One plus one
Makes me and you
Two plus one
Makes us three!
Three plus one
Makes me happier
Than ever before
Four plus one
How lucky are we
To be alive!
Five plus one
Equals six!
Six plus one
Tells me that
I am in heaven
Seven plus one
Reminds me
Of our first date
Eight plus one
How grateful I am
That you are mine
Nine plus one
I want to love you
All over again.
C.K.23
Clare my name is Stella Forsythe-why winds solar has been used instead of my name is a bit odd but not a problem
I cannot see for the life of me where in my original comment to you on the subject of your poem
Multiplications of me and you
I had made ANY form of insult whatsoever towards you?
I simply stated that it reads quite a bit like Graces poem
Summing up
-in my opinion and that was ALL I intended to mean
Now you have said without ANY prompting from me or ANY form of insult that YOU can see the similarities which is EXACTLY what I meant
this is as far as I intend to go on the matter since I definitely do not want Grace to be drawn into this misunderstood situation which seems to be a case of crossed wires
and the reason for not wanting her to be involved over this something and nothing scenario is due to the fact that this wonderful lady and brilliant poet has enough to do with her voluntary job of sitting in with terminally ill people overnight in most cases ( according to her email to me ) thereby giving the relatives a break and a chance to get some sleep unless any emergencies arise overnight
and I also not happy by any means of being accused of making insults which is absolutely non evident
so I suggest we must leave it at that because I do not intend to respond to any more unwarranted accusations
Thank you
My poem is nothing like Grace’s poem. I am absolutely devastated to receive a cloaked accusation of plagiarism. It is the ultimate insult for the writer!
I think music is a little like poetry. They may share influences. The recent Ed Sheeran debacle is a case in point.
For example John Coopey recently beat me to the finishing line with an Everest poem, making me need to change one I had in progress.
winds solar. I have just taken a look at Grace’s poem - Summing Up. I am not quite sure where you get the idea that my poem reads anything like Grace’s. The only thing they seem to have in common is that both contain reference to sums.
winds solar - I haven’t seen that particular poem of Grace’s - although I am aware of her wonderful contributions to WOL. You seem to imply that I have plagerised someone else’s work!😯. This is a very serious accusation - one which I find highly insulting. If you take a look through my work on the site you will see that ALL of my work is original and I have absolutely no need to steal anyone else’s work.
This reads quite a bit like a poem by a lady called Grace Meadows and her poem ' Summing up' ??
Thank you, Keith. I was in a lighter mood today! 😁
A very fruitful poem which is the evidence of such joy.
Thanks for this,
Keith
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Clare
Sun 25th Jun 2023 11:05
Stella, the insult comes in the form of the insinuation made by the use of double question marks. To suggest that a writer has plagiarised is devastating because it calls into question ones integrity.
Suggesting that our poems read similarly (even though they don’t) is just like saying any poet who writes about love or heartbreak are stealing one another’s work.
I will leave it there.