When Did You Stop Being a Poet?

Posted on July 15, 2015July 13, 2015 by Jamie Dedes

Author: Jamie Dedes

Jamie Dedes is a Lebanese-American poet and free-lance writer. She is the founder and curator of The Poet by Day, info hub for poets and writers, and the founder of The Bardo Group, publishers of The BeZine, of which she was the founding editor and currently a co-manager editor with Michael Dickel. Ms. Dedes is the Poet Laureate of Womawords Press 2020 and U.S associate to that press as well. Her debut collection, "The Damask Garden," is due out fall 2020 from Blue Dolphin Press. View All Posts

5 thoughts on “When Did You Stop Being a Poet?”

scillagrace says:

July 15, 2015 at 2:22 PM

Thank you for sharing this again! It is good to be reminded.

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1. Jamie Dedes says:
  
  July 15, 2015 at 2:28 PM
  
  It’s one I think we all need to listen to now and again … delightful and a good reminder, eh? 🙂
  
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  1. scillagrace says:
    
    July 15, 2015 at 2:56 PM
    
    I love the immediate honesty in a child’s description. ‘When did you stop being honest?’ is a good question for thought.
    
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    1. Jamie Dedes says:
      
      July 15, 2015 at 5:22 PM
      
      Indeed! 🙂
      
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Michael Dickel says:

July 26, 2015 at 3:46 AM

Ah, yes. When did we stop being a poet. And the truth of children. Also, the expression in their painting, drawing, art—until someone tells the child it isn’t what it is, what the child knows but the adult forgets.

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