Poetry Collection - Explore

Welcome to the Poetry Collection.

This is a corpus of poems and posts you can read in several different
orders -- by time, by what a poem resembles, by what contrasts with it,
by the words it shares with others, or just by wandering.

WHAT IS HERE (counted at build time)
  7904 poems across 4 sources
  spanning 2021-04-27 to 2026-06-21
  68 of them are image-only posts

  sources:
    fediverse              5977
    messages               1558
    notes                  322
    bluesky                47

WAYS TO EXPLORE
  chronological  -- read the collection in time order, start to finish.
  similar        -- from any poem, rank every other poem by how much it
                    resembles it. Most alike first. Find more of what
                    resonates.
  different      -- from any poem, rank every other poem by maximum
                    contrast. Most unlike first. Discover the unexpected.
  word-cloud     -- jump in by a word; see the poems that lean on it.
  gallery        -- the images, packed together to browse by eye.
  maze           -- wander the corpus, choosing a direction at each step.

Every poem carries 'similar' and 'different' links; each view shows the
WHOLE collection, only re-sorted around the poem you started from.

LINKS
  Start reading (chronological)
  Word cloud
  Image gallery
  How the similarity actually works (the math)
  Browse the source code