May I offer another tribute poem?

An excellent poem for all the dear trolls on this site. May they someday realize that art rises again, no matter how many thumbs down it receives.

Dondi - you said it best.

"It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.": Fredrich August von Hayek - (1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974 - Source: The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972), p. 146.

"Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human." - John Cogley Source: Commonwealth, 24 April 1959

"Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone

else's nightmare.": - Lance Morrow

I have always wondered why people cannot just accept each other for what they are, why we have in our midst, friction and whichever side I take, I get caght in the cross fire.

This is why I always sat on a fence, growing up. This way I could be friends with those on either side. We all have something we can teach one another, but we if we do not put our own agendas aside to help someone else it is lost.

And why is it that Ian is so quick to accept this as a tribute to him?

It has occurred to me that there are far worse than him on Y/A by the number of people I have blocked, and he is thinking he holds more importance than he actually does.

That is my answer and now I too am going to bed too, good night all.

This is a great poem and you expressed your feeling good and i too have been drug down' reported ' deleted all because of a poem that one guy did not like so he tried to break my soul and i almost let him.He is vile and loves to bath in sorrow and pain' and this troll is a sorry meaning for a man' so maybe he is a man who acts like a little nasty rude ' vile ' no good for nothing slime of the earth..We come on here to write a poem or ask some questions and it pains me that many do not even come anymore as this troll and his other avatars are shooting poisons thru the key-boards..

Huh? I thought you were talking about me.

I tried to offer Iano my hand, but he bit it each time. I have no more time for him.

My playtime initials are TD. Please, in the future, use the words 'Thumbs Down.' I get a complex when you talk bad about TDing people.

As far as Don playing nice, that is a given. Maybe Iano never sent him 50 annoying emails.

I know reporting and t/d trolls are the pits, but I also have a feeling that the seemingly object of scorn may well be innocent of these charges. I have seen him draw t/d's when he posts perfectly well meaning and accurate answer to some of my poetry. I have said this before, and I'll say it again, play nice. After all, this is a virtual world where no one is always what they seem. I see talent all around me in the form of words on a page. Some is better than others using meter and rhyme, some are better at free verse, some are excellent blank verse writers, and some do a good job will all forms. I have also noticed something else. Iano has made comments that have made many of you angry, but I have also noticed that many have improved and tried harder to write better just to show him up. In that way he has actually helped a few write better. I am a poetry lover, and as such, I enjoy reading poetry. As a rule, I like all forms, but do prefer rhyming metered poetry above the rest. I also prefer positive critique to negative critique, unless something is so horrid it can't possibly pass for poetry, and we have all seen plenty of that. So, play nice. If you can't kiss and make up, at least don't spend your lives hating each other for opinions. I'll get off my soapbox for now, but if the bickering doesn't slow down, what we have here will soon die.

edit: Just for the record, I gave no thumbs whatsoever on this post. up or down.

Thankfully I've never met a troll, yet ('cept for the in-laws).

Edit: Well said Dondi. VERY well said.

Great poem. Straight to the point. No truer words were ever spoken. I'll be waiting to read your next poem. I'm sure we will get a lot of thumbs down, I would expect no less from our "you know who". I really enjoyed this, keep it up.

Wow that's really beautiful. God Bless You!

Yeah, he sent me an e-mail a while ago talking about my poetry.

I was happy to see he was studying it so closely.

He mentioned turds and something about awful but I have faith that the blood in his eyes will clear up and he will someday accept the fact that rhyme and meter may actually be the most unimportant aspects of poetry. Or maybe the most important. Or maybe it doesn't matter.

I feel terrible about his lot in life. He judges incorrectly and can't see that he is almost always wrong. That's a horrible way to live. I think if he received only kindness for a period of many years, the fog might lift for him. I truly hope it does.

When you receive no attention from others, you eventually learn to elicit bad attention so you have something to call your own. Thousands of children are raised this way and end up lonely and miserable later in life because of it.

If he only realized that it's okay to be bad at something as long as you enjoy yourself, he might post some of his own poetry. No matter how boring and meaningless it is, we would not attack him for it. We would simply not respond and understand fully that he is only trying to fit in.

Iano, anyone can post hate in their answer and go back and erase it later. You have done a fine job of this, now all that is left are some words and a few line breaks.

Excellent poem, Sin.