Sorry Ali. I should have put that it was yours. I came across it one day and thought I would share it with people here. By no means was I claiming it. It is a really good poem and thats why I posted it. So If I made you mad in anyway I am sorry. I just liked it thats all.

Nonetheless, thank you both, Ali for your creative poem and Jeremy for posting it. I am new to the forum, and it really hit the heart.

Thanks

Jeanie

It does help to clarify if you are the original writer of a work or not.

It's always best to give credit to the original author.

Dear Ali -

Please forgive me for not personally writing when I came across across "why won't you understand" when I was catching up on Kate's site. Still cannot believe that you were 13 or so when you wrote that. On one hand it is so beautiful, and one the other hand I never understood how much you endured, so young.

And Jo uses some understatement in her response. I would address it in greater detail were this a situation where we all really knew one and another. (Which, by the way, makes it doubly hard to loose a friend here who you've actually spent some time with in real life.)

Mike

I do just want to add here that NeuroTalk has requirements regarding copyright, where if one copy/pastes *anything* that is not one's own writing it *has* to be with citation ie original author(s) and preferably also a link to where it was copied from. In most cases copy/pasting something in its entirety without the original author's permission is not allowed

In this case Ali has been very gracious about her work being copied here without her permission and without any acknowledgment that she is the author, but
we do also get legal letters from other authors & publications when their research, articles etc are copy/pasted without permission or citation, and recently also got a letter from a poet whose work was copy pasted onto one of our other forums, even tho credit had been given, permission to copy it was not requested.

so this is a good reminder for everyone to please abide by both legal copyright and the common courtesy of always giving correct credit for any work that is not one's own