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Poems Section?

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Davros · 18/08/2004 22:23

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a Poems section. Don't laugh, listen!
In the SN world there are a lot of "inspirational" poems around. However, I find them rather distressing and don't want to come across them in the day-to-day threads but don't want to prevent someone who might like them from seeing them. My idea is that we could post a separate conversation per poem with the title of the poem and (SN) in brackets. There would also be other poems, such as ones for teachers, nannies, grandparents etc so it wouldn't just be SN.
I'd be happy to start it off if it appears as I've got lots of these poems and don't mind spending a bit of time posting them.

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Fio2 · 19/08/2004 19:30

yes I agree davros

can we have a vulgar poems section?

i write those excellently

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Davros · 19/08/2004 19:22

Oooer, there's a creative writing section? Never noticed! I'm thinking of non-original poems just passed on. Would, of course, make an exception for Nutty's scorcher! So don't know. As long as people know its there and I'm not sure they would it it was part of CW but a section called "Poems" wouldn't tell anyone much either. Maybe Inspirational Poems (although I don't find them so!)

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Carrie (mumsnet) · 19/08/2004 17:02

We're in the process of reordering the Talk Topics at the moment. Would this go in creative writing? or do folks think it needs a separate section?

nutcracker · 18/08/2004 22:27

I have one but it's one i did myself for college.
It's depressing though, as it's about when our house got repossessed.

Perhaps a bit too depresing.

I have a habit of telling people about it cos i got a good mark for it and the teacher read it out.
Thinking about it i may have already put it on here somewhere.