If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker
I have never used LinkedIn but from what I can tell, it’s becoming an empty space with lots of AI Chatbots running wild (I could be wrong). For the DS106 Daily Create prompt, we were asked to write Broetry, based on an observation of what is being posted on LinkedIn. I felt a strong Samuel Beckett reflex, and my eh, Broem, is more Godot than LinkedIn.
Peace (waiting for it),
Kevin
The one word prompt for poems this morning was Barley, so I used its historical significance for my haiku. Then, over at the Daily Create, there was an interesting prompt about movement photography but I did not have time or understanding on how to pull it off, so I found an older image with a blur and left it at that.
Peace (in the morning make time),
Kevin
Peace (in the cold),
Kevin
I periodically will curate my daily poems into a video format. These were written this month (January 2026).
Peace (in three),
Kevin
The prompt for this morning at the DS106 Daily Create was to consider using Time-Cycle machine, of some sort, and I just decided to make a small poem, with art.
Peace
This morning’s prompt at DS106 Daily Create asks us to share, in audio, the reading of a favorite poem. I turned to Billy Collins and a poem in his collect, Sailing Alone Around The Room. The poem — “Lines Lost Among The Trees” — always resonated me because at an old job as journalist (before becoming an educator), I used to write songs on break, walking through the streets of our small city, and I would recite the lines over and over and over, and think of tricks to remember the words before I got back to my desk and quickly jotted down lines. Often, I would forget phrases, words, whole lines or stanzas, and this poem of Collins captures that moment so perfectly.
Peace (in remembering),
Kevin
We are asked to slow down. To notice. To pay gentle attention to the slowness of our world. We’re using the lens of Glimmer, Friction and Neutral.
See more about the Signposts inquiry here.
Peace (purposefully noticing),
Kevin
The prompt for this morning’s Daily Create builds on a prompt previously for a Frankenstein Poem (a poem of disparate parts) in which J build a tool for creating Blackout Poems from the text of some old text. In my case, I got a passage from Paradise Lost to work with. The tool also generates an image for overlay (or backlay) if you want, which is a nice touch.
Peace (hidden inside the text),
Kevin
Here a some haiku poems from the last few days.
And one other from #DS106 Daily Create about listening to the machines.
Peace (in three lines),
Kevin
The prompt this morning at DS106 Daily Create was one that I submitted, using a site that does funny things with words. I made a little music and added my voice, and then filtered the animation for effect.
Peace (twisting words),
Kevin