:
Thanks to whoever posted the George Carlin vid! Made my morning–he didn;t miss one freakin buzzword out there–esp liked “and I come in all sizes!’ Vintage Carlin.
brian miller said:
ha joy it was fun…who knew a celeb would be stopping in…smiles…just caught the last couple…we are open all day so keep them coming…
diamond…only hit one of your three links…usually try to limit OLN to one so that everyone gets a visit…
Skylover said:
I’m late… but at least I made it this week. Thank you for the opportunity to share 🙂
yoga-adan said:
very sorry to hear about the break-ins, and glad that, in that second incident, you weren’t hurt, take care brian; will try and post with the next prompt or so
JB said:
Bah I came late, was unable to come yesterday 😦
Gonna ready these delish links though 😛 Just posted mine as well (21st Century Gun – Bullet II)
JB said:
*read
brian said:
smiles…good to see you popping in to catch the last 8 or so….good evening everyone…we matched last weeks effort which was our high water mark…
Lindy Lee said:
How do you discover when someone has lifted your writings? It’s bad enough to have one’s residence robbed but entirely worse to have a thief take as his/her own someone’s intellectual property, poetry.
Regrets and empathy to those of you who have been victimized either way…
hedgewitch said:
WOOT! 170 links. I think we just broke a record, boss!
hedgewitch said:
And thanks to all of you who joined us and made it happen!
brian said:
we did…and man i have a poetry hangover….hahaha…took the day off from writing to recover…welll i wrote but wont put it up until morning…rock on poets! meeting the bar is up tomorrow….thank you for a great OLN!