Joseph P. DiMino Poet Prose

Plagiarism

Nature has no secrets
no doors to be unlocked

we are our own mystery
hiding keys
and denying entrance

Einstein created nothing

Mozart wrote nothing

when at our best
we are plagiarist
listening and responding

when at our worst
we are plagiarist

birthing physical facsimiles

to our world who survives
by eating its own young – 

Answer: the I in the I
vs the I in the we

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James Marshall Goff April 7, 2022 at 12:27 PM Joe...your ink inspires! I sample we all sample...we teach our children to sample & live in God's Grace...jimbo Joseph P. DiMino April 7, 2022 at 10:52 PM Very true!! Thank you, Jim~blessings my friend!

Andrea Dietrich March 27, 2022 at 9:30 AM hmmm, i am not sure that anyone else would have composed exactly what Mozart did, but I get the gist here and I really like this a lot. Joseph P. DiMino March 27, 2022 at 11:50 AM :)) I certainly cannot. The gist is all the intention. Thank you, Andrea; composed this more to keep myself humble and grateful. Blessings my friend.

Valsa George March 27, 2022 at 5:57 AM At our best and at our worst we are plagiarists ! What a paradox ! Plagiarism as such is contemptible. But we borrow ideas and sometimes phrases from others . Will it be treated as plagiarism .....? Great write, Joe ! Joseph P. DiMino March 27, 2022 at 11:53 AM Well, if we look for muses, or communion with spirit, we are drawing from the infinite stream (well) of possibilities already provided us by the Creator. Only true creativity, independent creativity, can come from Oneness with God. It is an eternal process.

Panagiota Romios March 26, 2022 at 9:48 PM Well written.it has a rhythm to it, Prince! I shall never be Hemingway or Debussy and those to be born cannot be you or me. Plagiarism is theft. A few years ago, we had one here.it took a team of four or five Of us to get him removed! He had many fooled. But I give people the right to-say things. as they see it. That’s what artists do. Pangie Joseph P. DiMino March 27, 2022 at 11:54 AM In my case, if another one, it needs many upgrades:))

Mystic Rose Rose March 26, 2022 at 5:57 PM I much prefer the I in the we dear poet. Very well penned, thank you for sharing stay inspired :) Joseph P. DiMino March 27, 2022 at 11:57 AM Absolutely!! Alone we are self-centered, cutoff from greater humanity and our Source, God. We need blending for inspiration and love. Without love, nothing is living. Just existing.