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Question: So many have asked, so I've answered this way, any comments!?
Who am I!? May I begin by telling you what I am not!?
I am not a poet, nor strive to be!.
Now allow me to share who I am!.
I am like many of you, in a home filled with too few
and a heart filled with too much, so I come here to care!.
And to see how you show that you care!.
White hair is the only crown I wear for a life filled with
adventure, travels afar and heartaches closer to home!.
I've supped with the best and the brightest, enjoyed a career
with the severe and profoundly retarded, who often proved
far wiser than my celebrated dinner companions!.
A success at college, yet failed many times at life!.
No better nor worse than you reading these words!.
So, as I often do, I come back to words!. I use them in no
rhyming scheme nor poetical form, cadence I do not count!.
They merely come from the heart!.
An image arrives to me, never an idea nor a theme, always
an image, then comes the feeling and the words that follow!.
I pass them on to you for whatever they are worth!.
Your reactions give them worth and on their shirttails
a semblance of worth falls upon me!.
I'm an older woman with too much time on her hands!.
That's it, simply put, that's who I am!. I'd have it no other way!.
Do not call me a poet, a poet I'll never be!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I will call you a poet if I damn well want to!. <glaring>
I will call you a writer too!. <furrowing brow>
I will call you an angel if I so choose <eyebrow raised>
Do I follow the rules when I write!? <exasperated look>
Only my own, the ones that dictate my flow!. <sticking out tongue>
So I shall call you what I feel <more eyebrow raising>
Poet, writer, Angel!.!.!.!.friend!.
The only one which matters to me
Is the one at the end!.

{vigorously sticking out tongue now}Www@QuestionHome@Com

Okay you say you are not a poet and you only share what comes up!. Keep sharing cause what you share means the world to me!. You have touched me to the core, you have made me laugh and you have made me think!.

I am glad for that too much time on your hands and that you share it here in words!

Thanks for all you do, Ma!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm so glad I made it home and in time to answer on this post!. You and I have a connection that speaks through our posts, and you always seem to know when to email me in private!. Your a dear sweet woman with more than a touch of the mischievous in you!. And I am better for having you in my world!.

Hands on hips I stand defiant!.
You ARE a poet and ya can't deny it!
So THERE!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thoughts to word and word to paper a writer makes, no!?

As I've said before, you are a wonderful example to the sisterhood!. On a personal note, you've been so kind toward me, a motherless child!

You, my dear, are a priceless gem among the rough!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thank you, Ma!. I am one of those who wondered who you are!. It seems most people on this site, feel as I, that you are a kind kind and remarkable person, who writes poetry that we enjoy reading!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ma!. this is a wonder of wonders!. How great you are in your writing!. How do you do it!? You are just great in what you do!. And I would call you a poet!.

nfd?Www@QuestionHome@Com

No matter who or what you are you seem like a awesome person,Glad your one of my contacts to!.Your you ,and that makes you very unique!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Call yourself whatever you want, your words speak and speak well!. And while you are at it, look up a definition of a poem, poet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well what are ya!

http://uk!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=-4vSEXvLsx!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'll buy most of that, I guess!. But you're going to have to convince me otherwise of that last bit of nonsense!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You underestimate yourself!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You'll always be ma to me! You're beautiful! Inside & out! (((hugs)))Www@QuestionHome@Com

whatever!.!.!.!. whoever!.!.!.!.!.

!.!.!.!.!.you may be!.!.!.!.

you're still someone!.!.!.!.

!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.who lights every dark corners!.!.!.!.

!.!.!.of a shadow!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

you are like mother Theresa are you!?ma!? are you!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

you are a woman that finds time for us!.
the wings that share the feelings of care!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

And with all of that!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!. I love you still! ;)Www@QuestionHome@Com

ok
wordslinger it is!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

So very glad to know you, Ma!
We share many of the same feelings and opinions!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Aww, you're a good person to know I think! Very nice!Www@QuestionHome@Com

(((Ma, My friend, Sue)))Www@QuestionHome@Com

When you let us see your words, you are also giving us free reign to call you!.!.!.!.poet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

May I call you genius, and a friend!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

You know my
answer!. I've got
the music too!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Benn said it best for all of us!
I am glad to call you friend!Www@QuestionHome@Com

"All the lonely people, where do they all come from!."

"Do we read to know we are not alone!." C!.S!. Lewis

Your not much different then the most of us, including me, A poet is a poet is, and one of those you are, I'm a wanna be, that hits and misses,
mostly I write, just because I can not, not write!. It is a part of who I am!.
for better, for worse!. What I have read of yours, I think you know, yes you are a poet, who writes poems from your heart!. Where else do all poems come from!. Some of us master the heart, Not all of us master
the art of poetry form, but it is such a joy to try!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thank you so much!.!.!.!.I do feel I know you a little better after reading this!.!.!.!.and I always love getting to know my friends on here a little better!.!.!.!.although, exactly as you said to me the other week, I think I "saw" you quite well even before reading this!. This was a good read!.!.!.!.you certainly know how to put words together!.!.!.!.as you have shown on many, many occasions on here!.

Many of us enjoy reading your words!.!.!.!.whether you see yourself as a "poet" or not!. I am quite sure of that! I am sure you know that I look forward to my visits to the poetry section of Y!A just to read them!.

(((ma)))Www@QuestionHome@Com

Who you are, my dear, is someone special!. The reason I know this!? Just look at the answers and you will see that you are beloved by all!. Only someone special could receive all that love!. You write poetry, yet do not claim to be a poet!. I can weld steel together, but I am not a welder!. You see an image and use words to describe it!. I also do not plan my poetry, but rather than an image, I tend to see a video in my mind, and as I start to write it keeps running!. So which of us is the poet!? You who write beautiful words to describe an image, or me who just writes what he sees!. You fill the lives of those of us around you, that you have never met nor spoken to with the beauty of your heart and soul, so you have definitely not failed at life!. Who you are is ma, Sue, or any other name you wish to be known by and you are that special lady I look for when I sign on to my computer!. The lady whose words can make me feel happiness and sadness at the same time!. Probably a lady of less age than my own, a statistic that is relatively inconsequential at best!. Your hair is platinum blonde, not white, just look at Marilyn Monroe!. So you see, although we have never met and you have never let me buy you dinner or a Big Mac with fries, I know you pretty dadblamed well!. I could expound for an hour and be no closer to finished than when I stated, so I will hush now!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I will share the following with you!.!.!.but I will say I disagree with you as I did with the writer of "this" poem!.!.!.although, I understand the heart!.!.!.I do see into it!.!.!.and from it!.!.!.


I am not much of a poet
And think I'll never be
Isn't a poet supposed to write
What other people see!?
What I write is what I feel
Deep down within myself
I have been given a free will
What I’ve lived is sure my wealth

This wealth I'll share with others
If they will only see
Inside themselves for Truth
That will help in time of needWww@QuestionHome@Com

Not striving to be a poet!? If that's the case you might be setting yourself up to fail again!. What is a poet but a writer of poetry, an artist of great sensitivity!? You write poems!.!.!.sensitive poems!. In school we studied the works of some "poets" who did not write with as much sensitivity as you do!.
You are a lovely lady with great concern for others and great humility, but also a lady with lots of spunk and, at least according to my definition, a poet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thank you SOOOOO much about the part where you wrote about your time with profoundly retarded ( though I rather say developmentally disabled myself) and celebrated dinner companions!.

People who are developmentally disabled are SEVERELY underrated! Many of them are the most filled with love people you wanna know! But then, they are that way because they understand better than the rest of us how hard it is to get loved!. And they CAN amount to a lot of great things, even if it is done differently! I mean, look at Chris Burke from Life Goes On! He really DOES have Down's Syndrome, and makes for a much better actor than many out there!Www@QuestionHome@Com