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Blog Posted:3/16/2020 5:35:00 PM

We hope everyone is doing well amid this worldwide pandemic. We encourage you to listen to the authorities and even perform self-imposed quarantines if possible. Even though you may not be in the high-risk groups, please be considerate of others in your level of exposure.

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Mark
Pringle

Date: 9/28/2022 6:11:00 PM

Still good advice.

Team Poetrysoup
Date: 9/28/2022 6:14:00 PM

Yes, it is.

Teddy
Kimathi

Date: 4/4/2020 4:18:00 PM

Hi Mark, Thank you for your thoughtful post. In Kenya we are currently under a curfew. Soon, there might be a lock-down, if the numbers escalate to some level. The problem is that there is no clear plan of offering basic stuff as food, water, and medicine to all the citizens, including those living in slums who are vulnerable. At least almost 200, 000 have recovered from the virus. Let's pray and hope all this ends soon...

Catie
Lindsey

Date: 3/23/2020 4:38:00 AM

Hi Mark, again, because I cannot post my own blog, I thought you wouldn't mind if I posted this information here. There is a video on youtube called "The Science Behind the Coronavirus" presented by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, and posted by the Los Angles Times. He speaks of the molecular composition of the molecule called corona virus. It contains important information everyone should know. The molecule is protected by a layer of greasy substance, get rid of the grease and the molecule dies. period. I suggest using Dawn dish soap to wash your hands and even your face and all substances in your home. Everyone should hear this video. I hope you don't mind. Hugs, Catie :)

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 3/21/2020 5:31:00 PM

Mark, thanks for your well-wishing here.

Catie
Lindsey

Date: 3/19/2020 4:00:00 PM

Thank you, Mark, for your concern and kind words. Hugs, Catie :-)

Catie Lindsey
Date: 3/20/2020 7:57:00 PM

I can't post a blog right now, Mark, so I would like to take this opportunity to say that I do hope and pray that you and all of the PoetrySoup team are safe and healthy. Of course those are my same hopes for all the poets, old and new, here at the soup.

Craig
Cornish

Date: 3/19/2020 9:03:00 AM

Likewise Mark P---even with all of this below, be thankful you own a poetry site and not a restaurant like my brother does, take care.

Becca
Teagan

Date: 3/19/2020 8:23:00 AM

Very nice post, Mark. Thank you. It makes me sad to see all the bickering in the comments. There is a lot of hypocrisy here. By the usual people! Where is the love?? Anyway, best wishes to you all, stay safe.

Becca Teagan
Date: 3/19/2020 5:10:00 PM

oh no :( sorry to hear that, Red. Please get well soon!

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/19/2020 9:03:00 AM

8-)

Lin
Lane

Date: 3/18/2020 4:26:00 PM

I deleted my comment. In willingness to be a 'genuine' peacemaker, I didn't want anything written beneath my message to be taken out of context and considered to be hateful words. There's been too much false accusation of that already.

Daniel
Turner

Date: 3/18/2020 10:55:00 AM

Thank you Mark. These are indeed trying times. I waited to comment because I wanted to see just how far this would go. I think everyone should reread these comments and see just how childish this has become. The world economy is on the verge of collapse. People are dying from an invisible microbe. Before it has finished maybe millions of people will have died. Children losing parents, grandparents families altered forever. For once in your lives think about someone other than yourself. This is probably the most catastrophic event of this century. Wake up. These petty squabbles are ridiculous.

Craig Cornish
Date: 3/19/2020 11:13:00 AM

The most sensible thing I've heard here Daniel - btw, I'm back home up north - weird out there - we must be strong, resolute, sensible and logical, not panic and take care of ourselves and each other and be extra cautious of those who would use this as an evil way to take advantage of those who are too easily taken advantage of. If everyone takes care of those around them all will be much better. Certainly nothing is served by doing otherwise. Take care of yourself and all you love and care for.

Becca Teagan
Date: 3/19/2020 8:25:00 AM

I couldn't agree more, Daniel. Please take care.

Daniel Turner
Date: 3/18/2020 10:55:00 AM

We as poets write about love and peace yet we act like we do not even know what the words mean. Everybody get a grip on reality. In case you guys don't know, some of us are probably going to get sick and possibly die. Don't let your last words to someone be hateful. What a load to carry.

Constance
La France

Date: 3/18/2020 8:44:00 AM

Mark, did a lovely blog to wish everyone well during the pandemic and some turned it into a place to bicker back and forth, get a grip, there are people dying from this Virus and some of you are caught up in trading insults on things that are of little importance in the scheme of things happening in the world _Constance

Becca Teagan
Date: 3/19/2020 8:26:00 AM

Hope you stay well, Constance. Hugs

Rob
Carmack

Date: 3/17/2020 6:25:00 PM

I wonder how many other irons he's got in the fire. Caution peeps, we've got a live one here.

Becca Teagan
Date: 3/25/2020 11:45:00 AM

You can't name names here? Then why bring it up at all? It is divisive. Can you please privately send me a list of all those you've deemed "TBP" ? You and I were in agreement about defending Plato, and now you hail his main agressor. So I'm a bit confused.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/21/2020 7:11:00 PM

Andrea: Not a better blog in which to bait me into a violation that could get me banned. It was worth shot, however long it was.

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 3/21/2020 5:32:00 PM

Finally seeing this blog and wondering why people are wanting you to name names when it's not allowed. Why don't they just soupmail you, for crying out loud.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/21/2020 12:38:00 PM

Catie, you have been around PS for a while, and I know you have seen enough to know the truth. Upon my arrival at PS, you were a TBP sympathizer and you have remained consistent over the years with this. I speak out against TBP when they abuse someone, but my words are not causing division or driving peeps away from this site, TBP are. Like I mentioned elsewhere, this issue is bigger than any one person, or any one incident. This issue is real, valid, systemic and complex. It is not simply someone being offended. It is abuse, the cycle of which is apparent to anyone wanting to see the truth.

Catie Lindsey
Date: 3/21/2020 8:30:00 AM

I don't get it Rob. I have hardly been here at all in more than a year. I have only a handful of friends here, most of them are gone now, and the ones that remain I will stand by them as being people with integrity. Because people are so unique and different from each other, people are often misunderstood. Someone may be offended. But I will tell you to give up on labeling them and blaming them when it is all YOUR talk that is causing division among the poets.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/21/2020 12:41:00 AM

And so it ends just like it did before.

Becca Teagan
Date: 3/20/2020 8:18:00 PM

And I thought you were one of the sensible ones.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/20/2020 6:56:00 PM

Catie - it was Robert Lindley. TBP = The Beautiful People. Soupmail can be monitored as well. Some of your friends know the details, it is best to ask them at this point. My only advice, remember what they tell you and see if it is congruent with what you see happening around the site.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/20/2020 6:47:00 PM

Becca, he got rid of himself. It is his pattern. He will return, maybe already has. Seems things are settling down now.

Catie Lindsey
Date: 3/20/2020 10:38:00 AM

And which Robert are you talking about?

Catie Lindsey
Date: 3/20/2020 10:36:00 AM

What does BPT mean? I am still lost. What friend of mine would hit anyone over the head with anything. Maybe if you don't want to speak openly, maybe you could soupmail me and please tell me what you are talking about.... thanks. Hugs, Catie

Becca Teagan
Date: 3/20/2020 9:30:00 AM

Ah, thanks Rob, it makes sense now. Well, you got rid of the one you were mad at, so.... now will things settle down? Or must you continue?

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/19/2020 11:51:00 PM

Catie - They are TBP after the Marilyn Manson song of the same name. It fits the predacious personalities among us. And naming them, come on, you think I would get myself banned so easily. Those that care, know the names. About the can of worms, I didn't open it, it was smashed open after your friend hit Robert over the head with it.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/19/2020 11:33:00 PM

Becca, you should not be surprised that I am in the mix. I have resisted TBP since joining in 2014 and befriending Plato. As far as referencing Beatrice, among TBP, she was one of the most dynamic and intelligent, typical qualities that make a leader. Keith's potential false flag op reminded me of her.

Becca Teagan
Date: 3/19/2020 5:12:00 PM

He used to call a poet here "Beatrice" for some reason, but I sure don't know why he brought her into this debate, that's what has me curious. (I took out her name to keep her privacy.)

Catie Lindsey
Date: 3/19/2020 3:58:00 PM

Rob, it seems to me that you are opening up a big can of worms. You call them "the beautiful people"... Is it because they are not like you...I don't know. But now you are the man getting major publicity for knowing whom all the trouble makers are. Yet...you refuse to name them. Put it on the table or set it down. I have been around for a long...long time and for the life of me I cannot remember a Beatrice.....

Becca Teagan
Date: 3/19/2020 10:13:00 AM

I'm so surprised to see you in the mix, Rob. But I'm more confused as to why you brought "Beatrice" into this?

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 7:34:00 PM

I did not take offense at your 'mic drop' even if you were using it as a false flag. The aggressor in question has a history of being abusive. Though he has gotten better (pertaining to frequency), this was not his first time. Kinda like his hundredth. This is much bigger than just him and Robert. Bigger than us. Like I said, a history, a very long one. This why these blogs continue. So you see, this is part of life too, so I tell you the same thing you just said - Just deal with it.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 7:19:00 PM

I should have paid more attention to the timing. I think T jumped in because at first I think he thought it was about him, once engaged, he couldn't stop. But what brought you in?

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 7:17:00 PM

That’s so sweet of you to use your big boy words

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 7:12:00 PM

You came to the defense of someone who couldn't even fake an apology. Either you did not see what he really said to Robert, or you assume the Robert was overreacting. All this still, as at least two others wrote farewell poems. And the history here, years of it, on and off.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 7:07:00 PM

To clarify, not saying he scripted the attack on Robert, but the defense once the coverup failed.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 7:04:00 PM

Can't give the name, but she is the Matriarch of TBP. She resides, or used to, in Canada.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 7:00:00 PM

Maybe back in the day, when Beatrice was here, Keith may have been writing the scripts covertly. But with this recent attack on Robert, Keith knew we would not buy that the script was from either of the other two, so he had to go overtly this time.

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:51:00 PM

I’m sure he’s just doing what he’s being told

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 6:49:00 PM

Mark, I know, I did not know he had such depths. It's Beatrice all over again.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 6:48:00 PM

Keith, you have always been a TBP sympathizer, but you were not usually one of their soldiers. I underestimated you, this little false flag op of yours places you at least a captain.

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:46:00 PM

Careful rob he is just trying to provoke you.

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:43:00 PM

I’ve got screenshots of that as well

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:40:00 PM

He is scaring me and making me uncomfortable

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 6:35:00 PM

Of course, once you plant enough landmines, you start to forget where they're all at. His little false flag op was not bad, and the patience, for just the right time and then it happened today. I am glad you said something.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 6:35:00 PM

See Mark, you have angered him by ruining his op, and it almost worked.

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:27:00 PM

I think he just suffers from anxiety maybe

Rob
Carmack

Date: 3/17/2020 5:40:00 PM

I just love "We're watching, copying, waiting..."!!! LOL. Mark, good to see you back. * Tips Hat *

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 6:23:00 PM

So that is why he was using my * Tips Hat * above to segue into * Mic Drop * while you were here since he had sown the seed at your deleted poem.

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:22:00 PM

Keith the bullying needs to stop

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 6:21:00 PM

So he was trying to set me up with a false flag 'Mic Drop'

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 6:20:00 PM

Mark I used to use *Mic Drop* when commenting to Keith, but it was exclusive to him. Like that one poem you wrote where I stated 'I tip my hat to you sir'.

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:19:00 PM

Can we please get along and have peace

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:18:00 PM

But since he didn’t use my name it could technically be about someone else.

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:16:00 PM

His *mic drop* was at the end of my poem that had no names in it. I think some people never grew up and are stuck in jr high

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:15:00 PM

But yet they just want peace and love

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:14:00 PM

I’ve got screenshots of his and the one below trying to provoke someone with his mike drop

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:12:00 PM

What’s happening boss

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 6:12:00 PM

He may have deleted his account.

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:12:00 PM

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 6:10:00 PM

I’m out in the car park

Lin Lane
Date: 3/17/2020 6:03:00 PM

unless the admin. deleted them, thinking they were inflammatory. And one more glitch...my comment also appears under your name. Maybe you can remove it.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 6:02:00 PM

Lin, looks like he deleted them all. In a few days, they will tell of a narrative where we all showed up and starting attacking him with out a single comment from him. Sadder than that, are the ones that will believe it.

Lin Lane
Date: 3/17/2020 5:57:00 PM

I lost track of how many comments Tommy's deleted here. However, I don't care, and I'm not watching, copying, OR waiting.

Rob Carmack
Date: 3/17/2020 5:52:00 PM

Jan, I am not sure, I never use block. He has or had me on block, I never got the chance to thank him. Does not matter, that specimen is no longer viable.

Jan Allison
Date: 3/17/2020 5:44:00 PM

the 'we' is the most telling part of that comment Rob. he blocked me yet has unblocked me to comment to me yet I have him blocked as of today - so how can that be that the block facility doesn't work?

Constance
La France

Date: 3/17/2020 12:01:00 PM

Thanks Mark, hope you and your family and staff are well too. I am sort of on self-isolation as of today because everything in my city of Ottawa, Canada is closed, even coffee shops, grocery stores, drug stores are still open. The Prime Minister is going to close Canada's borders (except the USA so trade can continue) and there will be no flights leaving Canada by Friday, if I understood his message correctly that is. But yes, we can write poetry all day long and I have a thousand things I can do also, I am stocked up with food and all my necessities and so I am ready to wait it out for now _Constance

Jan
Allison

Date: 3/17/2020 11:34:00 AM

I'm fine thanks Mark although I have been sick the last 2 days I hope you and your family are well.wilst you are online and the boss of PS I would suggest things would be better if it was not insinuated in blogs that I and other poets are 'haters' and have written hate poetry. It is pretty ironic to be labelled by folk who claim to be peace makers, perhaps you could deal with this as admin seem to be ignoring this . thanks Jan

Jan Allison
Date: 3/17/2020 4:19:00 PM

He;s already deleted 2 comments he made to me Tania as is his usual M O -but he still advocates he is a peacemaker . I have him blocked so why he is able to comment beggars beleif but I will not be driven away from the site. he told me he would leave if I didnt support him on teppos other blog and then he says he is taking a break which has lasted all of 5 minutes. if he truly wanted peace he would stick to writing poetry and not do blogs or comments

Tania Kitchin
Date: 3/17/2020 4:12:00 PM

Thank you Jan for being the voice of reason. I totally agree and support what you are saying. It is the reason I have joined another poetry site and not on here as much. I think the blogs should be eliminated due to all the drama and insults!

Mark Koplin
Date: 3/17/2020 3:19:00 PM

I don’t know about anyone else, but I appreciate your peaceful words here son of Spock. You are truly a man of peace. It’s so nice of you to have forgiveness in your heart and then offer to watch, copy and wait.

Eve
Roper

Date: 3/16/2020 5:55:00 PM

I like your encouragement... I truly will write more poetry.. Tooooo toooo crazy out there..

Mark
Koplin

Date: 3/16/2020 5:39:00 PM

Thank you so much for your concern. I hope you and your family are well.

My Past Blog Posts


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My Recent Poems

Date Posted	PoemTitle	Form	Categories
6/27/2008	Warm Soup	Rhyme	inspirational,on writing
1/10/2008	Her Eyes Are Carried On a Light Wind	Blank verse	introspection,life,on wri
1/10/2008	This Whim Called Love	Free verse	confusion,introspection,l
10/8/2007	Today, I Offer Thanks	Didactic	devotion,friendship,inspi
10/8/2007	Cicadas	Haiku	faith,introspection,life,
10/8/2007	The Harvest	Quintain (English)	life,nature,seasons,time,
8/23/2007	Say It's So, Joe	Limerick	friendship,funny,people,
4/30/2007	That Word	Didactic	funny,inspirational,life,
10/8/2006	Reearth	Free verse	allegory,faith,inspiratio
8/2/2006	Upon His Blameless Feet	Free verse	childhood,hope,inspiratio
8/2/2006	Vigilant	Didactic	devotion,faith,hope,inspi
4/29/2006	Land of the Free	Elegy	allegory,history,mystery,
7/14/2005	Once Upon a Happenstance	Couplet	allegory,funny,lost love,
7/14/2005	Your Latin Radere - the Etching	Free verse	allegory,angst,art,me,me,
7/14/2005	Wicked Art!	Free verse	allegory,art,devotion,
7/3/2005	Marigold Tongues	Quatrain	inspirational,life,people
6/19/2005	Mirrors	I do not know?	art,introspection,parody,
5/5/2005	Pagan Mistress	Blank verse	allegory,time,
5/5/2005	This Righteous Reign	Couplet	devotion,faith,happiness,
5/5/2005	Truth	Lyric	death,devotion,faith,happ
3/16/2005	Ride of the Daystar: Har - Magedon	Free verse	adventure,devotion,faith,
2/21/2005	I Guess That's It	Blank verse	confusion,introspection,
2/21/2005	Jordanesque In My Ballet	Rhyme	passion,people,sports,
2/19/2005	A Limerick To Dave	Limerick	day,passion,
2/18/2005	Cedars of Lebanon	Blank verse	family,life,nature,son,up
2/18/2005	Daughter	Rhyme	daughter,family,inspirati
2/18/2005	Leap	I do not know?	inspirational,life,people
2/18/2005	Nephilim (A Flash of Light)	Rhyme	confusion,faith,history,t

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Fav Poems

PoemTitle	Form	Categories
Poets	Shape	imagination,introspection
One of Texas's Best	Cowboy Poetry	cowboy-western,history,no
Lines	I do not know?	allegory,friendship,life,
Acceptance	Blank verse	inspirational,introspecti
Her Touch	I do not know?	art,love,passion,
Hard Drive	I do not know?	computer-internet,inspira
Autumn Song	I do not know?	life,love,nature,seasons,
Albatross Wings	I do not know?	animals,life,places,sea,
Poetry Assignment	Free verse	death,imagination,on writ
Crazy Things	I do not know?	confusion,love,sympathy,
Faith	I do not know?	faith,happiness,life,
Elemental	I do not know?	philosophy,
In Forbearance	I do not know?	introspection,lost love,l
The Private Lives of Those I'Ve Loved	I do not know?	family,people,places,hous
Sunglass Envy	Acrostic	love,mystery,passion,
Cycle	I do not know?	faith,inspirational,life,
Liquid Little Stones	Haiku	nature,seasons,
I Met This Charming Moonbeam Last Night	Limerick	imagination,life,nature,p
Prolong the Inevitable Pt. Iii	Blank verse	death,imagination,life,
If Only We Ask	Didactic	devotion,faith,father,lif
Half Truth Dreams	Tanka	imagination,introspection
Tadpoling Parts 1 and 2	Free verse	childhood,friendship,happ
Petal	Verse	love,
To She: Drawn To Thy Beauty {quatrain}	Quatrain	love,
Date Night (And the Day After)	Villanelle	food,lost love,sad,love,
Consider This	Free verse	introspection,
Grief	Rhyme	loss,me,time,
Violin	Personification	death,love,rose,
Words Whisperer	Ghazal	hope,inspirational,life,l
Self Inflicted Blues	Free verse	hope,life,me,age,age,hair
Stairway To Heaven	Haiku	death,faith,imagination,l
Nothing But This	Verse	life,lost love,love,sad,r
Angolan Strength	Free verse	inspirational,loss,social
Where the Sycamore Grew	Narrative	autumn,family,house,life,
Mother Is Dove	Free verse	nostalgiamother,woman,wat
Dilemma	Free verse	beautiful,confusion,desir
Cinder Girl	Rhyme
Lucifer's Laments	Dramatic Monologue	faith,forgiveness,introsp
Night Comes	Rhyme	time,

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Paula Larson	United States	Read
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Tatyana Carney	United States	Read
Rev. Rebecca Guile Hudson	United States	Read
Tony Bush	United Kingdom	Read
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Kim Anderson	United States	Read
Colin Marschall	United Kingdom	Read
Margaret Okubo	United States	Read
William Ward	United Kingdom	Read
Jill Martin	United States	Read
Marycile Beer	United States	Read
Adebayo Abass Olalekan	Nigeria	Read
Keith Bickerstaffe	United Kingdom	Read
Beverly Briatico	United States	Read
P Sheart	United States	Read
Vince Suzadail Jr.	United States	Read
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