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Established 02004

Buddha

April 15, 2006

NaPoWriMo – #13

Easter Weekend twelve purple tulips yellow pollen on the buddha Continue reading

NaPoWriMo, Photos 2006

Buddha, Easter, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, photograph, poem, poetry, tulip
December 21, 2005

Winter Solstice

two long nights one short day the buddha smiles [This charming buddha, sitting in the light, was made by Bill Walker. If you are interested in his work, he can be reached at flutio21 AT yahoo DOT com] Continue reading

Art, Current Affairs, small poems

Buddha, digital art, winter solstice
November 18, 2004

Good News

Árni is awake. We are told: He’s terribly tired – even opening his eyes is a major effort. He seems to have control of hands and legs, no apparent paralysis in his face, and he clearly understands what’s going on. — and who is to say that all those candles did not help? He will… Continue reading

Poets

Arni Ibsen, Buddha, photograph, rose

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.

Buddha

NaPoWriMo – #13

Winter Solstice

Good News