Poem

AMIE399

well i loved the poem, and i dont care where i had to read it.... thankyou op ..it was beautiful, pay no attention to rude comments ! it didnt cost me anything to read it, so i say its still a freebie !!!!!!

Sophy

AMIE399 wrote:

well i loved the poem, and i dont care where i had to read it.... thankyou op ..it was beautiful, pay no attention to rude comments ! it didnt cost me anything to read it, so i say its still a freebie !!!!!!

They were not rude comments, there's no need to be like that. It's just a difference of opinion. I love poetry myself, Shakespeare being my favourite - he is out of copyright of course, but it hadn't occured to me to reproduce his work here, or offer a link to the multiple sites which offer his work free online, because it doesn't seem a "freebie" in the context of this site to me, and also because if we all did this for our favourite authors, the site would be snowed under with literature.

I don't find this posting of a poem offensive or trollish, I wouldn't report it, and I haven't criticised the poem itself. I just was echoing the point raised above. Simply a difference of opinion, NOT rudeness.

AMIE399

sophy, .. my coments wernt aimed at you

meerustar

Beautiful ... and as I recently lost my dad, heartwarming too , thanks

grateful_dead

very nice poem. who is it by?

haha funny comment above, the thread was called 'poem' - and we got a free poem. if you didnt want a free poem, dont click the link, and dont complain. honestly lol, some people, worse than mary whitehouse lol

outbidder

AMIE399 wrote:

well i loved the poem, and i dont care where i had to read it.... thankyou op ..it was beautiful, pay no attention to rude comments ! it didnt cost me anything to read it, so i say its still a freebie !!!!!!

So I guess your comment was aimed at me then.

Could you please explain what part of my comments were rude exactly?

I have read my post again and it all seems like common sense and fact but I stand to be corrected Amie399. I could so easliy have added sarcasm, rolling-eye smileys and the like, but that wasn't the tone I wanted my post to have.

It's a poor story when someone posts genuine constructive criticism only to be told they are rude.

I think there need to be some kind of guidelines as to what constitutes a freebie, otherwise you will get posts like:

"Free whilst stocks last, I opened my front door this morning and inhaled and got free oxygen".

Grateful Dead: See this link for origin - http://www.seniorsnetwork.co.uk/poetry/daddiesday.htm

lisa76

thank you op for this beautiful poem, it brought a tear to my eye

jubarnes26

OMG, I lost my dad at 7 (am now 35) have sat & cried for reading this.

OP thanks for posting this beautiful poem and I don't think it is in the wrong place - if it had been anywhere else I probably wouldnt have read it and everyone else too.
In the middle of all this freebie hunting, coupon cutting, moneysaving madness it doesnt hurt us to stop for a mo and read something that touches your heart.

Thanks again

bet

That was beautiful,

Thanks

rickshaw500

really lovely poem, so sad.