WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Writing

September 22, 2016

Compost

Yes, indeed, writing takes practice. And practice is often tiresome. Even boring. Practice makes . . . more practice. Morning pages after morning pages. Day after day. Practice provides tons of material for That Inner Critic: "That all too familiar voice inside us that wants to shut the whole party down. Don’t do it!… Continue reading

Blogging, Writing

Brave Blogging, poetry, practice, Writing
September 19, 2016

How Not to Write a Poem

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js This is in response to a Brave Blogging prompt, to write a poem in less than ten minutes. The first draft was done in less than ten minutes, but there was some considerable revision. Another prompt was to write a "how to" piece, which, of course, elicited my contrary self. I ended… Continue reading

Blogging, Poems, Writing

Brave Blogging, not writing, photo, poem, Writing
February 23, 2014

My Journal

I am writing again, and doing several projects; too many, probably. Online, I'm doing The Documented Life Project and Tangie Baxter's Art Journal Caravan and Symbology Project. I'm behind in all of these. In real life I'm taking two poetry classes through the through the MOLLI Program at the University of Montana. I missed the first two sessions of both, made the next… Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Digital Resources, Writing

Art, Art Journal, circa, journal, levenger, Writing
February 17, 2014

Writing, Poems, Poetry

I am trying to reclaim my interior life, the life that generates poems. For too long, exterior life has intruded, welcome as some of those intrusions have been. I'm slowly returning to old habits: writing my dreams when I wake; morning pages; reading poems. And I'm taking… Continue reading

Writing
August 8, 2012

A Confession, and a Poem

CONFESSION: Sometimes I click that LinkWithin: You Might Also Like widget on my own blog, when I see something that doesn't look familiar. Sometimes that takes me to a poem I don't remember writing, and sometimes I'm impressed, by something I wrote myself. Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever be able to write that… Continue reading

Poems, Writing

dreams, poem, symbolism, Writing

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.

Writing

Compost

How Not to Write a Poem

My Journal

Writing, Poems, Poetry

A Confession, and a Poem