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Well, wouldn't you+ be (sorry for non-travel-related post) if you found something +you'd written had been entered in a competition with someone else's name on the copyright notice?
I'm hopping mad!!!
To add insult to injury, the lady(?) in question has made two glaring spelling errors and left out the third-to-last line of the poem - which renders it almost meaningless.

I've just sent the site a very strongly-worded letter!

Not going to put the poem up here, as I'm still trying to get it off umpteen sites since my erstwhile publisher did the dirty on me by posting it, along with a couple of others, on a poetry site as his work.

If you'd like to read it, it's called 'Rainbows' and it's still on this site, [http://www.geocities.com/rider10c/Graffiti.html?t=t&pg=3&cnt=5] amongst others... (scroll down to a heading entitled A MIX OF EVERYTHING).

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watsoff
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That is truly a beautiful poem! It is enough to convert me into appreciating poetry - never thought I'd ever say that! :)) Hope you get the credit you deserve for it and a pox on the plagarist!

PS - I read the title of your post as Spitting Sharks ... well, a spit is as good as a shark I guess.

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I think you've asked that question before, but can't remember what replies you got. Do you?

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Thanks, watsoff. KInd of you to say so. :>)

Actually, now I come to think of it, it is a travel-related post as that poem was written in direct response to some rainbows I saw in both Morocco and Ethiopia; my husband always used to send me rainbows at some stage of my journeying, or so I believe.

Fieldgate - I sounded off here just over a year ago when I discovered my putative publisher had put several of my poems up on the internet with his name on them and (of course) without my permission.
I'm still trying to get them off the remaining 8 or 9 of the 49+ posts they subsequently appeared on - but never expected to see one in a competition, nearly a year later, purporting to be written by yet another internet poster.

Don't EVER put anything on the internet if you don't want it winging its way around the world. Anything posted here, too, is in the open domain.

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dutchpickle
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That really is dirty, especially by your publisher.

At least your writing is so sweet that others try to steal it. I envy that talent!

Perhaps there is some sort of copyright protection but it is very difficult to enforce.

I am not certain how it works, but I think Lonely Planet has the copyright on anything posted here.

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