IT HURT (poetry.com)

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Product:	poetry.com
Date:	14/08/01 (148 review reads)
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I like to write poems and such in my own time, I write lyrics as well as actual songs and poetry. In a way it helps me deal with life problems. If I ever get down or anything, then I will write a poem, or a song, and I can express what I feel. By doing this it sometimes helps me to really understand what I am feeling, it has always been something very close to me.

I was a member or a few sites, that I could post my feelings on, this was really good, and I really enjoyed reading what other people had written. If I could find people that had written on subjects that I was dealing at the time, I would mail them sometimes, and I have made some quite good friends that way. I really enjoyed my time on these sites.

The one day, one of my friends that I had met on a site, told me that one of their poems had been selected and they were up for winning a possible $1,000,000. Well I was very impressed, the person who told me this was a very good writer indeed, and so I did not think for a second that the whole deal may not be completely kosher.

Interested on seeing if I too could be as good, I went to the site and posted some of my own poems. Some of my best pieces that I was very proud of indeed. In a few weeks I got a letter from America in the post, saying how my poem had been selected by a panel of judges. Well I was so happy I could of literally hit the roof, I was bouncing off walls for ages, leaving the letter out places so that people coming round the house would see it and be impressed with me.

The letter they sent me included some things that I could buy with my poem ingraved on, but I didn't really want that, even though my parents did. I do not like people I know reading my poems, it is okay when it is just people on the internet, anything other than that, and I begin to feel a little bit silly.

All the time I still thought this whole deal was still true, the site is very professional looking, and has a boast of havin
g 3.1 million poets registered at the site. Not a small claim by any means.

Well after a few weeks I was still getting letters, asking if I would like my poems to be recorded on audio and things like that, I decided to do a little research into the site, as something deep down did not feel right anymore. I came across a few sites revealing that the site was in fact a complete fraud, and they were just looking for money off the people who loved writing that much they would believe anything.

This hurt me, and it took me a while to get over it, I have never written as much as I used to, and I doubt that I ever will.

Avoid this site, it is a horrible blow to the persona.

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