All About Love

No matter the subject, poetry,
somehow, is all about love -- 
Love, a poet's bread and butter. 
Staple stapled to the writing
tip of his forever pen, and the backside 
of his often used pencil. Falling in and out of. 
Were it not for Love's addictive nature, 
a poet's heart's habitual affliction...there would be no poetry.  
No poet.  Period.

Hallmark rhymes are far from my
heart's loses and finds, no paper beaters
in said repertoire -- torrid bliss, or totally disappointed,
pissed!~ has always been my hotly repeated refrain! -- 
Poetry oscillates, lively.  A charged, bare wire!

Makes for hyper passionality (made that word up). 
Rises, a Sky-rocket -- bottoms~ a clogged bowel! 
Too much overeating of non-tenderized fowl
reflects and epitomizes, self induced, masochistic
relationships, that lead to, autogenous, butchered,
my own mental scalpel, seeming lobotomies.  A medical wonder I can yet write. 

The poet consumes drama~ discharges incessantly! 

Both sustenance and waste, same confounded paste
he spreads on toast and his own body roast --   

Adds and subtracts vociferously, voluminously, deeply, 
depth-fully~ each work, in some way, an extension
of presupposed, paramount, though egoistic, core matters. His many
Pointillism, mixed with mere, random, ill conceived
uninspiring hackneyed splatters. 

Feels so deeply, 
that what he cannot create for himself, from emotional 
others he will beg, steal and borrow -- absence of
love, for the poet~ there is no
yesterday! Nor today...nor future desire though potentially a richly composite
tomorrow.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025


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Date: 9/10/2025 8:37:00 AM
Love is so great and can be difficult to describe... words struggle to reach... as "bread and butter" - Love is the key to life - Beautiful poem, Joe :) - hugs
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Joe Dimino
Date: 9/10/2025 9:05:00 AM
You made my day, Anne; thank you!
Date: 9/9/2025 10:03:00 AM
so enjoyable poetry, i love the way you read and write beautiful ideas developed, this is enlightening really
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Joe Dimino
Date: 9/9/2025 12:28:00 PM
Thank you, Yann; your comment made my day. Blessings!
Date: 9/8/2025 9:24:00 PM
Your concept of poetry is much valid and appreciated. Poetry is synonymous to love. "Were it not for Love's addictive nature, a poet's heart's habitual affliction...there would be no poetry. No poet." You are definitely right. A poet is always inspired by love... it may be a love of some kind... may not be always the love we can conceive of. At the end your lament - "each work, in some way, an extension of presupposed, paramount, though egoistic, core matters. His many Pointillism, mixed with mere, random, ill conceived uninspiring hackneyed splatters." is justifiable. But very few can be exempted from this charge.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 9/9/2025 6:15:00 AM
We agree, that without love, and its many mysterious interpretations, there is no poetry. Love is poetry's core element. And a poet is addicted to love: may it be people love, love of nature, science, etc.. Passion, equals Poet. To Definitively define love, there are libraries full of such attempts alone. Why my poem is about driving force as opposed to clinical definition. Thank you, my friend. Have a wonderful poetic day!
Date: 9/8/2025 5:43:00 PM
I appreciate this 'tribute' to love and poetry. I was drawn to so many phrases in your poem like this one: Were it not for Love's addictive nature, a poet's heart's habitual affliction...there would be no poetry. No poet. Period. Thanks for sharing your words and poetic voice today. Have a blessed evening, Sara
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Joe Dimino
Date: 9/9/2025 6:20:00 AM
Thank you, Sara; also you, have a great evening and writing week.
Date: 9/8/2025 6:12:00 AM
'Passionality,' the epitome of love. I accept your new word as being one of utmost importance in emotional love, Joe. ;-)
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Joe Dimino
Date: 9/8/2025 6:43:00 AM
Hi Lin; thank you. I thought this was so long that maybe no one would bother to read it. You made my day! Have a great writing week!
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