moon grazing

[Ros]

It's quite easy to read the poems without even registering. I'm not sure that knowing our gender would help discover our likelihood of plagiarism! I think most people just take the risk - after all, very few people get rich from poetry...there is a problem with ezines being able to search for submitted poems and finding them - some say that if they can do this, that is as good as published as far as they are concerned. And editing your own post may not remove the poem, if people have quoted most or all of it in their crit.

[David]

Nigel, after some deliberation I think we've agreed to delete the whole thread, if that's what you want. Is it?

As to who we are ... well, who are we? No-one, really, although Elph is definitely a man. I believe. However, I've never met him, so he / she could actually be a transexual dwarf transmitting from the bottom of a mine shaft deep in the Urals. But I'm inclined to think not. (I'm a dental hygienist called Daphne.)

I understand your concerns about plagiarism. It's an ever-present risk, isn't it. However, surely a determined plagiarist is more likely to stump up his or her £30 to join your secure little community in the belief - mistaken or not, I couldn't say - that he / she is thereby gaining access to a better class of stuff. I've never heard of anybody complaining about plagiarism here. But, you might say, that's because there's never been anything worth plagiarising before. Again, no comment.

But, as I say, if you give us the say-so, we'll delete the threads. Your wish is my command. What will it be, sir?

Cheers

Daphne

[Donnie Douglas]

The line structure is very helpful here. Dripping down. A gentle pace. It really slows things up.