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Established 02004

Poems

March 31, 2006

Cats & Poetry; Poetry & Cats

Tomorrow is the beginning of National Poetry Month: National Poetry Month was established by the Academy of American Poets as a month-long, national celebration of poetry. The concept was to increase the attention paid-by individuals and the media—to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our poetic heritage, and to poetry books and magazines.… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 6, Poems, poetry

cats, Friday Cat Blogging, National Poetry Month, Poems, poetry
February 21, 2006

A List

Erin has written a lovely haibun off one of my snapshot poems. She also says some very nice things about me. Really. And as long as I’m bragging — this was awhile ago, and I put it on my sidebar, but in case you missed it, another fine review from Dave Bonta: SB – sometimes… Continue reading

Blogging, Critters, Kind Words, Noticed, Poets

photograph, Poems, poetry, Poets, squirrel
February 16, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Linda Hogan & Other Poets

Linda, as always, was great. She speaks from a deep place. The title of her talk was A Spiritual History of the Living World. I took almost no notes, but Niki did, and perhaps she will post from them at some point; if she does, I will link to it. Also, public access television recorded… Continue reading

Poets, The Artist’s Way

Art, Linda Hogan, Poems, poetry, Poets, spirituality, The Artist’s Way
January 6, 2006

some are possibly haiku all are certainly small SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER ANY SEASON Twitter Poems | Micro-Poems | Twaiku Continue reading

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haiku, micropoems, micropoetry, Poems, poetry, small poems, twaiku, twitter poems
March 20, 2005

Spring Equinox 02005

Each morning I remind myself what day this is, to place myself within the human community. These calendars, these dates are not real things, but merely human impositions on the sun, the moon, the stars, which all will follow their own paths whether we name them or not. These weeks past our blue earth’s path… Continue reading

Photos 2005, Poems

Poems, poetry, sonnet

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.

Poems

Cats & Poetry; Poetry & Cats

A List

The Artist’s Way ~ Linda Hogan & Other Poets

Spring Equinox 02005