Founder of the Indelible Poetry Club (IPC)
https://allpoetry.com/group/show/33107-Indelible_Poetry_Club

My poetry is my exclusive property. I do not give permission for copying it into any AI platform for AI-generated commentary or any other purpose.

Is it for self-gratification,
vanity unquenched
by stares of passersby?

Is it to expel emotions
like swollen rivers
that have no choice, but to spill,

or to declare in metaphor
what heart conceives
in black-and-white images?

I write,
because silence
is the only true death.