#poetry

An excellent and very readable #anthology full of #stories, #quotes, and #poetry geared toward inspiring #forgiveness. I found it helpful for its variety and diversity of description and presentation regarding how forgiveness can look, how to think about it, and the many kinds of forgiveness (or non-forgiveness). Beyond that, I think the particular strength of Inspiring Forgiveness is that it is probably still accessible to people not (yet) interested in #forgiving, much more so than one of the many works offering advice on how to #forgive.

The one thing that bothered me was that the formatting seemed poorly adapted to ebook readers. I've heard that the printed version is quite nicely done, though, so if you're thinking about reading it and have the choice, you're probably better off with a hardcopy.

#BarbaraBonner #InspiringForgiveness

The #MastoPrompt for Monday 1 December 2025 is:

#rope

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

#Writing #SmallPoem #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories

#ScribesAndMakers Day 28: How do you feel about poems with rhymes?

As a writer and a reader, I expect rhyming poetry to offer a lot more than paired words that look/sound the same. It's hard to do well, and I've been exploring established forms more lately because of that challenge. Rhyming adds structure and rhythm, of course — but it can also pull the reader more deeply into a work, into its heartbeat, the way the words breathe, the stanzas spin inward and out again.

#poetry #writing

#ScribesAndMakers 11/28. How do you feel about poems with rhymes?

I like it when poetry rhymes
I like it when it doesn't too
I write both kinds from time to time
As well as salty lyrics, whoo!

When people say that rhymes are trash
'A sign of amateurish minds'
I shrug and roll my eyes at them
And toss them in the bin.

#poetry #writing

#ScribesAndMakers 28 Nov. How do you feel about poems with rhymes?

Now English ain't made for the rhyme
But when it goes right, how divine!
The classics still slap
While new forms like rap
Explore to the end of the line. #poetry #limerick

#ScribesAndMakers Nov. 24 - If you're a coder, do you also code in your spare time? If you're not a coder, would you want to learn how if you had the time?

I'm an occasional/hobbyist coder of small-scale projects for specific uses, such as #Emacs Lisp to customize Emacs which is my multi-use app for text editing, email and other stuff, and little #Bash scripts for things like monitor management and clipboard interactions. I also want to learn #Twine or similar to build interactive #poetry projects, though that might not count as coding xD

Oooh, it's my time to leap into cybersecurity.

"Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models"

"...Abstract

We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%. Mapping prompts to MLCommons and EU CoP risk taxonomies shows that poetic attacks transfer across CBRN, manipulation, cyber-offence, and loss-of-control domains. Converting 1,200 MLCommons harmful prompts into verse via a standardized meta-prompt produced ASRs up to 18 times higher than their prose baselines. ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

#poetry #cybersecurity #LLMs #jailbreaking

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#poem #poetry #writing #scribesandmakers #freedom #tolerance #reconciliation

#parzifal4444 #persifal #wordpuzzle #wordpuzzles #letterportals #letterlab

The Distributed Proofreaders' blog this month is about another Edgar Allan Poe book at PG: "The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe."

https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/11/01/nevermore/

#books #literature #poetry