WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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October 5, 2006

National Poetry Day| Identity

This week’s prompt is: The Body. And, coincidentally, or not, today in the UK is: This year’s National Poetry Day theme, ‘Identity’, invites us to explore through poetry one of the crucial issues and talking points in today’s culture. What is identity? How do we develop it? How do we define it? And how… Continue reading

Personal, poetry, poetry thursday

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September 18, 2006

Doglets, Dogster| flickr, tabblo

I set up Catster accounts a few months ago for Spike and Boo, and finally got around to joining Dogster for Henry and Lucy last week. Here is LUCY @ Dogster, and here is HENRY @ Dogster. And, of course, they each must have their own unofficial flickr badge, to present themselves to their new… Continue reading

Critters, Flickr, Photos 2006, Tools & Toys

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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.

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National Poetry Day| Identity

Doglets, Dogster| flickr, tabblo