how can I prove to someone that I wrote a poem I claim as my own?

Answer 1

You can prove the poem as your own by copying and pasting the entire poem to the Internet, to see what comes up. If you have plagiarized, it should come up! Try it and see.

Answer 2

That can be very difficult to prove. If you have any notes or edits, maybe a rough draft that's dated, or if you have other similar work that gives a sense of the same style. They just recently found a "new" unpublished poem of Robert Frost scrawled in a book. They were able to establish that it was indeed Frost's based on it's similarities to his other work. Whether you have other work to do this to, and someone qualified to make the comparision...
I guess the person just has to know you and trust you, basically. They have to know you well enough to know if you are an honest and talented person.

Answer 3

Show them the poem in the first place you wrote it. I date my work and compile it in a book.

Answer 4

the best way to prove a claim to any form of writing is to have patent. one could make one on the net and using programs like photoshop.
however the most practical way is to have time and dates. not to mention a witness. when it comes to owning words these days it really comes down to a patent though.

Answer 5

To copyrite it...write 'c' in a circle at bottom of poem, sign and date it, put in post with your name and address on it..do not open it and keep intact with postage seal and date on it...(this form of copyrite only costs you the postage, other copyrites will cost heaps more through a patent agency....good luck and keep writing.

Answer 6

tell them to try to find it in any poem books that they can

Answer 7

you don't need to prove anything, if you speak the truth and it is not believed, then find other ways to explain yourself.