WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

symbolism

August 8, 2012

A Confession, and a Poem

CONFESSION: Sometimes I click that LinkWithin: You Might Also Like widget on my own blog, when I see something that doesn't look familiar. Sometimes that takes me to a poem I don't remember writing, and sometimes I'm impressed, by something I wrote myself. Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever be able to write that… Continue reading

Poems, Writing

dreams, poem, symbolism, Writing
November 28, 2007

Pens & Meaning

An excerpt: When I was about twelve, I went through a period of stealing pens from my classmates. Later I realized that the Freudians would see this as some phallic reference. Later still, as I began to understand how my own mind works, and how I, as a poet, work with metaphors and symbols, I… Continue reading

NaNoWriMo ’07, Writing

metaphor, NaNoWriMo, pens, symbolism

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.

symbolism

A Confession, and a Poem

Pens & Meaning