WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

humour

August 30, 2007

Poets are Funny

This is the last week for Poetry Thursday, and I’ve no idea what will come next. Maybe these will cheer you up: Copyright Robert T. Balder Want the punchline? Click the image. Via Land Mammal. poetryfoundation.org has a page of poet poems; these are my favorites [click the image to go to the cartoon]: … Continue reading

Frivolity, poetry thursday

cartoon, funny, humor, humour, poetry thursday, Poets
November 13, 2004

A Glimpse of My Dark Side

I’m sorry. I can’t stop laughing. From The Biomes Blog, via iddybud. Continue reading

Frivolity

humor, humour, penguins

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.

humour

Poets are Funny

A Glimpse of My Dark Side