Favourite Poems and Prose.

@pikey wrote:

@esmeralda wrote:

I pointed out that she never provides the title or the author, I said NOTHING about her pretending the works were by herself.

No you didn’t. Quite true. I take it back. It’s just you and plagiarism are forever entwined in my appreciation. I think it’s because for months every time you pretended to write something original my checking software would go mental. It has to be said, though, that you’ve been a lot better recently. You don’t even bother to pretend to write anything original much anymore.

And you’re quite right, Cath. I’ve been very naughty again and I must try harder.

I should quote a poem, really, considering where we are:

O ’tis a lovely thing for youth
To early walk in wisdom’s way;
To fear a lie, to speak the truth,
That we may trust to all they say!

But liars we can never trust,
Even when they say what is true.
And he who does one fault at first
And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Have we not known, nor heard, nor read
How God does hate deceit and wrong?
How Ananias was struck dead,
Caught with a lie upon his tongue?

So did his wife Sapphira die,
When she came in, and grew so bold
As to confirm that wicked lie,
Which just before her husband told.

The Lord delights in them that speak
The words of truth; but every liar
Must have his portion in the lake
That burns with brimstone and with fire.

Isaac Watts ~ Against Lying

To quote the great Hugh MacDiarmid ‘The greater the plagiarism the greater the work of art.’
Continue with your scorn and opprobrium, little beppe…to have you expend so much energy on it..amuses me. :wink:

@pikey wrote:

Really, it’s no bother. I’m glad you’re not being too grumpy. For a moment I feared the stress and strain might bring on one of your ‘attacks’. One of your little characters would then have had to have visited us and told us all how brave you had been and how if it wasn’t for naughty Pikey you probably would have made it but, in the end, you’d lost your heroic struggle – quoting bittersweet poetry to the end.

Imagine how upset I would’ve been.

Feel better Pikey?

That was almost as nasty as your post to Dagger a few years back regarding his daughters.

Some things never change.

I was trawling the net looking for works by Wendy Cope and I found this. It is extremely relevant both to this thread and to Esme’s take on my missing out the name of the poem and the author.

I won’t post the poem for obvious reasons, but please link to it and read. Maybe we shouldn’t be posting other people’s work at all!

The Law of Copyright by Wendy Cope

tsh tsh….. have you never quoted live poets?

Well thats why I posted the link… I guess I really should give credit to all works.

So from now on, I will do so, though I still think the words should stand on their own merit.