WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

March 23, 2004

Melancholy

   who regrets
      the passing of winter
         the coming of spring?

small poems

2 responses to “Melancholy”

Anita

March 23, 2004 at 9:29 pm

What an unusual question. I like that. An especially good question to plant in my mind just before sleep.

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Big Sky Dave

March 24, 2004 at 10:02 pm

I do. I am going to miss the icy, chilly crispness of winter. I am going to miss the near-certainty of at least just one more snowfall.
But I will enjoy Spring for what it is, and look forward to the first snow of next winter.

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Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Melancholy

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