On Bullying At Soup
At least a time or two (Well, more than that)
some bullies have had unkind words for me
at blogs (which should be monitored) and in mails,
and also underneath my poetry.
If someone has complaints I can address,
I do not mind to get them in a mail
if at least politely they’re expressed,
but words of cruelty I don’t take well.
I have been threatened and harrasssed by mail.
Those people (and there only were a few)
I blocked if they had been especially rude,
and some of them I just stopped talking to.
Regarding bullying beneath one’s poems,
I think that everyone can understand
when people are on purpose being mean.
When it becomes habitual, it’s planned!
These kinds of people have not got a life.
We do not have to take their cruelty.
Report them! I have seen some be removed.
Click “Block” and take them off your poetry!
Nov. 6, 2020
for Mark Koplin's Judged By A Jury Of Your Peers Poetry Contest
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2020
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