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DEFINITIONS

• poem -- a composition designed to convey a vivid an imaginative sense of experience, characterized by the use of condensed language chosen for its meaning, and by use of such literary techniques as structured meter, natural cadences, rhyme, or metaphore. An arrangement of words in verse; especially, a rhythmical compostion, sometimes rhymed, expressing facts, ideas, or emotions in a style more concentrated, imaginative, and powerful than that of ordinary speech; some poems are in meter, some in free verse.

• prose -- the ordinary form of written, or spoken language, without rhyme or meter: opposed to verse, poetry.

• limerick -- a light humorous or nonsensical verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba.

• haiku -- an unrhymed Japanese lyric poem having a fixed three-line form consisting of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively.

A more formal (well documented and witnessed) copyright may be desired by some individuals. A more formal copyright is more valuable only in case of a challenge to the work ending in courts. One method of accomplishing this is to have the page(s) notarized. Another method is to apply to the Library of Congress for a copyright. The form you fill out is simple and you send it in along with $20 and in a short time you will be provided a copyright number.

At seniors-site, when you send us your poem, we assume that it is your work and normally post that it is copyrighted by you. This protects you, however, if it is someone else's work we are not responsible for copyright infrigement and will remove works as soon as we are notified.