WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

presents

December 23, 2007

My Lonely Christmas Tree

http://stuff.pyzam.com/toys/myTreeLoader.swf?owner=sbpoet&ownerID=1257593 UPDATED December 30, 2007: Look at all those presents! Such generosity of feeling — and I don’t even know who some of you are. Thank you so much for making this fun! I’ll be taking this off the top of Watermark later today, and replacing it with Almost time for the New Year Haiku.… Continue reading

Frivolity

christmas, gifts, Holidailies, holidays, presents, tree

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe 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.

presents

My Lonely Christmas Tree