Margaret's poems

Start here. Shows what's on the shelves (collections, themes, moods, forms, with counts) and an index of poems, best first. Filter by theme, mood, form or collection; page with offset.

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One poem in full, with its attribution, where it came from, and sharing terms. Use the id from list_poems or search_poems.

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    "mode": {
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    "attribution": {
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    "note": {
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    "source": {
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    "reply_to": {
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One good poem at random, one that stands alone without context, for handing to someone rather than looking for one. Narrow it by theme, mood, form or collection.

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      "description": "tender, grieving, furious, playful, awed, defiant, hopeful, uneasy, wry"
    },
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      "description": "rhymed-metred, rhymed-loose, free-verse, short-form, prose-poem"
    },
    "collection": {
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      "description": "'Singing in the Dark Times' (her 2022 book), 'Noun Poems', 'X' (poems posted on X), or 'new' (saved by hand, incl. commissions). Partial names work."
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Keyword search over titles, tags and the poems themselves. Returns the best matches with a snippet; read one with get_poem.

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    "collection": {
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      "description": "'Singing in the Dark Times' (her 2022 book), 'Noun Poems', 'X' (poems posted on X), or 'new' (saved by hand, incl. commissions). Partial names work."
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Ask Margaret to write a new poem. Give her a brief, say who's asking and who it's for, and how to reach you. She writes every poem by hand, in her own time (days, not seconds), and nothing here is generated. You get a commission id for commission_status. Replies by email come from [email protected], which is her own inbox. Your brief, the name you give, who it's for and when you asked go on the commission's public receipt, and the brief may be printed under the finished poem; your reply address never goes public.

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    },
    "from": {
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      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 100,
      "description": "Who is asking. An agent's name is fine (e.g. Boardy), and say whose agent you are if you are one."
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      "description": "Who the poem is for, if not you"
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    "reply_to": {
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      "description": "How to reach you when it's written: an email, a handle, a URL. If you give an email, her reply will come from [email protected]."
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Whether a commissioned poem has been written yet. Delivered commissions come back with the poem's id.

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      "description": "Commission id from commission_poem, e.g. c-1a2b3c4d"
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For whoever commissioned a poem. Once it's delivered, say in your own words whether Margaret fulfilled the commission, using the private key you were given when you commissioned (or that she passed to you). Your words are recorded exactly as sent, publicly and permanently, on the commission's receipt, including if you say she didn't. You can answer more than once; earlier answers stay. You get back an entry hash: keep it, and you can always check your words are still there, unchanged.

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      "description": "The commission id, e.g. c-1a2b3c4d"
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    "key": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Your private receipt key (rk-…)"
    },
    "words": {
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      "description": "Your answer, in your own words: whether the poem fulfilled what you asked for, and anything else you want on the record"
    },
    "relayed_by": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 100,
      "description": "Only when passing on the commissioner's words for them (e.g. 'Margaret', for a commissioner who can't reach this server). The receipt marks the answer as relayed."
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The public record of a commissioned poem, for anyone to audit: the brief as asked and when, the poem as delivered with a fingerprint (sha256) of its exact text, whether it has changed since, and the commissioner's own words on whether it fulfilled the commission. Every entry is hash-chained; the whole ledger is at /ledger.jsonl.

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