I'm getting published

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nodnarb24

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Yup, I'm getting one of my poems published in a book, Letters from the Soul. It's scheduled for publication sometime this summer.

Here's the poem:

"Sacré Coeur" (English Version)

Sacred Heart
My Sacred Heart
Broken into pieces
all because of you
my love for you still remains

the one thing which can piece it back together
is the one thing I can't have
what I thought I had but didn't
love from you


P.S. Don't forget to check my site for my other writings.
 
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Ransac

CPA Trash Man
Great job! And keep up the good works.



Hey, can you make a poem about seals and ostriches?


Ransac, cpa trash man
 
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FoundationOfRancor

Guest
Nodnarb24, my poems in the same book! Did you get an official looking letter from poetry.com and stuff?

I really like your poem btw, I can see why they chose it.

Congratulations, and nice job!




Ransac, the whole seals/ostriches thing has been way overdone.
 
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nodnarb24

Guest
FoR: Yep, I did get an offical letter and everything. Also congrats on getting in the book too.

Ransac: I might make one if the right inspriration strikes.
 
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MrXarvox

Guest
Poetry.com (and picture.com, which does the same thing with photography, which is incidentally where I got this knowledge from) will publish just about anything they get their hands on. They publish a book every once in a while, and have a poetry contest to get some poetry for it. The top few people get the prize, everyone else gets an honorable mention and an chance to buy a copy of the new book with their poetry in it. A lovely way to cash in on people's vanity, no?

Not to denounce your poetry or anything, it's pretty :)
 
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terzarima

Guest
Yeah... apparently me and dukelings poetry got put on a CD with a commentary and all that Jazz...

Poetry.com isn't a scam... just...like Mr.X said... they will publish almost ALL poetry that comes on their site.
 
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nodnarb24

Guest
I sort of got a hint of that since they wanted me to buy a book at a "special pre-publication price," but of course I'm not stupid enough to buy a book for $50 just to see my name in it. I just like saying that I'm getting published, makes me sound like a good writer. ;)
 
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theorgg

Guest
They chose one of my "on a lark" POS's that I submitted...

"For Time" was a bunch of random junk that, if you read it right, sounded like somone just fell onto his doorstep while depressed and saw themself in the mirror bleeding from the head.

It had no ryme scheme, and I went for shock value.

It was chosen for a compilation of the best spoken-word poems. I could have had the 10-track CD for only $35!

Bah.
 
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Svenmonkey

Guest
What's this about "Honor Students/Americans," mister Spiderman?

By the way, Poetry.com offered to publish (would have if I had filled out the forms) an hilarious piece of nonsense that Xarvox and I came up with at about 1 a.m. by picking random words from the dictionary.

Here goes:

Apocalypse

Yea, the great opossum,
upon his humble hind,
lay a flea of twenty,
whose vast fisheries exceeded rest.
"But why," quoth the flea,
"Must I tabanise myself upon this marsupial hide?"
"The tollage lieth beyond."

Along the line of sand grains Crotalus basks awaiting
Till blazing sheets of flame parget the shining portal,
And death lie awaiting infenitesmal legions
Abrasions on marsupial rumps be lessened,
Pestilence cometh to the siphonapteran.

The gate of peril gloweth before the flea-folk
Blazing like an unearthen comet
Pulling through the parasites three by three
Three by three they disappeared
Through the window of no mercy, Defenestrated!
 
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Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
Remember, it's been 11-12 years so I could be mis-remembering the actual name, but when I was in high school, my junior and senior years I got some notice saying I was in some "high achievement" book and to fill out a little biography and if I paid $50 or so, I could get my own copy! Which I did my junior year and it's just a book of a lot of high achieving students in the country with what school they're from and their interests, blah, blah, blah.
 
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DÛke

Guest
...still do them now. I got something like that in the mail last year. Of course, the second I saw that they wanted money, I ignored the whole thing.

As for Poetry.Com, I sent them a letter regarding why they publish all poems...and I've gotten no reply.

...and the game doesn't stop there. Then, they tell you that your poem is being recroded onto a CD. Then they send you tickets to attend some kind of an award show or something...all of which costs money. Then, when I ignored the "award" show, they send me an email saying that they could send my "award" if I just pay them. I replied in such a way, making sure they never contact me again. Indeed they didn't...

Poetry.Com is a scam. They're money hungery, care nothing for poetry...and that could be disappointing to those who enjoy poetry. Of course, I never liked or have written poetry...just songs and state of minds...
 
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DÛke

Guest
...

The funniest thing is, if you send them a poem containing 1 word, they'll most likely send you all that stuff too. Imagine, a 1 word poem winning awards and getting published. The irony is worth it, I guess...<laughs>
 
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Gerode

Guest
Well, my English earlier this year spent an entire class period analyzing the following poem...

Elegy
who would I write it for
 
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Svenmonkey

Guest
Whoever came up with the idea of analyzing someone else's literary works should be burned. Especially poopy literary works like the one above...
 
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