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Poison Ivy

Tendrils of green lace the poetry walls
Leeching the blood of those she enthralls
Finding a crack she works her way in
To inject her poison, a glorified sin

Poisonous ivy looks coy at a glance
Don't let it surround you, you won't have a chance
It'll cling like a parasite, sucking you dry
Bleeding your words and watching you die

So if you see ivy, too good to be true
It probably is, here's what you should do:
Light up a match and burn it from the roots
To kill poisonous ivy and the music she flutes.

Nom

@Nom

Life's a mystery.

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Impressive as always...& the opening

Impressive as always...& the opening lines are divine genius 😌😘

@Fly10 thank you, I was quite proud if the first 2 lines!

She has certainly inspired a lot of work. Not what she expected I think! Poetic justice? Very very good poem. Love the image of poetry walls. 😍

@jojo72 I love the aptness of the phrase 'poetic justice'! I'm glad you like the 'poetry walls', to blow my own trumpet, I quite like the imagery too!

Wow I love that first stanza! Great work!

@naaviie thank you 😊

Bleeding your words and watching you die" really good line πŸ’ž

@Nom it is rather apt isn't it lol. You're not blowing you're own trumpet. Nothing worse than false modesty! 😘

@sjw thank you 😊

@jojo72 🎺

@Nom hehe

Great work Nom, as usual!

@Munford thank you!

Very creative πŸƒ

@redfae not quite as direct as your take on the events! 😜

@Nom What happened?

@Nom that's partly what I loved about it. Wish I'd wrote this. Illustrates it well without being an obvious slap in the face xx

@redfae thank you. I do love your poem, but I sometimes think something metaphorical can be just as powerful, if it makes you think.

@overskill AleishaGayle returned as 'LivingDeadGirl' and was plagiarising poems from in the Internet again. She had been banned again. There's lots of posts that are clearer than mine if you want more info!

@Nom She was plagiarising again? If she'd come back and learned her lesson, I think she should have been let off, but copying again was stupid.

@overskill unfortunately I think she'll be back, plagiarising. It's a sad situation.

@Nom Seamonster said her iPhone is now recognised by Opuss, so she won't be back hopefully. Very sad, I think.

@overskill doesn't stop her getting a new iPhone...

@Nom Just for one app? We're safe for a few years probably.

@overskill or whenever her contract runs out...

@Nom If she plagiarises again, she will be found. It took a very short amount of time for her to be found now, so in the future people will be even more careful. If she comes back, she will have to write her own stuff.

@overskill which is fine. After all originality is what Opuss encourages.

@Nom It is fine. Hopefully that's what will happen.

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