4/21/2006

Does posting in your own blog count as being published?

I like to dabble in poetry. Every year for Christmas, I write a poem for the guys at work and give it to them as a gift. Sometimes I write parodies of famous poems, sometimes I write stuff that's solely my own. Here is a copy of this years poem. I had it printed on coffee cups.

Let me know what you think, next week I'll post what I was thinking when I wrote the poem.



The tree bears no fruit
On corpses scavengers feed
Tyranny of wind

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Against a lonely graying sky,
where once I flourished I now die.

Anonymous said...

The tree bears no fruit
On corpses scavengers feed
Tyranny of wind
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Empty, useless toil
Dead bodies ravaged by bottom feeders
Tyrants' heads bobbing their approval.

Meaning?... A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways...

Anonymous said...

I get it

Line 1 = The Pretentious
Line 2 = The Pro-Abortionists
Line 3 = The Far Left

Anonymous said...

What the heck does all this mean?

Corpses, scavengers, tyrnny??

What....What?

Paul said...

In answer to the question, for purposes of Federal copyright law (something has to be "published" to be copyrighted), the transmittal of a document over a wire (phraseology dating from telegraphs but now applicable to the web) counts as "publishing." Since I'm reading the poem via its transmittal over a system of wires, I'm going to say, yes, it counts as publishing.