WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Frivolity

July 30, 2009

Poetry, Palinized

Well. As this is, after all, a poetry blog, I’m required to post the latest thing — right? Enjoy: http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4a721300afb727e9/4741e3c5156499a7/16f86ee2/-cpid/15b12de4114264b http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/4a72137cda0206e4/4741e3c5156499a7/e8eb9e33/-cpid/14ec74a0d89f704d Continue reading

Frivolity

palin, poetry, Shatner
March 17, 2008

St. Patrick’s Day

I am putting this little Irish critter dance beneath the cut, as it seems to slow loading on the front page. Continue reading

Frivolity

Irish Jig, silliness, St. Patrick’s Day
February 12, 2008

Time

Perhaps time really is as simple as we used to think. The wise ones tell us that all we have is this moment; this moment is all there is. Maybe time is a bubble. This moment (moment meaning: the smallest possible increment of time, so vastly small that our limited minds cannot encompass it) replaced… Continue reading

Frivolity

“Doctor Who”, metaphysics, time, time travel, Torchwood
January 24, 2008

I am a Real Writer & I can prove it

Many thanks to Janni Lee Simner, via Erin Noteboom But really important people have more than one certificate on their wall, and who is more important than the poet? So I worked this one up, too: This idea was stolen from: J. B. Handelsman, New Yorker, March 10, 1973 Via Ron Sipherd at… Continue reading

Frivolity, Writing

humor, Poetic License, poetry, Poetry, Writing
January 11, 2008

Narcissistic Playtime

I’ve been working on this post for several days, and this morning I found Lorelle’s Blog Challenge: Intelligent Online Toys and Play Things, which inspired me to get back to it. Some of you have noticed, and commented on, the new portrait on the sidebar. This is a Uvatar from BeFunky.com: You upload a photo,… Continue reading

Frivolity

avatar, befunky, blog toys, doppelme, online toys, portrait, self-portrait, simpsonize, uvatar

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

Frivolity

Poetry, Palinized

St. Patrick’s Day

Time

I am a Real Writer & I can prove it

Narcissistic Playtime