WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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June 19, 2006

John Davis Rose

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garden, Photos 2006

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June 17, 2006

Squirrel Blossom

These may be rat-faced, sneaky, Machiavellian, greedy, manipulative, tricky little rodents, but they are actually innocent. Continue reading

Critters, Current Affairs, garden

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November 7, 2005

Autumn Rose & Rosehips

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garden, Photos 2005

photograph, rose, rosehips
October 4, 2005

Blogging Poet

Billy The Blogging Poet says that I am probably as well known as any other blogging poet in the world. This can’t be right. It’s the cats, isn’t it? Excuse me, I have to go write some poems. Continue reading

garden, Photos 2005, Weblogs

Blogging, flower, photograph, poet, rose
June 23, 2005

Computer Overload

Argh. Headache. Step away from the iBook . . . ! But first, a few photos that have been languishing: See you tomorrow! Continue reading

garden, Photos 2005, The Laptop Saga

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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.

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John Davis Rose

Squirrel Blossom

Autumn Rose & Rosehips

Blogging Poet

Computer Overload