Plagiarism

Is it plagiarism when you plant a rose?
Can you deserve applause for botany
When all your seeds must fall from other planters’ prose
(Not counting the Anon. stalk and Trad. tree)?
Should your child bear your surname (or that of your beau),
Or every surname in her pedigree?
Are you required to staple to your baby’s toe
An annotated bibliography?
If every brainchild is somebody’s braingrandchild,
A grandpoet needs to give her grandpoems treats.
If life’s a garden of verse, then we could tour the wild,
And pluck sunflowers, shuck the tails of wheat.
The pioneer of circles didn’t feel
A need to sue the first inventor of the wheel.