So you changed some things around and called this new? <br />Yours? <br />To have others believe it too! <br />And you know this isn't true. <br />Don't you? <br /> <br />Have you ever gone in someone's home? <br />And made suggestions <br />As to how they can arrange their furniture <br />To give the interior of their home a different presence? <br />It is still their furniture! <br />They recognize it. <br />You recognize it. <br />It belongs to them. <br />No matter how it has been arranged. <br /> <br />Same thing with stolen concepts. <br />Or a poet 'borrowing' ideas. <br />No matter how it has been arranged, <br />The creating brain knows from where it came. <br /> <br />There is no such thing as 'borrowing' someone else's ideas. <br />To make them new. <br /> <br />Plagiarists make attempts at this. <br />And some are so ignorant... <br />They lift whole passages as if they can not be recognized. <br />That's how empty their minds and lives are! <br /> <br />AND then there are those who will boldly ASK... <br />If it is okay to put their name on 'your' efforts! <br />And then to others brag of their tasks. <br /> <br />But not for too long can they do this. <br />Repetition bores, <br />Even those who do not recognize what is presented... <br />Has no originality or freshness in it to begin with!<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-originality-or-freshness-in-it/
