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## Poems
This repo is a collection of work-in-progress poems written in the markdown syntax. It is an attempt to expose my creative process (to myself and to anyone who may care to watch) and track the nature and number of edits a final version of a given poem will go through. I'm using git (as opposed to some other tool like mediawiki) simply because it makes sense to me and it's a tool I use on a daily basis. I also find it affords a level of textual simplicty that more bloated CMS style tools loose in their effort to be complete publishing tools.
This repository is a collection of work-in-progress poems written in the markdown syntax. It started as an attempt to expose my creative process (to myself and to anyone who may care to watch) and track the nature and number of edits a final version of a given poem will go through. I decided to use git (as opposed to some other tool like mediawiki) simply because it makes sense to me and it's a tool I use on a daily basis. I also founnd it affords a level of textual simplicty that more bloated CMS style tools loose in their effort to be complete publishing tools. In the process of thinking through the imlications of using a toolchain more commonly employed to write code to write poetry I became quite interested in exploring how true the old Wordpress tag "Code is Poetry" and whether it runs in the inverse (ie "Poetry is Code").
# A note about forking
These poems are simply me writing to myself and are not intended for any other purpose than to exercise my brain. They are licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US). What that means is tht you can fork this repo if you like. You can also edit, rewrite, and otherwise use these poems in any way you should see fit. The only restrictions are that you make your resulting repository availble under the same terms and that you do not use the work or resulting work in a commericial way. It is also my hope that should you choose to fork this repository you continue to use git for all version control and editing and Markdown for all markup. In other words, please refrain from taking these poems offline or into some other platform other than github and please keep the work in a format that will make it easy to merge back into a main repository.
# Metadata
While there is no formal metadata syntax at the outset of this project, I am considering using a standardized metadata format (some sort of YAML perhaps) and will update this space with that information when I have decided on what it will be.
These poems are simply me writing to myself and are not intended for any other purpose than to exercise my brain. They are licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en_US). I understand that this is not a Free Culture license. My decsion to apply restrictions - slight as they may be - to these poems is not because of any lack of faith in the Free Culture movement, but rather because these poems are, by the very nature of their presence in this repo, unfinished versions of some possible future work. Feel free to quote, copy or publish these poems in a non-commercial way, but if you would like to do more with them, or modify them in some way please use submit a request as an issue.