George J. Dance wrote:
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:
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.
Here are the opening lines of NancyGene's latest poem:
"Yesterdays stack up like piles of read newspapers,
Cluttering my mind and obstructing my day."
That's poetry of the highest quality.
The opening line is very good. It's almost as good as the opening line
of Robert Creeleys (or Eva Saulitis ' poem) poem, "The Days Pile Up":
"The days pile up like unread newspapers,"
I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley or Eva Saulitis;
otherwise that would be
something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism".
The Eva Saulitis poetry;
A Room Stacked with Newspaper
You tell me your memory is a room stacked with newspaper.
Sometimes you enter, swipe dust off the stacks, turn the brown pages.
Some you never looked at. You left us those and they are silent.
[...]
Eva Saulitis, 2023
https://poems.com/poem/a-room-stacked-with-newspaper/
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