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“ATTENTION ANNIE”

My name is Capri Avila the poem below ‘SUICIDE’ i wrote and did have my name on it now reads ‘© By Anonymous’ this is wrong and i don’t understand how anyone could take my name off it this upsets me and i don’t want my poem on this sight any longer. i been reading these comments and alot of people are saying they can not find there poems and they are gone i thought this to for the last 6 months i haven’t been able to find my poem by searching my name but found out yesterday thats because its no longer in my name i’m wondering if this has happended to other people and thats why they can’t find there work. i need to know what i need to do and need you to fix this problem my email is [contact info removed by moderator] i also would love to hear from anyone else this has happend to. i can more than prove i wrote this poem and will file a lawsuit if i have to, thank you and hope to talk to you soon.
Capri Avila…

SUICIDE
© By Anonymous

Open your angel eyes wide
don’t get lost in the lavender sky
shake all the stars from your hair
taste your sweet, salty, bitter skin
cut the poison from your tongue
don’t sleep beneath the candy acid sun
please don’t follow the fairy dust

Don’t sleep to heavy in your cherry blossom bed
peel the razor peddles from your skin
don’t get lost in the fairy dust
don’t look at the fairy
don’t look at the fairy
that fairies not pretty
she’s ugly, evil and deadly
are you still dying
are you still dying

Peddle red peddle blue, kill the fairy end the doom
peddle red peddle blue, the girl power will save you
peddle red peddle blue, if your crazy then so am I
are you still dying in the fairy dust
are you still dying
are you still dying
kill the fairy

web sights with my poem ‘SUICIDE’
by Capri Avila…

http://www.imeem.com/portiacobweb

http://www.blackbunny.nl/astarot

http://www.myspace.com/xshesxneverxknownxhappyx
i copyed my poem from myspace friends blog posted in 2006..

Monday, October 16, 2006
quotes
“That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the skin, to see the way the blood would bleed out, to make myself look tougher. Not like some of those kids who keep going deeper and deeper, wondering what they look like down to the bone, because it’s a world that’s so close and yet so far and so dangerous and so much their own. The only world that is their own.”

-”Violet and Claire,” Francesca Lia Block

SUICIDE
© By Capri Avila

Open your angel eyes wide
don’t get lost in the lavender sky
shake all the stars from your hair
taste your sweet, salty, bitter skin
cut the poison from your tongue
don’t sleep beneath the candy acid sun
please don’t follow the fairy dust

Don’t sleep to heavy in your cherry blossom bed
peel the razor peddles from your skin
don’t get lost in the fairy dust
don’t look at the fairy
don’t look at the fairy
that fairies not pretty
she’s ugly, evil and deadly
are you still dying
are you still dying

Peddle red peddle blue, kill the fairy end the doom
peddle red peddle blue, the girl power will save you
peddle red peddle blue, if your crazy then so am I
are you still dying in the fairy dust
are you still dying
are you still dying
kill the fairy

i do have other paper work dated to 2004 and i had ‘SUICIDE’ notarized before i entered it into the poetry contest because of this reason ‘i didn’t want to lose my poem.

Posted by capri avila on 23 October 2009 @ 2pm

Posted by capri avila on 23 October 2009 @ 3pm

‘ADDING TO LAST COMMENT’
when i entered my poem i entered it as Kill The Fairy not Suicide as like everyonr else i got one of there letters about wanting to publish my poem and buying the book never sent anything back but did try to contact poetryamerica about why they changed the name of my poem but never got ahold of them. my poem was posted to the sight in the depression poems part with the changed name if i do remember the letter they sent did also talk about them changing the name and why they wanted me to sighn a paper and send it back but i never did so i don’t think they really could do that. i’d have to look really hard but i know i still have it and i will find it and paste it on here
capri avila

Posted by capri avila on 23 October 2009 @ 3pm

I am looking for someone out there to read some of my writings and to give me honest feed back. for years i have written only for myself and never allowed it to be read, however i am just now getting to the point of feeling that maybe someone out there in some small way could identify with me or help me to express myself better or if i make no sense at all be honest enough with me to tell me. waiting for honesty, Nae Nae

Posted by Nae Nae on 27 October 2009 @ 1am

Capri,
I am sorry that you are having trouble with your poem. Please contact our support team at help@poetry.com to correct the name on your poem. If you would like your poem removed from the site, please email removal-request@poetry.com with your name, poem title, and a link to the poem and our support team can assist you.

Just to be clear, poetryamerica.com is a different site and company that is not associated with Lulu Poetry.
Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 27 October 2009 @ 2pm

Hi annie,
I hope that you and the staff are doing well there at Lulu’s and that God has uniquely blessed one and all.
I have just submitted a note for my fellow poets in my list of poems which I’ve entitled “Truth”. In light of the recent attempt at theft over one of my poems. I did not submit this as a poem, only a bit of advice. I was hoping that you would post it at the top of the daily list for all my fellow poets to read. Instead of offering anger, I offer love. I do not wish to be graded on this as a poem, it is intended as a gift only.
I hope that you will see the wisdom and my true motive behind it and place it where it will do the most good. Thank you.
Tim I. Brumley

Posted by Timothy I. Brumley on 28 October 2009 @ 4pm

what the hell. i just want to view my own work. can i do that? or what? how do i talk to the person that runs this site? or is there someone?

Posted by Corey Zielinski on 29 October 2009 @ 5am

Dear Capri Avila,

Hi my name is Katrina, I too have been looking for my poem I entered on this website and now I can’t even find it. I don’t remember what the poem was called because I write poetry at the second and it usually reflects my past as a child/teenager, and sometimes I write about my current life. But this poem I wrote was very near and dear because it was about my tramatic past. But for some reason I cannot find it anywhere. Also I am very sorry that someone else is trying to pass your work off as theirs it is NOT right. Matter of factly it is stealing and fraud. So if I was you I would be suing someone and make them pay for taking your work. God bless you!!!!!!!!

Posted by Katrina Gambill on 29 October 2009 @ 9pm

Hi Corey,
I was able to find 35 poems listed under your name. I hope that these are the ones you are looking for.

The best way to locate your poems is to visit your profile page. After you log in, click the blue “Account” link at the top right of the page. This will take you to your profile and a list of your poems.

If checking your profile does not return all of your poetry, an easy work around is to copy and paste full_name: “your name” into the search field (be sure to replace your name with the full name you published poetry under and keep the quotation marks), which will pull up all of the poetry listed under the pen name of your poetry. This step will become unnecessary as Lulu Poetry continues to index content and refine the search.

If you would like to contact our support team, please email help@poetry.com and someone can assist you.

Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 30 October 2009 @ 10am

Hi Katrina,
I was able to find 2 poems listed under your name.
Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 30 October 2009 @ 10am

Dear Annie,
These two poems are old ones. I created a new account and now have 4 new ones and am going to add more. I was wondering if the 4 new ones I have written, if anyone on this website can read them? I was wondering because they aren’t rated by anyone on the rrs feed.I would like to know if anyone liked them or not.

Posted by Katrina Gambill on 30 October 2009 @ 6pm

To all my fellow Poets:

I’ve noticed that some of you are struggling with your poetry, even to the point of attempted theft. If you will permit me, I would like to offer the following bit of advice.
All great poetry deals with a common subject, truth. There are two types of people that deal with truth, the philosopher and the poet. The philosopher constantly struggles with the truth, but not the poet. A poet is someone that has discovered a particular truth and has subsequently fallen in love with it. The truth, as it has been revealed uniquely to you.
So if you want to write great poems then go to where your passions lie, because that’s where the truth abides, and is where great poetry is born. Of course, for me there is only one great truth and that’s God, and you’ll find him in most of mt poetry.
I hope this helps and I offer it in the spirit of camaraderie and creativity. Just try to remember this one very important thing, it’s not the destination in life that’s important, for we all die. Instead, it’s the journey that truly defines us.
Thank you,
Tim I. Brumley

Posted by Timothy I. Brumley on 31 October 2009 @ 2am