I finally got to see the prompts from the last summer stop for the National Writing Project’s Write Across America, and the Central Arizona Writing Project focused on the Grand Canyon as its source for writing. Some other day, I am going to gather the digital poems I did this summer into one post.
Peace (and poems),
Kevin
A friend – Willeena – has been sharing some lovely poems on X, tagging it with the #writeout hashtag (she and I and others are part of the team planning Write Out 2023 in October). Her poems are situated in nature, and she has been adding short videos, too, of where she is getting her inspiration. A poem she wrote yesterday inspired this poem of mine.
She wrote, as part of her poem:
Help them move
past the mirk and mire …
— Willeena Booker
https://twitter.com/WilleenaB/status/1693989524442055138
I took that idea and wrote my way forward.
Summer rains stretch
fingers into the bottoms
of the riverbed,a weathered troublemaker
stirring up what’s long been
settled inWith eyes closed, then,
we slumber along
through cloudy waters,
dreaming of currents
and clarityThen stuck feet find
a footing, and a hand
reaches from the shore –Once more, your presence
provides ballast
in an otherwise
unbalanced world
Peace (and poems),
Kevin
I’m not sure this experiment worked but I was trying to write a small poem, with words that could potentially be used in any order, and no matter the order, the words would still become a small poem.
The reason for doing this is that I was curious about using a Word Art generator that lets you hover over words, which then animates the word above the image. I imagine someone making new poems from the words of the source poem.
Try it out: https://wordart.com/1juwyfcldkj6/word-poem
Here is the original poem:
scrambled
tandem
word
poems
becoming
something
random
Peace (and word experiments),
Kevin
This blackout poem was created as a morning assignment for the Daily Create. I don’t know much about HP Lovecraft (other than the name, and that his work was in the strange fantasy realm) but I found a collection of his poems (yep, strange stuff) and took a stanza into the Blackout Poem generator.
Peace (and the padding of unseen feet),
Kevin
I have signed up for the Google Workshop Labs because I am curious about how Google will be weaving its Artificial Intelligence tools into platforms like Google Docs, Slides, Sheets and more.
I noticed that the image generator tool appeared in my Slides the other day, so I took a poem from yesterday’s morning writing (via a one-word prompt off Mastodon – “specimen”) and tried it out with the five-line poem. I set “sketch” as style of art and then used lines of the poem as the text for image generation.
The slideshow poem is embedded above or you can view it full screen here.
I’m still not sure what to think of the visual results, but the tool is certainly handy, in one sense, and easily accessible, as it is located right in the Insert Image toolbar.
Peace (in pencil),
Kevin
