WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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blogging against abuse

September 27, 2007

Bloggers Unite

Join 1,000s of Bloggers Today, September 27th & Blog Against Abuse. * Animal Abuse * Domestic Abuse * Child Abuse * Political Abuse & more…. It’s not too late to join in. The Blog Catalog discussion group is here. You will find lots of links there to the contributions of other bloggers. Continue reading

Blog Memes

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September 27, 2007

BloggersUnite | Poetry Thursday

Today is Blogging Against Abuse day, a Community Challenge from Blog Catalog. I have a poem that is appropriate for this challenge: The Therapist. I am linking rather than posting for two reasons: This poem is written in long lines, and that format works much better at Oratory than it does here at Watermark. This… Continue reading

Memes, Poems, poetry thursday

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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.

blogging against abuse

Bloggers Unite

BloggersUnite | Poetry Thursday