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When your original work resembles existing poems

I wrote a poem that accidentally sounds exactly like something famous and I cannot figure out how to change it without losing what makes it work

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The anxiety of influence creates impossible choices between effectiveness and originality.

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“Where Are You with Poetry — the oldest creative form?”

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