A Coward's Pen That Served As A Friend

True humorous tale of actual events that took place, and many members suffered and experienced back in the old days at AP, before the site implemented Captcha, which a certain member advised they do

A Coward's Pen That Served As A Friend:

Reliving AllPoetry.Com's Good Ole Days

Written By Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

Copyright © 2013 Marvin Thomas Cox

DBA: Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

All Rights Reserved

Lurking within the darkest shadows,

teeth yellowed and jagged in a grin,

he cowers awaiting his next to prey,

knowing a victim he is soon to win.

Some unknown fool playing the poet,

thinking to pour his heart upon page,

in allowing all of humanity to know it,

believes his heart's safe 'cause he paid.

Unknown to this poor fool playing poet,

believing there to be honor among men,

lies within a website a slinking coward,

sliding in and out, buzzing about again,

striking blows without rhyme or reason,

to the poets code oh so guilty of treason,

a man with no feeling of another's woes,

to oft offend with his pen is all he knows.

Electronic is the mighty pen he doth wield,

ripping poets apart in comment's mockery,

a coward hiding behind a hacker's shield,

his box of tricks displayed as fine crockery,

with no more to do than his skills to foster,

to bring others pain his only claim to fame,

in roaming the web as an Internet Monster.

To cruelly leave AP member poetic endeavors,

in, “Hail Atropia',” altered and edited flames,

making use of rules to write no member name,

as a part of AP history that really wasn't grand:

Kastor-ated epithets of, “Catch me if you can!

But if should be you do, will be because that you

wisely made use of a Captcha program's plan.”

(Written May 7^th, 2013 �" Revised August 8^th, 2023)

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

I believe these people are called trolls.

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Close rendering, John, but I do believe the annotated, dictated, situated connotation is, "A******s!" ... LOL! ... Thanks for reading ...

[Relic]

He was more than likely the same guy who did it here.

Well done, Marvin.

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Yeah, but if you're pissed about something or someone, you attack the guilty, not innocents, and most of all, not Poets and Writers excercising their right of Freedom of Speech, or their right of Freedom of Expression as allocated via the express mandate of the United Nations ... Thanks

[jacob erin-cilberto]

The ones who do things like this, especially among poets, need to leave the room.
The picture is so apt for the poem...
Why is there such hate spreading its virus among poets who just long for peace and serenity and spread nothing but?

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Thanks, Jacob ... This person is still a member of AP, though the site claimed to have banned him ... He was a friend of the site founder and got pissed at him and began these attacks, literally rewriting peoples work to suit his fancy satire and sarcastic pissed off nature ... After a while, he stopped attacking my work, in that I dared to post this piece in slipping his member name in legally and in a fashion that could not be challenged, and he began to give me a few decent reviews ... He has several different accounts, but has not been seen of recent for many years: https://allpoetry.com/Kastor. But, he was right: The only way to stop his attacks was for the owner of the site to invest the money to update and use captcha verification ...

Marve