poeming is here
Sat, 01 Nov 2025
| last modified Sat, 01 Nov 2025
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If you aren’t quite up to scratch in Caleb-land: poeming is here.
I wrote about how I got into this crazy poetry business in an earlier blog, but I haven’t shared much about my reflections on the process.
Over the last month or so, I’ve been reformatting and tagging with themes and series over 1000 of my past poems. That’s a lot of time, duds, and a few sparkling gems. It’s been really wonderful to take a wander and gander down memory lane through the lens of my many musings.
I’m happy with the current system of themes, series and the archive navigation, but I plan to do more passes over the poems and collate more complete tags. I’ve also been thinking about how difficult it would be to add a feature where users can flag a poem as one of the existing themes and give me a notification to review and add it seamlessly.
Regardless, even this initial sporadic theming has lead to some awesome insights into what I write about. I really seem to love writing about light!
I’ve also reflected on how much I’ve appreciated this daily poetry as an artistic practice. It leaves some cool artifacts, but it’s also valuable for how it has changed me. The loyalty to a craft. The meandering into self-expression. The wrestle with inspiration and dissatisfaction. I hope that it has made me more articulate, more reflective - hopefully - a better poet.
That’s one of things I find so fascinating though. I’ve always seen myself as someone who is a bit of a corpus callosum as Alex O’Connor humorously called himself after mediating a debate between Richard Dawkins and Jordan Peterson. Seen myself as someone who appreciates a good painting, who is enamored with people, who loves the fluffier things - maybe even someone who makes art sometimes.
Despite this, I’ve leant into the mechanical and inhuman with all my Greek symbols and abstract pursuits, becoming so joyfully lost in all the playful pedantry and wonderfully crafted riddles. Now though, after such a long period (maybe not long to the reader, but I’m only 19) of devoting myself to the practice, I can see myself as an artist - even as a poet. It’s baffling to me that I would become a poet before becoming a computer scientist, technologist, or theologian. I guess that’s life for you.
Anyways, I hope you can find a practice too.
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