Hey Fellow Poets and Word People, I want you all to be aware that someone who goes by the name of Wilfred John, plagiarized one of my poems and posted it on poemhunter.com. I wrote to the website and they have since removed the poem, but it makes me wonder how many of mine and other people's poems have been stolen? It begs the question, how much of our work do we make public? In the meantime, the following poem is dedicated to the poetry and word thieves out there.
Dull
Dull
Dull
The ink is dry in your skull
You’re going through a lull
So what, if it’s bull
You’re going to steal a poem today
You stealthy slip through blogsphere
Snatch whatever poem you dare
For the poet you have no care
Because you’re going to steal a poem today.
You submit the poem in your own name
Lame, vain, you have no shame
You think it’s some kind of game
To steal a poem, to steal today
You post the poem on other sites
Pretending that you have the rights
Posing from false heights
“This is my poem!” You say,
“My poem.”
What kind of person steals a poem?
A fraud of mind all alone?
You have no words of your own
So today you went and stole a poem
Do you even understand what you steal?
Do you understand words meant to heal?
A poem is made for you to feel?
So how did you steal a poem today?
A poem
A poem
A poet’s own
Write your own poem
Leave us alone!
Copyright 2008 Chaya Silberstein
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Monday, December 15, 2008
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4 comments:
Stealing a poem is really base like taking a body part.
Yes, a agree.. and im much worried about my poems too, they might be stolen by dull retards who cant write good poetry..
Plagiarists
This asshole, currently located at these links can be seen to be copying and copyrighting my work, as well as others’ work, as his own.
http://wilfredjohn.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-12-02T05%3A44%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=243925971&blogId=428702740
http://astrology.yahoo.com/channel/none/wilfred-johns-selected-works-442877/
http://allpoetry.com/wilfredjohn
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/09/visual_poetry.html
https://lists.usm.maine.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0810&L=wom-po&T=0&F=&S=&P=47353
http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/can-poetry-speak
http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?qid=3030
http://time-out.pjf.org.uk/2008/10/school-days-of-wilfred-john.html LOOK..hahaha
http://www.merinews.com/commentAll.jsp?articleID=143762
http://www.lotofpoems.com/wooden-chair/
http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?qid=3030
http://www.newstatesman.com/200610230043
http://www.yoindia.com/shayariadab/tanziya-aur-tehreekbaksh-shayariyan/uski-maut-to-inqalaab-zaroor-layegi-qadeer-t41979.0.html
shows his yahoo.uk address
http://www.timeout.com/london/books/review/book/338/the_nature_of_monsters_by_clare_clark.html
http://www.foldedspace.org/weblog/2004/12/good_poems.html the fraud demonstrates that he does recognize copyright when it comes to well known poets so thus his theft of my work and others is just as conscious
http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/johnrwilfred2003
the thief and liar once again demonstrates that he cain’t spel
http://www.cornerpoetry.com/poetry/john/everynight.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=178620
http://www.faithwriters.com/member-profile.php?id=38822
http://wilfredjohn.cariblogger.com/2009/01/02/wilfred-johns-selected-works-xii/ with work published in literaryspot.com magazine
the source for his supposed ‘name’: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/KINGDOM-OF-EARTH.-POEMS-by-WILFRED-JOHN-PLUMBE_W0QQitemZ190298862186QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090405?IMSfp=TL090405124002r23573
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13193829/Wilfred-John
http://time-out.pjf.org.uk/2008/10/plagiarism-of-my-poetry.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Wilfred_John the fraudulent ‘expert’
UPDATE TOMORROW ON THIS PIECE OF SHIT
I would urge you or anyone else who writes to be wary and aware of his blogs wherever they may be, as he is reported to have as many as 6-10 different sites where he plagiarizes peoples’ work as his own.
If you find any from him, or anyone else, please feel free to post the link and any accompanying comments you have made and what you may hear back from on this page… http://deanjbaker.wordpress.com/plagiarists/
Thank you.
http://deanjbaker.wordpress.com/plagiarists/
So Far:
#1 Plagiarist: Wilfred John http://wilfredjohn.blogspot.com/
SITES DEVOTED TO EXPOSING THIS BUTTHEAD:
Join this group: Plagiarism
http://groups.google.com/group/google-themes-api/browse_thread/thread/d654fdd66a9259d2
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/none/plagiarists-wilford-john-uses-stolen-copywrited-materials-443830/
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