Originality

Original Poetry?
As poets are we to be condemned? For every verse and rhyme To check its providence. Do we have the time To produce the evidence Of copyright, so as to fend Off the stigma and shame. Never to be able to publish again.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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Buck Avatar
November 19, 2017 at 1:46 PM
Interesting question. My thought as I write is always: No one else would claim anything as poorly written as my work, and proceed from there. From what you've shown us on soup, you probably shouldn't apply my rule for your work. :o) Keep them coming. And thanks for sharing with all of us on the soup. oldbuck
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November 19, 2017 at 1:34 PM
Stuck between a rock and a hard place? I guess most of us just wing it. Unless you are copying word for word. But if you read something and it makes you think and out of that thought comes a poem then it belongs to the poet whose thoughts are from whence it came.
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