plagiarism - Museum Piece

[gwen]

I'm not sure this is the right place to post this, but I don't want to post in the actual Museum Piece thread & drag it up to the top of the forum...I just found this poem by someone called Lauris Edmond saved on an old document on my computer (it was on the Poems on the Underground scheme in 2002):

Greek Antiquities: First Floor

Little sculptured animals, young deer
still stiffly running, still with bright
and frightened eyes, my fingers touch
the tiny perforations that mark
the spots upon your coats of clay
and find them rough and hard. Will any
dream of mine so run, wakeful
through more than twenty centuries?

I don't remember reading this, but it's fairly clear that the whole thought of my poem does come from it. I'm really sorry - could 'Museum Piece' be locked or deleted or something?

[HowardM2]

I'll lock it for the moment. One of the perils of "read more poetry" is precisely this sort of unconscious and unintentional plagiarism. I suspect that most of us run into this problem at some time or another; I know I have.

Howard

[gwen]

OK. Thanks, Howard.