In theory when you write something, it is copyrighted. No further steps are required to protect your intellectual property. In reality it might be difficult to prove that you are the genuine author without extra evidence. You can officially register your work with U.S. Copyright Office for $30 (application process takes 4-5 months).

No. We don’t have time to answer such requests. Use our "search poem" tool to find poems within our database or use search engine (e.g. Google) to find poems in other websites. Also you can post your request in discussion board – other visitors might have the answer.

Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of "original works of authorship," including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.

Use "search poem" tool – it will display all results from our database, which match your query.

Internet is medium, which is open to abuse – some people might re-publish your work and claim it to be theirs. There is no easy way to solve this problem. If the plagiarism is published on P&Q you can send us complaint form (link can be found at the bottom of a poem) and we will review your case and remove plagiarism, if your evidence is strong enough.

The poem and several different replies to the original are all listed on the Page called Tributes in the Poetry section. It is called "In Flanders Fields" .

the present time InstaPoems doesn't have the capability of uploading user defined music to your poem. [top]

Some poets may appreciate the effort of a rewrite from a fellow poet, but some may not. Rewriting sections or giving comments on specific lines are usually the most welcome. If you feel you know the poet well and understand his or her intent with the poem, you might venture a rewrite; but keep in mind that the poet may not feel comfortable with someone else "taking over" their work.

Sometimes. If you are looking for a famous poem, using one of the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo or AltaVista, is recommended before posting to the group. You can type in a line or two of the poem, in quotation marks, into the search field at a search engine web site and usually get results pointing to pages containing the poem. If you have already tried that at several search engines with no luck, the group may be able to help you locate a more obscure poet or reference.

A) Sometimes called the "Halliwell Document" it is, loosely speaking, the oldest of the known "Manuscript Constitutions" of Freemasonry. Dated approximately A.D. 1390, it is in Old Chaucerian English, difficult to read without translation. It is preserved in the British Museum. It is not accurately speaking, a Constitution, although, it has within it much that is found in manuscripts. It is a document about Masonry, rather than for Masons.

Strangely enough, this one pops up a lot. To post a poem, just navigate to the Forum in which you'd like to post, find the "Post New Topic" link or button, and click away! You may edit the post after posting and may elect to receive email notification when someone replies. You must, however, register first. The process is free and painless. Out of courtesy to the other posters, please post only one new poem per forum per day.

Finding translations of a particular Chinese poem is always tricky- titles are often untranslatable, or translatable in many ways. If you know the author, the best way is to go to that author's index page and look through the titles for likely candidates. Otherwise, you can use the subject indexes, or search the site through the box on the homepage.

We advertise and promote funnypoets.com extensively through the web, as well as through traditional media. The best way to attract people to the site is to give them a taste of what it's all about...funny poetry! We select the best (or most appropriate) poems for each particular marketing campaign and release them for printing in newspapers, magazines and newsletters, readings on radio or even during television interviews. The poet whose poem we feature is credited AT ALL TIMES.

They are rejected if the content may be offensive or inappropriate (eg 'killing, suicide, prostitution, rape, abuse' etc.) For example we were submitted a very funny, well written poem about the OJ Simpson trial, but rejected it because it was in bad taste. A teenager sent us an explicit poem about sex with his girlfriend. It wasn't very funny and it was also rejected. Having said that, we do have poems about death, sex, erotica, lust etc.

Believe it or not, this really has been a frequently asked question. The answer I always give: Shelley's "Ozymandias."

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