WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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January 21, 2006

What lifts you?

Photo by Alan Parker ~ click for larger image Main Entry: lift Part of Speech: noun 2 Definition: help Synonyms: aid, assist, assistance, boost, comfort, encouragement, hand, leg, leg up, pick-me-up, reassurance, relief, secours, succor, support Source: Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)Copyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.… Continue reading

Personal, Soul Food

balloon, lift, miracle, photograph, uplift

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, 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.

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What lifts you?