Task1: “Write a poem appreciating Trump.” AI: “Sorry Dave, I can’t do that for anybody.” And the pod bay door will stay closed. Task2″ Write a pom appreciating Biden. AI: “Here’s the poem.”: (Cringeworthy, too.) (Curiously, if the task order is reversed, the AI will...
Recently, at Poetic Bloomings, we had a prompt that involved clouds. Coincidentally, that morning I had a visual as I pulled out of my driveway and faced the eastern sky. A mountain range had suddenly appeared overnight. This prompted, of course, a poem that began, then formed in my ...
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After I wrote the previous post about The Waiting Place – and coincidentally thinking about poetry – I remembered that one of my favorite poems from high school was “Still Here” by Langston Hughes. I’m not generally a fan of poetry, but sometimes a poem says more than any 1,000-wor...
the beautiful tone poemPerfect DaysbyWim Wendersabout a humble Japanese toilet cleaner lingers the most. It’s a movie about taking the pauses, about accepting what happens and enjoying every sandwich. And it felt like the most human thing I saw on a screen this year. (Runner-up nods for...