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Poetry

Poetry is in the air
in a toenail clip
in an icy slip
in the first gray hair

poetry is in the air
one need only to write
with a little, extra care
extra flare -- in the air,
oxygen to make word-spark
of both light and dark -- 

everywhere -- poetry!

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Joe Maverick Date: 9/3/2025 1:40:00 PM I see you down there..Yellow hair.' A fun comment btw.' I see i have a lot to answer for In leading people astray..As it were.? Er is hmm?? Flippent comments everywhere..All Take care.! Login to Reply

Andrea Dietrich Date: 9/1/2025 8:10:00 AM A sparkling little ditty. Love it. Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 9/1/2025 9:18:00 AM Hi Andrea; thank you. Have a wonderful writing week!

Victor Buhagiar Date: 9/1/2025 2:07:00 AM Joe, I still don't consider myself a poet. I don't like rhymes, to difficult for me as English is my second language. Yet I loved your poem. Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 9/1/2025 8:11:00 AM Yes. What are you talking about about, Victor. I even have seen you rhyme! Joe Dimino Date: 9/1/2025 3:49:00 AM Well, I beg to differ; I think you are a fine poet. Some of our greatest English poets, did not rhyme anything. Poetry is a compelling sense, a feel of flare and rhythm that tingles the Soulful Spirit, as your works do, setting mind and heart tunefully singing. See, not a rhyme in what I just said...yet it is poetry.

Valsa George Date: 8/31/2025 8:44:00 PM Yes, to an imaginative mind, poetry is all around. It needs only a little care to find the right words in the right place. We don't require a classical theme to write a poem. We can do it even on our first grey hair. A half serious and half hilarious poem. Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 9/1/2025 3:52:00 AM One can even argue, that when at our best, the human heart and spirit are pure poetry. That is poetry. Like great music, like great prayer. Like Great God!

Mystic Rose Rose Date: 8/31/2025 6:08:00 PM lol poetry is oxygen inhaled, and poetry exhaled, lol, really enjoyed this Joe, Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 9/1/2025 3:59:00 AM We breathe in what we need -- make it our own...then breathe it back to share and thus multiply its goodness. Our importance on the blackboard of every Nature-schooled green plant.

Sara Etgen-Baker Date: 8/31/2025 5:32:00 PM I agree....the fodder for poetry is everywhere. Well said, Joe! wishing you a pleasant week ahead, Sara Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 9/1/2025 4:00:00 AM Thank you, Sara; you also, have a blessed week!

Paula Goldsmith Date: 8/31/2025 11:56:00 AM I enjoyed reading your wonderful "Poetry" write. Yes, "Poetry" is in the air, it is everywhere if we will look for it. Have a wonderful/blessed day writing away............... Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 8/31/2025 12:17:00 PM Thank you, Paula; hasn't this rain been great! Have you been getting showers in your neck of the woods also? Blessings. Have great writing weekend.

Darlene De Beaulieu Date: 8/31/2025 10:54:00 AM Hello Joe DiMino, Yes poetry is everywhere. All you have to do is look around to find it. Enjoy yoor weekend. /Darlene/ Login to Reply Darlene De Beaulieu Date: 8/31/2025 4:45:00 PM Hello Joe DiMino, Oh I do agree with you Joe. Blessings my friend. /Darlene/ Joe Dimino Date: 8/31/2025 12:15:00 PM Thank you, Darlene; some would say even, it will find us if our minds and hearts are receptive. Have a great writing weekend my friend. Blessings.

Lin Lane Date: 8/31/2025 8:36:00 AM There’s such an abundance of things we can feast on to produce poetry. All we need to do is keep our mind and eyes open to see it… toe nails included. ;-) Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 8/31/2025 12:13:00 PM All about attitude; so true. Thank you, Lin. Have a blessed weekend. Write away!

Kim Rodrigues Date: 8/31/2025 6:37:00 AM I agree with your premise. Poetry is indeed everywhere. In the sunshine, in a slip, in each gray strand… Happy Labor Day! Login to Reply Joe Dimino Date: 8/31/2025 6:57:00 AM Thank you, Kim; inspired after reading your most recent poem, concluding that you have a gift for seeing poetry in most everyday common occurrences, and then write about such things brilliantly. Thank you.