I Am

I am no minister -- therefore, a self-ordained preach I am no tenured philosopher -- therefore, an unlettered teach Just a poet -- good-bad, and the ugly just a poet -- happy-sad, and the lonely

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Oliver Mckeithan

Date: 5/30/2025 6:31:00 PM

Hello Joe, a pretty good poet I might add. I think you define us all

Joe Dimino
Date: 6/1/2025 5:08:00 AM

Hi Oliver; sounds like you clearly understand my perspective. Not to say that I am right, just my opinion. To write poetry does not necessarily say, that one is a poet. Poetry is a spiritual thing...a search for truth in self and creation in general...it is to seek God. Eventually to realize just how far we have traveled from God -- thus, a longing for reunification ~ a profound loneliness. Isolation. Being a poet, and writing poetry are not necessarily the same thing.

Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 5/30/2025 4:22:00 PM

Hello Joe dimino, I am a poet to and feel the same way you do. i do cheer up. Enjoy your evening my cfriend. /Darlene/

Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 5/31/2025 8:28:00 AM

Hello Joe Dimino, Oh , just you and the muse! Oh mystical. Enjoy your day my friend./Darlene/

Joe Dimino
Date: 5/30/2025 5:45:00 PM

Hi Darlene; that moment of creation is a very isolating experience...just you and the muse. It is also mystical. Thank you, my friend.

Tom Woody

Date: 5/30/2025 1:11:00 PM

I am a poet too ... and a minister (of sorts). Sorry you're lonely Joe

Joe Dimino
Date: 5/30/2025 5:46:00 PM

Hi Tom; not to be sorry...at times it is an incredibly wonderful isolation. Full of entrancing mysteries yet to be told. God is always with us, sometimes closest when we shut the world out.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/30/2025 12:31:00 PM

I really like this one. It says it all

Joe Dimino
Date: 5/30/2025 5:47:00 PM

All about emotions. That's poetry. Thank you, Andrea.

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 5/30/2025 11:40:00 AM

What a creative write you have here. Cheer Up and Have Some Fun. I enjoy reading your writes. Hooray!!! Have a fun day/weekend writing away..........

Joe Dimino
Date: 5/30/2025 5:49:00 PM

Yep. Great fun to write. Our own universe to travel.

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 5/30/2025 9:20:00 AM

oh so sad at the end! I rather enoyed this! I likewise am not a professional though I tackle the bible, philosophy, and just being a poet! I study up! God makes us who we are and he gives us the gifts to live by. Who will be greatest? The humble? The poor? The unseen? not a monk under a rock but one who shines to give their all and we are jealous For them! God bless, dear poet! A fave!

Joe Dimino
Date: 5/30/2025 5:51:00 PM

Thank you, Kim; so pleased that you could mentally and spiritually relate to this work. Poetry is world of enjoyment I am certain you agree. Blessings.

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 5/30/2025 9:19:00 AM

Cheer up my friend, life is worth living.

Joe Dimino
Date: 5/30/2025 5:53:00 PM

Oh no! Cheer-up? Then what would I write about? All Smiley Faces...yuck! Thank you, Victor.