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· A NEW RACE OF HuMANS

· Between the Cracks

· A Monumental Journey - first edition cover

· Beyond Understanding

· The Underground River

· In Search of the First Tribe

· A Monumental Journey - 3rd Edition


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· Surfing on Silent Skies...

· Doorway...

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· A Surprising Discovery....

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· The Art of Poetic Prose...

· What Makes a Poet Authentic...

· Paul Harvey’s ‘If I Were The Devil’ transcript- 1965

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· Aphorisms (a collection)

· Hey Cortana...(2019)

· Origin, or Destiny?

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· When the Heart is Flawed...

· Catching Happiness...

· The Fragments of Hatred...

· 'Malama Ka Aina'...

· On Open Wings...

· Generations....

· Dewdrops....

· A Gradual Decline…

· Like Wildflowers and Weeds…

· In Nature’s Design…

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Authenticity’s Credo...

by Richard Lloyd Cederberg — Read all 280 poems by Richard Lloyd Cederberg

‘FAKE'... the #1 candidate for word of the decade. A single syllable that encapsulates a sickening trend of fraudulence in our culture. I cannot remember a time when authenticity has been in such short supply. As we've witnessed for years, anything that threatens the dominant fakeness in the media, in all its many forms, stirs up an emotional, and at times hateful backlash. Is it surprising that so much in our world has a feeling of strangeness and separation now? In the same vein: writers and poets who portray themselves with soulless A.I. generated words, or digitally constructed lives, are not only deceiving others, but they are also deceiving themselves. Not under any circumstances or conditions can anything digitally or A.I. constructed (in the arts and writing) be considered authentic. It’s fake!

Saturday, April 18, 2026


Poem Artwork
Willingly accommodating
a personal journey
into rarified air,
deep into the
soul of
originality,
honesty, and accuracy,
past amassed doubts swirling
with dark shadows and misgivings,
.
with purity of intent,
THOSE CALLED PRESS ON…
.
Gleaning wisdom
from living their lives,
helping others live theirs,
letting go of all habitual
certainties, as they seek
inspiration from
Artemis II,
flora and fauna,
cascading waves,
mountain breezes,
the words of others,
the cries of hawks and
sage desert echoes –
common sense always aware
of the applesauce smeared on the
foreheads of A.I. fakes and tosspots,
bearing on the equilibrium of
honest human words and
innovative images…
.
(Authentic visionaries laud the ecesis of
genuine creation in a fraudulent landscape)
.
Focused, the no-nonsense writer
delves past conundrums and riddles,
around itty-bitty-bits of shattered glass
editing the bane of unprincipled behavior,
all as the misleading falderal of schmoozers
and pretenders pollute artlessness
with vile imaginings, and all
the spotty opinions of
fakes & inebriates …
.
Staunchly, honesty stands
opposed to ALL befoulment,
and the negative rhetoric of haters,
unwaveringly condemning the pitiful
pretense of frauds and despots,
in political arenas
and violent religions
engineered to murder, manipulate,
restructure, or defeat God-given freedoms…
.
Undaunted, these few etch all they touch with
aesthetic sovereignty. Freed from trends and vogues,
they become lighthouses on desolate shores, as each day
they purpose to find inspirations rare treasures under the
banners of veracity, authenticity, and true inspiration.
.
© richard lloyd cederberg
4/2026
.
As of March 20, 2026, Wikipedia has officially outlawed A.I. generated writing, by banning the use of A.I. generated text in its articles. This policy aims to maintain the integrity of the written content, and to make sure it is authored by human editors. Let’s hope this gains momentum.
                    A NEW RACE OF HuMANS



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Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on May 2, 2026
A vigorous and passionately argued piece, Richard. What stands out most is the way you frame authenticity not as posture but as a lived discipline — something earned through experience and the daily work of paying attention. The imagery of lighthouses, mountain breezes, echoes, and rare inspirations gives the poem a kind of moral landscape to guide the reader. Whether one agrees with every stance or not, the commitment to honest, hard-won creation comes through unmistakably.

Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on April 22, 2026
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS SHARING, RICHARD. MY GOD...! CAN WE PLEASE PERMIT THE 'SPIRIT OF OUR LIVING CREATOR' TO DO IT'S WORK! HOW DARE WE DEPEND UPON THE MECHANICALS OF TECHNOLOGY TO DO WHAT ONLY GOD HIMSELF CAN AND WILL DO...IF...WE DEPEND UPON AND TRUST HIM AS WE SHOULD? DID...AI...FORM AND SHAPE US? DID...AI...GIVE US 'FIRST BREATH'? DID...AI...EONS AGO, CALL US TO DO A WORK IN 'FIELDS', NEAR AND FAR, THOSE WE WILL NEVER EVEN 'KNOW' WE HAVE TOUCHED? FIELDS THAT WERE MEANT TO 'INSPIRE' AND 'PRICK' CONSCIENCES AND HEARTS WITH THE WILL OF GOD? TO BE 'AUTHENTIC' IS TO BE 'REAL, HONEST AND FILLED WITH A PASSION THAT ONLY COMES FROM OUR GOD-INSTILLED GIFTS! THROUGH IT ALL, BY THE MAGNIFICENT HAND OF OUR ONE AND TRUE GOD...I WILL PRESS-ON IN THIS JOURNEY. A JOURNEY THAT 'HE', WHO 'OVERSHADOWED' AND 'ENDUED' ME FROM THE WOMB, MANDATED. AND FOR THE 'LETTER, AND 'STROKE' OF EACH AND EVERY ENDOWMENT, THAT HE DID ESTABLISH AND DEEM...SHOULD RESIDE AND COME FORTH... MY PRAISE, GLORY AND HONOR WILL RING FOREVER! SUCH ACCOLADES WILL NEVER GO TO...AI...! BUT TO MY FATHER, SUSTAINER AND KEEPER...ALMIGHTY GOD, ALONE...IN THE NAME OF JESUS! AMEN AND AMEN. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Ann Marquette
Reviewed on April 19, 2026
Wonderful! Oh so sad but true.
Ann Marquette

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 18, 2026
Fakers have been with us almost forever. They may be found in hieroglyphs or stupendous cave drawings of animals that never existed but the artist thought would appear if he/she drew them in ocher…hence, come the dragons…a flying lizard with a breath so foul, it's like fire. Nothing could be faker…but honored throughout the world of literature and art.

I think the word is originality. It's original, if it came from the writer, and not from another source, used, but not given credit – not noted or cited..

I applied Wikipedia. Especially their steadfast checking of all of the facts before they post them on any given topic. We need to support them when all of these AI databases will claim to have all of the answers that Wikipedia provided before…better than the best in Encyclopedias before that.

Ron

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on April 18, 2026
For me, there's much to ponder. After writing novels, screenplays and poems for the past 25 years, I still think of myself as a student in writing. Meanwhile, at my job of proofing and editing audio books for the past 18 years, I am dismayed at the number of books obviously written by mechanical digital means, rather than the mind of a writer. Especially in the genre of Mystery and Crime. To many to mention, to often we have to disqualify. I've also heard from the remaining few connections I maintain in Hollywood that the screenplay is really taking a beating from AI obviousness. So, as we plug along as students, we can only try to improve and try different approaches to come forth with hopefully some original thinking. Enjoyed the read. Thank you for posting.


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